David Dean: The Barefoot Book of Children

Stunning new work from David Dean!
Empower tomorrow's global citizens to grasp today's critical social issues with The Barefoot Book of Children. Hand-painted illustrations and straightforward text directly engage the reader, inviting children to ask themselves: How do other children live? How are we different? And most importantly: How are we alike? The Barefoot Book of Children is a playful, powerful and thought-provoking celebration of both the big ideas and the everyday moments that reveal our common humanity and tie us all together.

Barbara Bongini: I'm Ready For Science! Ladybird books

Brand new work from Barbara Bongini out this week!

Part of Ladybird's bestselling I'm Ready... early learning series, I'm Ready for Science covers the key science topics that children will learn about at primary school in one handy format.

Written to reflect the changes to primary National Curriculum, I'm Ready for Science takes a fun and engaging look at the animal kingdom, the human body, weather and seasons, and everyday materials. With fantastic illustrations and suggestions for simple experiments and activities to explore the subjects further, this book is perfect for all budding young scientists.

Australia Day! Celebrating Aussie artist Shane McGowan!

Happy Australia Day to all of our Aussie friends! None more so than our superstar artist, Shane McGowan!

Born in Australia, Shane worked in London for nearly 20 years before moving back to Melbourne in 2004. He has an extensive editorial, design and publishing client list in Australia, Europe and the US including New York Times, Wall St Journal , Ford, The Observer, The Guardian and Time. He also writes and illustrates picture books which have been published in over 10 countries. 
His work has been recognised on numerous occasions by Images (UK), European Illustration and Illustrators Australia, where he has won many Gold, Silver and Bronze awards.

His latest book 'Trainbots' will be released by Little Bee books in June this year as their lead title! Stay tuned for more on that...

Del Thorpe new artwork for 'Maths on the Go', Square Peg publishing

We are pleased to announce the publication of Del Thorpe's latest work! His delightfully humorous illustrations appear in the new 'Maths on the Go' book, aimed at helping children with their learning! He was the perfect choice to add some light relief from all those difficult sums!

Busy mums or dads are crying out for quick and easy ways to help their children with primary school maths and beyond. Here are 101 simple tips, games and activities to make practising maths as engaging and enjoyable as possible, for you and your child. All can be incorporated into the everyday routine – at home and on the go – with minimal fuss and no expensive kit – helping children have fun with numbers. Indeed, most of the time they won’t even realise that maths is involved. Sneaky!

Areas covered include, addition and subtraction, multiplication and division, fractions, ratio and proportion, telling the time, estimation, measurement, geometry and shapes, with an emphasis on problem solving throughout.