Julian is a mermaid book5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In a wholly different register, The Day War Came (Walker) combines Nicola Davies’s simple, hard-hitting text and Rebecca Cobb’s pencil drawings to evoke the dismaying destruction of accustomed reality for the youngest victims of conflict. Assuredly inhabiting its seven-year-old protagonist’s perspective, the book chronicles the naughty deeds of an unconventional nana, who challenges despotic park-keepers, shares true-crime library books with the very young, and dishes out lemon sherbets for medicinal purposes – a fizzily sweet sensation. There’s another roguish gran in Sophy Henn’s intoxicating Bad Nana: Older Not Wiser (HarperCollins), dressed to kill in black, white and fluorescent pink. With its piecrust-crisp scansion and a tinge of Hilaire Belloc, this is a delight to read aloud. When Grandma bakes a pie, it passes swiftly to a succession of thieves. Jan Fearnley, meanwhile, deliciously subverts the “sharing-is-caring” trope in the mouth-watering Oh Me, Oh My, A PIE! (Nosy Crow). ![]()
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