Age 4
Story Snug Advent: B is for Best Christmas Book Ever
B is for Best Christmas Book Ever by Richard Scarry
Story Snug Advent: A is for Aliens Love Panta Claus
A is for Aliens Love Panta Claus by Claire Freedman and Ben Cort
The Fairytale Hairdresser and the Sugar Plum Fairy by Abie Longstaff & Lauren Beard
The Fairytale Hairdresser and the Sugar Plum Fairy introduces characters from The Nutcracker, it’s a lovely story for the festive season. As with all the Fairytale Hairdresser stories we love spotting all the different fairytale and nursery rhyme characters in Lauren Beard’s illustrations.
Little Grey Rabbit’s Christmas by Alison Uttley & Margaret Tempest
I loved the Little Grey Rabbit stories when I was younger and I still have my childhood copy of Little Grey Rabbit’s Christmas, my edition is from 1978. The stories are now being republished for another generation of younger readers to enjoy and for the older generation to revisit!
Blogtour: Favourite Scary Books by Hyde and Squeak author / illustrator Fiona Ross
Welcome to Story Snug Fiona! Fiona Ross is the author / illustrator of Hyde and Squeak, a very amusing picture book that is based on the story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde. I watched as my daughter read the copy that Little Tiger sent us and a smile spread across her face as she…
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…
Happy 10th Birthday Sticker Dolly Dressing
Happy 10th Birthday to the Sticker Dolly Dressing Books!
Odd Dog Out by Rob Biddulph
We were very lucky to win a signed copy of Odd Dog Out in a Twitter giveaway (thank you Rob Biddulph!). As big fans of Blown Away we were eager to see Rob’s latest picture book with its eye-catching cover. It’s a really fun story that conveys an important message about being who you are and…
Happy Birthday Old Bear by Jane Hissey
Happy Birthday Old Bear! Old Bear is celebrating his 30th birthday this year and Jane Hissey has written Happy Birthday Old Bear to commemorate the occasion. As huge Old Bear fans we’ve been eagerly awaiting this new story and we absolutely love it. Jane’s familiar playroom characters are joined by a new friend, Elsie, a very cute…
Zog and the Flying Doctors by Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler
Zog is one of my daughter’s favourite Julia Donaldson stories and she was delighted to find the newly published sequel, Zog and the Flying Doctors, at The Edinburgh Book Festival. We had tickets for Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s show which included watching Axel draw pictures of Zog and his friends plus characters from the new…
