Mouse's Wood: A Year in Nature

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We cannot keep turning and thereafter browsing through the pages, investigating, enquiring, checking the rhyming text and exclaiming. Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's pageview limit. Publication dates are subject to change (although this is an extremely uncommon occurrence overall). However, when we begin the book, we meet Mouse albeit by lifting the flap of his home and peeping in.

In this uplifting picture book, you imagine a world where everyone looks identical, where all food tastes the same, where we all speak the same language. Her picture books for children, including Grandma's House, The High Street, Counting Birds, and An A-to-Z Treasure Hunt, have together sold over 150,000 copies worldwide. By August, we’ve journeyed to Badger’s allotment, where ‘ armed with pots and spades and barrows‘ Mouse and Badger ‘ gather up/ the carrots and the marrows’.Described as 'an utter gem' by the Telegraph, this exquisitely illustrated picture book with die-cut flaps follows the woodland ramblings of Mouse through the change in seasons. Written in a gentle rhyme that reflects the slow pace of Mouse’s rambling journey, and illustrated in the inimitable style of Alice Melvin, Mouse’s Wood is a heart-warming celebration of slow living in nature. The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report. It’s a fantastic independent book seller that will actually be responsive and select appropriate books for you.

Your words, like your reviews, bring books to life and give them a voice before the front cover is even turned. This exquisitely illustrated picture book with die-cut flaps follows the woodland ramblings of Mouse through the change in seasons. There are fancy dresses, frilly dresses, stripy dresses, silly dresses, sun dresses, fun dresses, blue dresses, green. However, we can peek through the cut out window, and thereafter lift the flap to discover Mouse reading in bed. It seems every care has been taken, from the flora and fauna that might be discovered through the seasons, to the attire and the feelings too.

Written by Uju Asika, author of Bringing up Race, this beautiful picture book celebrates the beauty and joy of living in a wonderfully diverse world. Yesterday a parent came over to tell me how impressed she was by the book fair and that you did a fabulous job of selling the books to the children first. Alice went on to publish a further eight titles with Tate including Counting Birds, The High Street and Grandma’s House, winning a Book Trust Best New Illustrator Award in 2011. Bronnie is so lovely with the boys and we also felt that having a man enthusing about the books set a great example. Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously.

You guys are such a force for good and I am a passionate supporter of Indie booksellers, so I'm so happy this worked out well (I'd love to know how many books were sold if you have it to hand - it felt like quite a lot! Along the way Mouse visits his woodland friends and the reader can open the flaps and peep inside their homes – from otter’s riverside cabin to squirrel’s tree house. Then again, we’re seeing the changes to the forest, from the first buds on the trees, to the flight of goldfinch, the burst of April cherry blossom, or a huge ‘ stretched out – chequered sheet’ May picnic. This clever and funny inversion on a classic fairytale from award-winning author Bethan Stevens tells the laugh-out-loud story of a damsel who does not need saving!A LITTLE BIT BRAVE is a funny, reassuring picture book which shows that we're all a lot braver than we think. And as she wades through the titchy dresses, witchy dresses, very, very itchy dresses, she starts to worry about where she's going to put her leaves, and nettles, and delicate petals, her magical spells and beautiful shells. Written in a gentle rhyme that reflects the slow pace of Mouse’s rambling journey, and illustrated in the inimitable style of Alice Melvin, Mouse’s Wood is a heart-warming celebration of slow living in nature. An exquisitely illustrated novelty picture book with die-cut flaps that follows the woodland ramblings of Mouse through the change in seasons.

Mouse moves on to wake up Hedgehog for the arrival of spring and as he continues along the path in the wood, Mouse’s journey from friend to friend maps out the changes in seasons from January through to December, from picnicking among the bluebells with Mole in May and picking berries with Dormouse in June, to taking refuge in Fox’s cozy caravan as winter draws in. This joyful picture book encourages children to imagine the world as a vast library, with room on the shelves for everybody's story.This intense period of sketching began in 2019 when I was wrestling with the trauma of a sudden bereavement. I have even talked the head into a little revamp of the library so that we can display them properly! Eventually the healing process of drawing nature helped me rediscover my creativity, and create this book.