Category: Book Club
Jungle Speed – a #Bloggerboardgameclub review
Buy at amazon (affiliate) Hardly seems possible that it’s time for our second blogger board game club review, but it is. (In case you missed it, our first game was Codenames) I was quite hopeful when I saw Jungle Speed that it would be a good game to play with the younger children – it…
Prisoner of Ice and Snow by Ruth Lauren
When 13-year-old Valor is sent to jail, she couldn’t be happier. Demidova’s prison for criminal children is exactly where she wants to be. Valor’s twin sister, Sasha, is serving a life sentence for stealing from the royal family, and Valor is going to help her escape…from the inside. Never mind that no one has escaped…
Tell it to the Moon – guest post on home schooling by author Siobhan Curham
As regular readers will know, most of my children are home educated, and despite growing numbers of children educated outside school, it’s a topic rarely touched upon in fiction. So when I was offered Tell it to the Moon to read and review, and I realised it included a home schooled teenager, I jumped at…
Dinosaur Train app review
Recently I was very pleased to be offered a chance to do a review of the Dinosaur Train Paint and Match app. From Kuato Studios Based on the Jim Henson TV Series, Tigerboy recognised it immediately and got stuck in straight away. There are 24 pictures of Buddy the dinosaur and his friends to colour…
The Adventures of the Owl and the Pussycat by Coral Rumble and Charlotte Cooke
Buy at Amazon affiliate link The Owl and the Pussycat went to sea, in a box on the living room floor. They sailed away for a year and a day and these are the things that they saw… Any book that starts with a box is starting out well as far as I’m concerned, particularly…
The Penalty area by Alain Gillot (translated by Howard Curtis)
Buy at Amazon (affiliate) A heart-warming novel about overcoming adversity, making human connections, and football. Vincent once had a shot at becoming a professional soccer player but a career-ending knee injury put an end to his dreams. A tough kid from a poor family, he has become an emotionally cut-off man with frustrated hopes and…
BeInspired – my watercolour challenge with Cass Art.
A little while before Christmas, I received a very exciting parcel. The very lovely people at Cass Art had invited me to be part of their BeInspired art challenge, and to help me get started, sent me a parcel of watercolour stuff to explore. And what stuff. Anyone who follows me on instagram (and if…
Christmas cinnamon buns with a new ricotta cheese icing
As I’ve written a number of times, we’re gradually building up our stock of Christmas traditions buns, and that includes a special home baked breakfast of big, yeasty cinnamon buns. Now, the ones you can buy from bakeries usually have a quite gooey icing on them, and I’ve never quite cracked that before. This year…
Finding Black Beauty (and 10 other horse stories you might enjoy)
Post contains affiliate links. Find it at Amazon. Finding Black Beauty by Lou Kuenzler. An enchanting retelling of Anna Sewell’s classic horse story, a moving and uplifting tale of friendship. A horse needs the help of a young girl… Aspiring groom Josie comes to love her spirited charge, a black colt called Beauty. When he…
