Zoe’s Rescue Zoo: The Lonely Lion Cub by Amelia Cobb, ill. by Sophy Williams

A lovely start to a new animal series for 5-8 year olds! When Great Uncle Horace brings an orphaned lion cub back to his zoo, Zoe is quick to greet their new resident and make him happy in his new home. The problem is though that he’s not happy at all and Zoe must try to use her special gift

Nosy Crow, Me Books and Reinventing Interactive Picturebooks

I was doing my usual persual of the various blogs I follow when I came across this post by wonder publishers Nosy Crow. For those who haven’t come across them before, they’re a favourite of mine simply because they really get stuck in to the expanding role that technology has to do with children’s books. They’ve developed and won awards

Bizzy Bear Fire Rescue! by Benji Davies

A new video review! And yes, I will be looking to improve video quality – obviously my phone isn’t quite up to snuff when faced with anything more complex than perfect lighting. Also, TRIPOD. If anyone can recommend a good within-bank-balance digital camera, or some camera-hunting tips, I’d be very grateful. Publisher: Nosy Crow Books ISBN: 9780857631336 Published: 10/1/2013 Lovely

Nosy Crow and ‘Stories Aloud’

Nosy Crow are a puzzle of a publisher. On the one hand, they do the usual publisher-y things of producing and publishing some pretty nifty printed books. I’ve reviewed a few of them here on this blog before (check out Dinosaur Dig, I’m very fond of it!). On the other hand though (or should that be wing?), they’re also rather

Gender-skewed books – what do you think?

Nosy Crow’s blog has been busy lately – a couple of authors and Nosy Crow got busy chatting about gender and girl books vs. boys’ books and it pretty much EXPLODED from there. See the blog posts here and here Now, I don’t want to say too much on this, because I think it’s been said much better and more

Cool Jewels – Designing the Cover for Dear Scarlett by Fleur Hitchcock

Found this while browsing the Interwebs today – it’s a guest post on Nosy Crow publisher’s blog by their author Fleur Hitchcock. It talks about all the different stages of her book gaining it’s own cover, all without the author and the artist ever actually meeting. Fascinating stuff, especially the bit about whether the pink cover suited the ‘not pink’

The Rescue Princesses: The Secret Promise by Paula Harrison

For 5-8 readers, notably little girls, I have this, The Ultimate Girly Read! So girly it’s even in pink, but… this is not just any girly-girly-princessey series. This one had something different enough about it that it even managed to interest definitely not-girly BooKa Uhu. Read on… Publisher: Nosy Crow, image used with their kind permission ISBN: 9780857630971 Published: 5/4/2012