Pre Christmas Christmas Shopping List – The Maileg Advent Calendar Garland
A magical advent garland from our favourite Danish designer Maileg. It is a whopping 2.5m in length, so actually creates a really lovely decoration in your home. With 24 numbered fabric bags, stockings and sacks in classic Maileg fabrics, it’s a sure-fire Christmas classic that will come out year after year,. Our very favourite type of Chrsitmas Item – one that adds to those family memories and traditions....
The Bestest Christmas Gift Guide – Tollins 2, Dynamite Tales
The 8yr old LOVES the Tollins – and the new book is just as good as the first! Conn Iggulden is a bit of a hero of our family. I stumbled across his Emperor books in the library and was transfixed. Then came the Big Book for Boys – instant love from No.1 son. Then, as if half the family were not enough for him to have collected, he writes these really quite brilliant books for younger bigger readers. You know, the tricky...
The Bestest Christmas Gift guide – The Lego Minifigure Display Case. Oh yes.
For me, these are a le-e-e-tle bit pointless. I mean, the whole point of a Lego figure is to play with it, yes? Hmmm. Apparently no. Apparently, that comment is worthy of a most disdainful (and pitying) look, combined with a ve-e—ry pa-ti-en-t explanation for the dear and aged Mama who doesn’t Get It. Apparently the ONE thing that drives any Lego-er insane is never ever being able to find the right figure. And never being able to...
Bestest Christmas Gift Guide – The Bippolo Seed & other lost stories from Dr Seuss
Did you know there’s a new volume of seven Dr Seuss stories out? Brand shiny new ones you’ve not read before? No, me either! *excited* But you need to be quick – They’re older stories, previously printed in magazines and never before in a book, and they are beyond the One Fish, Two Fish stage. I love them all, and I can’t possibly choose… “It’s hard to decide,” Said young Henry...
Bestest Christmas Gift Guide – The Gruffalos Child Magnet Book
What IS it with children and magnets? Well, whatever the attraction (Attraction! Geddit?! Oh, I make myself larf…), this book has it in spades. The Gruffalo’s Child – almost as beloved in this house as The Gruffalo itself – And a heap of magnets to play with, creating your own scenes in the book; having the owl tell the fox off, the bird peck at the snake…. oh, sorry, that’s just our bossy 4yr old,...
Bestest Christmas Gift Guide – Jesus’ Christmas Party Book
Oh this book is BRILLIANT! I was sniggering just from a first flick through, before I got anywhere near bedtime stories and reading it aloud to the 4yr old. Telling the Christmas story from the seriously sleep-deprived (and VERY grumpy) Inn Keeper, this book will be read again and again. Unusually for a book telling this story, it is neither overly heavy or sanctimonious, nor is it irreverent with its Christmas message. However, one...