The book of hopes: words and pictures to comfort, inspire and entertain

But What Do You See? / by Lauren Child

The Hope Tree / by Axel Scheffler

A very short note about hope / by Katherine Rundell

Animals

A Song of Gladness / by Michael Morpurgo

Care of Exotic Pets. Number 1. The Axolotl at Bedtime / by Catherine Johnson

The Monk and the Armadillo / by Onjali Q. Raúf

Murkaster / by Frank Cottrell-Boyce

Hope / by Tom Percival

Hope in Unexpected Places

Hope / by Anthony Horowitz

An extract from The Knife of Never Letting Go / by Patrick Ness

Mr. Umbo's Umbrellas / by Patience Agbabi; Bag for Life / by Joseph Elliott

The Hope Hunters / by Axel Scheffler

The Stars

Stargazing / by Emily Fox

A Way to the Stars / by David Almond

Only in the Darkness Can You See the Stars / by Lydia Monks

Kindnesses

Say Something Nice / by A.F. Harrold

New Boots / by Jacqueline Wilson

Searching for Treasure / by Annabel Pitcher

Balcony Picnic / by Michelle Magorian

A Big Hug / by Catherine Rayner

Dreaming and Daydreaming

Hopes and Dreams / by Yasmeen Ismail

Look Out: A Poem of Hope / by Philip Ardagh

Perchance to Dream / by Chris Riddell

Dogs; Plumdog Delight / by Emma Chichester Clark

Daphne and the Doughnuts / by Jessie Burton

A Dog in Time / by Lauren St. John

The Toilet Ghost Dog! / by Pamela Butchart

Mouse / by Emily Sutton

Cats

Be More Cat / by Kiran Millwood Hargrave

Hold on to Hope / by Katie Abey

The Naughtiest Cat I Have Ever Known / by SF Said

Lockdown Cat Haircut / by Sharon Davey

The Meeting / by Nizrana Farook

Birds

Hope

or, Learning the Language of Birds / by Jackie Morris

The Lamagaia Nest / by Jasbinder Bilan

Vince / by Sarah Crossan

Insects and Bugs

Beastie Besties / by Sara Ogilvie; The Hungriest Caterpillar / by Isabel Thomas

Consider the Dung Beetle / by M.G. Leonard, with illustration by Carim Nahaboo

Nature

Joy / by Laura Hughes

A-Viking in the Springtime / by Jonny Duddle

The Green Road / by Katherine Woodfine

Flower Power / by Fiona Woodcock

Waterfall / by Jo Cotterill

Butterfly Field / by Jo Cotterill

The Helping Hand by Melissa Castrillón

Things That Grow

To Plant a Garden / by Alex T. Smith

Sunflower / by Geraldine McCaughrean

The One-Hundred-Year-Old Gardener / by P.J. Lynch

That Peeling Feeling / by Jack Noel; Wherever a Flower Blooms / by Rob Biddulph

More and More Animals

New Classmates / by Emily Gravett

Shark Puncher / by Jessica Townsend

Hare Time / by Piers Torday

A Golden Visitation / by Ed Vere

Hope Is an Ancient Reptile / by Sophie Dahl

The Hope-o-potamus / by Greg James and Chris Smith

Everything Crossed / by Steven Lenton

True Stories

Silver / by Hilary McKay

Moses and the Watering Can / by William Sutcliffe

The Zoom of Doom / by Francesca Simon

How I Fainted in Front of the Queen / by Ross Montgomery

The Gift of Time / by Sita Brahmachari, with illustration by Jane Ray

Magic

Sick leave / by Clementine Beauvais

The Domovoi / by Zana Fraillon

Home Alone / by Daniel Egneus

I Can Read Your Mind / by Danny Wallace

The Ballad of Felicity Crow / by Lisa Thompson

Stranger Than Magic / by Cerrie Burnell

Spells for Home / by Stephanie Burgis

The Hummingbird's Smile / by Sophie Anderson

Fairytales, of Sorts

A Box of Pencils / by Gillian Cross

Dragon Towers / by Sarah McIntyre

Gurgle / by Sibeal Pounder

Jack and The Ram / by Sally Gardner

Little Red Wolf / by L.D. Lapinski

Blanket / by Nicola Skinner

Anna Bailey / by Sally Nicholls

Aliens and Outer Space

Northampton, 1968 / by Mark Haddon

Hello / by Polly Ho-Yen

First Contact / by Louie Stowell

Spaced out / by Kate Pankhurst

Hope From a Different Perspective

Lost / by Michelle Paver

A new sun-up / by Ben Bailey Smith

Hope Is The Thing With Feathers / by Chris Mould

The Creature in the Cave / by Jenny McLachlan

Hope Hunter / by Joseph Coelho

The Sky-Bots / by Vashti Hardy

Crime and Detectives

The Wagatha Christie Conundrum / by Sharna Jackson

The Comfort of Crime Fiction / by Robin Stevens

Playtime

Where There Is a Dream, Ther Is Hope / Petr Horacek

Football Boots/ by Peter Bunzl

Chalk Drawing / by Rebecca Cobb

The Greatest Gift / by Maz Evans

Lost in Music / by David Robverts

The Demon Goalkeeper / by Alex Wheatle

Apples and Swings / by David Tazzyman

Amazing Macnines

Jeddi's Attic / by Aisha Bushby

The Washing Machine That Went to the Moon / by David Solomons

We Can Fly / by Rikin Parekh

The Hope Macnhine / by Sam Copeland

Dragons, and Sea-Dragon Milk

First Flight / by Katie and Kevin Tsang

An extract from Mold and the Poison Plot / by Lorraine Gregory

Finding Pancakes! / by Marcia Williams

Firsts

The First Tear / by Kevin Crossley-Holland

My First Expedition to the Wilderness / by Ed Clarke

Believing Hard in Yourself

An extract from Everdark / by Abi Elphinstone

Me / by Swapna Haddow

There's a Hero Inside All of Us / by Laura Ellen Ansderson

Birthdays

The Flyaway Kite / by Catherine Doyle

The Best Feeling Ever / by Fleur Hitchcock ; with illustration by R.S. McKay

Remarkabke Friendships

Yasmin and Sila / by Marianne Levy

Gimme Five /by Sarah Massini

The Hideout / by Ross MacKenzie

My Brother Is a Pangolin / by Marie-Alice Harel

Smile

The Store Full of Magical Things / by Rutendo Tavengerwei

Fake Smile / by Jim Smith

Books

The Seed / by Andy Sheperd

Hope Springs Eternal / by Emma Yarlett

The Magical Thing About Reading / by Anna James

Do It Yourself

How to Start a Story / by James Campbell

Hunters of Hope / by Lissa Evens

My Favorite Game / by Harriet Muncaster

The Incredible Instant Joke-Creating Machine / by Susie Day

Colour In! / by Liz Pichon

Excellently Revolting

Pull My Finger / by Anthony McGowan

The Indigo Flamingo / by Nick Lake

Taking Flight

Daydreaming / by Polly Dunbar

Teaching a Bird to Fly / by Thomas Taylor

Bird / by Sam Usher

The Young Bird-Catcher / by Katherine Rundell

Hope / by Chris Haughton.