Synopsis: This is a visually attractive and highly useable book, of value to teachers who have no background in Fine Art or Art History, and small enough for young hands to handle in the classroom. It looks at ways of picturing families in town and country from the 1600s up to the present.

Review: In making images of families, artists choose to depict them in particular col ...

Synopsis: Quentin Blake takes the reader on a tour of paintings, pastels, prints and drawings featuring Parisian women of the 19th and 20th centuries. In 77 pages, he organises the paintings, all selected from the Petit Palais in Paris, into broad themes, including portraiture, city and country, family, theatre, society, workplace, and idyllic.

Blake illustrates the chapter head ...

Synopsis: Pip is a blacksmith’s apprentice – but he longs to be a famous knife-fighter like his dead father. Alone in London, he meets great danger….and two odd allies. One is hairy and hungry. The other is William Shakespeare. Pip’s extraordinary adventures have begun…

 Review: ‘Bearkeeper’ is a novel set in the dir ...

This interpretation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a very satisfying one. The overall effect is one of ethereal elegance, with a delicacy that emphasizes the gossamer-lightness of fairies and plot. This is also apparent in the pages that use colour.

 The style here has a lovely, clear and delicate use of line, with a distinct Art Nouveau feel, ...

This interpretation of The Tempest offers a profoundly satisfying reading experience. That the text is abridged has to be mentioned, but the clarity with which both action and meaning comes across is exceptional.

The influence of manga, and of Japanese culture in general, is clear throughout the book, for instance in the repeated use of elements of Katsushika Hokusai’s &l ...

This is the conclusion to Helen Dunmore's Ingo quartet. Readers who have read the first 3 in the series will not want to stop. They will need this book to find out how the saga is brought to an end. Is it worth the wait? An emphatic yes is the answer!

A synopsis would read something like this:'Sapphire, Conor and their Mer friends Faro and Elvira are ready to make the Crossing o ...

This is an Indie Kid special.

Indie kKd is just potty about pets and this story is about her school project. It has vibrant black and white line drawings interspersed through the text. The text has different font styles for different aspects of the project. The pages are busy and are likely to need a confident reader. Written in the first person this is a pacy and fun ...

Jack Flint has defeated the Morrigan and looks forward to going home, or perhaps finding out more about his missing father - but fate and the heartstone have other plans for him. When his friend Corriwen disappears through the wrong gate betwen the world, Jack and is fellow traveller Kerry must follow, to save both her and the mythical world of Eirainn from destruction by a fearsome warlord an ...

Sara Crew is a lucky little girl - not only is she rich and pampered by a kind and loving father, but she is also blessed with a sweet nature, a lively intelligence, and the gift of making friends wherever she goes. Her luck is about to change however when, after a few years of separation at a classy finishing school in London, Sara learns that the diamond mine her father has invested in, far f ...

Eleven years ago the Tylurians, an alien race, hid something on Earth in a very strange place. Now they need it back. Only they need to find it first. The Tylurian’s secret is so terrible that it would mean the annihilation of their arch-enemy the Vad-Raatch. The Vads will do anything to stop the recovery of this secret, and thanks to a well-placed spy, they are very close. The Tylurians ...