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  • Win £175 of Toys with Activity Toys Direct!

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    As an Activity Toys Direct ambassador, I’ve received some great toys to review over the past year, like the Art Master actvity desk. Now it’s your chance to win some new toys from Activity Toys Direct in this great giveaway. You could win an amazing red motorcycle (£27.99), the Canyon Road and Train Track Table…

  • the 101 list – challenge accepted.

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    Knowing that this list was once again relegated to my drafts folder, today Big issued a challenge, which I accepted. She’s doing something important to me. So I’m setting out on my 101 things. Again. (If you want to check out her take on the list, her post is over here.) The list so far.…

  • Rereading Enid Blyton

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    Buy at Amazon I ordered myself a copy of The Secret Island from ebay. It was always one of my most favourite Blytons – the independent children, running away and living their little self sufficient life on an idyllic island in the middle of a lake. I’ve started reading it out loud to Smallest, but…

  • It's Divergent DVD day – enter to win

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    I’m sure you all remember earlier this year when I raved about the Divergent movie premiere? You’ll know that I thought that it was a pretty good interpretation of the book, and that basically I’m quite a big fan. Well, today the DVD came out, so if you missed it at the cinema, you can…

  • Nectar Summer Picks

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    We’re halfway through the summer holidays here in England now, and I’m willing to bet a few parents are starting to feel the budget pressures mounting up, and the inspiration running out. Nectar has some suggestions to help your money go that little bit further and stave off the boredom, starting with this video. http://youtu.be/8xAUR4cxYDg…

  • River Singers blog tour

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    Buy at Hive Buy on kindle buy at Amazon To celebrate publication of The River Singers and to mark World Nature Conservation Day (Monday 28th July) author Tom Moorhouse has been visiting a number of blogs answering questions and suggesting ways to get children interested in nature. World Nature Conservation Day highlights the threats to…

  • Reading in the garden – Earth Flight.

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    I have a lot on my todo list. order paperback| order kindle | order at Hive So obviously, what I did yesterday, was sit in the garden and read a book. I’ve already read and reviewed Earth Girl and Earth Star by Janet Edwards, so I was desperate to get my hands on book 3…

  • How to use Reading Eggs to help your child learn to read.

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    At the weekend, I posted a picture that I’m incredibly proud of, so I’m going to take this opportunity to share it again. This is Smallest. She’s 5 in November. She hasn’t started school – we home educate. And she’s reading her first book. We don’t do school at home. No formal sit down lessons.…

  • A summer of Sylvanians

    A summer of Sylvanians

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    Recently we received a Sylvanian Family set to review. Buy at Amazon | Buy at Play.com Surprisingly, this is our first close encounter with Syvlanians. Many of the childrens’ friends have had them, we’ve just never got round to it somehow. Now that we have, I’m really not sure why. I was a bit nervous…

  • The girl with all the gifts

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    Buy at Amazon |Buy at hive|Buy on kindle Book description from Amazon: NOT EVERY GIFT IS A BLESSING Every morning, Melanie waits in her cell to be collected for class. When they come for her, Sergeant Parks keeps his gun pointing at her while two of his people strap her into the wheelchair. She thinks…