Bookbug webinar: Picking picture books for Bookbug Sessions

Does your Cat Like to Hide in Boxes? Or maybe you like Doing the Animal Bop? In this webinar recording for Bookbug Session Leaders, find out what makes a good Bookbug Session book.

Our Early Years Trainers give advice, tips and support on choosing excellent books for your Bookbug Sessions, as well as leading you through a selection of their favourites.

So, jump on Farmer John's Tractor as We're Off to Find a Fairy.

Featured books

Books are listed in the order they were mentioned during the webinar. (Spoiler alert: the answers to the quiz are at the end of this list.)

Picture books

Comforting and soothing books

• This is Owl by Libby Walden and Jacqui Lee (Little Tiger, 2020)
• Snug by Carol Thompson (Child's Play, 2012)
• Extraordinary by Penny Harrison and Katie Wilson (New Frontier, 2020)
• Good Night Like This by Mary Murphy (Walker Books, 2015)
• Tuck me in! by Dean Hacohen and Sherry Scharschmidt (Walker Books, 2013)
• Yawn by Sally Symes and Nick Sharratt (Walker Books, 2011)
• Wow Said the Owl by Tim Hopgood (Pan Macmillan Children’s Books, 2012)

Books that are also a song

• Car, Car, Truck, Jeep by Katrina Charman and Nick Sharratt (Bloomsbury, 2018)
• The Dinos on the Bus by Peter Millett and Tony Neal (Ladybird, 2021)
• What a Wonderful World by Bob Thiele, George David Weiss and Tim Hopgood (Oxford University Press, 2015)
• Hey Diddle Diddle illustrated by Annie Kubler and Sarah Dellow (Child’s Play, 2020)
• Old MacDonald Had a Phone by Jeanne Willis (Andersen Press, 2021)
• Poo Poo Bum Bum Wee Wee by Steven Cowell and Erica Salcedo (Ladybird, 2021)

Books with actions, sounds and repetition

• Monkey and Me by Emily Gravett (Macmillan, 2007)
• The Paper Dolls by Julia Donaldson and Rebecca Cobb (Pan Macmillan, 2016)
• No Matter What  by Debi Gliori (Bloomsbury, 2015)
• My Cat likes to Hide in Boxes by Eve Sutton and Lynley Dodd (Puffin, 2010)
• Farmer John's Tractor by Sally Sutton (Walker, 2014)
• Bunnies on the Bus by Philip Ardagh and Ben Mantle (Walker, 2020)
• Jack and the Flum Flum Tree by Julia Donaldson and David Roberts (Macmillan, 2012)
• A New Home for a Pirate by Ronda Armitage and Holly Swain (Puffin, 2007)
• The Foggy Foggy Forest by Nick Sharratt (Walker, 2010)

Other Session book recommendations

• Maybe by Chris Houghton (Walker Books, 2022)
• Monster! Hungry! Phone! by Sean Taylor and Fred Benaglia (Bloomsbury, 2002)
• Doing the Animal Bop by Jan Ormerod and Lindsey Gardiner (Oxford University Press, 2015)
• Rumble in the Jungle by Giles Andreae and David Wojtowycz (Orchard Books, 1998)

Featured in the picture book quiz

• The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson (Pan Macmillan, 2016)
• We're Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen (Walker Books, 2014)
• Peepo by Allan and Janet Ahlberg (Penguin Books, 2011)
• The Tiger Who Came to Tea by Judith Kerr (Harper Collins, 2008)
• Shark in the Park by Nick Sharratt (Penguin Books, 2020)
• The Lion Inside by Rachel Bright (Orchard Books, 2015)