It’s National Bookstart Week!
Yes, we missed it yesterday, but we’re catching up fast, honest. Bookstart offers the gift of free books to all children at three key ages before they start school, to inspire a love of reading that will give children a flying start in life. You should receive them via your health visitor/pre-school/nursery – so if your child has not had one and is still under school age, do go and ask in your local library, and...
Spotted! Writing Set For Children – Total Bargain!
Yes. that’s Right. The iconic ‘Guess How Much I Love You’ by Sam McBratney. Along with a writing set which includes paper, envelopes and stickers. All from the The Book People for £2.99. Teach your children the disappearing art of writing a letter. Make their grandparents smile. Why are you still here? GO! Buy! For your children. For presents. And get one for yourself while you’re at it. Send me a beeyootiful...
50 Books Every Child Should Read
You know how sometimes, you read something that makes you want to talk about it? Yesterday, I received one of those mails. It was just a newsletter, from one of my favourite Secondhand Booksellers, AbeBooks. By the time I made it to the end, I was buzzing. This is a very clipped part of the article, reproduced with kind permission from Richard Davies of AbeBooks – you can see the original article here. “Reading should be...
Mothers Day Idea #7 – The Prettiest of Notebooks *Swoon*
To paraphrase poorly, it’s a fact universally acknowledged that a woman loves stationery. It is. I’ve never yet met a female who didn’t breathe an “oooh!” at the site of a pretty notebook. And, I have to say, as many notebooks as I have, my newest biggest tippety-toppest faves are Paperblanks. Beautiful designs, without being pretty-but-no-point books, they’re manufactured in a sustainable...
Lego Brickmaster Books. Woot. Woot.
That little lego brickmaster set there (books which have all the bricks you need to build the 30-odd models detailed inside) is fabulous. Really, honestly quite a stroke of genius. A book – AND lego. Genius. And you get BOTH books in one box for just £20. If you’re the proud owner of any kind of small lego fan, you’ll know JUST how good value that is. They do contain the all-important figures, most necessary for any...
Book review: Jack Frost by Kazuno Kohara
I honestly didn’t think Pink would enjoy this. It was too… odd. Angular. Frosty, actually. Not at all the soft, gorgeous imagery she usually chooses. Shows what I know. This book comes out again and again. Happily. Because I love it as much as Pink does. The simply paper cut style illustration is beautiful, and far more evocative than I expected. Perfect, in fact, in a story of a world caught in the depths of icy winter....