Recommendations from our site
“I loved this and the other Pippi books as a child. They were a favourite from my trips to the local library every Saturday morning. Pippi is simply joyful. She is curious and courageous, creative and kind. She doesn’t worry about the small things like matching stockings or tidy hair. She doesn’t blindly follow convention but is very much her own person. She makes mistakes but finds her way through them. Looking back she was perhaps an early female role model for me! She taught me early on that I don’t need to follow conventional paths. That’s the power of fiction.” Read more...
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Olivetti
by Allie Millington -
Finding Home: Amazing Places Animals Live
Mike Unwin, Jenni Desmond (illustrator) -
Mushrooms Know: Wisdom from Our Friends the Fungi
by Kallie George & Sara Gillingham (illustrator) -
Houses with a Story
by Seiji Yoshida & translated by Jan Mitsuko Cash -
Overground Railroad
by Lesa Cline-Ransome, illustrated by James Ransome, narrated by Shayna Small and Dion Graham -
Inventors: Incredible Stories of the World's Most Ingenious Inventions
by Robert Winston & Jessamy Hawke (illustrator)
