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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Imogen Russell Williams

Children’s and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels

The Magic Callaloo by Trish Cooke, illustrated by Sophie Bass.
Detail from The Magic Callaloo by Trish Cooke, illustrated by Sophie Bass. Photograph: PR

My Mother’s Tongues by Uma Menon, illustrated by Rahele Jomepour Bell, Walker, £12.99
Written by a 16-year-old author, this richly textured picture book is a moving celebration of immigrant multilingualism: languages “woven together like fine cloth” until “the seams are invisible”.

We Are the Wibbly! A Tadpole’s Tail by Sarah Tagholm, illustrated by Jane McGuinness, Bloomsbury, £7.99
A hilarious, original picture-book account of one bemused (and ungrammatical) egg’s journey from frogspawn to frog.

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