Non Fiction
Emma Perry talks about organising International Book Giving Day
International Book Giving Day (IBGD) is an annual event that takes place on February 14th and it’s one of our favourite days of the year! Here at Story Snug we’re delighted to be part of the International Book Giving Day team and as well as helping to spread the word about the day we can’t…
Knowledge Encyclopedia Animal!
We’ve been reading the Knowledge Encyclopedia Animal! in preparation for National Non Fiction November.
My Encyclopedia of Very IMPORTANT THINGS
Before we had access to the Internet and search engines we used to use encyclopedias to help us answer our questions and learn new facts, a concept that I explained to my daughter when she asked me ‘how we found out the answers to our questions in the olden days’! My Encyclopedia of Very IMPORTANT THINGS has…
One is Not A Pair by Katie Haworth & Britta Teckentrup
One Is Not A Pair is a great book for keeping a child occupied during a journey! The book invites you to peruse its beautifully illustrated double spreads to look for matching pairs before finding the one item on the page that doesn’t have a partner.
A Pandemonium of Parrots and other animals by Kate Baker & Hui Skipp
A Pandemonium of Parrots, a Conspiracy of Lemurs and a Bouquet of Hummingbirds. Did you know that there were such wonderful collective words for birds and animals? Thirteen different collective words for various creatures are included in this beautiful, non fiction, illustrated picture book which provided an enjoyable learning experience for me as well as my…
WHIZZ POP BANG! Magazine
WHIZZ POP BANG! is ‘An Awesomely Amazing Science Magazine’. Designed to help children get excited by science it contains experiments, facts, puzzles, riddles and jokes all presented in a really fun way. But it’s not only great for children, as a parent and as a teacher, I found it interesting, informative and fun to read too!
Book Inspired Crafts & Activities · Book Inspired Learning · Chapter Books · Learning Activities · Non Fiction · Picture Books · PoetryBook spine poems – fun with books!
Creating book spine poems is great fun and is an enjoyable school or home library activity. They’re so simple to do! Just browse a bookshelf, choose titles that you can put together to make a short poem or story and then take a picture of the book spines. We had lots of fun creating ours!
International Book Giving Day 2016
International Book Giving Day 2016 is on February 14th and Story Snug’s preparations are almost finished. Since the beginning of January we have been tweeting and blogging to spread the word about the day and we’re delighted with the number of people we have reached who had not heard of Book Giving Day before. If you…
Ask an Author: Carron Brown
We are delighted to welcome Carron Brown, author of the Shine-a-Light books, to Story Snug The Shine-a-Light picture books introduce children to a variety of non fiction topics and publisher Ivy Press is generously giving away two sets of their newly published titles, On The Plane and On the Space Station, written by Carron and illustrated by Bee Johnson. On The Plane…
An English Year / A Scottish Year by Tania McCartney & Tina Snerling
These beautifully illustrated, hardback books introduce us to a year in the life of children living in England or Scotland. The bold, bright illustrations and the easy to read text contain a wealth of information about children’s day to day activities, the food they eat and the traditions and holidays that they observe.
