Tag: charity
Innervention #100books
A twitter friend, Marc, aka The Business GP is someone who understands the value of charity – proceeds from his book on Renaissance Management are funnelled through to his charity Camp Quality UK. I think it was when he tweeted about that that I mentioned the 100 book challenge, and after a quick batch of…
When I Dream of ABC #100Books
This book was sent free of charge by Top That! Publishing to support the 100 Books Challenge. Yet another lusciously illustrated picture book, this time a quirky ABC with some very unexpected entries. I don’t recall ever reading an ABC that included vampires before! At least X doesn’t stand for Xylophone in this version –…
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.…
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.…
Our Cat Flossie – the first book #100books
Of our 100 Book Challenge. This is one of a bundle of mini-treasures picked up for 25p at our local Red Cross shop and given to smallest for Christmas. She loves books, and of the pile she received from us this appears to be her current favourite. Not that surprising given she also loves cats.…
I have discovered I am shameless
when it comes to charity. I will tweet at publicists, publishers and bookstores. I will email publishing companies, write guest posts for blogs and ask for stuff in comments on yet more blogs. And I was brought up to believe it’s rude to say I want 😉 I don’t really know what’s come over me.…