Secondhand Picture Book Bargain Book Box SP3013

Secondhand Picture Book Bargain Book Box SP3013

Fifteen picture books, most of them hardback, with Bob Graham twice, Dahl twice, Hairy Maclary, Mo Willems’ Pigeon, Pamela Allen’s Mr McGee, Matt Cosgrove’s Dharma the Llama and Julia Donaldson’s One Ted. Australian and British picture-book royalty for the three-to-six crowd.

1. Lucy Loves Horses — James Davies — Lucy has every horse toy going and no horse. Her parents’ solution is not what she had in mind.
2. Eric Finds a Way — Robert Vescio & Ann-Marie Finn — Eric’s imagination is huge and his words won’t come; he finds them in pictures. For the kid who draws instead of talks.
3. All About Diversity — Felicity Brooks & Mar Ferrero — Usborne’s big-format look at families, bodies, beliefs and homes. The book preschools keep on the shelf.
4. Greetings from Sandy Beach — Bob Graham — A family holiday, a gang of bikies called the Disciples of Death who turn out to be lovely, and Graham’s sly eye for how children actually behave. CBCA Picture Book of the Year.
5. Revolting Rhymes — Roald Dahl — Cinderella, Snow White and Little Red Riding Hood retold in verse with the endings Dahl thought they deserved. Red Riding Hood shoots the wolf. Quentin Blake pictures.
6. A Year on Our Farm — Penny Matthews & Andrew McLean — Twelve months on an Australian farm, season by season, with McLean’s watercolours. CBCA winner.
7. Dharma the Llama — Matt Cosgrove — A llama who wants to be calm and isn’t. From the Macca the Alpaca author.
8. I Am Not Very Brave — Timothy Knapman & Gavin Scott — A small dragon who’s scared of everything has to rescue a friend. Soft, big-eyed, reassuring.
9. Go Go and the Silver Shoes — Jane Godwin & Anna Walker — Go Go gets one silver shoe back after the river takes the other, and the ending is a quiet surprise. Walker’s illustrations are the point.
10. Esio Trot — Roald Dahl — Mr Hoppy, Mrs Silver and 140 tortoises. Quentin Blake pictures.
11. Hairy Maclary from Donaldson’s Dairy — Lynley Dodd — The one that started it: Hairy Maclary, Hercules Morse, Bottomley Potts and Scarface Claw. The rhyme every Australian parent can recite.
12. Silver Buttons — Bob Graham — Jodie draws a duck, her brother takes his first step, and in the same second across the city a thousand other things happen. Graham’s gentlest book.
13. Mr McGee — Pamela Allen — Mr McGee lives under a tree and gets eaten by an apple, in a way. The first and best.
14. The Pigeon HAS to Go to School! — Mo Willems — The pigeon doesn’t want to, has a hundred reasons, and the reader gets to say no. Reliably hilarious.
15. One Ted Falls Out of Bed — Julia Donaldson & Anna Currey — A counting rhyme: Ted falls, three mice, four teddies, up to ten and back. From the Gruffalo author.