This great big beautiful comic book, being over 400 pages long, has ended up being rather expensive at £32 on Amazon, so why not cut out the middle man and get it directly from us? Come over here where we can offer you a much better deal 😀
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Megan & Flos Book 1 (Brave Girls Volume 3) OUT NOW!
It’s in the Book Shoppe 😀
New Book Shop
We’ve got a new book shop! And I decided to call it a Book Shoppe just for the fun of it.
We’ve just published a few new books, which I’ll tell you about in the coming days, so I thought I’d set up a pretty little book shoppe to show them off. See the picture of a Book Shoppe in the side bar to your right? Why not click on that? Go on, it’s nice in there 😀
Ode to Spike Milligan
Silly Verse FOR KIDS by Spike Milligan was one of my favourites as a child (I saved up for it with my pocket money and bought it from the village shop) and I still love it. So I decided to make something similar, full of funny, quirky poems: HUMANS ARE NOT OMNIVORES [poems your teacher might not like] (I decided not to beat around the bush with the title!)
Spike Milligan was a brilliantly irreverent vegetarian comedian and author who died in 2002 at the age of 83. He campaigned against factory farming and vivisection and was once thrown out of Harrods for trying to stuff 28lb of spaghetti down the mouth of the food hall manager because they sold pate de foie gras.
“I told him it might give him some idea of how a goose feels being force-fed maize” he said.
I modelled our new book on his, making it the same size and the same layout, so it’s only a little one – just 11cm x 18cm.
His is a Puffin book, published by Penguin. Ours is a Little Chicken book, published by Violet’s Vegan Comics 😉
And both are full of quirky, eccentric, funny poems for kids like ‘Mary Pugh’, above or a selection from Wacky Verse, examples below 😀
I hope Spike would have liked it. I hope you like it too.
All you kids who are sick of being told at school that humans are omnivores – this one is for you! 😀 😀 😀
Giveaway Number 4 Winner!
The fourth and final Honestly Books giveaway draw has taken place and the winner is B Mackela! Congratulations Bill – you have been twice lucky 😀 and How many friends could a Bibbolybob make if a Bibbolybob came to Earth? [The Little Edition] by Edward Benn and Juliet Mahoney will be on its way to you very soon.
We hope you enjoy it 😀
So that’s it for the Honestly Books giveaways. Thank you to everyone at Honestly Books for donating those to us, and to everyone who entered the draws.
We highly recommend Honestly Books to anyone looking for lovely books for children for Christmas and we hope our winners will thoroughly enjoy their prize[s] 😀
Giveaway Number 3 Winner!
The lucky winner of our 3rd Honestly Books giveaway, What’s Good For The Goose Is Not Good For The Panda by Lavender Laine, is B Mackela
Congratulations Bill 🙂 Give us your address via our contact form on the About page and we will get the book to you as soon as possible.
There now remains only one more chance to win! The final book of our Honestly Books stash, the little Bibbolybob book, will go into the draw next week. Look out for Monday’s post to enter 😀
Giveaway Number 2 Winner!
The winner of a copy of the brilliant Colour By Nutrients by August Bassett and Amy Fibbitts, our second giveaway from the Honestly Books stash, is Carol of Art Is Not For Sissies. 😀
Congratulations Carol. You can give us your address privately on our contact form (at the bottom of the About page) and we’ll get the book to you asap 😀
Giveaway #1 Winner!
And the winner of our first Honestly Books giveaway: How Many Friends Could A Bibbolybob Make If A Bibbolybob Came To Earth?, by Edward Benn and Juliet Mahoney, is Bookish Heather!
Congratulations Heather – we will send the book to you as soon as you contact us with your address 😀
Children’s Books Giveaways!
We’re very excited! Honestly Books are so happy with our reviews of their books (see here) that they’ve sent us a selection to giveaway to our readers! 😀
Woohoo!
So, here’s what we’re going to do – starting tomorrow we’ll give away one book a week to a lucky prize draw entrant anywhere in the world. All you have to do is comment on the giveaway post, letting me know you want to enter.
Come back tomorrow when I will announce which book will be the first giveaway 😀
Christmas is coming …. I wonder to whom Father Christmas will be bringing a lovely new book 😉
Recommended Reading: Oliver’s Vegetables
This is a brilliant short story by Vivian French with gorgeous, vibrant illustrations by Alison Bartlett.
Basically, Oliver’s mum has the common problem of not being able to get Oliver to eat his vegetables. The only one he will eat is potatoes, in the form of chips.
But when he goes to stay with Grandpa and Grandma for a week, everything changes.
Grandpa tells him he can have chips if he finds the potatoes in the garden, but while he’s searching, if he finds something else, he has to try it.
Highly recommended bedtime (or any other time) reading which will make you hungry.
Borrow it from the library or get your own copy 😀
Recommended Reading: Hellen Hen
This is a truly beautiful little book for reading to small children by Maria Luisa Arenzana and Antonella Canavese.
It is full of surreal rhymes and stunning illustrations which convey a peaceful, loving message of compassion and empathy for animals, hens in particular.
I love the verse on the above page which reads
Our love
means something
which is nothing
in our hands
and it’s everything
in the world.
I took this to mean that it’s no good just to say we love animals and feel we love animals unless we put that love into practice in the world by living a compassionate life.
A truly beautiful, dreamy book which I’m sure would delight small children. It’s available on Amazon and, if you want one, could be with you in a few short days 🙂
Welcome to Story Time
We are having fun making videos of some of our stories being read aloud and have decided to make Story Time a permanent fixture on our site. So, if you want to be read a story, just click on the link in the sidebar to your right (or the big picture above) and choose a video 🙂 There are only two on there at the moment, but give us time, we’ll keep them coming 😉
Free and Easy
Going to the library is fun. Browsing the books, choosing something you like and taking it home for weeks at a time. For nothing. This is something to be truly appreciated and not taken for granted.
If we don’t use it, we might lose it 😮
If you live in the sticks like us, miles from the nearest library building, there might be a mobile library that visits your area. They usually come by every couple of weeks. Contact your local county council to find out where and when your mobile library is coming next 🙂
Hip Hip Hooray! Violet’s Vegan Comics in paperback!
We are very excited to tell you that we have now published some of our stories in paperback!
In addition to “I’m not dinner!” and Where are you going Deidra?, we have also published Edmund’s Lunch and Vegan Nursery Rhymes, and Big Blue Sky (A Christmas Story) will be available, as a Kindle book and a paperback, in a matter of hours.
Pop over to our page on Amazon – it’s all there 😉
The Star
I have just come across this beautiful book at our local library and wanted to tell you about it. The illustrations are stunningly gorgeous and the honesty of the story is so refreshing and heart warming. Here are a few snippets ….
At this time of year when many of us are heart-broken in the knowledge that most people will celebrate the season of goodwill by taking the life of an innocent, it is so refreshing to find a story for children which, in spite of its honesty, fills us with hope. Read it all to see what I mean. Here it is
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