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Grumbug! by Adam Stower
Oliver and his best friend Troll run a cafe in the woods where they serve delicious cakes to other discerning trolls who choose to dine on these sugary treats rather than children.
Ghost in the House by Ammi-Joan Paquette and Adam Record
In this deceptively simple counting book, five creatures lurk around a “creepy haunted house” until they run into something apparently even scarier that sends them running.
Snappy Birthday by Mark Sperring and Laura Ellen Anderson
When a special birthday invite arrives from a next-door neighbour whom they’ve never met, declaring that he’d love to have them all for tea, the kids at no. 24 are all abuzz with excitement. Of course, what the four siblings only belatedly realise is that their neighbour means it quite literally…
The Big Book of Slumber by Giovanna Zoboli and Simona Mulazanni
We have a soft spot for warm, cozy illustrations and bedtime books. Thus, this book, which is chock-full of gently quirky rhyming verses and richly detailed illustrations of a wide variety of anthropomorphic animals deep in slumber, is right up our alley.
What This Story Needs Is a Pig in a Wig by Emma J. Virjan
Sporting an irresistible bright cover, What This Story Needs Is a Pig in a Wig
If I Were a Lion by Sarah Weeks and Heather M. Solomon
Any child who has ever been accused of running wild (wrongly or rightly) will be tickled by the spunky little girl in If I Were a Lion
It’s Only Stanley by Jon Agee
The Wimbledons are sleeping when Wilma hears a spooky sound. As Walter discovers, it’s just Stanley, their dog, howling at the moon — no biggie, right? Well, that’s what you’d think until, one by one, their kids (Wendy, Willie, Wanda and Wylie — don’t you just love the alliterative names?) too get woken up by Stanley’s increasingly odd endeavours — fixing the oil tank and making catfish stew, among other things.
Books Always Everywhere by Jane Blatt and Sarah Massini
We have a soft spot for books on books, and Books Always Everywhere
Soup for One by Ethan Long
In Soup for One
