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Dec 24th: Emily Guille-Marrett (aka Reading Fairy) chooses The Night Before Christmas
Author: Clement Clarke Moore / Illustrator: Robert Sabuda The Story: This 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.
Story Snug Advent: O is for One Snowy Night
O is for One Snowy Night by M Christina Butler and Tina Macnaughton
Story Snug Advent: A is for Aliens Love Panta Claus
A is for Aliens Love Panta Claus by Claire Freedman and Ben Cort
Picture Books for National Zoo Lovers Day
April 8th is National Zoo Lovers Day! Many picture books provide children with their first introduction to zoo animals, in stories animals often take on human qualities and can do almost anything. Picture books, fiction and non fiction, can help to initiate discussions about animals who live in a zoo or safari park, endangered species and conservation. Whilst many of us…
Dec 14th: Kristina Stephenson chooses The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey
The Story: A sad, lonely and bitter woodcarver, known by the local children as ‘Mr Gloomy’, gruffly agrees to carve a set of nativity figures for the widow McDowell and her young son Thomas, in time for Christmas Day. As the ill-tempered wood carver works he is watched closely by the inquisitive boy, who makes greater…
Dec 12th: Caryl Hart chooses The Christmas Bear
The Story: The Christmas Bear is the adorable story of a little polar bear who falls down a snowy hole, down down down into Father Christmas’s workshop. Father Christmas welcomes him with open arms and shows him around. Little Bear even gets to test the toys and has a ride on Father Christmas’s sleigh. Why…
Dec 5th: Melanie McGilloway chooses Olivia Helps With Christmas
The Story: Olivia Helps With Christmas starts on Christmas Eve. Olivia is helping her mum with preparations for the big day, with hilarious consequences, while impatiently waiting for Father Christmas. Why is Olivia Helps With Christmas your favourite Christmas book? We have always loved Olivia’s enthusiastic yet accident-prone approach to life in general but her…
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.
Dogs don’t do Ballet by Anna Kemp & Sara Ogilvie
Biff is a small, plump pug with big dreams, he wants to be a ballerina but is met with the constant refrain ‘Dogs Don’t Do Ballet’.
