by IBBY | Nov 30, 2020 | Book Review, Picture Book, Poetry
Crocodile tears Book Details Crocodile tearsRoger McGough, illus. Greg McLeod. London: Otter-Barry Books, hb 978 1 9130 7497 5, 2020, £12.99, 40pp.Picture book, poetry, 7-9 years BACK TO REVIEWS This brilliantly evocative book is a very successful collaboration...
by IBBY | Oct 2, 2020 | Book Review, Poetry
Belonging Street Book Details Belonging StreetMandy Coe, illus. Mandy Coe, Burley Gate, Hereford: Otter-Barry Books, pb 978 1 9130 7480 7, 2020, £7.99, 96pp.Poetry, 7-11 years BACK TO REVIEWS This is another in the series of small stuff-in-your-schoolbag poetry books....
by IBBY | Jun 30, 2020 | Book Review, Picture Book, Poetry, Translation
Calm Beasts Book Details Calm BeastsHerberts Dorbe, illus. Gita Treice, trans. Žanete Vēv ere Pasqualini and Kate Wakeling, Birmingham: The Emma Press, pb. 978 1 9101 3993 6, 2019, £4.00, 32pp. [First published as Rāmi-svēri by Lies un Maz, Riga, Latvia in 2013. ©...
by IBBY | Jun 21, 2020 | Book Review, Poetry, Translation
Poems the Wind Blew In Book Details Poems the Wind Blew InCarmelo C. Iribarren, illus. Riya Chowdhury, trans. Lawrence Schimel. Birmingham: The Emma Press, pb. 978 1 912915 31 6, 2019, £8.99, 80pp.[First published in Spain as Versos que el viento arrastra by Ediciones...
by IBBY | Jun 6, 2020 | Book Review, Picture Book, Poetry, Translation
Everyone’s the smartest Book Details Everyone’s the smartestContra, illus. Ulla Saar, transl. Charlotte Geater, Kätlin Kaldmaa & Richard O’Brien. Birmingham: Emma Press, hb, 9 781 910 139 998, 2018, £10, 96pp.Poetry, picture book, translation, 7-11 years BACK TO...
by IBBY | Jun 6, 2020 | Book Review, Picture Book, Poetry, Translation
The book of clouds Book Details The book of cloudsJuris Kronbergs, illus. Anete Melece, transl. Māra Rozīte & Richard O’Brien. Birmingham: Emma Press, hb, 9 781 910 139 141, 2018, £10, 80pp.Poetry, picture book, translation, 7-11 years BACK TO REVIEWS This...
