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Jarvis offers a moving tale of friendship, kindness, and acceptance, softly touching on the subjects of illness or hardship in a way that young children can understand. Everyone likes David, the boy with flowers in his hair. He's sweet and gentle, just like his colorful petals. David and his best friend have a great time together, finding the good puddles, making up songs, and running away from the bees. But one day David comes to school wearing a hat, and he is quiet. When he takes off the hat, his bright petals flutter down like butterflies. Now, where his flowers were looks twiggy and prickly, causing the other children to stay away. But David's best friend has an idea--a way to help David get his color back, wielding paintbrushes and plenty of love. Sensitively told and simply illustrated, Jarvis's story invites even the youngest children to talk about difficult subjects in an age-appropriate way--and feel inspired to support others when they face trying times.

From Jarvis, author-illustrator of the award-winning The Boy with Flowers in His Hair, comes a picture book that explores joyful, pure and wind-swept memories on a pebble beach between a grandad and grandson.A gorgeous book for children to share with grandad, Jarvis captures the kind of golden childhood memory that you carry with you, as comforting as holding a warm, smooth pebble in your hand. And when life changes, and people change, these pebbles stay with you always.With sweets stuffed in their pockets, a boy and his grandad take the trip down to the beach: through the wonky woods, across the railway track – stopping for a chat with the spotty dogs! – over the stile, and there ... peeking out beyond the dunes, the sea and "their" beach. They pick pebbles, wash them clean in the waves and paint their memories from the day, placing them in a special place – a secret place.

Readers all across the world have fallen in love with Bear and Bird through Jarvis's young reader series. Now the duo features in their youngest adventure yet! Cozy, funny, and with heaps of heart, this picture book--a prequel to the internationally successful young reader series--tells a story of first friendship from the beloved creator of The Boy with Flowers in His Hair, winner of the Oscar's Book Prize. When Bear arrives at the Woody Woods for the first time, he is looking for a friend. But it seems like all the friends are already taken. Then he meets Bird, who is looking for something, too--the Puffy Fluffy Octopus Cloud! Bear decides to help her look for it, and so begins an unexpected adventure . . . Will they ever find that octopus-shaped cloud? Perhaps they might find something even better!

“These wittily illustrated stories of mishaps, hurt feelings, fondness and friendship have a transporting quality.” Guardian on Bear and Bird: The Picnic and Other StoriesCosy, funny and with heaps of heart, this is a picture book story of first friendship from the beloved creator of the The Boy With Flowers in His Hair, winner of the Oscar's Book Prize, and a picture book prequel to the internationally successful young reader series. When Bear arrives at the Woody Woods for the first time, he is looking for a friend. But it seems like all the friends are already taken.But then he meets Bird, who is looking for something, too – the Puffy Fluffy Octopus Cloud! Bear decides to help her look for it and so begins an unexpected adventure... Will they ever find that octopus-shaped cloud? Perhaps they might find something even better?“Bear and Bird has all the charm and wisdom of Julian Gough and Jim Field’s Rabbit and Bear series … The illustrations are glorious.” Irish Independent on Bear a

Rafi 和 Rita 是一對雙胞胎，他們幾乎什麼都一樣，只有一件事始終爭不出結果：到底誰比較高？Rafi 覺得自己高到要小心別撞到月亮，Rita 則說自己跟「高高龍」一樣高——而且那當然是一種真正存在的恐龍！兩個孩子你一句、我一句，越說越誇張，連一首超煩人的「我比你高」之歌都登場了。原本只是小小的手足較勁，最後卻發展成一場充滿想像力的爆笑比拚。本書由《Alan’s Big, Scary Teeth》作者 Jarvis 以幽默鮮明的文字創作，搭配《The Lonely Beast》創作者 Chris Judge 大膽明亮、表情豐富的插畫。故事節奏活潑，畫面甚至會因為角色「太高了」而需要把書轉過來看，讓閱讀本身也成為一場好玩的互動。Rafi and Rita are twins. They are almost exactly the same in every single way. Except … they both think they are the tallest!Rafi is so tall he has to be careful not to bang his head on the moon. Rita is as tall as a Tallasaurus, which is definitely a real dinosaur. Rafi is SO tall he’s written a (really annoying) song about it:I’m taller than youI’m taller than youI’m the Queen of Tall TownAnd it’s front-page news!Oh yes, I’m taller than you!A side-splittingly funny tale of sibling rivalry that escalates to a charming twist, with hilarious words by the inimitable Jarvis, author of Alan’s Big, Scary Teeth, and colourful illustrations throughout from the creator of The Lone