Thursday, 17 December 2020
Our final (no really, final) End of Year Roundup - Brilliant books from our 2020 Book of the Week Winners!
Wait a minute, wait a minute! Didn't you guys quit? Well yes we did but we had one more piece of unfinished business to attend to before we properly shut the shutters, closed the doors, locked the locks and sailed off into the sunset and waved goodbye to what was a pretty awful...
Wednesday, 12 August 2020
All Good Things...
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Goodbye
Q from Star Trek: The Next Generation. Probably had a pretty good library...
So here we are then. 12th August, ten years (and a day) since we began our book blogging journey, armed with little more than a Blogger account and an armful of picture books from our local library.
It's...
Tuesday, 11 August 2020
#Booky100Keepers Day 100: All the wonderful art books
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# Booky100Keepers,
Art books
Looking through our bookshelves, it's clear that one type of book is almost in danger of completely taking over. They're usually thick weighty hardback tomes, filled to the brim with delights a-plenty, they're books that are read and re-read again and again, and they are books that...
Monday, 10 August 2020
Out Today - "100 Things to do in a Forest" by Jennifer Davis and Eleanor Taylor (Laurence King Publishing)
As we enter the final week of our blog, we wanted to review the heck out of a book that offers a quirky, sometimes rather eccentric view of something that we - in lockdown over the last few months - have been dying to do for ages. Thankfully as the lockdown rules are eased, and the...
#Booky100Keepers Day 99: The books of Julia Donaldson
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#Booky100Keepers,
Julia Donaldson
One thing we've noticed in ten years of book blogging is that huge success, and becoming a best-selling author also sometimes means that a particular author will end up being placed in the dock, accused of market saturation - their success almost being used against them as a blunt...
Sunday, 9 August 2020
#Booky100Keepers Day 98: "We're going on a Bear Hunt" by Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury (Walker Books)
As our #Booky100Keepers list nearly draws to a close, I had to cast eyes back over the entire list to make sure I hadn't already featured this one. Any children's book list of recommendations will have certain books that folk will firmly get behind, and "We're going on a Bear Hunt"...
Saturday, 8 August 2020
#Booky100Keepers Day 97: "The Rescue Princesses" and the other fantastic books by Paula Harrison (Nosy Crow)
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Nosy Crow,
Paula Harrison,
Rescue Princesses,
Sharon Tancredi
I think it's fair to say that this fantastic joy-filled book series, showcasing kindness and a love of animals, was the first series C became a superfan of.
Prolific and hugely talented author Paula Harrison wrote the fantastic "Rescue Princesses", with a fab collection of positive...
Friday, 7 August 2020
ReadItDaddy's Second Picture Book of the Week - Week Ending 7th August 2020: "Marvellous Magicians" by Lydia Corry (Thames and Hudson)
Magic! As a kid I was obsessed with magic, always asking for magic sets and always closely scrutinising magic shows that would appear on TV (why oh why have these died out? It's such a huge shame).
I've also passed on this love of magic to my daughter so imagine our delight when this...
#Booky100Keepers Day 96: The fabulous Etherington Brothers
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#Booky100Keepers,
How to Think when you Draw,
How To Think When You Write,
Long Gone Don,
Monkey Nuts 1 and 2,
The Art of Stranski,
The Etherington Brothers,
Von Doogan
Oozing with talent from every pore, and a pair of creative geniuses who do something that you seldom see in the world of children's publishing or illustration - paying their awesome success forward by helping others with an awesome creative blog and sizzling set of tutorials.
What...
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