Category: Book Club
A world book day surprise with Miles Kelly.
A little while ago I was very pleased to be approached by Miles Kelly publishers to be involved in a secret santa style book swap with other bloggers. I was assigned a blogger to stalk research, and someone else researched us. I chose a book and then waited. And a fab parcel arrived through the…
The Week reviewed. The magazine that is. (Get yourself a free copy.)
Recently I was sent a copy of The Week to review, and today I *finally* got around to it. They also sent me a link for you to claim your own free copy – Just in case you want to skip the review and do that now, here you go. Still here? Good. It’s billed…
300 picture books week 9
lots of bedtime reading this week, mainly of library books. The patternis often that one new one is read and then a couple from previous evenings are repeated. So this week included: Zoo – Anthony Browne. I’m sure this is supposed to be thought provoking. I found it unpleasantly disturbing. One witch. Long live Princess…
Marvellous Maths–Blue Peter book awards blog tour.
Today I’m hosting a stop on the Blue Peter book awards blog tour. Marvellous Maths by Jonathan Litton and Thomas Flintham is shortlisted for the Blue Peter Book Award – the winners will be announced on Newsround on the morning of World Book Day, 6th March. www.booktrust.org.uk/bluepeter The Blue Peter Book Awards: The enormously popular…
An interview with …. me!
I miss memes. I know that we’re all busy facebooking and tweeting which Joss Whedon heroine we’d be (Willow, obviously), or sharing pictures of Nicolas Cage on various social networks, but I used to like memes that you saw on blogs, that linked you off on a grand tour of the blogosphere. So I was…
300 Picture books week 8
Another library trip, and they had picture books for sale at 30p each. It would have been rude not to, especially as they had Darkness for sale. We read 4 books there, and brought 14 home. Also read. One witch Igor, the bird who couldn’t sing. Denver Stone age boy. It was you, Blue kangaroo.…
Are there some topics picture books shouldn't cover?
Last night I picked up Denver by David McKee to read at bedtime. I’d grabbed it in the library as the cover reminded me of Mr Benn (I hadn’t realised David McKee wrote Mr Benn before. ) The story starts out straightforwardly enough. Denver is rich and generous. He has lots of staff and supports…
Independent Study (The Testing 2) Joelle Charbonneau
Independent Study is the second in The Testing series by Joelle Charbonneau. I reviewed the Testing last summer, and said at the time I thought that some of the comparisons with the Hunger Games were a little overplayed and a bit harsh. Do I still feel that way? Yes and no. This is a different…
300 Picture books week 7
I didn’t do a draft post, so these are the titles I can remember off the top of my head tonight. I know it’s not a complete list, we’ve read at least two books every day to the best of my memory, so I was expecting around 14 titles. I don’t want to risk disturbing…
Peppa Pig wobbles but she doesn't fall down!
Would I like to review Peppa Pig Weebles? How much would I! I can’t imagine I’m the only child of the 70s to remember and massively miss weebles. Altogether now – weebles wobble but they don’t fall down. It turns out that this causes quite a bit of frustration if you’re a two year old…