Albert and Sarah Jane

Author: Malachy Doyle

Illustrator: Jo Parry

Year: 2007

Publisher: QED Publishing, UK

Age: 3 and above

No. of Pages: 22

ISBN: 978 1 84538 895 9

Before you arrive at any conclusions about the names in the title of this book, I’d like to inform you that they belong to a dog and a cat, respectively. Actually, they're pets in the same household.

Albert likes his food.  And Sarah Jane’s fishy nibbles too. One day, he gets carried away with eating and ends up polishing off the cat’s food too.

Sarah Jane is very upset and takes matter into her own hands. 

It’s a fun story in a cheeky-sort of way and the illustrations complete the package.

Excerpt

Albert spotted Sarah Jane through the upstairs window.

He smiled at her, in a doggy sort of way, but Sarah Jane ignored him.

So, Albert slipped out of the house, went round to next door’s doorstep, sat himself down by the cat’s flap, and howled.

“Come home, Sarah Jane!” he cried. 

Daniel: Little Children’s Bible Books

Text: Anne de Graaf, Wikipedia

Illustrations: Jose Perez Montero

Year: 1998

Publisher: Scandinavia Publishing House, Copenhagen

Age: 2 and above

No. of Pages: 38

ISBN: 978 8 77247 627 3

The Little Children’s Bible Books make stories from the Bible interesting with short sentences, little words and light-hearted illustrations.

The inspirational life of Daniel is superbly narrated in this book in relevant terms and tones for little ones of the twenty-first century. A cheery, little lion cub acts as a guide of sorts through the narrative with comments and queries to encourage little ones to think and help apply invaluable lessons from Daniel’s life to their own.

Excerpt

They had to eat like Babylonians, drink like Babylonians and pray like Babylonians. 

Finally, Daniel told his teachers, “No! We’re not like you. We’re different.”