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300 picture books week 9
lots of bedtime reading this week, mainly of library books. The patternis often that one new one is read and then a couple from previous evenings are repeated. So this week included: Zoo – Anthony Browne. I’m sure this is supposed to be thought provoking. I found it unpleasantly disturbing. One witch. Long live Princess…
Stepping up to the messy play plate.
I don’t like sticky, messy things. I’m not even fond of kneading dough or mixing cake. And as a young child, Small was much the same. It’s not fair though, to let that impact on the younger two. So since Christmas I’ve been making a real effort to get crafty and messy with them. We’ve…
An interview with …. me!
I miss memes. I know that we’re all busy facebooking and tweeting which Joss Whedon heroine we’d be (Willow, obviously), or sharing pictures of Nicolas Cage on various social networks, but I used to like memes that you saw on blogs, that linked you off on a grand tour of the blogosphere. So I was…
300 Picture books week 8
Another library trip, and they had picture books for sale at 30p each. It would have been rude not to, especially as they had Darkness for sale. We read 4 books there, and brought 14 home. Also read. One witch Igor, the bird who couldn’t sing. Denver Stone age boy. It was you, Blue kangaroo.…
Are there some topics picture books shouldn't cover?
Last night I picked up Denver by David McKee to read at bedtime. I’d grabbed it in the library as the cover reminded me of Mr Benn (I hadn’t realised David McKee wrote Mr Benn before. ) The story starts out straightforwardly enough. Denver is rich and generous. He has lots of staff and supports…
Parenting lessons from Playmobil.
We live in a small house, and we have too much stuff. And my children don’t like picking it up and putting it away. They expect the fairies to do it. Or the house elves. Or if all else fails, me. Today was little different to usual. The living room looked like a toy bomb…
Independent Study (The Testing 2) Joelle Charbonneau
Independent Study is the second in The Testing series by Joelle Charbonneau. I reviewed the Testing last summer, and said at the time I thought that some of the comparisons with the Hunger Games were a little overplayed and a bit harsh. Do I still feel that way? Yes and no. This is a different…
Devising his own way of learning to speak – with a Leapfrog Leaptop.
We’ve had a Leapfrog Leaptop for longer than we’ve had a Tigerboy I think, I think we bought it for Smallest for her birthday or Christmas before he was born. She plays with it every now and then, pretending to write emails, or more often making it make music, but mostly it sits around being…
300 Picture books week 7
I didn’t do a draft post, so these are the titles I can remember off the top of my head tonight. I know it’s not a complete list, we’ve read at least two books every day to the best of my memory, so I was expecting around 14 titles. I don’t want to risk disturbing…
