by IBBY | Sep 16, 2021 | Book Review, Illustrated book, Poetry
The B on Your Thumb Book Details The B on Your Thumb: 60 Poems to Boost Reading and SpellingTor Freeman, illus. Colette Hiller. London: Frances Lincoln Children’s Books, hb, 978 0 7112 5460 2, 2020, 18.58, 80pp.Poetry, illustrated book, education, 4-7 years BACK TO...
by IBBY | Mar 15, 2021 | Book Review, Poetry
Stars with Flaming Tails Book Details Stars with Flaming TailsValerie Bloom, illus. Ken Wilson-Max. Burley Gate: Otter-Barry Books, pb, 978 1 9130 7467 8, 2021, £7.99, 96pp.Poetry, black and white illustrations, 7+ years BACK TO REVIEWS ‘I travelled once around the...
by IBBY | Mar 15, 2021 | Book Review, Poetry
Weird, Wild & Wonderful Book Details Weird, Wild & Wonderful: The Poetry World of James CarterJames Carter, illus. Neal Layton. Burley Gate: Otter-Barry Books, pb, 978 1 9130 7473 9, 2021, £7.99, 96pp.Poetry, black & white illustrations, 6-14 years BACK...
by IBBY | Nov 30, 2020 | Book Review, Picture Book, Poetry
Crocodile tears Book Details Crocodile tearsRoger McGough, illus. Greg McLeod. London: Otter-Barry Books, hb 978 1 9130 7497 5, 2020, £12.99, 40pp.Picture book, poetry, 7-9 years BACK TO REVIEWS This brilliantly evocative book is a very successful collaboration...
by IBBY | Oct 2, 2020 | Book Review, Poetry
Belonging Street Book Details Belonging StreetMandy Coe, illus. Mandy Coe, Burley Gate, Hereford: Otter-Barry Books, pb 978 1 9130 7480 7, 2020, £7.99, 96pp.Poetry, 7-11 years BACK TO REVIEWS This is another in the series of small stuff-in-your-schoolbag poetry books....
by IBBY | Jun 30, 2020 | Book Review, Picture Book, Poetry, Translation
Calm Beasts Book Details Calm BeastsHerberts Dorbe, illus. Gita Treice, trans. Žanete Vēv ere Pasqualini and Kate Wakeling, Birmingham: The Emma Press, pb. 978 1 9101 3993 6, 2019, £4.00, 32pp. [First published as Rāmi-svēri by Lies un Maz, Riga, Latvia in 2013. ©...
