![]() | Guess Who's Coming for Dinner? by Cathy Tincknell
Buy new: £5.74 / Used from: £0.15 A really smart book. Children love spotting the details in both the pictures and text that give clues to the underlying plot
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![]() | The Whisperer by Nick Butterworth
Buy new: £4.46 / Used from: £0.59 A beautiful picture book exploring the themes of segregation and racism via a cat version of Romeo and Juliet - sort of.
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![]() | Voices in the Park by Anthony Browne
Buy new: £3.97 / Used from: £1.77 Same story from different perspectives shown though brilliant illustrations
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![]() | Wolves by Emily Gravett
Buy new: £3.96 / Used from: £1.75 Very witty
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![]() | The Arrival by Shaun Tan
Buy new: £9.99 / Used from: £8.61 For older children/young adults perhaps - an insight into how disorientating and indeed frightening it could be to be an immigrant in a strange land depicted through surreal illustrations.
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![]() | The Incredible Book Eating Boy by Oliver Jeffers
Buy new: £3.82 / Used from: £1.33 Great fun
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![]() | The Story of Everything by Neal Layton
Buy new: £8.41 / Used from: £6.21 I have just had to replace this one as it was so well used! It's a manic look at Darwin/evolution/Big Bang in a pop-up format. Quite Monty Python in its style of illustration.
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![]() | Tuesday by David Wiesner
Buy new: £4.36 / Used from: £1.82 The illustrations are amazing and surreal!
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![]() | Way Home by Libby Hathorn
Buy new: £5.24 / Used from: £2.36 Again the illustrations are a work of art. This could be really useful in engaging intelligent older boys who have difficulties with literacy. Very street-wise
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![]() | The Wolves in the Walls by Neil Gaiman
Buy used from: £5.44 Not nearly as scary as it looks!
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![]() | Michael Rosen's Sad Book by Michael Rosen
Buy new: £4.16 / Used from: £2.93 A disarmingly honest look at sadness and grief
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![]() | Meerkat Mail by Emily Gravett
Buy new: £3.59 / Used from: £0.75 Told through letters and postcards
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![]() | Weslandia by Paul Fleischman
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £2.75 Very creative! Deals with diversity, being different and it's good to be smart - which is worth saying, I think!
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![]() | Willy's Pictures (Willy the Chimp) by Anthony Browne
Buy new: £4.23 / Used from: £1.47 Fantastic illustrations pay tribute to artists such as Van Gogh, Seurat, da Vinci etc
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![]() | The Red Tree by Shaun Tan
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £5.56 The pictures are surreal and perhaps even a little disturbing so you may need to be careful of your audience. Watch out for the red leaf on each page though - there IS always hope.
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