Another month, another pile of books! These have been our favourites this month: Little Man – In the Night Garden Buggy Book Regular readers will know about Little Man’s knew found love of Makka Pakka, and so we bought him a new board book for his pushchair, to go alongside his Dear Zoo book. It’d …
When I heard from Booktrust recently, sharing news with me about their Booktime campaign, I knew that it was something that I wanted to get behind and share with you… ‘Now in its eighth year, Booktime aims to inspire a lifelong love of reading and this year marks a very special milestone for the charity …
Our weekend post was fabulous. As well as several Christmas cards, we had books. Boo was beside herself! This is our review of the first one.. The Story Machine by Tom McLaughlin Elliott is a boy who likes to find things and, one day, he stumbles across a machine. At first, he can’t work out …
Another month, another array of books read. These have been our favourites… Little Man – Pip and Posy: The Little Puddle by Nosy Crow & Axel Scheffler He loves this book! We bought it for him for his birthday, but he’d not really paid attention to it for the first couple of months, but now …
In our house, books about dinosaurs always go down well. We love Tyrannosaurus Drip, Dinosaur Roar, and those Dinosaur that Pooped.. books. So when ‘Yikes, Stinkysaurus’ arrived, I suspected it might go down well – I was right! Yikes, Stinkysaurus by Pamela Butchart, illustrated by Sam Lloyd Stinkysaurus is the smelliest dinosaur in the whole …
I was reading the other day about a chain of book shops in Australia that are selling some of their books all wrapped up in brown paper, and promoting them as ‘Blind Dates’. As you can see, there’s just a few words on the front to give people a flavour of the topics involved. It’s …
Boo and Little Man were delighted a couple of weeks ago when a package arrived for them. We received a bundle of picture and activity books from Bloomsbury Publishing, and they couldn’t have been happier! As regular readers will know, we do like our books here, so they couldn’t wait to look at all the …
As the month is drawing to a close, it’s about that time again to share with you what we’ve each most enjoyed reading this month.. Little Man – Peepo by Janet & Allan Ahlberg He’s had this classic book since birth, and it has always been a firm favourite with him, but this past month, …
Today I’m sharing a post by Zoe over at Playing By The Book, filling us in on a fantastic day out coming up in the Midlands… On Saturday November 9, in the heart of Birmingham you can meet Pinocchio, a mysterious angel, the boy destined to be King Arthur… and an elephant with amazing balancing …
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If you could have just one room, all to yourself, what would be in it? What colours would you choose? What would it smell like? I’m daydreaming a little. This is my, ‘when we win the lottery…’ room. And so what would it be like? I make no secret of the fact that I’m a …
I joined in a Twitter chat last week, in partnership with Save the Children and their Born to Read campaign. It shocked me. It upset me. It stayed with me. I learned that ‘A fifth of 7-year-olds from poorer families are already behind in reading. Most struggle to catch up, leading to a lifetime of …
Are her books popular in your house? Surely, if you have young children, you have at least 1 Julia book? It’s an assumption that I make, as we have so very many of her books, and they are absolutely adored here! We shared our favourite books in a post earlier this week, and Julia Donaldson …
As it’s Children’s Book Week, and as we do like our books here, I thought it would be fun to share our current favourites (note I do say ‘current’ – these can change on a month-by-month basis!) I asked Boo to choose her 10 favourite books. She’s just four, so this in itself was no …
Well, another month is drawing to a close, and we’ve been reading plenty here, as per usual! These have been our favourite books this month: Little Man The Tickle Book by Ian Whybrow & Axel Scheffler He gets so excited by this one! He loves lift the flap, pop-up, peepo, all of those sort of …
As the end of the month is rolling round again, I’m sharing the books that have been favourite reads for each member of the Reading household in August.. Little Man – Dinosaur Roar (Paul & Henrietta Stickland) He loves this! It’s inspired his first birthday theme, and he now has a triceratops cake awaiting for …
I’d seen a few mentions of this Reading Eggs in magazines and on-line, so I decided to investigate further. I asked Twitter for a few opinions, and all came back in favour of it, and as they operate a 14 day free trial, I decided to give it a whirl. Boo is 3 (she’ll be …
