BOOK NAME: TAP THE MAGIC TREE AUTHOR & ILLUSTRATOR: CHRISTIE MATHESON PUBLISHER: GREENWILLOW BOOKS PAGES: 40 AGE RECOMMENDED: 2.5+ A beautiful, interactive picture book that teaches about four seasons to little kids. It seems magical to children because they think their actions cause the tree to change. This book starts with a bare tree and […]
REVIEW: PRESS HERE BY HERVE TULLET
BOOK NAME: PRESS HERE AUTHOR & ILLUSTRATOR: HERVE TULLET PUBLISHER: CHRONICLE BOOKS PAGES: 56 AGE RECOMMENDED: 2+ PRESS HERE opens with a yellow dot and instructions to press the dot and turn the page. Now, there are two dots. Press again, and there are three! Now tap each dot five times: it multiplies. Readers are […]
REVIEW: The Queen’s Handbag By Steve Antony
BOOK NAME: THE QUEEN’S HANDBAG AUTHOR & ILLUSTRATOR: STEVE ANTONY PUBLISHER: HODDER CHILDREN’S BOOKS PAGES: 32 AGE RECOMMENDED: 3+ QUEEN’S SERIES #2 If you ask my friends circle, they all knew how I love to visit London. It’s the near future to visit the gorgeous city and I am taking a London tour with this […]
REVIEW: The Queen’s Hat By Steve Antony
BOOK NAME: THE QUEEN’S HAT AUTHOR & ILLUSTRATOR: STEVE ANTONY PUBLISHER: HODDER CHILDREN’S BOOKS PAGES: 32 AGE RECOMMENDED: 3+ QUEEN’S SERIES #1 If you ask my friends circle, they all knew how I love to visit London. It’s the near future to visit the gorgeous city and I am taking a London tour with this […]
REVIEW: Color Zoo By Lois Ehlert
BOOK NAME: COLOR ZOO AUTHOR & ILLUSTRATOR: LOIS EHLERT PUBLISHER: HARPER COLLINS PAGES: 40 AGE RECOMMENDED: 3+ As we know, we can play with the shapes. This is such a gorgeous book where the author has created different animals using different shapes. She used cutouts of the shapes and colours to create animals inside each […]
REVIEW: The Little Raindrop By Joanna Grag
BOOK NAME: THE LITTLE RAINDROP AUTHOR: JOANNA GRAG ILLUSTRATOR: DUBRAVKA KOLANOVIC PUBLISHER: SKY PONY PAGES: 32 AGE RECOMMENDED: 3+ A simple yet beautifully illustrated book about the natural Water cycle or how rain is formed. The story starts with the journey of a raindrop from the sky, to puddle, to stream to the river and […]
REVIEW: Have You Seen Elephant? By David Barrow
BOOK NAME: HAVE YOU SEEN ELEPHANT? AUTHOR& ILLUSTRATOR: DAVID BARROW PUBLISHER: GECKO PRESS PAGES: 32 AGE RECOMMENDED: 2.5+ A very large elephant and a boy decide to play hide-and-seek. Elephant warns the boy that he is hard to find. But the elephant’s hiding place is very obvious for readers, though the boy couldn’t find him. […]
REVIEW: Tropical Terry By Jarvis
BOOK NAME: TROPICAL TERRY AUTHOR & ILLUSTRATOR: JARVIS PUBLISHER: WALKER BOOKS PAGES: 32 AGE RECOMMENDED: 2.5+ Tropical Terry is a book about a small fish called Terry. Terry lives in a tropical reef with his best friends crab and snail. He always wanted to play with other tropical fishes, but those fish didn’t want to […]
REVIEW: Line Up, Please! By Tomoko Omura
BOOK NAME: LINE UP, PLEASE! AUTHOR & ILLUSTRATOR: TOMOKO OMURA PAGES: 40 AGE RECOMMENDED: 3+ Do you like to stand in a line? I usually don’t like to wait in a line unless it’s something exciting for me. This is a story about animals, from the smallest frog to the largest elephant standing in a […]
REVIEW: Saving Species By Jess French
BOOK NAME: SAVING SPECIES AUTHOR: JESS FRENCH ILLUSTRATOR: JAMES GILLEARD PUBLISHER: WREN & ROOK PAGES: 64 AGE RECOMMENDED: 4+ Why do we have a birdhouse in our home and why are we feeding birds? Asked my curious three-year kid. After a brief pause, I said we chopped their home to build our home. He then […]