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July - Laugh Out Loud!

July Book List
Knowing a Poem
What, Why, Wonder
5 Books We Love

July Book List

Avocado Asks – Momoko Abe
Bathe The Cat – Alice P McGinty
Hat Trilogy - Jon Klassen
Hippos Go Beserk – Sandra Boynton
How to Count to One – Caspar Salmon and Matt Hunt
I can only draw worms – Will Mabbitt
Monster Hungry Phone - Sean Taylor and Fred Benaglia
Mrs Mole I'm Home – Jarvis
Oh No George - Chris Haughton
Peck Peck Peck – Lucy Cousins
Ready For Spaghetti – Michael Rosen and Polly Dunbar
The Eyebrows of Doom – Steve Smallman and Miguel Ordonez
The Whales on the Bus – Nick Sharratt
This is a book of shapes – Kenneth Kreagal
Where's Brian's Bottom - A Veeerrry Long Fold Out Book

Knowing a Poem

Ready for Spaghetti by Michael Rosen

Five little peas in a pea pod pressed.
One grew. Two grew.
So did all the rest.
They grew, and they grew,
And they did not stop,
Until one day the pod went POP!

Fizzing with rhythm, energy and laughter, the 30 poems in Ready for Spaghetti delight in the details of children’s daily routines. “Up, up, uppity-up!”, the first poem announces, while the artwork shows a child leaping out of bed, ready to begin their morning; “Hush and a hush, soft and low”, chants the final poem, as children snuggle under their blankets after their day’s adventures. Full of affectionate observations of young children, which are beautifully continued in Polly Dunbar’s warm-hearted pictures, Michael Rosen’s poems are ideal for reading aloud with toddlers … and many grown-ups will soon know them by heart!

What, Why, Wonder

How to Count to One – Caspar Salmon and Matt Hunt

A hilariously bossy picture book about counting that children will love to outsmart!

You know how to count, right? GREAT! There are LOADS of fun things to count in this book. Whales, baboons, rainbows, pyramids . . . There’s just rule. You must ONLY ever count to ONE. So don’t even about THINK bigger numbers. OK?!

Get ready to show off your skills in this fun new counting book! But all is not as it seems . . . is this book really only about counting to ‘ONE’? Because there are SO MANY fun things that you could count. But – wait – maybe there’s a way to outsmart the book . . . and count all the way up to 100!

5 Books we love

Bathe The Cat 

Bathe the floor? Sweep the dishes? This riotous romp of a picture book follows a frantic family as they try to get some chores done―with no help from the family cat, who keeps scrambling the list of chores with hilarious effects. 
TWO DADS LEAD THE WAY: Dad and Papa are the heads of this large and loving biracial family, mirroring illustrator David Robert’s own orientation and providing picture book readers with a positive depiction of LGBTQ+ characters in a fun and funny family story.

The Eyebrows of Doom! 

The Eyebrows of Doom is an outrageously funny and bonkers adventure story written by the rhyming genius, Steve Smallman with bright, bold and brilliant artwork by award-winning illustrator, Miguel Ordóñez.

The Eyebrows of Doom are trying to take over the world! Join Dave and his friends as they try to stop them leaping from one unsuspecting animal to the next. And just when it looks as though the eyebrows’ antics have been thwarted . . . all is not as it seems! 

Peck Peck Peck

Today my daddy said to me, “It’s time you learnt to peck a tree.” Little Woodpecker has just learnt how to peck and – ooh! yippee! – what fun it is! Off he goes, on his first big pecking adventure, and he peck, peck, pecks his little heart out. He pecks the hat and then the mat, the tennis racket AND the jacket… just LOOK at all the holes he has made! Comical, contemporary and original, this bouncy read-aloud book is beautifully illustrated and will capture a little one’s attention with the tactile holes on every page! “This book has everything: Startling colours! Wonderful rhyme! Silly humour! HOLES! 

This is a book of shapes

First comes the circle. Then the square and the triangle. Then the . . . emu pushing a pancake wagon down a hill? What begins as a concept book about everyone’s geometric favorites soon defies expectations with a series of funny and imaginative twists. Award-winning author-illustrator Kenneth Kraegel pairs a deadpan text with simple wood-grained shapes, interspersed with vibrant illustrations of animals engaged in hilariously absurd pastimes. Each page turn builds on the delicious anticipation the contrast creates to make this a uniquely chuckle-inducing story-time hit. 

Monster! Hungry! Phone! 

Monster is HUNGRY. He wants PIZZA. And he’s got a PHONE! 
But uh oh . . . who is he going to call? Hold the line – Monster is in for a wild ride!  WARNING: This book may make you laugh your socks off! 
We love how this book made us all laugh out loud!  With bold, bright illustrations by Fred Benaglia, it’s an unmissable treat.

Contacts

Ali Carrington, Early Years Consultant

Anna Morgan, Early Years Consultant

ali.carrington@bristol.gov.uk

anna.morgan@bristol.gov.uk
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