by IBBY | Dec 10, 2025 | Book Review, Fiction
Piebald Book Details PiebaldNicola Davies. Wales: Graffeg, pb, 978 1 8025 8749 4, 2024, £1, 112pp.Fiction, 9+ years BACK TO REVIEWS A short, extremely thoughtful and heart-wrenching story, this novel touches on many current concerns that are as worrying to...
by IBBY | Dec 9, 2025 | Book Review, Fiction
Phoenix Brothers Book Details Phoenix BrothersSita Brahmachari. Oxford: OUP, hb, 978 1 3820 6449 1, 2025, £8.99, 168pp.Fiction, 12+ years BACK TO REVIEWS I am very rarely reduced to tears when I read a book. Phoenix Brothers was one of the very few. Sita Brahmachari...
by IBBY | Oct 2, 2020 | Book Review, Fiction, Picture Book, Translation
Maia and What Matters Book Details Maia and What MattersTina Mortier, illus. Kaatje Vermeire, trans. David Colmer. Bristol: Book Island, hb 978 0 9876 6966 7, 2013 (reprint 2020), £12.99, 32pp.Picture book, fiction, translation, 5+ years BACK TO REVIEWS Maia was a...
by IBBY | Jan 7, 2019 | Book Review, Illustrated book, Non-Fiction
Peace and Me Book Details Peace and MeAli Winter, illus. Mickaël El Fathi, London: Lantana Publishing, hb, 978 1 9113 7365 0 £12.99, 2018, 32pp.Illustrated, information book, 5+ years BACK TO REVIEWS Peace and Me focuses on 12 women and men who received the...
by IBBY | Jan 6, 2019 | Book Review, Fiction, Picture Book
Tomorrow Book Details TomorrowNadine Kaadan, London, Lantana Publishing, hb. 978 1 9113 7345 8, £10.99, 2018, 32pp.Fiction, Picture book, 4+ years BACK TO REVIEWS This picture book focuses on the isolating impact of war on Syrian children, who are forced to always...
