Olga da Polga Written by Michael Bond Illustrated by Catherine Rayner Kane Miller 10/01/2015 978-1-61067-433-1 176 pages Ages 6+ “With a head full of stories and a nose for adventure, Olga da Polga is also quite a handful. And when she moves into the Sawdust family’s garden, life for Noel the cat, Fangio …
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Blog: Kid Lit Reviews (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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Blog: Playing by the book (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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The Children’s Bookshow is an organisation that arranges an annual tour across England of children’s authors, poets and illustrators. It’s a fantastic opportunity to take entire classes to see an author, poet or illustrator live, with the added bonus that if you buy tickets to one of the Children’s Bookshow events, you will have the opportunity to book a free school workshop with an author/poet/illustrator. If you are successful in bidding for a free school workshop the Children’s Bookshow will gift the attending children a book to keep.
This year Bernardo Atxaga, Patrick Benson, Kevin Crossley-Holland, Benji Davies, Daniel Morden, Marie-Aude Murail, Catherine Rayner, Rachel Rooney, Michael Rosen, Jessica Souhami and Kit Wright are taking to the stage, everywhere from London to Leicester and Stafford to Snape Maltings. Events take place from September to November, but if you want to be sure of places for the kids you teach and in with a chance of winning a free author/poet/illustrator workshop, early booking is strongly advised.
Booking is now open and you can find full details at The Children’s Bookshow website: http://www.thechildrensbookshow.com/arts-award.html
One of this year’s participants in the The Children’s Bookshow is Rachel Rooney, shortlisted for the CLPE Poetry Award. In conjunction with The Children’s Bookshow Rachel is running a super poetry competition for kids (9 and under, and 9-11). You can find out full details here:
http://www.thechildrensbookshow.com/competition.html
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Blog: An Awfully Big Blog Adventure (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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I'm missing picturebooks on this blog! Colour and playfullness! Which makes me wonder - are we endorsing the message: picturebook writers have still to ‘grow’ into YA writers? As an art teacher in another life, I see picturebooks as the foundation for developing an early aesthetic - line, tone, texture, colour, imagery, flights of fancy, hidden meaning, pattern and rhythm are all there to be unknowlingly absorbed by the child.
So here are my favourite 5 PICTUREBOOK BEASTIES. Classic beasts like Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are, Antony Browne’s Gorilla and Munro Leaf’s Ferdinand are givens, (5 is an impossibly small number!) so I’ve tried for some really small beasties, one imaginary one and one jungle beast. You probably have plenty more favourites to add. No vampires or dinosaurs allowed!
1. THE FROGS AND THE CAT (see top of blog) by Kazanari Hino illustrated by Tokao Siato published by Fukuinkan Shoten won the IBBY Honours Book in 2004 for Japanese Illustration.
Blog: An Awfully Big Blog Adventure (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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Charlie and Lola
Dish and Spoon
Long Neck and Thunder Foot
Gorilla (and Hannah)
Tim (All Alone… not Henman)
Mister Magnolia
Borka
Little Bear
Baby Bunting
Gulliver
Dogger
Alice
and Mr Grumpy to name a few over the years.
His portrait (frame supplied by blogger and not artist) is a delightful reminder of his personality, his sense of awe, his courage in the face of danger and his huge leap of faith and belief in a world that is bigger than one small player can imagine.
Credit must go to his trainer, Catherine Rayner, who guided him through this adventure. With foresight she produced a mentor for Harris who is an old hand at the game. Not only wise and understanding, Grandad takes delight in Harris’s development of speed and agility and helps him develop an uncanny knack of knowing his enemy. So good is Grandad’s mentoring that in the end ‘Harris ran, feeling the bounce in his feet and the stretch in his legs. He ran faster and faster… as fast as fast…until he was on his own.’ And with more encouragement ‘ran, leaping over streams and bouncing through meadows on his big, strong feet that would take him to the end of the world … and back home again.’
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The 2009 CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medal Winners have been announced! Two years after her untimely death from breast cancer at the age of 47, Siobhan Dowd’s fourth and final novel, Bog Child, has been awarded the UK’s premier accolade for children’s writing: the CILIP Carnegie Medal. Edinburgh-based illustrator Catherine Rayner has won the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal, the UK’s most prestigious award for children’s book illustration, for her book Harris Finds His Feet. Click here to see photos from the award ceremony. Also, be sure to check out the latest issue of PaperTigers which focuses on Children’s Book Awards.
A most glorious collection of picture books for ABBA! Thank you, Dianne! And I agree we don't attend to picture books enough.
Beautiful! I love the Siato illustrations - and the Big Blue Beastie made me laugh. Thank you for opening my eyes to a whole new world!
Yes, thank you!
I will look out for these, especially the fruit bat - it looks gorgeous.
Hello Augustus! Will you be jealous if I say I also like "The tiger who came to tea"?
GRRRR!!!! Only if I don't get invited to tea as well! We could have a tiger party as I also love Malachy Doyle's 'The Dancing Tiger'and it was a toss up but the illustrations are a little uneven... though that one of the grandmother dancing with the tiger in the moonlight is marvellous.
Oh these are wonderful. Dianne, and I especially want the Japanese one. I love picture books... I would like to add 'My House on the Hill' by Philippe Dupasquier.
To my delight, have discovered the Japanese one on Amazon in French: "Les Grenouilles Samouraïs de l'étang de Genji : D'après le Heiké monogatari".
So I have ordered it! Vive la France.
That's absolutely wonderful Kath. So the frogs speak French but why can't we get them to speak English too? We translate so few interesting foreign language books.
Hooray (for picture books)! The Seathing Child and Augustus are favs of mine so I'll be chasing down your other suggestions...
We should suggest the Japanese one to Ann Arscott of Winged Chariot. Did you speak to her on Monday, Diane? BTW - lovely to see you at the Pic Book event, and I agree entirely that picture books are neglected rather on ABBA. A lovely post, thank you. And I'll order that Japanese one in French right now, it looks gorgeous :-)
Yes great to see you Anne... and good idea. I should talk to Winged Chariot.