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Sometime I Just WON’T

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Timothy Knapman, Joe Berger. Pan MacMillan, (32p) ISBN: 9781509848607. Picture Book, read 28/03/25, Paperback ★★★★☆

Sometime I Just WON’T

Sometime I Just WON’T

I think this is going to be another story time favourite, two added to the regular repertoire in one day is always nice.

Full of energy in the writing and the illustrations this begs to be read whilst moving and gesticulating a lot and getting your audience to join in if you can.

There is so much in the pictures that you can bring into the session over and above the words, but the words are wonderfully lyrical and an easy book to read upside down.

All about a young boy who has varying days like the rest and best of us, one day they will want to do things as they are meant to do them and then others, really not.

This is a great book about agency and being unsure, taking control and becoming confident but not just not doing something for the sake of orneriness, though sometimes there is value in being ornery.

and I agree about coats 100%

Cloud Boy

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Greg Stobbs, Oxford University Press, (32p) ISBN: 9781382054904. Picture Book, read 22/03/25, Paperback ★★★★☆

Cloud Boy

Cloud Boy

Bobby has a vivid imagination and a desire to know, and is often taken down different paths of sights, sounds, and smells with no notice.

Bobby’s life is full of colour, noise, and the whole world all at once keeping him forever curious and this lifts him to the clouds and above.

But at times Bobby would like to be like others; tidy like his mum, able to focus on one subject like his teacher, able to sit and read like one friend, or even just to sit in quite and stillness like another friend.

Everyone tries to help Bobby be more like them but all this does is ties him down and stops him from being anything, and the moment he lets himself be once more he shoots off.

A brilliant book about differences and neurodivergence where often the more you try to ‘control’ a person from being themselves the more problems can come about from that control.

Accept and try to see the differences and maybe, just maybe you can see the world through a different lens with all the wonder of the various colours, smells, and sounds.

I received this from Oxford University Press in exchange for an honest review.

Buzz Sausage Wolf

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Jim Beckett, Aurélie Lise-Anne, Hodder Children’s Books, (112p) ISBN: 9781444978933. Chapterbook, read 20/03/25, Paperback ★★★★☆

Buzz Sausage Wolf

Buzz Sausage Wolf

This starts off sad as Buzz has had to move to another family as his previous owner just got too old for them to look after Buzz and all Buzz wants to do is fit in with the new family and be a ‘good’ dog.

Buzz is accompanied by his best friend, Trilby the mouse who hides in Buzz’s fur but will always pop out to support Buzz and pass on pearls of wisdom.

To figure out how to be the best dog ever for the new family Buzz comes up with the amazing idea of finding out who the pack leader is in the family and being what that person want from him…

This is where the fun begins. A really sweet book about finding your place within a family and being who you are rather than what others expect of you.

All of this fun and energy is beautifully illustrated by Aurélie, the pure mischievous of Buzz as both Sausage and Wolf comes out so well.

The squirrel dreams are just the best.

I received this from Hodder in exchange for an honest review.