Isla & Pickle: The Highland Show is the second story in a series by Kate Mclelland, published by Kelpies. Isla is a high spirited girl who lives on a Scottish island with her best friend Pickle, a miniature Shetland pony who likes to get up to all sorts of mischief. In this latest book, Isla and Pickle spot a... Continue Reading →
Touring Picture Book Club – Dinosaurs Don’t Draw by Elli Woollard and Steven Lenton
Welcome to this month's Touring Picture Book Club in collaboration with Book Bairn, Mamma Filz and Along Came Poppy. This month our touring book is Dinosaurs Don't Draw by Elli Woollard, illustrated by Steven Lenton and published by Macmillan Children's Books. Picassaur is a young dinosaur who one day stumbles upon something he's never seen before, an interesting little object... Continue Reading →
Interview with Rebecca Cobb, illustrator of The Day War Came by Nicola Davies
The Day War Came, a poem written by Nicola Davies was originally published in The Guardian in response to the UK government denying entry to child refugees in 2016. It sparked the project #3000chairs which invited people to post images of an empty chair on social media. The poem has now been turned into a picture... Continue Reading →