Friday, 30 September 2011
Crispin, the Pig who Had it All
Crispin is a bit of a spoilt brat, truth be told. Every week he gets a huge wad of pocket money from his dad, and every christmas and birthday he gets present after present after present. Usually his toys end up folorn and broken, until one Christmas, Santa leaves Crispin...
Cactus Annie
First days at school are stressful enough (we've got that to look forward to next year!) but when you're enrolling at Cowgirl School and you don't know your lasso from your saddle pommel, you're in serious trouble.
Cactus Annie struggles to fit in with her class...
Thursday, 29 September 2011
Teatime in Space
After 2 weeks in a self-inflicted tech blackout (avoiding all things computery is blissful if you manage to do so for even a few days!) ReadItDaddy is back with a whole stack of new books to sort through, and new reviews to publish. So let's kick off with 'Teatime in Space'...
Friday, 9 September 2011
Barefoot Books moves into Summertown
Back in 1905, the beautiful building on the right of this photograph of Summertown was the Twinings Grocery Shop. Now it's about to become the latest "must visit" destination for anyone interested in children's books.
Barefoot Books have set up an interesting mixture of shop,...
Thursday, 8 September 2011
Small Potatoes - The Album
A while ago, I remember making a comment on a CBeebies interview with Josh Selig, the creative brain behind Little Airplane Productions and CBeebies hits "3rd and Bird" & "Small Potatoes" that it was a shame the soundtracks for both shows weren't available.
Lo...
Tuesday, 6 September 2011
Trouble at the Dinosaur Cafe
There's real trouble in store down at the Dinosaur Cafe. Big bully Tyrannosaurus has dropped in for tea, and he's only got one thing on his mind. Meat. Mainly Dinosaur meat. Not great news for the rest of the peaceful veggie dinosaurs who just want to get on with their...
Monday, 5 September 2011
Meet the team
Welcome to all the new readers directed here from the excellent Abingdon Blog. We recently met the blogger chap for the first time, doing good deeds in Abingdown Town Centre for the Heritage weekend. Dressed in our weekend scruffies, he took a photo of us to put on the blog:
So...
Friday, 2 September 2011
There are cats in this book!
There most certainly are. Cats in this book I mean. And how. This playful and mischievous little tome captures the essence of moggy-dom perfectly and it's blindingly obvious that not only does Viviane Schwarz know exactly how cats behave, she knows exactly how busy and...
Day of the Diesels - The Movie Story Book and Sticker Activity Book
Our triple-header of Thomas the Tank Engine reviews continues with the Day of the Diesels Movie Story Book. Released by Egmont Books as an accompaniment to the Day of the Diesels DVD / Blu Ray, the book uses stills from the movie and illustrations to weave the tale of...
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