Sophie Blackall

Carol Diggory Shields

Wombat Walkabout

The months and seasons of the year offer fun times for everyone.

Month by Month a Year Goes Round

A group of Martians looking for life on the different planets in the solar system make a surprising discovery just as they are about to give up.

Martian Rock

Scott Nash

All kinds of insects compete to see who is the "bugliest" bug of all, but there is a sinister surprise behind the contest.

The Bugliest Bug

Have you ever wondered what a day in the life of an infant is really like? In this bluesy story, sometimes being a baby is enough to make you cry! The new book from the author of Saturday Night at the Dinosaur Stomp. Oh, baby, wouldn't it be grand to be a baby? No worries, no woes, the whole world doing everything for you. Like floating down easy street. But just wait one guitar-pickin' minute. That's a lie! Babies can't talk, can't walk, can't even really chew. It's enough to make the baby in this story blue, blue, blue. So get ready for a sad tale of soggy nappies, mushy meals and sleepin' behind bars - which rather than making you cry, too, will more likely make you giggle! Groovily illustrated by Lauren Tobia, Carol Diggory Shields' ode to babyhood will have readers feeling anything but blue.

Baby's Got the Blues

When it is rock 'n' roll time during the prehistoric era, many different kinds of dinosaurs gather to twist, twirl, and tromp at a Saturday night party.

Saturday Night at the Dinosaur Stomp

Suitable for National Curriculum Key Stage 1, a story in which a little girl believes she is really a princess, and woe betide the people who have been caring for her when her real parents, the king and queen, arrive. Illustrated by Paul Meisel.

I Am Really a Princess

Mysteriously arresting images and delightfully intriguing verse - compel readers to open the flap to reveal...an Animagical. Award-winning, best-selling poet Carol Diggory Shields matches talents with a young artist who casts a unique eye on the world, Svetlan Junakovic. The results are exuberantly witty, astonishingly unexpected, and always wonderful. Each title sports twelve spreads, twelve verses with an Ogden Nash-like whimsy, and twelve visual surprises. Deceptively simple and devilishly complex-these are books that everyone from toddlers to adults can crow about.

Colors

Animagicals

Music

Lauren Tobia

An ode to babyhood, inspired by the blues artistry of B.B. King, illuminates the woes of being unable to walk, talk or chew in a world of soggy diapers, mushy meals and sleeping behind bars. By the author of Saturday Night at the Dinosaur Stomp.

A collection of twenty-three humorous poems about school including such titles as "Math my Way," "Clockwatching," and "School Daze Rap."

Lunch Money and Other Poems about School

Fresh, funny, and full of verve and variety, this clever book of 22 illustrated poems about school captures what kids love to do when class lets out. “Finally…. Finally…. Finally…. BRINNNNNG! That wonderful bell begins to ring. “ Everyone knows that the best part of the school day is the moment it ends! After school, kids can hang out with their friends, play video games, attend music lessons, avoid chores, practice sports, do homework...well, maybe that last part isn't so great, but the rest is a blast!

Poems About After-School Time

After the Bell Rings

Rhyming text follows six little wombats on walkabout and a hungry dingo following, envisioning them as his lunch until the wombats turn the tables on him.

A young girl imagines herself a princess and contrasts her everyday life with the one she could have in a castle with infinitely permissive parents. Reprint.

Carol Diggory Shields

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