We’ll miss our usual holiday to the seaside this year so we decided to read about beaches and oceans instead! This led to the discovery of National Marine Week, ‘The Wildlife Trusts’ nationwide celebration of all things marine.’ Between now and August 9th there are various activities taking place in the UK and online to raise awareness of different kinds of sealife and encourage families to explore beaches.…
We are delighted to be joining Caryl Hart and Tony Neal’s Mini Monsters Can I Play? blogtour! The Mini Monsters, Scout, Sparkle, Arthur and Tiny, are four adorable pre-school characters who are learning valuable lessons about friendship and how to get along.…
Did you guess that yesterday’s reindeer, wearing their flashy underpants, came from the hilarious Aliens Love Panta Claus by Claire Freedman and Ben Cort?
The Story: On Christmas Eve the aliens pack their spaceship with underpants and fly off to help Santa with his preparations.…
Congratulations to those of you who guessed which book cover our first image came from – Dear Santa by Rod Campbell.
The Story: Santa is wrapping up Christmas presents but one is too small, one is too big, one is too bouncy, one is too scary, one is too messy, one is too noisy but the last present is perfect!…
The SEA SAW is a beautifully illustrated, incredibly emotive story about the loss of a well loved teddy bear on a day out to the beach. Sofia’s bear is particularly special as it belonged to her mother, when we first read the book we couldn’t stop turning the pages in the hope that it would find its way back to Sofia.…
CLICK, CLACK, MOO Cows That Type is one of the first picture books that we ever bought and we still find it as funny now as we did when we first read it. The twist at the end of the story really makes us laugh!…
Pirate picture books have long been popular with young children and as a child I regularly borrowed the Captain Pugwash books from the library as well as watching him on television. Cartoonist John Ryan, who created the Captain Pugwash stories, died in 2009 but several of his Captain Pugwash books have been reprinted by Quarto.…
Lunch on a Pirate Ship stars a young boy called Jack who, unimpressed by what his mother is serving up for lunch, boards a pirate ship in search of something more tasty. Adventure abounds in this rollicking, rhyming adventure which had us turning the pages to see what Jack and his friends would eventually eat.…
Author: Clement Clarke Moore / Illustrator: Robert Sabuda
The Story: The Night Before Christmas is a truly magical Christmas edition of Clement Clarke Moore’s classic poem. The rhythm and rhyme make it joyful to read aloud and share together with family and friends of any age.…
O is for One Snowy Night by M Christina Butler and Tina Macnaughton…