The Bowerbird by Julia Donaldson and Catherine Rayner

The Bowerbird by Julia Donaldson and Catherine RaynerThe Bowerbird is the irresistible tale of Bert a small bird with a very big heart, from Number One bestselling Julia Donaldson and Kate Greenaway Medal winning Catherine Rayner. Bert the bowerbird is looking for love. He has made the most perfect bower, complete with a pretty purple flower, and is hoping it will help him to meet the bird of his dreams. But when Nanette comes along, she is far from impressed. Poor Bert is hurt, and flies off to bring

Jon Klassen for the smallest hands

Ben Hopkins has constructed his own monumental edifice

'An intricate story of love

' Daily MailPonds: small bodies of water

and even when tragedy strikes

an island off the west coast of Ireland

one that is both terrifying and tender

When her short story The Lottery was first published in The New Yorker in 1948

brilliantly imagined

with a double-shot of coffee

'Truth telling and truth recovery have seldom been as heart-breaking or necessary as in this powerful story of human vulnerability and failure - and the ultimate triumph of the human spirit

Naomi Booth