Tag: <span>books</span>

Didn’t you know? Books are for piling!

August 15, 2013

Georgie has become a little bit obsessed with piling books lately. She still enjoys reading them, but is really into piling her books too. As we have been working on her little library for over two years now, she has quite a few books to pile up. Piles can get to pretty epic proportions, and …

Giveaway: My Little Big Town books for older readers

September 1, 2014March 11, 2013

The lovely folk over at My Little Big Town have sent me some of their books to giveaway, and next up is this bundle aimed at older readers aged 7+. Gorgeous George & The Giant Geriatric Generator by Stuart Reid, illustrated by Calvin Innes – Ages 9+ Bogies, baddies, bagpipes and bums! Farting, false teeth …

Giveaway: My Little Big Town books for younger readers

September 28, 2013February 18, 2013

The lovely folk over at My Little Big Town have sent me some of their books to giveaway, and first up is this bundle aimed at younger readers aged 5 to 8. Stuart the Bug Eating Man by Calvin Innes (A Tiny Twisted Tale) – Ages 5-8 Stuart would eat bugs, with his fork and …

A new way to read touchy feely books!

November 30, 2012

In our house, there seems to be a new way to read “touchy feely” books. Georgie has long been a fan of books such as the “That’s not my…” Usborne series, which have different textures on each page, with a describing word to go with it. Now, however, instead of feeling each textured area herself …

Review: love2read personalised photo book

May 21, 2015June 25, 2012

I created a “My daddy…” photo book from love2read for James as a Father’s Day gift and I am really pleased with the end result! First impressions were great; the print quality is impressive, the photos look fantastic and the text is really crisp & easy to read.

Snap Happy Britmums – Day 9, June – What are you reading?

June 13, 2012June 9, 2012

Having just finished reading the Amelia Peabody series this week, followed by racing through a couple of chick lits, today I am starting from the beginning again with the Southern Vampire Mysteries series. I have just bought the latest book & wanted to re-read the series again first as it has been a while. This is the series that the popular tv show ‘True Blood’ is based on, and I really enjoy the books – it is another case of the books being miles better than the tv show, though I enjoy that too!

Library Love

May 14, 2012

As I have said before, Georgie loves books. She will quite often ignore a pile of toys and head straight for her bookshelves in order to get all her books down and sit looking through them. I like to keep things interesting for her, so I keep all her own books upstairs in her room …

Dear David Crossley, author of Lucy the Ladybird.

April 21, 2012

No matter how many times I read a certain board book to Georgie (and believe me, I read this one a lot as it is one of her current favourites), I just cannot get over a particular word on the last page… learn’t This isn’t actually a word though is it? The first time I …

Review: Up and Down by Oliver Jeffers

May 21, 2015April 16, 2012

Georgie is just starting to really enjoy picture books (as opposed to trying to eat them), and loves to sit on my lap and look at the pictures while I read books to her. Even though most of the picture books that we have, including this one, are too difficult for her to understand, she really loves to sit and look through any that have fantastic illustrations that are colourful and fun.