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Zeki, let's go to the market!
The stalls are a feast for the senses: spices for Zeki to smell, honey buns to taste, belly butter to touch and oodles of noodles to take home. It's a busy and tasty day! Warm, cosy and inclusive, |
Zeki Goes to the Market, is published in the UK & Ireland by Alanna Max! Click on the cover to read more.
To read my BLOG about the book, click here. And for activities to try out, click here..
To read my BLOG about the book, click here. And for activities to try out, click here..
Lulu Meets the BEES is having a moment!
It is on the UK's Summer Reading Challenge Collection!
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Find out how to take part in the Summer Reading Challenge here.
Lulu Meets the Bees is published in the UK & Ireland by Alanna Max!
Read more here. Click here for the BEE crossword.
Click here for LOTS of information pages about bees for parents, EY professionals and educators.
Lulu Meets the Bees is published in the UK & Ireland by Alanna Max!
Read more here. Click here for the BEE crossword.
Click here for LOTS of information pages about bees for parents, EY professionals and educators.
It's also on the Books for Topics Summer Reads Recommended Reads
The US edition is on the Kentucky Bluegrass Award longlist!
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Published in the US by Charlesbridge.
Read more here! Click here for the bee crossword. And there's LOTS of information pages about bees for parents, EY professionals and educators here. |
AND it's a 2025 Growing Good Kids Award Winner for Excellence in Children's Literature
Children's Book Council, USA - 15 Best New Board Books
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"The Children’s Book Council is a leader in providing expertly chosen lists for use by teachers, librarians, booksellers, and parents of the best new books for kids and teens in many categories. This summer, we are focused on the best new board books for family reading and sharing; the book experts at Ingram Book Company chose the new board books for CBC’s 2025 Building a Home Library.
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Recently published in the
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Recently published
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Books for Topics - Recommendations for teachers
"We highly recommend the Lulu series, which gently reassures preschool children about all sorts of scenarios from getting a pet to planting flowers to starting school and shows them how to tackle new challenges head on"
– Books for Topics
– Books for Topics
My statement on Banned Books is here
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Guess who made it on to the Essence 50 Must-Read Black Children's Books of the Past 50 Years!
Yes, it's our girl Lola! Look at what amazing company she's in! Just wow!
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About me...I feel lucky to have a life 100% dedicated to books -
I write and edit books for little kids and their families. I'm best known as the author of the Lulu/Lola books, though I've written over 65 picture books. 
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My mediaClick to follow me on Twitter
Click to visit my Facebook page Click to visit my Goodreads page Click to visit my Instagram page Click on the Articles tab above or here to read more about writing inclusively, or for specific pieces about my books, or for add-on activities for carers and educators. Click here for the blog. As well as writing, I'm editor-at-large for Alanna Max (see below); I have been a mentor for the Jericho Prize for the past two years; and with Creative Access numerous times in the past. |
PublishersIn the UK and Ireland, the Lulu and Zeki books are books are published by Alanna Max.
In the US and Canada, Lola and Leo books are published by Charlesbridge Publishing. The Lulu & Zeki books are also published in Denmark by Forlaget Arvids, Netherlands by School Support, Brazil by Pallas, Sweden by EPIX, and Soma, Korea by Glburri and Froebel China by ICP. My books are also published by Barefoot Books, Chicken-House/Scholastic, Little Tiger, Annick Press and O'Brien Press. |
committed to diversity |
As well as writing, I am Editor-at-Large at Alanna Max
For more, click here. We were extremely proud to be shortlisted for the inaugural Independent Publishers Guild's The Alison Morrison Diversity Award Judges' comments "Alanna Books* receives its first ever shortlist place at the IPG Independent Publishing Awards this year. Set up in 2006, it is committed to diversity in the characters and storylines of its books for children and parents. Judges admired its efforts to make its books commercial as well as critical successes, and liked its imaginative partnerships and events. Alanna Books is small but perfectly formed, and committed to diversity in everything it does”. *Alanna Max was originally called Alanna Books |