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London for Children by Matteo Pericoli is a highly likeable book!
For a start, it's two books in one, bound end to end, so that one side is the North Bank, and the other side the South Bank.
Inspired by the architectural drawings Matteo Pericoli began to make in 2009, and published last year as London Unfurled, Macmillan have put together a fabulous children's guide to the buildings on each river bank, with fascinating snippets of historical detail along the way.
Children will be drawn in by the numbers Pericoli reports at the front of the North Bank volume: He drew 3262 waves, 1343 buildings, 27180 windows, 41 bridges and 58 cranes.
Older children who pick up this book may well be tempted to find out more about the drawing project itself.
London Unfurled is available in both paper and ipad formats.
There are youtube videos that give a taste of its expanse:
Historical Fiction fans take note: Philippa Gregory has written a series specifically targeted at young adult readers.
The series title is Order of Darkness and the first title, Changeling (set in the author's favourite period - The Tudors), is out this month.
cover price £12.99 Amazon £6.62
Gregory says, "I am delighted to move into a new area of writing. I know I have many young adult readers already and it will be a pleasure to write a series especially for them. Bringing history alive is a great joy and to bring it to a younger generation doubly so."
Other recently published titles have been added to our Young Adult table:
Kody Keplinger wrote The DUFF when she was 17 and still at high school in America. The book was published in 2010 and was well-reviewed.
From the Press Release:
With a wry and tell-it-like-it-is voice, The DUFF is a witty and poignant story of a teenager struggling with the rules of high school attraction, along with the breaking down of her relationships with family and friends. It is a novel about what it means to be sexy, in a world where we feel we have to be perfect.
Just available in paperpack, John Agard's reimagining and modernisation of Dante's Inferno, fabulously illustrated by Satoshi Kitamura.
Extracted from the poet's Introduction:
... it struck me that since Dante was interested in the everyday Italian heard in the street, and since teenagers are so wired to the world of horrror movies, science fiction and video games, then they would feel quite at home with the virtual reality of Hell described by Dante with such magisterial and architectural precision. There you'll find your ascents and descents, your walkways and fortified gates, your spiralling levels not unlike a multi-storey car park....
... though The Young Inferno is told in 13 cantos IDante's Inferno has 34) I hope that 13 sounds about right for a teenager and is in keeping with Dante's regard for the magic of numbers.
I was thinking to myself the other day, Now who is our current Dick King-Smith? And I wasn't able to answer my question.
Then this evening I opened one of today's packages and found this title, just out in paperback.
There was my answer. It should have come to me without prompting.
Even in paperback this is a lovely speicimen of a physical book, with delightful red, grey and brown woodcut style illustrations by Iain McIntosh, whose website is well worth a visit.
All Cats Have Asperger Syndrome and All Dogs Have ADHD both by Kathy Hoopmann
Two books that use a novel, photographic approach to exploring the characteristic personality traits of ADHD and Asperger's Syndrome.
A novel approach but much much more than novelty books, as evidenced by the fact that the Asperger title was shortlisted by the prestigious Children's Book Council of Australia.
Must-have titles for parents with children diagnosed with either of these conditions, and also for Special Needs co-ordinators and Inclusion Managers...
Twenty-six cautionary verses with sticky ends - written by Jeanne Willis, illustrated by Tony Ross
'26 cautionary verses, all ripe for recitation, with suitably gruesome pictures.' --Country Life, Best Children's Book for Christmas
`These poems are like a modern day Struwwelpeter with a dash of Revolting Rhymes that will have you laughing and groaning at the same time.' --Booktrust Book of the Month
The Helpful Elves by August Kopish, one of many classic children's book reprints given a fresh existence by the splendid Floris Books
'Based on a well-known poem by Kopisch (1799-1853) and illustrated in muted tones by Braun-Fock (1898-1973), the charm of this tale lies in the tiny elf tabs found at the top of each page. Together in a row, 10 elves are perched expectantly -- each made distinct with a different smile or a long white beard -- forming a miniature audience to watch readers. One can almost hear them gleefully giggling at the comeuppance they know is coming at the end. An enchanting, if abrupt, piece of German lore brought to a new audience. The lesson, curiosity killed the cat, rings true in all cultures.' -- KIRKUS
Iassen Ghiuselev, an award-winning Bulgarian illustrator of children's classics, spent six years working on the illustrations for this very special edition of Alice.
The illustrations use perspective and point of view in a very original way - one which both reflects and enhances the disorienting nature of the narrative.
Present this as a gift and you will be remembered and thanked for a very long time.
Dick King-Smith, who died at the beginning of this year, was a children's publisher's dream. With a natural storyteller's fluency, he wrote in a style that was at once exemplary and highly entertaining.
This collection of five of his animal stories is a perfect addition to any young reader's home library.
Looking for an alternative to an Annual as a present?
How about this slapstick comic-book-style graphic adventure from The DFC Library
The Boss is the smartest kid in school and with the class heading for a field trip to the castle that very day, it's the perfect chance to find out what the thieves are up to - and just maybe catch them red-handed...
With a strapline "All a toddler needs for early learning fun" you might think, notwithstanding the word 'fun', that this book might be a little too earnest and educational to make it a suitable Christmas gift for the pre-schoolers in your family.
Think again. Kali Stileman's highly colourful illustrations are fabulously stimulating and engaging. The book is extremely well-organised - First Concepts, First Words, Can You Find? etc - and a one-page Introduction identifies 10 themed ways in which the adult might choose the share the title.
The book would also make a useful resource for anyone working with older children with speech & language needs, especially the pages that deal with concepts such as Opposites, Feelings, Manners.
Know a child aged 8-12 who is into space and game-playing but not necessarily into novel reading. This could be for them:
The reader's choices determine the fate of the Red Planet. There are 22 different possible endings but only one leads to success.
A well-produced chunky hardback with embossed redfoil spine, punchy black-and-white comic-book style graphics, with a full-colour planet factfile at the back.
Definitely worth a speculative purchase, if you want to buy that child a book but are worried a regular novel just won't get read.
How about this for a great little stocking-filler:
Four small hardback Alfie stories in their own slipcase.
Contains the first four Alfie storybooks: Alfie Gets in First, Alfie Gives a Hand, Alfie's Feet and An Evening at Alfie's...
What's more it's Celebrate 30 Years of Alfie year!
Looking for a cosy feelgood rhyming picture book to share with little ones while curled up on the sofa?
Then how about The Big Snuggle-up by Brian Patten & Nicola Bayley?
As you would expect from an accomplished poet like Brian Patten, the simple repetitive structure - as one by one different countryside creatures ask to be let into the house - is a joy to read aloud, the rhyming couplets tripping along rhythmically but with a refreshing variety that avoids the plodding deadness that mars many a picture book of this type.
"A cat allowed itself to be let in/And it slept on a shelf by a blue bread bin"
"A donkey looked in and said, 'I'm unable/To find my way back and into the stable.'"
Beautiful child-friendly illustrations by Nicola Bayley, with a heart-warming final double spread showing the thirteen assembled guests gathered round a roaring open fire, complete a perfect seasonal picture book gift.
News that the designer Orla Kiely had been signed to Egmont to create a range of books for babies and toddlers was not, it has to be said, uniformly welcomed by those within the children's books world, who tended to see it as another celebrity cashing in on the enduring bouyancy of the children's market.
The first two titles are very nice artifacts - stylistically designed and pleasingly produced, and make highly suitable present options for parents with babies or very young toddlers. If the babies don't like them, the parents will.
There will be two companion titles - Creatures and Shapes - in the spring of 2012.
