A number of absolutely gorgeous picture book titles have arrived on my desk. These are ones you will want to look for!
The Queen with the Wobbly Bottom Phillip Gwynne & Bruce Whatley (Little Hare)
This is way too funny and will have readers full of giggles with both the text and with the illustrations and of course the title will provide many giggles alone! A great tale about being too concerned about looking perfect!
A queen is loved by all her subjects but she is concerned that her wobbly bottom will stop her subjects loving her and she is concerned that the people make fun of her. She tries a number of ways of remedying the situation including a beautician’s wobbly bottom cream, an inventor’s dewobbiliser, and a fitness instructors exercise programme. Even a poet creates poems but alas nothing works and all the creators are thrown in palace dungeon. The poet though, continues to write a nightly poem for the queen and a solution is discovered.
As with other titles illustrated by Bruce Whatley close inspection of the pictures will provide many visual jokes as well.
What's the Matter, Aunty May? Peter Friend & Andrew Joyner (Little Hare)
A very proper looking young boy (shorts and jumper, black shoes white socks, bow ties and parted hair) visits his Aunty May and helps clean up her house. He sweeps, cleans, dusts, fixes sinks and does the washing up, the vacuuming and all other manner of helpful things around the house. The problem is that his helpfulness results in little catastrophes -- an antique vase being broken, pipes bursting and flooding rooms, red ink being spilt and a whole lot more. Of course the boy is rather proud of all his helpfulness. He recognises the catastrophes but they are just small mishaps along the way.
This title has lovely rhyming verse. The illustrations are terrific and require close examination - especially as the depth of the chaos increases. Lots of humour throughout these pages.
It's a Miroocool Christine Harris & Ann James (Little Hare)
We were introduced to Audrey in the wonderful Audrey of the Outback series that is just perfect for younger readers. Here she appears in a picture book which is a great introduction for future readers of the Audrey series.
Audrey has just lost her tooth and is very hopeful that the tooth fairy will visit her. But because she lives on an outback property she wants to make sure so she places a few helpful hints to lead the tooth fairy to her bedroom, a map on her cubby, an arrow from rocks, a trail of breadcrumbs, a bowl of water and just to make sure a drawing of the tooth on her back door. But will these clues survive the night?
This is a lovely story with simple precise text and the illustrations as well are wonderful showing the outback (the end papers are amazing), and young Audrey, perfectly. I loved the male tooth fairy!
Bog Frog Hop Kyle Mewburn & Rebecca Cool (Little Hare)
I love picture books that have a delightful time playing with words and that have whimsical and playful illustrations … this is one of them! Children are going to love chanting the words again and again.
In a soggy bog, with a mossy log there are ten slippery polliwogs plopping in the soggy bog….
And then there were nine and eight and ….
Yes this is a counting book filled with lots of rhyming and alliteration fun. There are grimpy-grumpy frogs, a scriffy-scruffy dog that becomes a splashy-splashy dog, flippy-floppy frogs, with plip plops, and flip flops, and splish splosh and plish plosh the repetitive fun goes on and on. The boldly coloured illustrations are really wonderful and will also enable lots of inquisition.
These are all perfect for sharing with young children and there will be many requests for them to be read again and again.
This is way too funny and will have readers full of giggles with both the text and with the illustrations and of course the title will provide many giggles alone! A great tale about being too concerned about looking perfect!
A queen is loved by all her subjects but she is concerned that her wobbly bottom will stop her subjects loving her and she is concerned that the people make fun of her. She tries a number of ways of remedying the situation including a beautician’s wobbly bottom cream, an inventor’s dewobbiliser, and a fitness instructors exercise programme. Even a poet creates poems but alas nothing works and all the creators are thrown in palace dungeon. The poet though, continues to write a nightly poem for the queen and a solution is discovered.
As with other titles illustrated by Bruce Whatley close inspection of the pictures will provide many visual jokes as well.
A very proper looking young boy (shorts and jumper, black shoes white socks, bow ties and parted hair) visits his Aunty May and helps clean up her house. He sweeps, cleans, dusts, fixes sinks and does the washing up, the vacuuming and all other manner of helpful things around the house. The problem is that his helpfulness results in little catastrophes -- an antique vase being broken, pipes bursting and flooding rooms, red ink being spilt and a whole lot more. Of course the boy is rather proud of all his helpfulness. He recognises the catastrophes but they are just small mishaps along the way.
This title has lovely rhyming verse. The illustrations are terrific and require close examination - especially as the depth of the chaos increases. Lots of humour throughout these pages.
We were introduced to Audrey in the wonderful Audrey of the Outback series that is just perfect for younger readers. Here she appears in a picture book which is a great introduction for future readers of the Audrey series.
Audrey has just lost her tooth and is very hopeful that the tooth fairy will visit her. But because she lives on an outback property she wants to make sure so she places a few helpful hints to lead the tooth fairy to her bedroom, a map on her cubby, an arrow from rocks, a trail of breadcrumbs, a bowl of water and just to make sure a drawing of the tooth on her back door. But will these clues survive the night?
This is a lovely story with simple precise text and the illustrations as well are wonderful showing the outback (the end papers are amazing), and young Audrey, perfectly. I loved the male tooth fairy!
I love picture books that have a delightful time playing with words and that have whimsical and playful illustrations … this is one of them! Children are going to love chanting the words again and again.
In a soggy bog, with a mossy log there are ten slippery polliwogs plopping in the soggy bog….
And then there were nine and eight and ….
Yes this is a counting book filled with lots of rhyming and alliteration fun. There are grimpy-grumpy frogs, a scriffy-scruffy dog that becomes a splashy-splashy dog, flippy-floppy frogs, with plip plops, and flip flops, and splish splosh and plish plosh the repetitive fun goes on and on. The boldly coloured illustrations are really wonderful and will also enable lots of inquisition.
These are all perfect for sharing with young children and there will be many requests for them to be read again and again.
