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Amazing Grace
Mary Hoffman
Frances Lincoln
Grace loves any kind of story and she loves most of all to act them out. However when she wants to play Peter Pan in the school play, she needs a little support from her mother and grandmother.
This book is worth looking at for the illustrations alone, which show Grace's character beautifully.
Ants in My Pants
Wendy Mould
Andersen Press Ltd
This is a book that will appeal to both adults and children. Jacob is happily playing in his pyjamas, but his mother wants to go shopping, so he must get dressed. But he can't get dressed: there are ants in his pants (they tickle!), and geese in his fleece (the feathers made him sneeze!), and- what else? It's funny how quickly it can all be solved when Mum spots snow on the ground!
Beegu
Alexis Deacon
Red Fox
A lovely simple story that is both touching and humorous. It sensitively deals with Beegu's loneliness and rejection stranded on earth and shows rather nicely what the knee-high view of what life must be like for toddlers The illustrations are superb.
Clarice Bean, That's Me!
Lauren Child
Orchard Books
Lauren Child's Smarties Prize shortlisted title will have children and adults alike returning time and time again to the Bean household to bask in the heartwarming glow of an intelligent, funny and honest take on family life.
Cleversticks
Bernard Ashley Derek Brakell (Illustrator)
Picture Lions
Ling Sung doesn't like school. The other children can do things he can't. At biscuit time however Ling Sung does something amazing using two paintbrushes as chopsticks to pick up the biscuits.
Cowboy Baby
Sue Heap
Walker Books
Winner of the Smarties prize in 1998.
Sheriff Pa says it's bedtime. But Cowboy Baby won't go to bed without his gang of Wild West character toys. When he finds them he decides he doesn't want to go home. He hides with his gang behind a cactus. Then Sheriff Pa lassos a star, makes Cowboy Baby his deputy and tucks them all in bed.
Daddy Island
Philip Wells, Nicky Daly (illustrator)
Barefoot Books
Showing the love between a parent and a child this lovely book written in verse is sure to become a favourite.
Daddy's Lullaby
Tony Bradbury
Bloomsbury
A lovely gentle story about a father who comes home late from work to find everyone asleep except the baby. The delightful illustrations show the father's gentleness as he walks the house with his baby.
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