It’s time for our monthly book giveaway! Next week our August titles will be published, and if you’re a resident of the UK or Ireland, you can win any of them simply by subscribing to our Books Newsletter and sending us an email with the book you’d like to win. Here’s what’s out next month – and what you can win:
We’re publishing two new books in the fantastic Sing Along With Me nursery rhyme board book series illustrated by Yu-Hsuan Huang. Each book comes with five slider mechanisms, and both an instrumental and vocal version of the nursery rhyme – simply scan the QR code on the first page for little ones to listen and sing along! Here’s a look at our next two Sing Along With Me books, The Wheels on the Bus and Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star:
You could win Axel Scheffler’s Flip Flap Jungle – the third book in the fantastic Flip Flap series, illustrated by Axel Scheffler. With its sturdy, split pages and spiral binding, 121 possible combinations, silly names and animal noises to make you giggle, this hilarious rhyming flip-flap book in a fun format is perfect for pre-schoolers. Little readers will adore flipping Axel’s animals again and again to see what crazy creatures they can create – and to find out what strange noises they make too!
Who Woke the Baby, a BEAUTIFUL new picture book written by Jane Clarke and illustrated by Charles Fuge, is up for grabs – irresistible illustrations, coupled with an incredibly satisfying cyclical text and repeated refrains, make this an unforgettable, read-along romp of a book, by the creators of the Gilbert the Great series. Here’s a look inside the book:
You can win a copy of the first paperback edition of Pip and Posy: Look and Say by Axel Scheffler – an engaging picture book with richly-detailed scenes, a conversational, friendly text and Axel’s characteristic touches of humour. Here’s a look inside:
There’s also a new paperback edition of Alison Murray’s fantastic picture book Princess Penelope and the Runaway Kitten out next month – a tactile treat of a book with glitter on every page! Follow Princess Penelope as she runs through the palace and the palace grounds, including a maze, garden and the royal stables, chasing her naughty runaway kitten – the kitten is all tangled up with wool, which makes a crazy pink glitter trail of shapes behind her as she leaps and jumps through the book. Here’s a look inside:
And finally, you could win My Great Success and other Failures, the fourth hilarious book in Catherine Wilkins’ brilliant series. Jess’s cartoons are actually beginning to take off. A local comic store wants to use them in a campaign and she is in danger of becoming really rather famous (at school). This leads to some tensions with her friends. Why can’t people be happy for her? It’s not as if success is going to her head, or anything. Or actually that it’s anything like success at all… Here’s a look inside the book:
To win any of these books, all you have to do is subscribe to our books newsletter (if you’ve already subscribed you’re still eligible for this competition) and send an email to tom at nosycrow dot com with “Newsletter competition” in the subject heading and the title of the book you’d like to win, and your address, in the body of your email. So have a good think about which book you’d like to win (we can only accept one entry per person), and good luck – we’ll pick the winners at random next week.
