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Our Top 8 Picture Books About Ghosts

Welcome to part 2 of our mini series featuring our favourite Halloween picture books, and today it's all about ghosts! While we do have books about witches, monsters, vampires, werewolves, skeletons and more, it's ghosts that seem to be most

25 October 2021
Favourite Halloween Picture Books About Pumpkins
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9 Picture Books about Pumpkins – and one Turnip!

We absolutely love Halloween, and our seasonal Halloween picture books! We've added a few more to our collection since I last made a video, so I thought it was time to do an update. But as our collection is quite

17 October 2021
Books

7 Favourite Books to Welcome Autumn

It's been a while since we've had a good old round-up of book recommendations here on the blog. So with my favourite season in full swing, what better excuse to share some of our top recommendations for picture books to

8 October 2021
Pirate Stew Review Neil Gaiman
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Review: Pirate Stew for me and you!

This post contains gifted items. All views are our own. Ahoy there, me hearties! It's Talk Like a Pirate Day today, and we have the perfect book for it to share with you. Pirate Stew, the swashbuckling adventure by master storyteller

19 September 2021
The Viking Who Liked Icing Book Tour Review
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Book Tour: The Viking Who Liked Icing

We're taking part in another book tour this week. The Viking Who Liked Icing, written by Lu Fraser and illustrated by Mark McKinley, was published yesterday and is a fun Viking themed story about being true to yourself - which

6 August 2021
the book that did not want to be read review
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Review: The Book That Did Not Want To Be Read

This post contains gifted items. All views are our own. Once in a while, a book comes along that's a little bit different, and we have a book just like that to share with you today. We were sent a copy

9 July 2021
You Can't Take an Elephant on Holiday Picture Book
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Book Tour: You Can’t Take an Elephant on Holiday [AD]

It's been a while since we've shared any book reviews here on the blog, but today we are very pleased to be part of the book tour for the new picture book You Can't Take an Elephant on Holiday, by

28 May 2021
2020 Reading Journey 592 Books in 366 Days
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592 Books in 366 Days

For those of you who have been following the blog for a while, you will know that last year I was tracking all the books I read with my younger son. Every single one of them! He was 5 when

19 March 2021
Books

Our 2020 Reading Journey – Month 12

Last year, I decided that this year I would record all the books my 5 year old and I read together. Actually, he's now 6 years old, as it was his birthday in November. I’ve been snapping a quick picture

8 January 2021
Books

Our 2020 Reading Journey – Month 11

As I mentioned in my post from earlier this year, I decided that this year I would record all the books my 5 year old and I read together. Actually, he's now 6 years old, as it was his birthday this

4 December 2020
Preview The Mystery of Insch Brae House
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Chapter Book of the Month: The Mystery of Insch Brae House

It's been a while since we've done a chapter book of the month, but we were recently sent a book for review by a local Scottish author and Oskar loved it so much that he wanted to make a video

13 November 2020
Reading Journey October 2020
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Our 2020 Reading Journey – Month 10

As I mentioned in my post from earlier this year, I decided that this year I would record all the books my 5 year old and I read together. I’ve been snapping a quick picture of all the books from each

6 November 2020
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