The Midnight Fair

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Her ability to capture light, atmosphere and movement is breathtaking, and she truly conjures the sights, sounds and smells of a fair. They are anthropomorphic but remain true to their natural selves – even using forest currency of acorns, rocks and berries to pay for the evening. Yourself and Bob are much cherished in our booky world and I personally really appreciate everything that you do.

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They make us understand, they give us a shared experience, and they give us something special and private too. The Yoto Carnegie Medal is awarded to Katya Balen for her second novel October, October (Bloomsbury), illustrated by Angela Harding – her debut novel, The Space We’re In was longlisted in 2019. Painting from close up, Di Giorgio creates the sense that viewers are part of the crowd, and bathes every spread in brilliant, theatrical light. The carefully connected audio players – the Yoto Player and the Yoto Mini – put kids safely in control. Long Way Down is a book that asks us to empathise with a character who is planning to harm another person, and endanger his own life, out of grief and revenge.Renata and her father enjoy working on upgrading their bathroom, installing a clawfoot bathtub, and cutting a space for a new window.

The Midnight Fair by Gideon Sterer: 9781536211153

It’s a fantastic independent book seller that will actually be responsive and select appropriate books for you. With a beautiful pairing of endpapers to open and close the narrative, the story begins with the arrival of a travelling funfair and ends with its departure. The animals including a bear, rabbits, deer, raccoon, cat, fox, and many many more, watch for all the people heading home from the fair waiting for their turn to enjoy themselves. The judges were “blown away” by her “powerful and immersive illustrations” and said that the “union of brutal reality with the delicacy of watercolours as an artistic device is surprising and breath-taking in its execution”.The answer comes when, at the end of the evening’s amusement, a lone attendant closes down the fair, locks the gates and heads for home. It uses stunning watercolour to powerfully portray the tragedy of gun violence and the emotional impact it has on young people’s lives. The medium she’s working in is watercolor, gouache, and colored pencil, and the end result is that she’s so good that you can distinguish the difference between twilight and pre-dawn light in the same way a sunset and a sunrise look different. Squirrel’s wildly dramatic, misguided, and hyperpossessive reaction to a routine seasonal event becomes a rib-tickling farce through clever use of varying type sizes and weights emphasizing his absurd verbal pronouncements as well as exaggerated, comic facial expressions and body language. This splendid story needs no words: gorgeous landscapes celebrate nature’s beauty, while luminous renderings of the carnival depict magical moments.

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This serves a dual role – as a bookplate for a child to fill in their name and as an invitation to take an active role in the story. Long Way Down, illustrated by Danica Novgorodoff, is a brilliant, innovative adaptation of the novel by Jason Reynolds. And some animals we never see here are present like wild boars, hedgehogs, and badgers, but it’s not overt. I am delighted to share this year’s Yoto Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medal winners, both of which provide outstanding reading experiences for young people. And a huge thank you to the young people who have participated, and to the librarians who continue to champion quality children’s books that inspire and empower young readers.

A home-renovation project is interrupted by a family of wrens, allowing a young girl an up-close glimpse of nature. illustrated by Andrea Tsurumi, From Ed's to Ned's, illustrated by Lucy Ruth Cummins and The Christmas Owl, co-written with Ellen Kalish and illustrated by Ramona Kaulitzki. They would also only drop off a case of books and leave us to run it – it was so lovely to have you on hand to chat to the children and recommend them books, as well as the small (but appreciated!