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 By Chris Smith. Illustrations by Aurelia Fronty
A picture book for children – of all ages from 8 to 80. It’s a moral tale but not a dull lecture.
Solomon the Wise, king of Israel, has a story to tell. The moral it contains is not shouted at you and needs no laboured explanation. Two brothers have brought their problem to the great adviser – for advice.
But before he can respond, they start a noisy quarrel about who should inherit the land left behind by their late father. One, probably the elder, claims his “legal rights”. The other protests loudly at this “injustice”.
The wise one silences them, holds their attention and tells them this story that has been handed down by word of mouth for centuries.
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Read more: ONE CITY, TWO BROTHERS
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 by Mark Alan Stamaty
Tales of war and destruction are many: loss of precious life and of things people hold dear.
This is the true story of one woman's incredible (and incredibly successful) rescue, from the flames of war, most of the books, “more precious to her than gold”, from a world famous library, at the cost of her health and almost of her life.
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Read more: The Librarian of Basra
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 By Trish Cooke
Leigh’s brother, Vin, told her that, like their apple tree, “which grew from a seed”, granddad was a baby once. As a boy in Jamaica, he went to school and climbed trees. As a man he was a husband for Gran, a father to mum and then a Grandfather to them. “That’s life”, he told them.
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Read more: The Grandad Tree
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 by Michael Rosen
Should children sometimes be confronted with the sad realities of life – and death? Michael Rosen, the well known broadcaster and children’s author, portrays his own sadness at the loss of his child – and how he tries to cope with it.
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Read more: The Sad Book
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Planting The Trees Of Kenya |
 By Claire A. Nivola
The Story of Wangari Maathai: This beautifully illustrated story does not attempt to tackle the wider global problem of the loss of rain forests and the destruction of people's livelihood by logging companies out for profit and the supplanting of food crops by commercial ones.
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Read more: Planting The Trees Of Kenya
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