Books For Keeps
  • Home
  • Reviews
  • Articles
  • Past Issues
  • Latest Issue
  • Authors and Artists
  • Latest News
  • Search
  • Menu Menu
May 1, 2018/in Picture Book 5-8 Infant/Junior /by Ellie
BfK Rating:
BfK 230 May 2018
Reviewer: Diana Barnes
ISBN: 978-1786030238
Price: £17.13
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Genre: Picture Book
Age Range: 5-8 Infant/Junior
Length: 40pp
Buy the Book

Juniper Jupiter

Author: Lizzy Stewart

Lizzy Stewart’s There’s A Tiger In The Garden won the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize for 2017, and this is another story about the power of a child’s imagination. Will it be another prize-winner?

Juniper Jupiter is a young super-hero, complete with cloak, and she bravely saves cats from being stuck up trees, is super-strong (lifts Dad with one finger), super-fast and super-super-smart (sits on a pile of books, including There’s A Tiger In The Garden, in a Matilda-like pose) , and she can fly, but “it’s no big deal”. She loves being a super-hero, but sometimes it’s a lonely job – she realises that she needs a sidekick. Her home-made posters, made with Dad’s help, state that the sidekick must be brave, strong, smart, love ice-cream, be good at dancing, and funny…  and an awful lot of people , in all sorts of costumes, queue outside her house – this double-page spread is well worth poring over. For various reasons, none of them is quite right, and she is almost giving up, when she realises that she should have looked closer to home – her dog, Peanut, has all the necessary qualities, including a taste for ice-cream.  (Does Dad look a bit disappointed?)  Peanut is the perfect side-kick: he gets his own little cloak, and they go off to have adventures together, twice as super, but “it’s no big deal”.

The art work, in pencils and watercolour, is distinctiveLizzy Stewart is an experienced illustrator, this is only her second picture book as an author, so we can hope for more to come.

Share this entry
  • Share on Facebook
  • Share on Twitter
  • Share on WhatsApp
  • Share on Pinterest
  • Share on LinkedIn
  • Share on Reddit
  • Share by Mail
http://booksforkeeps.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/bfklogo.png 0 0 Ellie http://booksforkeeps.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/bfklogo.png Ellie2018-05-01 17:05:182021-04-09 17:06:24Juniper Jupiter

Search for a specific review

Author Search

Search







Generic filters




Filter by Member Types


Book Author

Download BfK Issue Bfk 272 May 2025
Skip to an Issue:

About Us

Launched in 1980, we’ve reviewed hundreds of new children’s books each year and published articles on every aspect of writing for children.

Read More

Follow Us

Latest News

‘Exceptionally talented illustrators’ Shortlist announced for the 2025 Klaus Flugge Prize

May 15, 2025

Next stop Shakespeare’s Globe – finalists of Poetry By Heart competition 2025 announced

May 8, 2025

School Library Association announces Information Book Award longlist and new nationwide Book Club

May 7, 2025

Contact Us

Books for Keeps,
30 Winton Avenue,
London,
N11 2AT

Telephone: 0780 789 3369

ISSN: 0143-909X (this is our International Standard Serial Number).

© Copyright 2025 - Books For Keeps | Proudly Built by Lemongrass Media - Web Design Buckinghamshire
After the Fall: How Humpty Dumpty Got Back Up Again Space Tortoise
Scroll to top