Picture book of the month

Our pick for January is Stanley the Amazing Knitting Cat by Emily MacKenzie. 

Stanley is Emily’s second book and inspired by the fact that she loves knitting and generally gets very excited about anything bright and colourful! This fabulously funny book features an array of delightful animal characters, and a whole lot of wool...

Stanley LOVES to knit. He knocks up pom-poms at breakfast time, whips up bobble hats at bath time. He even knits in his sleep! And what does Stanley do with his wonderful woollies? He gives them to his friends of course – balaclavas for bunnies, neckwarmers for giraffes and much more besides.

But when Stanley gets carried away with his dream of winning the Woolly Wonders Competition, he
has to decide what's more important – his knitting or his friends?

Originally from Northumberland, Emily grew up beside a beautiful pine forest near a little village
called Slaley. She moved to Scotland to study Graphic Design at Edinburgh College of Art and after
graduating, spent seven years working in-house as a cover designer for a publishing company. In
2011 she took the plunge to go freelance in order to concentrate on her love of illustration and print
making, and to pursue her dream of one day having her own children's books published.

Her debut picture book, Wanted! Ralfy Rabbit, Book Burglar, has been nominated for the CILIP Greenaway Medal 2016 and was also shortlisted for IBW Book Award 2015, the Scottish Children’s Book Award and a number of regional awards.

Emily lives in Edinburgh with her husband Alan, and hopes to one day live by the sea in a cottage
with a vegetable patch, a yellow front door and a cat called Crayon.

Stanley the Amazing Knitting Cat is available online and from all good booksellers. 

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