Who do you want to be today? Two beautiful picture books about people

We’ve recently built streets, and even towns. But they were missing something – some people to bring our buildings to life. Fortunately, People by Blexbolex recently arrived through our letter box. An extremely stylish compendium of occupations, roles and characters People is a simple, beautiful and eyeopening book. The success of this book lies partly [...]

On becoming curious again

Books which introduce babies and the youngest of kids to basic concepts such as colours, shapes, numbers and opposites are ten-a-penny, so when one comes along that takes you by surprise and makes you look afresh at these basic concepts again, you sit up and take notice. Publisher PatrickGeorge has created not one, but four [...]

Murderous books, and stories told on skin

The Last Giants By Francois Place (original title: Les derniers géants), winner in the picture book category of the 1993 Prix Sorcières, is a fictional account of a 19th-century naturalist whose discovery of a race of giants ultimately leads to their destruction, despite his personal sensitivity and respect for them. In 1849 Archibald Leopold Ruthmore [...]

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