Booking for 4

The next generation is going to be so confused about the environment. At school they are (rightly so) bombarded with philosophies such as: ‘reduce, reuse, recycle’...

We have a Prep in the house this year and for the first time, I’m having to sit down and teach someone how to read....

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...

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?...

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...