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Pippi Longstocking - Astrid Lindgren. Children love Pippi's wacky character and adventures. Click on picture for reviews.
My Happy Life - Rose Lagercrantz. Charming easy chapter books for learner readers but this whole series is a delightful read aloud that Class 2 children really enjoy. Click on image for reviews.
Spellbound: Tales of enchantment from Ancient Ireland - Siobhan Parkinson. Click on image for reviews.
The Great Big Enormous book of Tashi - Anna Fienberg. Click on picture for reviews
Gobbolino The Witch's Cat - Ursula Moray Williams. Click on picture for reviews
Emil and the detectives - Erich Kastner. Click on picture for reviews
A Bear called Paddington - Michael Bond. Click on picture for reviews.
Five Little Peppers series - Margaret Sidney. Click on picture for reviews. 5 stars.
A Complicated Case. No. 2 in the delightful Detective Gordon series - Ulf Nilsson. Click on image for reveiws.
Bicycling to the moon - Timo Parvela. Quirky book from Finland about two friends. Click on image for reviews.