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Lesser Known Masterpieces from Your Favourite Illustrators - Tales for Tadpoles

Lesser Known Masterpieces from Your Favourite Illustrators

A Drink of Water, illustrated by Quentin Blake The nature of children's books and chil...
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Chris Haughton's Deceptively Simple Storybooks - Tales for Tadpoles

Chris Haughton's Deceptively Simple Storybooks

Every month we focus a blog on an illustrator that we love, giving you the opportunity...
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Seven Things You Didn't Know About Winnie-the-Pooh - Tales for Tadpoles

Seven Things You Didn't Know About Winnie-the-Pooh

A.A. Milne's wonderful stories and poems about the bumbling bear Winnie-the-Pooh are l...
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Suburban Surrealism: The World of Shaun Tan - Tales for Tadpoles

Suburban Surrealism: The World of Shaun Tan

Our Illustrator of the Month blog series is a chance to find out more about your favou...
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A Hidden Gem: The Warmth and Wit of Sven Nordqvist - Tales for Tadpoles

A Hidden Gem: The Warmth and Wit of Sven Nordqvist

Our Illustrator of the Month blog series focuses on some of our favourite illustrators...
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Too Much Too Soon? Dark Themes in Children's Books - Tales for Tadpoles

Too Much Too Soon? Dark Themes in Children's Books

Illustration by Kaatje Vermeire from Maia and What Matters We believe that children’s ...
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More than Moomins: The Life and Works of Tove Jansson, our Illustrator of the Month - Tales for Tadpoles

More than Moomins: The Life and Works of Tove Jansson, our Illustrator of the Month

Tove Jansson self-portrait © Moomin Characters™ Our ‘Illustrator of the Month’ blog ser...
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For Our First Birthday: A Look At Childhood Through the Ages - Tales for Tadpoles

For Our First Birthday: A Look At Childhood Through the Ages

It’s our birthday! Our Drury Street store was one year old last week and we have celebr...
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Illustrator of the Month: Elsa Beskow - Tales for Tadpoles

Illustrator of the Month: Elsa Beskow

Our ‘Illustrator of the Month’ blog series focuses on some of our favourite illustrato...
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10 Lessons for Modern Life from Elmer the Patchwork Elephant - Tales for Tadpoles

10 Lessons for Modern Life from Elmer the Patchwork Elephant

  It seems that the modern world is more unstable than ever. With political upheaval a...
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Illustrator of the Month: Tomi Ungerer - Tales for Tadpoles

Illustrator of the Month: Tomi Ungerer

Our new ‘Illustrator of the Month’ blog series focuses on some of our favourite illust...
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Who is the Best Bunny in Children's Literature? - Tales for Tadpoles

Who is the Best Bunny in Children's Literature?

We here at Tales for Tadpoles like to bring you the hard-hitting questions of the d...
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Illustrator of the Month: Jon Klassen - Tales for Tadpoles

Illustrator of the Month: Jon Klassen

This week we’re beginning a series of blog posts that will focus on some of our favour...
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Giving a New Look to the Greatest Children's Stories Ever Told - Tales for Tadpoles

Giving a New Look to the Greatest Children's Stories Ever Told

When it comes to stories, it seems that the secret to immortality is reinvention. "See...
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The Power of Storytelling and How it Affects Your Brain - Tales for Tadpoles

The Power of Storytelling and How it Affects Your Brain

Once upon a time there was a young man who worked in a museum. Each day the young man w...
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The Best of Love in 14 Amazing Children's Book Illustrations - Tales for Tadpoles

The Best of Love in 14 Amazing Children's Book Illustrations

Love is the most potent bond between one person and another, as Valentine’s Day cards a...
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6 Beautiful Books To Keep Children Inspired All Year Round - Tales for Tadpoles

6 Beautiful Books To Keep Children Inspired All Year Round

So the days are still short and the weather retains a nasty chill, but there’s no reaso...
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How a 7-year-old's imagination can take us to amazing new worlds

A few weeks ago my seven-year-old nephew Cuan had an accident involving a golf club, wh...
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Telling Tales: The story behind our pop-up shop success

Earlier this month we opened our shop doors for the first time and hundreds of you came...
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6 reasons we’re so excited about our new pop-up shop

It’s an exciting time. After selling at countless markets over the last year – from Dub...
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