Category: Book Club
The Coldest Winter #100books
This one arrived this morning from Oxford University Press, along with a couple of lovely picture books, and something that looked funny, so Small snaffled it 😉 I scanned the back of this and decided that it looked a bit harrowing so I’d read it before letting Big have a look. I’m glad I did.…
Dear Zoo buggy book #100books
Another lovely book sent to me by Liz from Me and My Shadow. This isn’t the full book with flaps that I remember from smaller children, instead it has the familiar pictures and is a board book with the animal’s name and accompanying descriptive text on each page. The elephant is, as you may remember,…
The Feather #100books
Won this one on twitter from tamarindbooks. It’s a lovely book, and I’m pleased to find that Smallest is rather fond of it too. Extremely fond of it in fact – last night she had me read it through 4 times straight off. I think it’s the birds. She loves birds. It’s one of her…
Secret Life of Bees #100books
I’ve had lots of support from book companies and publicists for my 100 books challenge, but this book comes from a different source. This one was sent over by a fellow blogger, Liz from Me and My Shadow. I’m really grateful for her help – as well as sending these books, (yes, there are more),…
Dr Xargle's book of Earthlets #100books
Another charity shop mini treasure bargain. I find it faintly annoying, probably because most of the ways it describes babies being brought up are just slightly different to how we do it. Even though at least the baby is shown with a fluffy cloth happy. And I suppose I do sing this little piggy. Not…
The Blue Hawk #100books
 Read this this afternoon with a sleeping baby in my knee, thinking that as it’s a children’s book it would be s quick and easy read. Quick, maybe, easy in that the story carries you along, but challenging would be a better description. Challenging of orthodoxies, of ideas accepted without thought, of even the…
The Hungry Caterpillar #100books
This set, as linked to, was one of Smallest’s first presents. The soft caterpillar annoys me slightly, as it’s been changed from the illustrated one to make it more educationally interesting, and I really didn’t feel that was necessary. We carted it around for a few months, and Smallest didn’t squidge the interesting sounding bits,…
Elmer #100books
Book 10. 10% of the way towards 100 books.And, pyschologically quite important, double figures, finally 🙂 Elmer is a library book. This is a shame in a way, as Smallest is extremely fond of him, and is probably not really going to want him to disappear off home. I feel that like previous favourite borrowed…
Life of Pi #100books
I’ve seen this book around a few times, it crops up on suggested book lists as a *good thing to read* but I’d never been tempted. So I was actually quite pleased to receive it as a Christmas present and have it to stretch my boundaries a bit. Without blowing the plot too far (given…
Voyager #100books
I already read and reviewed Riding Tycho (I’ll wait while you go and look), and I was desperate to find out how the story continued, which has got to be a good sign yes? So I was very happy to find this in our library yesterday, and brought it home and started it last night.…