Children's Books

Lulu Le Baby Chef is a heart-warming tale of Lulu's adventures traversing the globe for the elusive perfect ingredient. It engages the current zeitgeist for all things culinary as Lulu eventually discovers often the best food is made at home with the people she loves the most.

My unicorn is an icky, sticky disaster area, from his silly, sparkly horn to his polka dot bottom.
But despite the stink, the sneezes and snores, I love him loads and he loves me more.
MY UNICORN FARTS GLITTER is a funny, warm-hearted and often painfully honest tale of sibling love and farty bath-times.

Here is the story of a very noisy baby.
She could bellow like a buffalo
And roar like a lion
And howl like a wolf for a very long time.
The baby loves to make all kinds of sounds. She's really very loud.
But when some animals in the town go missing, can the very noisy baby help?
Find out in this wonderfully boisterous story, full of action, fun (and noise!).

It's good to know what the parts of a thing are called, but it's much more interesting to know what they do. Richard Feynman once said that if you can't explain something to a first-year student, you don't really get it. In THING EXPLAINER, Randall Munroe takes a quantum leap past this: he explains things using only drawings and a vocabulary of just our 1,000 (or the ten hundred) most common words.
Many of the things we use every day - like our food-heating radio boxes ('microwaves'), our very tall roads ('bridges'), and our computer rooms ('datacentres') - are strange to us. So are the other worlds around our sun (the solar system), the big flat rocks we live on (tectonic plates), and even the stuff inside us (cells). Where do these things come from? How do they work? What do they look like if you open them up? And what would happen if we heated them up, cooled them down, pointed them in a different direction, or pressed this button?
In THING EXPLAINER, Munroe gives us the answers to these questions and many, many more. Funny, interesting, and always understandable, this book is for anyone- age 5 to 105 - who has ever wondered how things work, and why.

From a dynamic author-illustrator team comes this fresh, fun and rhythmic exploration of colour.
Bold and bright, it's the perfect book for reading aloud and sharing with young children as they learn to identify the colours of their world.

When Mae has to move house from the country to the city, she feels lonely and sad - until she discovers a beautiful place full of green in the centre of Paris. What she finds there sparks something special and beautiful that will make her feel much more at home.

Little Women is one of the best-loved children's stories of all time, based on the author's own youthful experiences. It describes the family of the four March sisters living in a small New England community. Meg, the eldest, is pretty and wishes to be a lady; Jo, at fifteen is ungainly and unconventional with an ambition to be an author; Beth is a delicate child of thirteen with a taste for music and Amy is a blonde beauty of twelve. The story of their domestic adventures, their attempts to increase the family income, their friendship with the neighbouring Laurence family, and their later love affairs remains as fresh and beguiling as ever. Collector's Editions: These new compact hardbacks will be cloth-bound, with matching coloured end papers, embossed gold and coloured blocking to enhance their beautiful, bespoke cover illustrations

After completing her diploma in illustration Manuela Adreani worked as a graphic artist and animator. After winning a scholarship for a master course in animation at Turin s IED, she worked for the Lastrego e Testa studio on TV series produced and broadcast by Italy s RAI television: Le avventure di Aladino, Amita della Giungla and also on La Creazione, based on the book by Carlo Fruttero. In 2011, she began a career as a freelance illustrator, working with Benchmark and Scholastic India and was one of the winners of the illustration contest organized for the 100th anniversary of Pinocchio. For White Star Kids she has created the illustrations for: Alice in Wonderland, Pinocchio and Snow White among others.