The Alligator’s Mouth Award has announced its 2025 shortlist! This prize champions both authors and illustrators of children’s fiction.
Take a look at these visually engaging stories, available to borrow from our catalogue!
Beti i mały okrągły dom
Atinuke i Emily Hughes
Beti lives in a little round house in the woods with Mam, Tad, Baby Jac, her cheeky goat Naughty and many other farm animals.
Written in Atinuke’s rhythmic, heartfelt style and brought to life by Emily Hughes’ illustrations, this collection of four stories centred around a strong-willed little girl is a celebration of having adventures with our friends in the lush wild with each changing season.
Murray Wiking
Adam Stower
Murray is a cat. Murray loves snoozing, fluffy blankets, and peace and quiet. Bun is a bun. Bun loves. EVERYTHING! And together they are unstoppable! SOMETIMES Murray’s enchanted cat flap leads to the garden, but mostly it leads to ADVENTURE!
And when Murray and Bun travel through the cat flap and find themselves in a land of VIKINGS, they are given a VERY IMPORTANT MISSION: to travel to TROLL ISLAND and rescue Eggrik the Viking – if he hasn’t already been gobbled up by the trolls, that is.
Gordon: Najgorsza gęś na Ziemi
Alex Latimer
There are plenty of mean geese in the world. They hiss and honk and chase you down for a handful of crumbs. But Gordon is the meanest of them all. He stomps on sandcastles, knocks ice-creams out of hands, and punches sharks – he’s the worst, and he loves it.
Until one day, something extraordinary happens! Anthony the Piglet gives him a flower. With this one act of kindness, Gordon’s world begins to crumble.
Join Gordon the Goose, Anthony the Piglet, and the citizens of Grover Gardens for a laugh-out-loud journey of empathy, courage, and soggy bread.
Królik i Niedźwiedź: To jezioro jest fałszywe!
Julian Gough
Rabbit is fed up. Spring has come, but it’s not as perfect as he thought it would be. Bear thinks that if they work hard, they can make it better. But Rabbit has a Plan. He sets off across the lake in search of a perfect world.
Crossing the water together, Rabbit and Bear learn many things, and discover that their perfect world may be closer at hand than Rabbit had thought.
Historia nadziei, przyjaźni i całej wyspy zbudowanej z ptasich odchodów.
Superwiewiórka i szalony twórca deszczu
Russell Punter
Kiedy zostaje skradziona ściśle tajna formuła, Supersquirrel musi się tym zająć. Wykorzystując swoje niesamowite supermoce, tropi sprawcę, bezwzględnego Dr. Drizzle'a, który planuje zbić fortunę. Pomóż Supersquirrel rozwiązać szereg zagadek i położyć kres złowrogiemu planowi Dr. Drizzle'a.
Prosty tekst i paski komiksowe sprawiają, że czytanie staje się przyjemnością, a do tego mnóstwo łamigłówek do rozwiązania w trakcie czytania. Idealne do wspólnego czytania!
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