From a small boy growing up in a Tibetan village to the spiritual leader of the Buddhist world, the Dalai Lama proves that kindness and understanding are not only at the roots of peacefulnes... read more
A small girl sets out to find her father and pursue a perilous giant. Particularly lovely, both text and illustrations, incl. a charming domestic scene of a knight in shining armour reading ... read more
The inimitable QB, a delightul book about the Meadowsweet family, a bird called Octavia and a seed the saves the day; we didn't include this in our last list as it was stuck in a warehouse, ... read more
First published in 1950, with hints - not surprisingly - of LB's delightful 'Madeline'. A music school, a music teacher, her dastardly landlord and a lot of umbrellas... A charming book for ... read more
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