I love reading! I love writing! I love children’s books!
I’m Catherine, a British citizen living in Ireland. As a parent and as a former primary school teacher I have read and enjoyed children’s books from all genres.
My reason for setting up Story Snug, a blog devoted to recommending picture books and chapter books, was to help friends and family, near and far, become aware of books that may appeal to them. I choose stories that my family and I enjoy, stories that can stand up to repeated reading and stories which may also support a child educationally or emotionally.
The books are either from our own book collection and have been read repeatedly, both in the classroom and at home, or they are library copies. I am also extremely grateful to the increasing number of publishers who send us books to read, often before publication date, and wish that I had more time to blog about more of them.
If you would like to send books for recommendation please check out our recommendation policy.
I recommend books rather than review them so that my blog followers know that when a book is on Story Snug my family and I have personally read it and enjoyed it. The only exception to this is the books that are recommended on our author / illustrator guest posts.
Since starting the blog I have become more aware of how technology is changing our reading habits. I personally like to curl up with a book and I believe that it is an important experience for a child to hold a physical book in his / her hands so that is how we always read with our daughter when she was young. However, there are some amazing eBooks being published for the next generation of readers which I don’t want to ignore completely so we are happy to recommend the occasional eBook.
I also write my own picture books, chapter books and middle grade (currently unpublished) and I’m a member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI), Write Mentor and Write Magic. I especially like to support friends from these organisations who have had books published and we try to read as many of their books as we can.
I hope that you’ll find this site useful and I look forward to reading your comments (I won’t share email addresses with any other parties). If you have a favourite book written by an author I have mentioned, it would be great if you could add the title in a comment for that post or pop over to our guestbook to say hi 🙂
Thank you and happy reading!
Catherine
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