A family with three children lives in the woods, possibly near a village, faces a visit from a ‘monster’ – a black dog. Pinfold introduces the characters one by one when seeing the black dog outside their house. The author portrays each member of the Hope family on a page not only by text but also by drawing in a…

A boy different from his classmates, his disability makes him talk like a river. “I Talk Like a River” is the debut book of the Canadian poet Jordan Scott, which won the New York Times’ Best Children’s Book of 2020. The boy wakes up and faces the challenges of the day, unable to vocalise the sounds around him – his…

A fable-like tale, “the Wolf the Duck & the Mouse,” takes the reader on an unusual journey. “Oh, woe! said the mouse.”  as he appears in the wolf’s stomach, eaten by the beast. To the mouse’s surprise, the duck sleeps there and is not pleased to find his new visitor. But gradually, the relationship between duck and mouse warms up…