Tag: book review

When I was a little girl my Nan taught me how to use a spool for finger-knitting. I don’t really remember creating anything of significance...

All kids need to have a supply of resources they can use to create. Pens, pencils, crayons, textas, paper, glue, scissors, and paints are open-ended...

If you have followed my blog you’ll know I’m a huge fan of the Julia Donaldson/Axel Scheffler combination (click here for the proof). ‘The Ugly...

Three kids sat around, eager to hear this one and the oldest immediately told me I had to write about it. So here goes… I picked...

When the 7-year-old pulled ‘The Legend of Rock, Paper Scissors‘ out of the library basket his reaction was: “ooaarrrwww, this book is awesome” He had...

After picture books and early readers, kids are ready for more meaty books that are much less reliant on pictures. We’ve tried a few and...

So good I bought it!!! I was super excited about this new release. I jumped onto my local library catalogue to reserve a copy before...

  Some children’s books are just a simple (or parentally boring) story that comforts a child because of the predictability or the unchallenging story line....

Why blog about reading to children? When I was a new-ish mum one of my sisters related a story that has stuck with me. She...