My Baby Love Meredith Costain & Beatriz Martin Vidal (Hachette Australia)This simple rhyming verse is a glorious celebration of the joy and bond between a mother and her young baby as they play and dine or splash or when going to sleep. Gorgeous soft illustrations fill the pages to make this the perfect gift for a mother on her first Mother's Day!
Goldilocks and the Three Koalas Kel Richards & Claire Richards (Scholastic)A wonderful twist on the story of the three bears ... of course the three creatures here are koalas (which are NOT bears) and these three also eat porridge, (gumleaf porridge) and there’s Goldilocks, (whose real name is Shirley because she had a mass of hair, fluffy, blonde and curly). Told in rhyming verse with fantastic illustrations this book is great!
Big Bad Bushranger Bob Brown & Ben Wood (Scholastic)Many Aussie children have grown up singing the song of the big bad bush bushranger and here it is now in picture book form. This clever bush ranger is a wombat, he knows the best places to hide and has a cave filled with his loot. He never gets caught and even has a girlfriend called Gayle! Whimsical illustrations accompany the verse. Also includes the music to the words.
Captain Crabclaw's Crew Frances Watts & David Legge (ABC Books)From the team who created Parsley Rabbit's Book about Books comes this swashbuckling adventure of a pirate and his attempts at gathering a crew worthy of sailing on the Speedy Squid. Of course Captain Crabclaw’s crew is not the fearsome crew that he originally envisioned to sail the seven seas in search of treasure. But when they are laughed at by real pirates the crew devise another plan to fill the treasure chests with gold!
These books for laughing and sharing and treasuring are delightful. Enjoy!
