A gloriously illustrated large format book that introduces children to a range of plants, looking at their place in our cultures and medicine cabinets. Ages 7-11.
Dorothy Parker kept a pair of alligators in her bath tub; Mozart's starling inspired a concerto; Einstein told his parrot bad jokes to cheer it up. Funny, eccentric non-fiction about scienti... read more
A reprint of six Monster stories, gentle and playful, suitable for tots to read to themselves or to their doting parents. Or vice versa. Lovely illustrations from the comic genius of Blake.
The lives of two children are thrown off kilter after WW1. Menaced by cynical aunts and orphanages, they run away to France to look for lost loved ones. Ages 8-11.
The thirteenth Alex Rider book - who, unlike Harry Potter, does not age, but remains in a Peter-Pan-like teen-age limbo, forever blowing up bridges and saving the world. Ages 8-12.
So the shortest day came, and the year died: a poem about how humans have responded to midwinter - the fading of the light and its mighty return - for millennia, by a well known children's a... read more