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What’s Cooking at 10 Garden Street – A delightful cookbook for kids that also...
As a child growing up, I was privileged enough to be raised by a village. My mother was intentional about raising me among diverse groups of people. This also meant that I was exposed to diverse...
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The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse — a book for all ages
Do you know The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse? It is a book for all ages — from eight to one hundred and eight. And it is a book full of hope and full of positivity. The perfect book for a...
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‘The Extremely Inconvenient Adventures of Bronte Mettlestone’ by Jaclyn Moriarty
I am delighted to have discovered How Brave is the Wren through our Babyccino Kids shopping portal. It’s an online children’s bookstore, and before covid came along, it was a travelling bookstore in a...
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‘The Snowflake’ by Benji Davies
The Snowflake, like all of Benji Davies’ books, is so beautifully told and exquisitely illustrated. It is a celebration of finding a special place in the world and belonging. The Snowflake tells the...
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‘The Tale of the Whale’, a beautiful new book with an important message
This new book arrived in the post this week and became an instant bedtime favourite of Wilkie’s. The Tale of the Whale by Karen Swann and Padmacandra is a poetic rhyming book that highlights the...
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Six of Our Favourite Family Books for Easter time
I hope you are all having a wonderful Easter weekend. We’ve been enjoying the long weekend eating plenty of chocolate Easter eggs and having fun in the garden. We spent our evening looking through our...
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How to Be More Paddington : A Book of Kindness
Who doesn’t adore Paddington Bear? I think he has to be one of my all time favourite book characters. We adore his fun antics and delightful escapades. This new book, ‘How to Be More Paddington : A...
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‘When Green Becomes Tomatoes’ by Julie Fogliano: Poems for All Seasons
I remember vividly as a child learning the poem, ‘I wandered lonely as a Cloud’ by William Wordsworth and have always loved reading poems. As the girls grew up they really enjoyed the rhythmic world...
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Many Shapes of Clay — A Story of Healing
This beautiful book, Many Shapes of Clay : A Story of Healing is written and illustrated by Kenesha Sneed, and it is an absolute treasure. It is a piece of art, every page filled with graphic shapes...
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A Story About Afiya by James Berry, Illustrations by Anna Cunha
A Story of Afiya is a wonderful celebration of a little girl who has one dress which records all of her childhood memories. Jamaican poet James Berry, writes this lyrical story and shares the...
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‘Arno and his Horse’, a beautiful book by Jane Godwin and Felicita Sala
It is so special to find a children’s picture book that appeals as much to adults as it does to children. Wilkie has requested this as his bedtime story every night for the last few weeks, and it’s...
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Introduce your children to yoga with this beautiful new book!
My dear friend, Kiki Morriss, has recently launched her book ‘Nurturing Your Family with Yoga‘, and I couldn’t be more excited to share about it here. I have watched and witnessed Kiki take this book...
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The Wizards of Once series by Cressida Cowell
Florence received this fabulous series of books, The Wizards of Once by Cressida Cowell and she loved them so much, I bought the collection for my class too. All of the children really love them and...
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Summer reading and audiobooks for the whole family to enjoy
I know I keep saying it, but hurray for the holidays! And, although this may sound daunting to some of you, we love a long journey. There’s something fun and exciting about packing up the car and...
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Everything Under The Sun — a great new book and podcast series by Molly Oldfield
Everything Under the Sun is a new book out by Molly Oldfield, who I have recently become pals with on Instagram. Molly wrote to me to share about her new book, and I loved the concept of the book...
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‘Maria’s Island’, a beautifully illustrated chapter book by Victoria Hislop
Maria’s Island is Victoria Hislop’s latest book and we have fallen absolutely in love with it. I read this in one sitting before passing it over to Florence and it has never left my mind. Based on...
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Favourite first chapter books to read aloud to young children
Over the recent summer holidays, I started reading chapter books to Wilkie (who is 4, turning 5 next month). We started with a family favourite, Charlotte’s Web, and next we read James and the Giant...
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Brilliantly Designed Board Books for Toddlers from Quarto Kids
The excitement of new books never goes away in our home. Whether it is a trip to the library or a new book for a birthday gift, we always get excited for a new book. But I must say quite honestly,...
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‘Read to Your Baby Every Day’ edited by Rachel Williams, embroidered by Chloe...
I adore gifting books and when a dear friend recently became a mama I was thrilled to find this beautiful book, Read to you Baby Every Day — a compilation of 30 classic nursery rhymes to read aloud to...
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Our Summer reads
We are off on the road this week, so I have just come back from a last minute dash to the WH Smith down on Rue de Rivoli to pick up some good summer reads for all of us! I do have a Kindle but I still...
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