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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.…
Dear Zoo buggy book #100books
Another lovely book sent to me by Liz from Me and My Shadow. This isn’t the full book with flaps that I remember from smaller children, instead it has the familiar pictures and is a board book with the animal’s name and accompanying descriptive text on each page. The elephant is, as you may remember,…
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…
Secret Life of Bees #100books
I’ve had lots of support from book companies and publicists for my 100 books challenge, but this book comes from a different source. This one was sent over by a fellow blogger, Liz from Me and My Shadow. I’m really grateful for her help – as well as sending these books, (yes, there are more),…
Dr Xargle's book of Earthlets #100books
Another charity shop mini treasure bargain. I find it faintly annoying, probably because most of the ways it describes babies being brought up are just slightly different to how we do it. Even though at least the baby is shown with a fluffy cloth happy. And I suppose I do sing this little piggy. Not…
Giving, of my words, my blog, my time.
A while ago I wrote a blogpost about a charitable endeavour, and it sparked me to think of doing more than just linking to and promoting charity gifts (note the original post was not sponsored. It was a charitable carnival). I wondered if I could somehow use the blog to raise money to buy the…
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…