The erstwhile Laureate's latest Christmas miniature: a horse walks into a bar where an owl is pulling a pint. Duffy conjures a peaceable kingdom. For all ages from about 6.
A story of friendship, trust, love and loss: a young prince with poor health cannot be exposed to sunlight or fresh air, so a painter is commissioned to paint the world he cannot know onto t... read more
Mina, who we first met in Almond's miraculous Skellig many years ago, now encounters other-worldly wonders in Japan. Almond is one of the greatest living children's authors and here again he... read more
Rather like La Fontaine's King Log and good on consequences: the Sea loves reading aloud to her fish children but they are just too noisy and she goes away. A cat comes along and offers to r... read more