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Has been selected for Empathy Lab's 2021 Read for Empathy collection. Felix hides all of his sorrow inside a large black suitcase that he carries with him wherever he goes. One day, a small boy opens the suitcase whilst Felix is sleeping. Felix wakes and the tears that he had been carrying for so long suddenly pour from him. Felix is uplifted, free and his heart is full of joy. Felix embraces the world, and the world embraces him. A beautiful book about feelings of sadness and the power of friendship from Slovenian picture book creator Dunja Jogan.
A charming new Christmas story from acclaimed author Pippa Goodhart and artist Ema Malyauka - for ages 5 and over. Christmas is the most magical time of the year, and Old Bear is excited to spend it with her friends! If only these spindly spiders would stay out of the way! The tree is decorated perfectly for the party, but whilst Old Bear sleeps, the spiders come out to play, decorating the tree with their wondrous webs! Will Old Bear and friends see the beauty in the spiders¿ hard work? Old Bear is nostalgic for the Christmasses of her childhood, when everything felt magical ¿ maybe she can recreate that feeling with her friends this year by throwing a party! Shooing away the pesky spiders, Old Bear decorates her house from top to toe, with a glorious Christmas tree, delicately iced cookies and colourful paper chains. While she sleeps soundly that night, the spiders, sad that they haven¿t been invited, decide to peek at the jolly decorations and weave their winding wondrous webs. Morning dawns and Bear is distraught ¿ what will her friends think?! But when the spiders beautiful work is revealed in the sunlight to the party guests, it evokes the magical Christmas feeling Bear was craving all along.
Spring has sprung, and little Rabbit is excited to play with his friend Bear! There¿s just one problem: Bear doesn¿t want to come out of hibernation. There¿s too much of everything outside! With the help of friends Rabbit, Squirrel and Fox, Bear becomes excited to enter the outside world once again! Everything is more bearable with good friends who let us take our time.
Jaguar is feeling very lonely being all on her only! Why doesn¿t anyone else look like just like her? When clever Ladybird comes to play, she points out that they have more in common than Jaguar might think ¿ they both have simply spectacular spots! Snake and Rockhopper are dotty too, and so the top secret dotsy club is formed! Zebra is so sad when he can¿t join the club because of his stripes. The club will just have to become a PATTERNS club so he can join in the fun too! But wait! What is a game that all the animals can play together? No one can think of anything! Monkey has an idea, but he¿s all plain ¿ he can¿t join the patterns club! Yet, Monkey doesn¿t mind one bit. He is part of the best secret club of all, the Everybody Club, and anyone can join ¿ the badge of honour is in your heart! The animals agree that the Everyone Club is the best of all.
A fun, exciting story about two cheeky, adventurous ants exploring the human world. Two little ants are excited to explore their surroundings. What can they see, taste and smell? When they end up in the little girl¿s house, they are fascinated by everything she does: the movement of her pencil and the colours drawn on her paper. These two ants are tired after their big day out, but soon realise they have made the little girl¿s day.
The little girl is so bored at home. ThereâEUR(TM)s NO-ONE to play with! That is until she decides to play the name game with the nature and animals around her, inventing fantastic names and personalities for all of them! Soon she is describing a fun imaginary world that she can play in by herself.
Junior and his elephant family are excited to visit Human Town, where they can observe humans in their own town! The novelty soon wears thin, as they notice major issues humans have caused, which are causing them to become extinct. Junior hopes that this will never happen to the elephants.
Life is so busy! On his way to school, Joe is missing all the exciting things happening around him - he is in such a rush, he doesn't even notice his little sister crying! Given a task to draw what he saw on his way to school, Joe decides to stop time to appreciate all the little details that make life meaningful, and find out why Poppy was crying.
Rock and Roll are two boulders that are used to being alone together. However, when the people come and award them with gifts, they become jealous of each other.
Mrs Cake has provided a lovely spread for all of her friends. However, the fair is too noisy for anyone to hear about them! With the help of a little boy and his cat, Mrs Cake is able to bring everyone together to enjoy her bakes and get the thanks she deserves.
Gloria is making a big pot of porridge and Cat wants a share. When Gloria says no, Cat takes matters into his own hands and eats the lot! What happens next interrupts everyone's day... Inspired by an Ethiopian folk tale, Gloria's Porridge shows that placing blame is not the answer, and sometimes you both have to apologise to make it right.
Some of the best Tiny Owl illustrators from around the world show us how they made their day to day life sweet, during the 2020 lockdown.
Bird and Frog find a strawberry on their way. There's only one strawberry and the two of them. So, only "the best" animal gets to eat the fruit. Soon others join them in a competition to find "the best" and award them with the strawberry. The competition has a lesson for all of them about being "best friends".
There's an elephant and her calf hiding somewhere in this book - can you find them? This interactive picture book with unfolding flaps has a surprise for the reader at every turn. Lions turn into Orangutans with the help of Ali Khodai's innovative illustrations linking animals together. Where's Baby Elephant? combines entertainment and learning in a fun and exciting way. This beautiful hardback picture book is perfect for introducing the animal kingdom to young children and is the ideal gift. Khodai's illustrations excite young children's imaginations and creativity. His vibrant illustrations bring these adorable animal families to life on the page.
