A house is not a home for wild things;
wild things need to run, and soar, and swim.
In the quiet dawn of the spring forest a boy finds an orphan fawn, hungry and alone. He carefully carries her home, caring for her while she grows strong. The boy and the fawn become inseparable. Together they spend long summer days running through the valley, leaping over the heather, and lying in the dappled sunlight.
But the young deer is a wild thing and too soon she is ready to discover a home of her own. The boy misses his friend and worries for her when a big storm threatens. Can the boy and the fawn find each other again? Are some bonds stronger than goodbye?
Lyrical and atmospheric, this beautiful picture book by award-winning author Louise Greig and emerging illustrator J�lia Moscard� is an uplifting story of belonging, the enduring connection between humans and nature, and a tender lesson in learning when to let go of those you love
A heartwarming winter story, exploring big emotions - from the award-winning author of The Night Box
Ed is at his happiest when winter comes and Green turns to White. White means snow and playing on his fast, sleek, shiny sled.
But one day, some other sleds whizz by - faster, sleeker, shinier - making Ed's sled seem old and dull and slow.
There is only one thing to do... Ed must build a new sled, so spectacular, it will stop everyone in their tracks.
But while he is busy working, competing to be the best, things around Ed are changing. White is disappearing and Green is returning...
Perfect for fans of Abi Elphinstone's The Snow Dragon, Benji Davies' The Snowflake and Lu Fraser's The Littlest Yak.
A lyrical and reassuring introduction to the big emotion of envy - and companion title to the Greenaway-nominated Sweep.
Hannah Peck has been shortlisted for The Alligator's Mouth Award 2022 and the V&A Illustration Awards 2022.
The second magical picture book from the author and illustrator of The Night Box.
High above the bustle of the city,
are eyes that watch, and hands that know,
it's time to pause the clock ...
and for one tiny second between tick and tock, the city stops!
Liesel notices the things that everyone else is too busy to see.
When she hears a stray whimper and watches a lonely boy on a roundabout, she decides it's time to pause the clock and lend a helping hand. While the city freezes, Liesel quietly carries out little acts of kindness and breathes colour, life and happiness back into the city.
Louise Greig's lyrical storytelling highlights the magic in everyday experiences and is accompanied by Ashling Lindsay's warm, endearing illustrations. A wonderful picture book about the importance of kindness, looking out for others and taking time to appreciate the world around you.
Louise and Ashling's debut picture book, The Night Box, has been nominated for the Kate Greenaway Award and shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize, the Teach Primary Book Awards and the Klaus Flugge Prize.
Louise Greig is an award-winning poet and a children's picture book author with a unique, lyrical voice. Her childhood was filled with animals, the poems of Robert Louis Stevenson and picture books by iconic children's writers such as Margaret Wise Brown, Charlotte Zolotow, Ruth Krauss, Maurice Sendak, Astrid Lindgren and Tove Jansson. Her debut picture book for Egmont, The Night Box, has been translated into 10 languages and has been nominated for the 2018 Kate Greenaway Medal and shortlisted for the Klaus Flugge Prize, the Waterstones Children's Book Prize, the Association of Illustrators (AOI) and the Teach Primary Book Awards. Louise lives in Aberdeen and when not writing is a director of a dog rescue and re-homing organisation. The wild solitude of Scotland and the beauty of nature remain strong influences in her life.
Ashling Lindsay is an illustrator and animation director from Belfast. She was shortlisted for the AOI Illustration Awards two years running (2013 & 2014) and was also shortlisted for the AOI Serco prize for illustration (2015).
Inside Day was Morning.
It was an enormous morning.
There was everything in it.
There was Pia.
And a rabbit.
And Pia's papa.
Join a girl and her father on a richly layered journey through the wonders of a new day
Morning seems small to a waking girl and her rabbit.
But it isn't long before colours and shapes and sounds come bursting into Pia's small, quiet world. There are butterflies and toys, clothes and golden sunshine . . . Then, as she sets out of the house with Papa, there are animals, plants, hills, clouds . . .
Pia's sense are soon brimming, her imagination soaring . . . and her heart full of love and belonging.
A lyrical celebration of wonders big and small, waiting to be discovered by curious minds and open hearts - with joyful illustrations from the creator of the Waterstones Children's Book Prize-winning There's a Tiger in the Garden.