Picture Book review: The Little Thing by Nick Cave

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Last Updated on 19 November 2021

Monica Costa

After Paul McCartney’s picture book, here’s another debut children’s book by another legendary music artist and writer, Nick Cave. The Little Thing has been written for his young neighbour in lockdown. This has been a real passion project for Nick, who has both written and illustrated the story. The Little Thing poses a huge question to its young readers – “what am I?”, and celebrates curiosity, friendship, self-acceptance and self-celebration. 

Every purchase includes a lovely free download code for The Little Thing talking book, which is read by Nick Cave, with music by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis. The book is printed and bound by Narayana Press in Denmark.

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Book of the week: Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Real-Life Tales of Black Girl Magic

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Last Updated on 09 November 2021

Monica Costa

When London Mums voted Rebel Girls Children’s Book of the Year in 2017, we knew that this series would become highly successful and today we have had the proof of that. Rebel Girls has become the global multi-platform empowerment brand dedicated to helping raise the most inspired and confident global generation of girls, and now all four volumes of their New York Times bestselling series Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls will debut in Oprah’s Favourite Things 2021 holiday gift list, featured in the Winter issue of O Quarterly and on OprahDaily.com.

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eBook of the week: Want to keep the kids busy throughout the Winter? Meet Boken!  

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Last Updated on 12 November 2021

Monica Costa

Boken, the Little Dog with the Big Heart is a real life, fun-loving Miniature Schnauzer who lives in Spain with his mum, Sara Mastriforte and dad, Neil Egerton. He’s also one of the newest kids’ cartoon characters around, and has just released his brand new website, two latest books and a great FREE ebook! 

Boken the cartoon character was launched worldwide in March last year with a new website and his first two free books. These have already been a major success with over 50,000 audiobooks and tens of thousands of ebooks downloaded since then. He’s also an award winner with his third book, ‘Boken’s Big Trip to England!’ picking up Bronze in the e-Lit Awards 2021.

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