Nominated for the 2022 CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals. A rhinoceros remembers his life before grey captivity, one full of colour, with familiar smells and sights. He thinks of his mother being slain by poachers. He has searched the zoo but cannot find another like him. He fears he is the last. He describes a joyless life for all the animals with him, before being rescued and brought back home. The colour is brought back into his life when he realis-es he is not the last. Last evokes a longing for home from the reader and a sense of hope for the future upon its ending. In her debut as an illustrator, Nicole Davies effectively and beautifully portrays the differences in mood and surroundings between the rhinoceros' life before and during captivity through her effective use of colour.
'Awarded a WHITE RAVEN in 2012 by the International Youth Library Foundation' A sassy cat from the back alleys of Paris believes she is quite different to the rest of the rabble. She can do anything she sets her mind to - even if others don't think so. Leaving her cat family behind, she sets off to explore Paris. Cat meets legendary singer Edith Piaf, creates her own stunning designs at a high-fashion atelier and dances with the infamous dancer Josephine Baker and her cheetah. But is this the life she really wants? What about her friends and family?
Featured in The Guardian as one of the best picture books, and in The Sunday Times as children's book of the week. There was once a beautiful flower and a little girl who loved it. She talked to it every morning on her way to school. The owner of the flower shouted at her. The next day, the flower did not open. The angry man didnâ¿t understand. He tried watering it. He tried giving it shade and he tried talking to it. He told it how wonderful he was, how important his job was and how lonely he felt. But it still refused to open. So, he asked the little girl. âWhy donâ¿t you tell it how wonderful it is and how much you love it?â? she said. As he did so, his own heart filled with love. And the flower bloomed.
Jackie Morris is an internationally best-selling illustrator and author who lives in a small cottage on the Pembrokeshire coast. Her illustration of The Lost Words was recognised by UK booksellers who voted it the most beautiful in 2016. Originally from Birmingham, Jackie visited Pembrokeshire over 20 years ago for the weekend and never left. Ehsan Abdollahi is an illustrator, animator and teaches at Tehran Art University in Iran. Ehsan creates handmade and hand-coloured paper in his collages. Ehsan has illustrated When I Coloured in the World (2015), A Bottle of Happiness (2016) and Thinker: My Puppy Poet and Me (2018).
Pippa Goodhart is the author of over a hundred children¿s books, including the prize-winning picture book You Choose, and the Winnie the Witch series which she writes under the pen name of Laura Owen. She trained as a teacher, and worked for many years in bookselling before becoming a mother and a writer.Anna Doherty is an illustrator from sunny Scotland. She adores drawing, writing, and every single dog in the world. She owns too many pencils and she likes tiny sketch books. Outside of illustration, her main skills in life are rock, paper, scissors and swimming a long way under water without breathing.
Deep in the jungle, an unlikely friendship blooms between the golden-hearted monkey Miss Bandari and the old crocodile Mr. Magarmach. But what will happen when King Crocodile comes along to test their friendship? The story of the monkey and the crocodile comes from the Panchatantra, an ancient Indian collection of animal fables. Versions of this tale of courage and forgiveness can be found all around the world.
Sally Pomme Clayton is a pioneering storyteller and writer. As a storyteller she loves to bring fairytales, fragments of forgotten myths, folktales and epics to new life. She has published more than ten children¿s books, most recently The King with Dirty feet (Otter- Barry Books 2018). Find out more at: www.sallypommeclayton.com Amin Hassanzadeh Sharif was born in Tehran in 1979 and is an award-winning illustrator whose work has been published worldwide. To illustrate The Phoenix of Persia , Amin has used his distinctive sgraffito technique (from the Italian word sgraffire which means ¿to scratch¿), which involves scratching through a layer of still-wet paint to reveal what¿s underneath.
Lorna Gutierrez is an author and poet who enjoys making difficult subjects easier for children to understand. She has written two previous collections of poetry to encourage building self-esteem and confidence in children: Perfectly Imperfect and I Love Myself. Let Me Tell You Why. This is her first book for Tiny Owl. Polly Noakes is an illustrator and author with a passion for creating lyrical images for children¿s books. Her love of illustration started at Cambridge School of Art and Polly graduated from the MA in Children¿s Book Illustration in 2015. Polly lives in the countryside with her family and rescued Romanian street dog Bertie, who likes long lively walks!
A timeless tale of monsters under the bed, based on a story by the thirteenth century poet Rumi.
Duncan Annand is a Cambridge-based former architect, whose skill shines through clearly in the majestic structure created in Caged. Duncan graduated from the MA Children¿s Book Illustration at Cambridge in 2017. This is his first picture book.
In this earliest known version of Cinderella, a rosy-cheeked girl called Rhodopis is abducted by bandits from her home in Greece and enslaved in Egypt. Although she finds friends, she remains unhappy, until one day the gift of a pair of beautiful slippers leads her to the King of Egypt.
A new baby is on the way! What will he be like? This family of five children all have their own ideas about the new baby - will he be a pirate or painter, a scientist or a dreamer? But there's one thing they haven't thought of...
In the heart of a busy city, a young boy spots an eagle flying overhead and dreams of flying away from the buildings and noise. With a piece of chalk and his own boundless imagination, he creates a wonderful airborne adventure.
One day a young man decides that he wants a lion tattoo. But as the tattooist begins her work, the young man feels the pain of the needle and decides that his lion doesn't need a tail...or a stomach...or a mane! Based on a tale by Rumi, this hilarious picture book for adult readers is guaranteed to make you think.
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