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The Bookshop Girl by Sylvia Bishop and Ashley King
The Bookshop Girl is a fabulous mystery for all book lovers. Property Jones and her family win The Montgomery Book Emporium in a raffle and it sounds absolutely amazing, an out of this world bookshop experience that leads you to discover books on any topic.
Story Snug Advent: S is for Santa to the Rescue!
S is for Santa to the Rescue! by Barry Timms and Ag Jatkowska
Blogtour: Abie Longstaff talks about ‘How to Catch a Witch’
We’re delighted to join Abie on her How to Catch a Witch blog tour. We really enjoyed reading the story which seamlessly mixed magic and witchcraft into ordinary situations that are familiar to many children.
The Pocket Dog by Holly Webb
Can The Pocket Dog help Kitty solve her friendship problems? Holly Webb’s new story explores the emotions and feelings that can arise when a friendship dynamic is changed by the arrival of somebody new.
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…
Summer Holiday Reading Passport
School holidays will hopefully give us lots more time for reading and we love this free downloadable Summer Holiday Reading Passport from Scholastic to help us record our summer holiday reading adventures. Last year we pictorially recorded the books that we read during the holidays on our reading tree and this year my daughter is looking forward to recording the books she…
Zog by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler
We love Zog! He’s a dragon who wants to do well at school but has problems when he tries to learn new skills. However, his story is great for showing that with perseverance you can become successful and good at something. The story also shows the development of his friendship with Princess Pearl, she’s not the kind of princess who wants to sit around the palace in…
The 2015 top ten blogposts on Story Snug
Happy New Year to you all! Before we start a new year of book recommendations we’re looking back at the ten most viewed blogposts of 2015. They aren’t all blogposts that were written last year and they include several of our learning activities posts where we have linked different arts, crafts, science and other learning activities to some of…
Dec 10th: Amy Sparkes chooses One Winter’s Night
The Story: One winter’s night, a badger arrives in the forest, cold and hungry. There is little food in the harsh wintertime, but something special about the kind, gentle badger moves Fox, Mouse and Hare. They each help as best they can, and Badger goes on his way. But the storms are getting worse and the…
Book Tree Advent Calendar
A few months ago our daughter discovered that our two little men, Christmas and Snowy, had help with the book Advent Calendars that Story Snug has done for the previous two years so now it’s time for something different – a book tree Advent Calendar.
