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‘Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls’— an inspiring book for girls (and boys!)
I was chatting to a friend over the weekend and she told me she recently read an interesting article about raising girls. The article pointed out that when a young girl is showing signs of being...
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Guess What? — A Delightful Board Book Series by Yusuke Yonezu
Guess What? is a series of brilliant lift-the-flap board books (great for ages 0 to 5) filled with pleasant surprises. We own three of the books, Guess What? — Food, Guess What? — Fruit, and Guess...
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Team Favourites: Twenty Four of the Best Baby & Toddler Books
What is your absolute, number one, favourite book to read to a baby or toddler? A few years ago Courtney wrote a post about Marlow’s favourite books from 0-3, which I found super helpful as a first...
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John Lennon’s IMAGINE, Illustrated by Jean Jullien
On Thursday last week we celebrated the UN’s International Day of Peace. With Helena currently asking so many questions about the world now (both politically and environmentally), I was thrilled to...
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’50 Cities of the USA’, a new fact-filled book about America’s cities
Following on from the success of their first book, The 50 States, the author/illustrator duo, Gabrielle Balkan and Sol Linero, have recently come out with a new book, this one featuring fifty cool...
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Team Favourites: Twelve Autumn Books
Autumn is the perfect time for retreating, relaxing, and reading some more (not that we ever need an excuse!). The start of a season is a great time to welcome new seasonal books into your home. Not...
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On A Magical Do-Nothing Day, by Beatrice Alemagna
I am a big fan of Beatrice Alemagna and I have waited so patiently for her latest book, On a Magical Do-Nothing Day to be released here in the UK. I’ve written before of her book, The Marvellous...
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Oliver Jeffers shares his Top Ten Favourite Children’s Books
Who doesn’t love Oliver Jeffers? Without a doubt, many of his own books would appear on other authors’ top ten book lists. They would certainly make the cut on my list! His super charming children’s...
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Here we Are, Notes for Living on Planet Earth | by Oliver Jeffers
When Oliver Jeffers’ new book arrived here in Amsterdam, there was a loud cheer from the kids. He really is a bit of a rock star in our house! : ) And we’re not the only ones, of course. He’s one...
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The Lulu Loves Collection by Anna McQuinn
I’ve written before how Florence loves to dive into a series of books and now that she is becoming a confident reader she is adament she will read the bedtime story to me rather then me to her. In all...
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Team Favourites: Twenty of the Best Christmas Books (ever!)
Our team shares a love of books. And a love of Christmas! So it seems we had a natural conversation we were waiting to share. We asked our team for their absolute, very, very (!) favourite Christmas...
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What we are reading right now
As we are nearing the shortest days of the year and, as a result, spending more time indoors, I thought it might be fun to share with you what we are reading right now in our little home! Coco, who is...
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Hortense and the Shadow, by Natalia and Lauren O’Hara
Hortense and the Shadow is the debut picture book by sisters Natalia and Lauren O’Hara. Older sister Natalia writes and Lauren, who is three years younger, illustrates. The two grew up in the north of...
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‘Waiting’— a book about patience and learning to wait…
This has been a month of waiting, for Christmas parties and Nativity plays, for play dates with friends and cookie making, and for the biggest day of all — Christmas. We heard ourselves say ‘please...
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Baby Loves Science — little books about big ideas!
A few months ago I received a sweet email from a woman named Sarah asking if she could send us a few copies of her mother’s board books for babies. We happily accepted her kind offer and a week later...
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The Great Race, Written and Illustrated by Christopher Corr
We’ll soon be celebrating Chinese New Year (next month!) and this animated book, The Great Race: The Story of the Chinese Zodiac by Christopher Corr is the traditional tale of how every animal has...
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Angela McAllister’s Top Ten Favourite Children’s Books
Angela McAllister is the author of A Year Full of Stories and the recently published A World Full of Stories. Two wonderful books which my girls are really enjoying at the moment. Angela’s ability in...
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A Treasury of Short Stories Series written by Angela McAllister
We have recently discovered two books by Angela McAllister, which are worth sharing with you: A Year Full of Stories and A World Full of Stories. Both collections of short stories, A Year Full of...
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Cheerful, written by Palmer Brown
Cheerful by Palmer Brown is one of those charming stories which reminds you how gentle childhood is. Each page is filled with romantic pencil drawings which pull you in to a totally endearing world. A...
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‘Lots: The Diversity of Life on Earth’, a brilliant book by Nicola Davies
How many living things are there on Earth? LOTS! Our new favourite book, Lots: the Diversity of Life on Earth, elegantly illustrates how magnificent earth is, and impresses upon each reader how...
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