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Patricia Cleveland-Peck
Expect a playful chain of impossible animal journeys, told through rhyme and lively illustrations. The comedy comes from imagining what goes wrong when animals occupy vehicles that do not suit their size, shape or behaviour.
Nick Sharratt
A cheerful school celebration becomes a lively water fight, with children, teachers, costumes, inflatables and a hose. The rhymes, repeated splashy sounds and colourful illustrations make the event feel energetic and playful.
John Hegley, illustrated by Neal Layton
A warm, imaginative picture book about how a child invests an ordinary stick with meaning. Its playful journey combines make-believe, kindness and a potentially affecting moment of letting go.
Satoshi Kitamura
A lively bedtime adventure turns a stormy house into an imaginary ship. The story offers surreal play, colourful illustrations and a comic creature encounter, while ending with breakfast and family help.
Viviane Schwarz
This is chiefly a playful performance between child and book. The cats speak directly to the reader, while flaps, page turns and invitations to blow on the page make reading feel like joining their game.
Chris Riddell
Expect a surreal bedtime adventure rather than a conventional quest. The emperor moves through an imaginative landscape of bedroom-inspired objects, searches for a scarf, encounters dragons and eventually returns to bed.
Cressida Cowell and Neal Layton
This appears to offer a playful fantasy story centred on Emily Brown’s attachment to Stanley, her old grey rabbit. Its picture-book form and themes of rabbits, play and toys may invite shared reading, though the central conflict is only partly visible.
Michael Rosen, illustrated by Kevin Waldron
Expect a humorous, performance-friendly story in which cake, sounds and expressive illustrations create a playful appeal.
Joseph Coelho
Choose this for shared, lively poetry reading: it combines performance, humour and imaginative wordplay with opportunities to experiment with poetic forms and invent poems together.
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