Bestest Christmas Gift Guide – GRUFFALO SOCKS!
Love. Love love. Lovelovelovelove them. My children actively enjoy wearing odd socks; this fabulous box of Gruffalo odd socks is simply made for them. TEN odd socks – that’s 45 different combinations (or a different mismatched pair everyday for 6+ weeks!). AND they come in THAT gift box *covetous glance*. They come in sizes 2-4yrs, and 4-6yrs; Gruffalo Oddsocks are £15 from Little Sunflowers (and there’s a few sets...
Bestest Christmas Gift Guide – Little Pockets Cloth Bears *meeeep*
*pauses while you still your beating heart* Look. LOOK! His socks! Meeep! And if that’s not enough, check out his sister… Her smile! Her Bow! Sigh. These are by far and away the very absolute cutest bears I’ve seen this year. Made from wool and tweed, I just can’t imagine how amazingly wonderful they are to cuddle and carry about the house and to serve tea & cakes to. *swoon* Both Little Pocket bears...
Bestest Christmas Gift Guide – World Atlas
I’ve been on the hunt for AGES for a really good Atlas to engross the children. And here it is. Barefoot Books have really got something special with this one – every page is beautiful, and interesting, and totally absorbing. Enough facts, broken up with enough pictures – the 4yr old enjoys this as much as the 10yr old does. And that’s no mean feat. The history of map-making was absorbed minutely by the 8yr...
Bestest Christmas Gift Ideas – Maileg Mice TWINS!
Round these parts, Christmas wouldn’t be the same without a new Mouse in a Matchbox. Only this year, there’ll be TWO. Because this little pair has landed. And aren’t they just the loveliest? I know they’re not cheap – but they are sturdy little things, and if your child loves them, they will ALWAYS love them. Pink sometimes has them in bed with her, sometimes they sleep in their boxes on their shelf,...
Bestest Christmas Gift Guide – Scaredy Cat Splat
We just love Splat. That’s it really… The new halloween themed one is funny, doesn’t tire after reading countless times; and the illustrations, as always, are incredible. Top marks, Rob Scotton. Toppety top marks. Available from all good bookshops, or Amazon for a pumpkin under a fiver.
Cars 2. We like it. Sort of.
It’s a tricky one this. On the front of it, we sat down with the children (4, 8, 10, and 12), and they all loved it. They did. But me? Not so much. Everything that I loved about the original was gone. The first one worked due to it’s slow, easy, deep-down innate gentle GOODNESS. The sequel – which sidelines Lightning McQueen in favour of Mater – is a Spy movie. Inevitably this leads the plot down the action...