Zarah Gagatiga is a teacher-librarian, storyteller, blogger and award-winning author from the Philippines. Her first book, Tales from the 7,000 Isles: Filipino Folk Stories (Libraries Unlimited, USA 2011), written in collaboration with international storyteller and award-winning author Dianne de …
All the books in this list have something in common – and they are all also as different as you would expect any books to be that …
Snow – love it or dread it, I think most adults would agree at least that for children there’s something very special about it. And there are also some very special picture books around too. Here, in no particular order, is a small selection of snowy stories set around the …
A few weeks ago, amidst the deepening refugee crisis from the war in Syria, many people and organisations around the world came together for …
On 6th October I went to the beautiful West Yorkshire town of Ilkley to attend a presentation by picture book author and illustrator Jessica Souhami as part of The Children’s …
To give the Chinese proverb in its entirety, ‘Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come’ – and to extend the …
As well as being an acclaimed artist in his native Malaysia, Jainal Amambing has won a string of international awards for his illustrations for his self-authored children’s books, including most recently a Green …
