Bestest Christmas Gift Guide – The Bippolo Seed & other lost stories from Dr Seuss
Did you know there’s a new volume of seven Dr Seuss stories out? Brand shiny new ones you’ve not read before? No, me either! *excited* But you need to be quick – They’re older stories, previously printed in magazines and never before in a book, and they are beyond the One Fish, Two Fish stage. I love them all, and I can’t possibly choose… “It’s hard to decide,” Said young Henry...
Bestest Christmas Gift Guide – Jesus’ Christmas Party Book
Oh this book is BRILLIANT! I was sniggering just from a first flick through, before I got anywhere near bedtime stories and reading it aloud to the 4yr old. Telling the Christmas story from the seriously sleep-deprived (and VERY grumpy) Inn Keeper, this book will be read again and again. Unusually for a book telling this story, it is neither overly heavy or sanctimonious, nor is it irreverent with its Christmas message. However, one...
Bestest Christmas Gift guide – IKEA soft toys
Did you know that for every soft toy, kids meal and book purchased in IKEA stores until December 23rd, the IKEA foundation will donate 1 Euro to UNICEF and Save the Children to support Children’s education programmes throughout the world. No, me either. And those bods at IKEA? They know how to make soft toys, no? I *want* that stoopid reindeer… and this little man down here is the newest version of Monty, y’know....
The Bestest Christmas Gift Guide – The most beautiful notebooks ever. Paperblanks. (*warning – this post contains stationery porn*)
Oh me oh my. Now don’t tell me you’re not swooning at the idea of a pretty notebook. If you do I simply shan’t believe you. And honestly? You’ll go a ve-e-e-ry long way before you find a notebook as lovely as a Paperblank. My own lustful ways are currently hot-flushing over the Pocket Companions series – it might be the rounded edges, the smooth mock-cracked-leather exterior, the totally perfect...
The Bestest Christmas Gift Guide – The Yellow Genius of The Sort & Store Lego Head.
These Lego storage heads are just a brilliant idea – even by Lego standards. What’s the age old issue with Lego? That one complaint that we all have about this modern toy-majig? The tidying up. I’ve seen parents restrict the child to keeping the Lego in one tray to ease the tidying… but where’s the creative fun in that? The alternative, of course, is not only risking serious Lego Foot injury by allowing Access All (floor)Areas,...
Bestest Christmas Gift Guide – *whispers* Skylanders… (Please don’t tell Boy)
Top (and bottom, and a few times in between) of Boy’s Christmas list this year is the Skylanders game. Oh, how he LONGS for one. And whilst at first glance I sniffed and sighed and said “ANOTHER game, Boy? REALLY?”, the more I looked and listened to his (endless) tales of its wonders, the more I was convinced… And then I played it for myself. Wowsers it’s good! The thing about Skylanders is that it...