Time to get this blog rolling...

I've been reading picture books to my son for five years now and in some ways I'm quite sad that he'll soon be too old for them. So I've decided to create this blog to showcase some fun, quirky, modern picture books - often ones that haven't received that much attention elsewhere. (In fact, some of the best picture books won't feature here, simply because most people know them already - The Gruffalo, other Donaldson/Scheffler books, Charlie and Lola, etc.)

All the books have been exhaustively tested on my own son - and on me. You know when you’re happy reading out a particular picture book for the umpteenth time? That’s the kind of book that will feature in this blog. And who knows, when my son graduates to black and white fiction, maybe the blog will move on to those books too...

Are you sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin...