Clean Up!, by Nathan Bryon and Dapo Adeola, ‘captures the fizzing energy of young children’. Illustration: Dapo Adeola A beautiful, meditative bedtime book about a lion who can’t sleep—until a friend offers sage advice. From Kate Greenaway Medal-winning author-illustrator Catherine Rayner. Award winning author and illustrator Catherine Rayner tells us the story of Arlo, the lion who couldn't sleep. And Catherine will also be showing us how she creates her amazing illustrations. P1-3.

Arlo the Lion Who Couldn’t Sleep – Peachtree Publishing Arlo the Lion Who Couldn’t Sleep – Peachtree Publishing

Hitchhikers are a rare breed nowadays so the context for The Ride (Tate) by Brazilian author-illustrator Guilherme Karsten could need some explaining to kids. But the ragtag bunch of misfits trying to get a lift down to the beach with a surfer might be familiar, from the red-caped girl escaping a wolf to the retired superhero pulling a wheelie case. While some of the rhyming doesn’t trip off the tongue as easily as you’d like, this book is such a riot – full of eye-popping pictures the colour of ketchup and hazy sunshine – that it’s a joy to be along for the ride.

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