Category: Book Reviews

There are great benefits of following your favourite illustrators on social media. Sometimes you get to see their fantastic images and illustrations before they are published....

On social media, I try to follow pages and people who inspire and educate me (also Nifty). One trend I am skirting around the fringes...

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...

If you wanted to buy a book as a birthday gift for a boy aged 8-11 and went to trusty old google to help you...

Just as surely as walking into the clothes department of a shop you will see a clear delineation of girls’ (pink!) and boys’ (blue!), when...

As expected, after the first book in the series got rave reviews, ‘The Terrible Two Go WIld‘ was un-put-down-able. While we have skipped a book...

My big boy recently had a minor operation that had him off school for two weeks, so we tried to keep him occupied with a...

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...

We have started a tradition of watching the ‘Home Alone’ movies at Christmas time. The kids love them, but also hate them. The other night...