Travelling with Children (Book review, not horror story. Honest).
I find booking family holidays incredibly stressful. In fact I always find myself considering not going rather than continuing with the stress of finding the perfect location, accommodation and date. And then when you actually set off… Catherine Cooper’s book – Travelling With Children: A Parent’s Guide – is an entertaining and practical guide to, well, travelling with children. The book will help you...
Spotted! Vintage Notebooks. Of the genuinely lovely kind.
Oh. SO excited! No, REALLY! LOOK at what this clever bookbinder in Bath is doing! She’s seeing so many books that are just too lovely to throw in the recycling… but not good enough to rebind. So she’s salvaging what she can, and creating oh-so-perfect new notebooks out of them! GENIUS! She keeps the covers, where possible makes the spine into a bookmark, and a few inside pages. Adds sheets of good quality (150 gsm)...
Book Review – Augustus And His Smile
We’re already big fans of Ernest, so when we saw Catherine Rayners ‘Augustus and his Smile’ land on the mat, we were a bit keen to step inside. So we just sat on the bottom stair, the then-3yr old Pink and I, and immediately did just that. Transporting ourselves away to somewhere utterly, totally, deeply enchanting. Oh Augustus. How I do LOVE you! Honestly? This is probably one of my very favourite books on...
It’s National Bookstart Week!
Yes, we missed it yesterday, but we’re catching up fast, honest. Bookstart offers the gift of free books to all children at three key ages before they start school, to inspire a love of reading that will give children a flying start in life. You should receive them via your health visitor/pre-school/nursery – so if your child has not had one and is still under school age, do go and ask in your local library, and...
Spotted! Writing Set For Children – Total Bargain!
Yes. that’s Right. The iconic ‘Guess How Much I Love You’ by Sam McBratney. Along with a writing set which includes paper, envelopes and stickers. All from the The Book People for £2.99. Teach your children the disappearing art of writing a letter. Make their grandparents smile. Why are you still here? GO! Buy! For your children. For presents. And get one for yourself while you’re at it. Send me a beeyootiful...
50 Books Every Child Should Read
You know how sometimes, you read something that makes you want to talk about it? Yesterday, I received one of those mails. It was just a newsletter, from one of my favourite Secondhand Booksellers, AbeBooks. By the time I made it to the end, I was buzzing. This is a very clipped part of the article, reproduced with kind permission from Richard Davies of AbeBooks – you can see the original article here. “Reading should be...