
Celebrate King Charles III and his Coronation with these Majestic Children's Books.
New imprint, Pineapple Lane, launches with seven Ukrainian picture books. Sally Anne Garland and The Art of the Every Day.
Fit for a King and May Day Madness! Topical themes to inspire aspiring young writers. The year’s outstanding debut authors for children: shortlist for the 2023 Branford Boase Award announced. Jacqueline Wilson - our Guest Editor of the Month. Branford Boase 2023 – what the judges had to say about the shortlist. Read Hour returns for its third year in the UK with Moomin Characters. In its 20th year, the shortlist for CLiPPA (CLPE Children’s Poetry Award) reflects the wealth of talent in children’s poetry. This book was marvellously funny, with few dialogue and not many expectations. So Odd followed.īut what did he find? What could he do? What did the lump of wood have to do with anything? Read on, find out. The fox winked at him cheekily and then darted off into the woods. The next day, he was awoken by the sly moan of a fox outside his door. But he had never finished it so Odd tried to finish it for him. Here he found a small lump of wood, which his father had started to carve. He camped in his father's old hut, not daring to stroll into the unknown thicket quite yet. Survival was, as you can see by reading the first few sentences in this paragraph, not Odd's thing. So this meant that the little, limping boy had not much of a chance in the wild. So Odd strayed.Īs a young boy, he had attempted to chop down a tree with his father's axe.
The drunkard didn't spend much of his time with the poor lad in much of a way, for he had his own children to look after, even if he didn't have clubs and meetings in the background. Alas, nobody was saved but the grateful pony. The young man had jumped into the foamy waters of the ocean on a sea-raiding trip to save one of the ponies, who got flung overboard. It wasn't just any old person's father, it was Odd's. Many years ago, so long ago the Vikings roamed the forests and villages, a father died.