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kids books

...books



  • JITTERBUG JAM by Barbara Jean Hicks and Alexis Deacon
  • THE LONESOME PUPPY by Yoshitomo Nara
  • ALICE IN WONDERLAND by Lewis Carroll
  • THE LOST THING by Shaun Tan
  • DREAM MACHINES by Mark Rogalski
  • THE LITTLE PRINCE by Antoine De Saint-Exupéry
  • CORDUROY by Don Freeman
  • A WALK ACROSS ENGLAND by Richard Long (the artist)
  • LITTLE BLUE by Gaye Chapman
  • CHARLOTTE'S WEB by E.B.White
  • CARS AND TRUCKS AND THINGS THAT GO by Richard Sarry
  • HOME FOR A BUNNY by Margaret Wise Brown
  • THE HAPPY PRINCE by Oscar Wilde
  • CRICTOR by Tomi Ungerer
  • PETER PAN by J.M.Barrie
  • WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE by Maurice Sendak



...authors & illustrators


  • Miroslav Sasek
  • Dr Seuss (but of course!)
  • Richard Scarry (our all-time favourite author & illustrator)
  • Gyo Fujikawa (such a lovely illustrator)
  • Alice and Martin Provensen
  • Janet & Anne Grahame Johnstone- my favourite illustrators! (work published by DEAN & SON, LTD)
  • Rene Cloke (another wonderful illustrator)
  • Maria Bird (the Andy Pandy books)
  • A.A.Milne (Winnie The Pooh)
  • Pixie O'Harris (fairies)
  • Hilda Boswell
  • The Funnybones Books by Allan Ahlberg + Andre Amstutz
  • Margaret Clarke (more fairies)
  • Ida Retoul Outhwaite (...and more fairies!)
  • Pittau & Gervais
  • The Golden Book Company
  • May Gibbs (The Gumnut Babies)
  • OLIVIA series by Ian Falconer
  • Johnny Gruelle (Raggedy Anne & Andy)
  • Arthur Rackham
  • anything by Dick Bruna...
  • all the 'see and say' storybooks
  • The NARNIA series by C.S.Lewis
  • ...everything by Enid Blyton
  • Beatrix Potter (Peter Rabbit & co.)
  • Shaun Tan
  • Eloise Wilkin