Kate Milner's Top Book Recommendations

Kate MilnerIt’s essentially a story about how the dad of the title remains completely unconcerned as he’s swapped and moved and replaced. He doesn’t notice! You never see his face. It’s always behind a newspaper. Essentially that is the joke. (Source)

Kate MilnerThe exuberance and the sheer energy of it is just fantastic. The rhyme and the repetition give it even more momentum and energy. (Source)

Kate MilnerThis book is a combination of some really smart modern graphics, and a well observed text about change, and what change feels like. (Source)

Kate MilnerI think Shaun Tan is absolutely amazing. In The Lost Thing he creates a whole world, and in this case it’s a barmy world. It’s so rich in detail. There’s a sense of this being a real other world that you’re allowed to look into. It’s about a boy finding a lost creature on a beach. The boy decides to take it home. Eventually he sets it free again. A less imaginative illustrator may have made this... (Source)

Kate MilnerThe story is told by children looking in on grown-ups and the odd ways that they behave. It is also an urban environment that doesn’t get into picture books anymore—it is an ordinary working community. (Source)