Maps: From Anna to Zane: First Skills

Vivian French is a highly-acclaimed children’s author, whose many books include The Steam Whistle Theatre Company and The Dragon’s Breakfast. She is one of the most borrowed children’s authors in UK libraries, and was awarded the MBE for services to literature, literacy, illustration and the arts. Follow her on Twitter under the handle @fivekingdoms or visit her website: vivianfrench.comOriginally from Taiwan, Ya-Ling Huang completed an MA in illustration at the Cambridge School of Art in 2016 and in the same year her works were selected for 2016 Bologna Book Fair, and highly commended both in the Macmillan prize and in the prestigious book-design competition hosted by the Polish Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice. .

Maps is a delightfully illustrated book that aims to introduce early years concepts and essential skills in an engaging and informative way […] the vivid and joyous illustrations throughout would also inspire art and design activities: they are a celebration of the way children interpret and express their views of the world and respond to the need to record their own place in the communities they belong to.