Tag: 100books
Cub's First Winter #100books
Cub’s First Winter by Rebecca Elliott was sent free of charge by the publishers Top That! Publishing to support our 100 Books Challenge. This is a lusciously illustrated storybook about winter, which has a mother fox explaining the season to her curious cub as they enjoy a last forest walk on the first day of…
Little Penguin Dives In #100books
You have no idea how good it feels to be publishing the 20th review in this series. We are reading the books, it’s writing up the reviews that’s doing for us. Still, here we go. Little Penguin dives in is the third of the three books that Liz of Me and and My Shadow sent…
The Lonely Snowman #100Books
Haven’t linked with the image to Amazon here, as they don’t appear to have an image. This is probably because The Lonely Snowman (Christmas Winter Windows) is an old book, belonged to one of the others, can’t remember who. At that point it had a snowman, but something about the cutout offended smallest and she…
Boo! #100books
We’ve had Preston Pig books before, but this one has the magic word in it. In this house, the magic word is Boo! Elephants say boo. Pigs say boo. The baby says boo as she turns over the pages 🙂 There’s not a lot to the story, but enough to hold her interest time and…
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.…
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…
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…