Albie is back! And it’s AWESOME!

The Albie books by Caryl Hart and Ed Eaves hold a special place in my heart. My daughter has grown up with them as firm favourites and even now, as she embraces full length chapter books and reading to herself, she regularly returns to Albie's adventures. Her face lit up when this one dropped through...

Hiding Heidi by Fiona Woodcock

Heidi and her friends love to play hide and seek. The trouble is, Heidi always wins. She can't help it - she's just too good! But Heidi soon learns that being hard to find can be hard to take, so she needs to come up with a plan... Hiding Heidi is a beautifully designed and deceptively...

Inclusion in How to Catch a Dragon

Following on from my Inclusive Minds call to action, I want to share something with you all. I want to tell you that I love the Albie books by Caryl Hart and Ed Eaves! In fact my whole family loves the series - for differing reasons. My daughter, Mollie, loves the concept, the adventure, the...

And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson, Peter Parnell and Henry Cole

In the middle of New York in Central Park zoo there live two penguins called Roy and Silo. They do everything together, just like the other penguin families and all the other animal families in the zoo. But Roy and Silo are a little bit different, they are both boy penguins. They do everything the...

No-Bot, the Robot with No Bottom by Sue Hendra

Bernard the Robot loses his bottom on the park swing, and sets off to find it. Every time he gets close, it disappears again! Bird was using it as a nest, but it was too heavy; Bear used it in his drum kit, but it was too tinny; the Rabbits built sandcastles with it...and now...