Woods in the Books Blog — Elf Reads

Sundays are for Reading - Give It! A Moneybunny Book by Cindy McLeod If you’ve ever had trouble trying to explain why giving is important to young kids, never fear! Cindy McLeod’s Moneybunny series is here to help. In Give It! A Moneybunny Book, superhero-wannabe Chummy learns all about the joys of giving. Like other Moneybunny books, this latest book in the series deals with simple relatable stories to help young readers grasp the principles of financial literacy. Monetary units are based on carrots, and adorable art of the Moneybunny characters go a long way towards keeping kids engaged in the...

Sundays are for Reading - Kiki’s Delivery Service by Eiko Kadono and Joe Todd Stanton By tradition, young witches leave their families at age 12 to find and settle in a new village. Kiki’s Delivery Service charts the year that new witch Kiki spends becoming part of the community in her new town. The book which the beloved Studio Ghibli animated film was based on, this new translation of Kiki’s Delivery Service has been published in a beautiful hardcover, accompanied by Joe Todd Stanton’s whimsical illustrations of Kiki’s way of facing challenges with unique aplomb. While Kiki’s Delivery Service was originally...

Sundays are For Reading - What We’ll Build by Oliver Jeffers Oliver Jeffers returns with a brand-new children’s book. With its aspirational encouragement to map the foundations a better world, What We’ll Build hits the offbeat humour and steadfast emotional rhythms that fans have come to expect in a timeless rhyming narrative of a father and daughter building and creating together. What We’ll Build opens on a simple illustrated spread of two pairs of hands, one pair per page that belong to the father and daughter who weave their way throughout the warmly colourful illustrations. Both hands are different — one...

#BuySingLit, Read Our Stories - Amazing Ash & Superhero Ah Ma by Melanie Lee and Arif Rafhan When Ash discovers her grandmother missing in the middle of a late night study session, little does she expect to discover a long-hidden family secret: her beloved Ah Ma has superpowers! Tempering zany fun with an exploration of social issues relevant to contemporary Singapore, Amazing Ash & Superhero Ah Ma digs into the core of what glues a family and a neighbourhood together. For eleven years, Ashley Tan knows nothing of Ahma’s superstrength, superhuman flight, or her ability to stretch her limbs like a...