Following our recent review mailing, reviews and selections have started appearing. Lulu Reads to Zeki was Book of the Week at Peters Library Services and will be Book of the Week next week at Books for Keeps.

The Parents-in-touch website says this: "Lulu has a new baby brother and she reads him stories when he gets upset. But Lulu still finds plenty of time for her own reading as luckily Zeki sleeps a lot. Lulu is a wonderful advocate for the joy of reading - she absolutely adores books and hopefully will inspire lots of other young children to do the same. We see a loving family and a delightful toddler through the colourful illustrations. Every library and school should have a copy to encourage young readers to love books."

Just been alerted to Picture Book Month - an international initiative to designate November as Picture Book Month, encouraging everyone to celebrate literacy with picture books.

Every day in November, there is be a new post from a picture book champion explaining why he/she thinks picture books are important - check out Suzanne Bloom's post here.

They are doing this because in this digital age where people are predicting the coming death of print books, picture books (the print kind) need love. And the world needs picture books. There’s nothing like the physical page turn of a beautifully crafted picture book.

Join the celebration and party with a picture book!