The Wild Before is a prequel to The Last Wild trilogy, a set of stories S first discovered on Audible. She soon became hooked, and listened to them again and again before asking for the books to go with them. When we heard there was a prequel coming out, she Read more…
The Summer Reading Challenge is always a key feature of our summer. It’s a great way to keep children reading over the holidays, and this year children can sign up online, setting their own target for the number of books they want to read. Once they’ve read a book they Read more…
We are excited to be taking part in the book tour for The Snake who Baked a Cake… [amazon_link asins=’1912262045′ template=’ProductAd’ store=’sinmotaho-21′ marketplace=’UK’ link_id=’92c6c61a-8b0f-11e7-b1a1-9118d5a42e15′] This is a fun rhyming book about a snake called Jake who bakes a cake. We are big fans of rhyming in this house, so it Read more…
S and I are Book Buddies for Parragon Books, and we’re always excited to see which book will turn up for review next. When The Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen arrived, I think I was more excited than S! This is a proper story book; the kind my parents used Read more…
S and I are delighted to be Book Buddies for Parragon Books; for September we were sent a copy of Pumpkins, Pumpkins Everywhere in preparation for Halloween. In this book we follow the adventures of four little trick-or-treaters as they make their way to the pumpkin parade… and there Read more…
S and I were very excited to be sent a Spot A Lot Vehicles Book and Jigsaw Pack from Parragon, the first of our Book Buddies books. This one was extra exciting because – as you may be able to see from the picture – it wasn’t just a Read more…
I was delighted last week to receive an email from Lee Hunter, a children’s author and childcare practitioner. She is a childminder Elgin, Scotland. and has recently written a book based on the life of her own cat, Nemo. The book is called Nemo and Giraffe, and Lee was wondering Read more…
We were sent copies ofThe Great Big Book of Families and Welcome to the Family, both by Mary Hoffman and Ros Asquith for review. I was really excited to receive these, as I know S is getting to that age where she’s likely to notice differences between families – and Read more…
We were sent a copy of Spot the Lamb on the Farm for review, which was nice for S, since she really loves books! This is one of a series of books where you have to find something, including a robot, a dinosaur and a monkey. I chose the lamb one Read more…
S and I were sent this beautiful children’s book for review, which was nice. Operation Bumpkin Birthday is about a rat called Snatch, who is always hungry and lives in a New York subway station. One night, together with his brothers, he leaves the subway station and finds the rat Read more…
I’m reviewing this book because I think it’s awesome – and frankly I am shocked that more parents aren’t aware of it. I bought a copy of Don’t Put Your Finger In The Jelly, Nelly by Nick Sharratt for S for Christmas, and she absolutely loves it – as I Read more…
I was sent a copy of My Underpants Rule to review. I thought it was about a pair of underpants that are so cool, they rule (sort of thing) but it’s not; it’s actually about a rule for underpants. Child sexual abuse has been in the news a lot lately Read more…
Last week we were house sitting for a friend on the other side of town. Realising I couldn’t possibly bring all of S’s toys across town with us for a week, I decided instead to stop at a book shop on our way and treat S to a new book. Read more…
Last weekend, S and I were happily wandering around town, minding our own business, when a lady walking past handed us a flyer and told me there was a Story Time starting at Waterstones in half an hour. We went along to see what it was all about… imagine our Read more…