Huw Lewis-Jones Libri

A captivating compendium of rare and exquisite first-hand records of ocean voyages around the world and in different ages, providing a fascinating insight into exploration and adventure at sea.

Despite dramatic advances in technology and equipment over the years, there is one vital piece of kit in most explorers' pockets that hasn't changed - the journal. In this title, the sketchbooks and journals presented allow us to share, the on-the-spot reactions of around 70 intrepid individuals as they journeyed far corners of the earth.

Swin, Swale & Swatchway gives us the sailor's experience of the Thames Estuary, and the boats and characters inhabiting it, in late Victorian times. These charming adventures and human encounters have an engaging immediacy about them, and are enhanced by the author's many photographs, which provide a priceless glimpse of the past.

From polar-exploring author Huw Lewis Jones and award-winning illustrator Ben Sanders comes a hilarious new picture book about a greedy crocodile who doesn't know when to stop!

Whether white, or black, or blue. Blue Badger's not sure what to do. Badger has a lot on his mind... and something on his bottom...

Croc-a-doodle-doo! is a hilarious sing-a-long book starring a cheeky crocodile, based on the song Old MacDonald Had a Farm.

In Blue Badger & The Big Breakfast, we rejoin Badger, who is no longer feeling sad and is enjoying a big blueberry breakfast. It also looks like Badger might have eaten Dog's favourite blue ball by mistake... but all is not lost!

Cwmardy paints a graphic portrait of the casual exploitation, tragedy and violence as well as the political hope and humanity of South Wales industrial workers from the 1900s to the 1930s.

A laugh-out-loud picture book starring a truly terrible piece of fruit In this hilarious story about a really bad apple by award-winning author and polar explorer Huw Lewis Jones, a series of simple rhymes is transformed into a sequence of events that will have readers splitting their sides with laughter. As one silly scenario unfolds after the other, a common piece of fruit shows readers what he's really made of by making life miserable for Pear, Pea, Cat, Spud and Spoon, among others. In a very dark twist at the end, he receives his comeuppance...

The third title in the laugh-out-loud series of picture books starring Bad Apple, a truly terrible piece of fruit who in his latest bad-tempered adventure looks to spoil a birthday party.  It’s Granny Smith’s birthday party, and everyone is invited. There’s face painting, a pin~ata, a pile of presents, and one of Snake’s finest cakes . . . Bad Apple can’t wait to spoil the fun! But it looks like this party pooper’s luck might have run out. Pineapple has had enough of Bad Apple’s bad behavior and is ready to teach him a lesson. In the third installment of Huw Lewis Jones and Ben Sanders’s hilarious series of picture books, a truly terrible piece of fruit is once more wreaking havoc far beyond the rim of the fruit bowl. Illustrated in a deadpan, painterly style, Party Pooper will entertain the entire family.  Illustrated in color throughout