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Wallace & Gromit: Cracking Contraptions Manual by Haynes – review and giveaway #100books

February 8, 2011 By Jax Blunt

We’ve been sent some great stuff to review as part of the 100 books challenge, but this has been one of Small’s favourites. So I’m particularly glad to have been sent two copies – meaning I can give one away without having to pry it out of Small’s grasping fingers! We like Haynes stuff here. […]

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And still they came #100books

January 31, 2011 By Jax Blunt Leave a Comment

Few more reviews that the kids finished off earlier. Big reviewed There’s A Pharaoh In Our Bath! – her third Jeremy Strong of the week I think. And I took a look at the fourth Astral Legacies book, The Elephants’ Call, as sent to us by Top That Publishing. Small read and reviewed The Great […]

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Connor’s Eco den #100Books

January 31, 2011 By Jax Blunt 2 Comments

On our library raid yesterday I spotted a book with a geodesic dome on the cover. I couldn’t resist, and added to the pile of 71 books we were bringing home with us. It’s an interesting take. Turns out that Barrington Stoke, the publishers, are working very hard to design books for reluctant readers. This […]

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Divide and Rule #100Books

January 31, 2011 By Jax Blunt Leave a Comment

I borrowed Divide and Rule from a friend’s last week (accidentally leaving my half finished review copy of O: A Presidential Novel there in exchange, so that won’t get finished and reviewed til next week now, *oops*). I like Jan Mark – as is obvious by the fact that I’ve already reviewed a couple by […]

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Off the shelf #100books

January 31, 2011 By Jax Blunt Leave a Comment

A few more round up reviews of books that we’ve had around for ages and I’ve read again to Smallest. The Whales’ Song is one of the batch of mini treasures that we picked up, but it’s also a book we’ve had for a while. It doesn’t seem like a first picture book somehow – […]

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More reviews from the children #100books

January 31, 2011 By Jax Blunt Leave a Comment

Big has been reading some Jeremy Strong, Read her reviews on Shinglestreet at The Battle for Christmas and The Beak Speaks. Small has read and reviewed Reviews at Worse things happen at sea and Safe Cracking for Students While three of these books were borrowed from the library, Worse things happen at sea was sent […]

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Turning the Tide #100Books

January 31, 2011 By Jax Blunt 1 Comment

This was kindly sent to me for review by ChocLitUK for the 100 book challenge. I’m also going to enter ChickLitPlus challenge to read 12 chick lit books in a year, and this is number 1 🙂 Perhaps it’s because I’ve been reading so many books of such a varied type in such a short […]

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Doing the Animal Bop #100Books

January 30, 2011 By Jax Blunt Leave a Comment

This was sent to us free of charge by Oxford University Press for our 100 books challenge. Fun pictures and a great rhythm, this is a book that is crying out to be read to a group of toddlers so that they can join in with the actions – I suspect it’s destined to become […]

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Just like tonight #100Books

January 30, 2011 By Jax Blunt Leave a Comment

This was sent to us free of charge by Oxford University Press for our 100 books challenge. A lovely picture book, I think this will resonate on a deeper level with parents as the story revolves around Daddy Bear recalling the day Baby Bear was born in an effort to chase away a scary image […]

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Using our library for #100books

January 30, 2011 By Jax Blunt 4 Comments

A challenge that is working to build a library overseas really ought to do more than nod at libraries here. We are not in an area where libraries are particularly threatened by the coming cuts as far as I can tell, but if we were, I’d be thinking hard about what I could do to […]

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