by IBBY | May 3, 2022 | Book Review, Picture Book, Poetry, Translation
Bicki Books Book Details Bicki BooksVarious. Birmingham: The Emma Press, pb, individual titles, 2018, £4 each or £20 for a set of 6, 20pp.See the official Emma Press website for details of individual titlesPoetry, picture book, 3+ years BACK TO REVIEWS Bicki Books are...
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...
by IBBY | Jun 6, 2020 | Book Review, Picture Book, Poetry, Translation
Queen of seagulls Book Details Queen of seagullsR.B, transl. Elina Braslina. Birmingham: Emma Press, hb, 9 781 910 139 134, 2018, £10, 48pp.Poetry, picture book, translation, 7-11 years BACK TO REVIEWS This is a very welcome translation from the Latvian original, a...
by IBBY | Nov 11, 2018 | IBBYLink Autumn 2017
Poems with Crumpled Corners back to IBBYLink Autumn 2017 Santa Remere Named after an onomatopoetic poem by Latvian poet Jānis Baltvilks, the little Bikibuki or Bicki-Buck Books are so popular among the reading families of Latvia that ‘bicki- bucks’ has become almost a...
