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Author
Publisher
Frances Lincoln First Editions
Pub. Date
2019
Description
A moving, lyrical picture book about a young girl's love for her granddad and how she copes when he dies, written by poet and playwright Joseph Coelho. This powerful and ultimately uplifting text is the ideal way to introduce children to the concept of death and dying, particularly children who have lost a grandparent.
Author
Publisher
Egmont [distributor]
Pub. Date
2012
Description
When help becomes a hindrance, Aunty May is left clean out of patience. A portrait of childhood optimism and cheer, our narrator proceeds from chore to chore, leaving a trail of destruction behind him - all oblivious to his aunt's horror.
Author
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Anti-bias, anti-racism educator and activist Tiffany Jewell helps young people reflect on their positions in relation to or inside racist structures and forms of privilege across a series of exercises, proceeding to fix young people with a sense of what they can best contribute to the struggle against racism.
6) Just because
Author
Publisher
Lion Children's
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Encompassing the issue of disability in a charming celebration of sibling friendship, 'Just Because' describes a younger brother who is only just beginning to realise that his big sister has special needs.
Author
Publisher
Walker Books
Pub. Date
2014
Description
Henry hopes that his granpa, who is coming for a visit, will love his puppy Charley just as much as he does (a LOT). But Granpa is a little wary of dogs - he's never been friends with one before. Luckily, Charley isn't any ordinary little puppy, he's a very smart one and this could be the beginning of a very beautiful friendship indeed.
10) All my friends
Author
Publisher
Tamarind
Pub. Date
2006
Description
Keisha has started a new school but misses her old school, old friends and her old teacher. In fact she is so sad she keeps telling her mum she has a stomach ache so she doesn't have to go to school. One day she finds a small doll in the garden, but when she takes her dolls to school she loses them.
12) Eat up, Gemma
Author
Publisher
Walker
Pub. Date
2007
Description
Baby Gemma is up to mischief - refusing to eat, throwing her breakfast on the floor, squashing her grapes, feeding her dinner to the dog. But one day, in church, her brother has a clever idea for getting Gemma to eat up.
14) Face
Author
Description
In his debut novel, poet Benjamin Zephaniah tackles the moving story of a young man, Martin, whose life is completely changed when his face is badly scarred in a joyriding accident.
15) Hog in the fog
Author
Series
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Pub. Date
2014
Description
Tells the story of Candy Stripe Lil and Harry the Hog who lived over the hill...
17) Me and my fear
Author
Publisher
Flying Eye Books
Pub. Date
2018
Description
When a young refugee girl has to travel to a new country and start at a new school, she is accompanied by her Fear who tells her to be alone and afraid, growing bigger and bigger every day with questions like 'how can you hope to make new friends if you don't understand their language?' But this little girl is stronger than her Fear.
18) Bubble trouble
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2014
Description
Rueben and Felix are best friends, and what they like doing best is blowing bubbles - the bigger, the better! It all starts to go wrong when Rueben challenges Felix to a bubble-blowing competition. When they sabotage each other's bubble machines, the results are disastrous. It's time to stop fighting against each other and pull together!
20) Mummy's home!
Author
Publisher
Picture Corgi
Pub. Date
2015
Description
Written by Lieutenant Colonel Christopher MacGregor and based on his own experiences of going away from home, this comforting, wise book helps to explain why parents sometimes have to go away and shows ways to help children cope.