#KidsBooksBingo Summer Reading Challenge
So, we have made it through the first week of our summer holidays. Have your summer holidays started yet, or are they still ahead of you? The thing I loved most about the summer holidays, as a kid, was the
Edinburgh Book Festival Favourites 2019
Exciting book news! The tickets for this year's Edinburgh International Book Festival went on sale earlier this week. I thought it would be a great opportunity to share some of our favourites from the programme. The Festival takes place from
Picture Books We’ve Been Reading in May/ June
With all the rainy weather we've been having recently, we've been spending a lot of time at our local library so I thought I'd do another round up what library books we have been reading recently. We discovered some really
Chapter Book of the Month: The Naughtiest Unicorn
We're back with another Chapter Book of the Month! This month's choice is a book we were gifted by the publishers, though there was no expectation of a review. However, Oskar loved it so much - and has been living
20 Gender-Stereotype-Busting Books for Boys
Today's book post is one I've been working on for a while, and it's very close to my heart - today I'm sharing my Top 20 gender stereotype busting books for boys! Before anyone cries 'Why just boys?', yes, there
Museum Activity Books
It's International Museum Day tomorrow, and after sharing our Top 50 Museum Themed Picture Books last year, I'm back this year with five more museum related books. This time, I'm sharing five different activity books that involve stickers, puzzles, drawing and
Our Favourite Picture Books for Easter
It's Friday! Time for another book post, and with Easter only a few sleeps away I thought I'd give you an update on our favourite Easter related picture books since we've added a couple new titles to our home library
15 Tips on How to Raise a Reader
It's International Children's Book Day today, a day celebrated annually since 1967 on 2 April (Hans Christian Andersen's birthday!) to inspire a love of reading and to call attention to children's books. We live in a house filled with children's
Japanese Picture Books
In this week's book post I have something special for you - I'm sharing the picture books we brought back from Japan! They are not all available in English, but I thought you might be interested to see them. In
Chapter Book of the Month: Jack Jones
For this month's chapter book, we've got some good old adventure fun for you! We were very kindly sent three books from the new <<Jack Jones>> series for review, and really enjoyed reading them together. Take a look at what
Our Favourite Picture Books for World Book Day
It's World Book Day in the UK a week from today, so we thought we'd take the opportunity to share some of our all time favourite picture books with you. The boys and I each picked one favourite to share
5 Last Minute World Book Day Costumes
It's just over a week to go until this year's World Book Day, a day that puts the fear in to a lot of parents as they panic over last minute costumes as it is custom in a lot of