Supporting Indie Publishers

Three Diverse Reads from Parakeet Books

Pattu’s Dosa A bilingual short read in both English and Tamil, this simple story reflects a very familiar scene in houses around the world. It regularly happened in our house when I was making pancakes for breakfast on a Saturday morning. Without giving too much away, if you are a parent, you will have experienced … Read more

Ten Steps to Us

This is not just a teen romance, if it was, I probably wouldn’t have enjoyed it anywhere near as much as I did. Yes, the plot is romance based: Girl meets boy, girl falls for boy, girl’s best friend wants to date boy, girl dates boy but has to keep it a secret etc. etc. … Read more

Earth is Big: A Book of Comparisons

Steve Tomecek (Author) Marcos Farina (Illustrator) Earth is big! (compared to a frog)Earth is small! (when it’s hiding in a galaxy) And that’s not all. Earth is wet and dry, hot and cold, round and jagged, fast and slow. You get the idea. It depends how you look at it! I’ve just put this book … Read more

Grandad Wheels

Brian Abram (author) & Lynne Hicken (Illustrator) Charlie Stewart’s Grandad wasn’t like most other Grandads. Thanks to an argument with a huge lion (really!?), he had to use a wheelchair to get around… And so the adventures of Grandad Wheels begin… These three picture books are corkers! I think that Charlie would give Just William … Read more