Category: General

I find myself with ‘spare’ time to blog on the summer holidays…and I just heard the baby get woken up from the monopoly excitement. Never...

I think this week lots of mums began ramping up for Christmas – especially those who do most of their gift shopping online.   So what are...

A few weeks ago I posted a quote that I have been reading over and over to motivate me in my reading goals. Part of...

I love this Australian Facebook group: Your Kid’s Next Read It is run to support parents in their attempts to ‘feed the book-devouring-kid beast’.  Spending...

One of my lovely sisters just had her first baby and it got me thinking about what books are good give to new babies. I’m...

Begin early in exposing children to books. The mother who fails to read to her small children does a disservice to them and a disservice...

When planning our 11-day family trip to Bali I was determined to pack light. Everyone had one pair of shoes, a set of bathers, a...

When I first borrowed ‘The Girl and the Bicycle‘ from the library I had no idea how memorable and influential it was going to be for...

I grew up with lots of books around the house. My parents were pretty good at providing plenty of books for us to choose from...