Monday, 27 February 2012
ReadItDaddy says "Make a Bookstart Pledge Today!"
Bookstart is celebrating its 20th Anniversary in grand style. Anyone who has been the recipient of a Bookstart pack knows the magic of opening up the box, the bag or the books and discovering something new.
I've made a pledge at ReadItDaddy to share 20 books this year (just 20?...
Friday, 24 February 2012
Cheer up your Teddy Bear, Emily Brown
Emily Brown (ably assisted by her pet rabbit Stanley) has lots of wild and whacky adventures, but when a drip-drip-dripping noise comes from her Toybox, Emily Brown discovers the saddest toy in the world.
A lost, lonely and rather morose teddy bear is the subject of the...
The Pirate Cruncher
Jonny Duddle loves pirates, which is quite fortunate because pirates are probably quite high up most children's 'favourite literary characters' lists. There's infinite scope for japery and all sorts of salty sea-dog tales, so it's not surprising to find that The Pirate...
The Tunnel
Anthony Browne's books dance with the surreal and often sometimes quite disturbing worlds where the ordinary and the everyday meet the fantastical and deeply mysterious. In "The Tunnel", Browne weaves a fairly simple tale of sibling rivalry (anyone with a younger sister...
Monday, 20 February 2012
Gorgeous George and the Giant Geriatric Generator
What have an inquisitive schoolboy, a mad bagpipe-playing trumping granddad and an insidious power company all got in common? The answer lies in the fabulous book "Gorgeous George and the Giant Geriatric Generator" from indie publishers My Little Big Town. As...
Thursday, 16 February 2012
Spotlight on MyLittleBigTown
MyLittleBigTown is a publisher based in Leeds, UK and this week we're taking a look at one of their books, the fabulously titled "Gorgeous George and the Giant Geriatric Generator" (try saying that when you're eating a packet of cream crackers!) Before the review goes live I thought...
Monday, 13 February 2012
Thursday, 9 February 2012
The King of Quizzical Island
The King of Quizzical Island is an incredibly inquisitive chap. Wondering what lies at the end of the world, the King sets sail in his ship and discovers faraway lands of mystery and magic. In Gordon Snell's book, rhyming couplets map out the King's intrepid voyage, encountering...
Tuesday, 7 February 2012
R.I.P Samuel Youd (AKA John Christopher, Author, 1922-2012)
For a generation of adults, the BBC's adaptation of John Christopher's book 'The Tripods' was chilling TV entertainment. Yet very few will know that Samuel Youd (John Christopher's real name) penned a massive library of science fiction books for adults and children under a series of pseudonyms.
The Tripods Trilogy is probably his most widely recognised work, but it was...
Monday, 6 February 2012
Dougal's Deep-Sea Diary
Wow, what a treat for the eyes! Simon Bartam is a master of acrylics, producing some of the most stunning illustrations in Children's books today. He's also a dab hand at producing something a little out of the ordinary, and in Dougal's Deep-Sea Diary, Bartram uses the...
Friday, 3 February 2012
My Phonics Kit from Oxford Learning Tree / Oxford University Press
With the introduction of the new Phonics Tests due to be rolled out to six year olds later this year, parents have been presented with a dizzying array of different phonics resources. For a while we've been visiting the Oxford Owl website (http://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/)...
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