Category: General

I have blogged about my love of the library and some of the absurdity that our library visits can inflict upon ourselves and other patrons. But it is the...

I thought I might start doing a monthly wrap up of our reading. I’ll include each kids’ recent favourites and progress. I follow quite a...

Graphic novels are generally stories presented in a comic style. The story is told through pictures with the assistance of speech (or thought) bubbles to...

Since school has gone back we have been reading lots, but we’re kid of doing our own things. For the boy in Grade three, that...

I don’t normally record the books my kids read. I’m terrible at keeping up to date with the school reading logs. And our lovely local...

I am slowly making my way through a podcast series which started 4 or 5 years ago. It’s called the Read Aloud Revival and it’s...

Too often I fall into the trap of thinking of I’m pretty good at this mumming stuff: that I’ve learned so much, I’ve been in...

These days we are all extremely tech savvy, yet more time-poor than any other generation that has ever lived (not fact checked). Parents drive children...

My birthday present this year was a fantastical, spectacular, magical print by my most favourite children’s author/illustrator Leo Timmers. Why a children’s print for my birthday?...

It’s taken me til now to feel like I’ve recovered from the summer holidays and that we are in some sort of school routine. I’m...