Tuesday, 24 April 2012
Make your Bookstart 20 Pledge today!
Once again it's worth mentioning that the Bookstart organisation would like you to pledge to share 20 books this year. How easy is that? Very easy.
Making a pledge is even easier, just hop on through to the Bookstart 20 Pledge Page here and fill in a few details. If you're a...
The Runaway Dinner by Allan Ahlberg and Bruce Ingman (Walker Books)
Our local garden centre might sound like an unlikely destination when you're after new children's books but they do a cracking selection of very reasonable titles there, and not just the obscure rubbishy stuff, good quality books like the Walker Books collection. So spotting...
A Dose of Dr. Dog by Babette Cole (Jonathan Cape Ltd)
I've been meaning to pick this up for Charlotte for ages (well, since we obsessed about the first Dr. Dog book and found out that there was a sequel). So it arrived from Amazon t'other day and I could barely get the book out of the packaging before Charlotte demanded "Read...
Friday, 20 April 2012
The appalling price (and appalling quality) of kid-friendly apps
For a while now, here at ReadItDaddy we've received a steady stream of iPhone (and android) apps for review that are targeted at children. The 'tough sell' to a child, even one as young as 4, is that anything that's designed to keep their attention for longer than 5 seconds has got...
The Really Rude Rhino by Jeanne Willis and Tony Ross (Andersen Children's Books)
Goodness me, what a rude little fellow. In Jeanne Willis and Tony Ross' book, a young rhino is the rudest animal on the savannah. Right from the day he's born, he's absolutely disgustingly rude to everyone he meets. He's rude to his mummy as he pops out, he's rude to...
Pirate Girl by Cornelia Funke and Kerstin Meyer (Chicken House Books)
When a young girl sails off to visit her grandmother in her sturdy little pirate boat, she has no idea of the adventures in store for her. Kidnapped by the meanest, scurviest bunch of pirates to sail the seven seas, led by the nefarious Captain Firebeard, poor Molly must...
Thursday, 19 April 2012
Animals Scare Me Stiff by Babette Cole (Red Fox)
By now, you'll probably already know that we love Babette Cole. Her books are deliciously rude, hilariously funny and quite often the exact opposite sort of book you'd want your little darlings to be interested in.
The thing is, whether you like it or not as a parent,...
006 and a Bit by Kes Gray and Nick Sharratt (Red Fox)
"The Paper Aeroplane has Juxtaposed itself with the Electronic Wasp!" which as you all know is daddy blogger speak for "It's time to review another book". This time Kes Gray and Nick Sharratt's excellent 'Daisy' series of books has ended up in our stack from the Library,...
Tuesday, 17 April 2012
The Sprog Owner's Manual (or how kids work) by Babette Cole (Jonathan Cape LTD)
I'll be honest here. When I was a kid, I would've loved an auntie like Babette Cole. Someone who can draw really gross pictures and tell really gross stories but in a wholly fascinating way, imparting knowledge in a way that ensures it sticks firmly in your head.
Babette...
Big Scary Monster by Thomas Docherty (Templar Publishing)
I do adore my daughter. She hastily skips by most of the books in the library that deal with fluffy fairies, cute animals and adorable pink princesses and if there's a book that makes the merest mention of monsters, she'll grab it straight away.
So I warned her. "Big...
Monday, 16 April 2012
The Worst Princess by Anna Kemp and Sara Ogilvie (Simon and Schuster Children's Books)
"...and they both lived happily ever after!" is the usual way you expect a book about a Princess and a handsome Prince to end, right? Well stand clear because Princess Sue has other ideas. She's been waiting a very long time for her Prince Charming to turn up, and she...
Thursday, 12 April 2012
Mog in the Dark
It had to happen. We found a Mog book we didn't like, but without a shadow of a doubt "Mog in the Dark" is an extremely clever book for a couple of reasons.
For starters, it uses a reduced vocabulary to tell a very imaginative story of what happens when Mog is outside...
Tuesday, 10 April 2012
Don't you feel well, Sam?
Poor Sam has a cough (hck, hck) and in this snuggly bedtime book his mum tries to persuade him to take a big spoonful of icky cough syrup.
Quite a timely book for our pile considering the amount of sleepless nights we've had recently while Charlotte coughs away like a...
I Want to be a Cowgirl
In the second of the Jeanne Willis / Tony Ross books to hit our stack this week, a young girl dreams of life on the prairies in "I Want to be a Cowgirl". Pinching her dad's hat, and riding her faithful steed (the scrapyard dog), the girl yee-hahs and woo-hoos her way through...
The Boy who Lost his Bellybutton
Jeanne Willis and Tony Ross are as close as you can get to being Children's Book 'Royalty', in that seemingly everything they turn their hand to is an outstanding success, but I have to admit I'd never heard of "The Boy who Lost his Bellybutton" until it fetched up at...
Thursday, 5 April 2012
The EcoEgg Laundry Egg
It's takeover blog time! A change from the usual books and as it's easter, here's CanIWalkMummy with a review of the EcoEgg, which we recently received for review. Over to you, The Wife!
We were all so excited at receiving our EcoEgg as we do have a sensitive skin person in...
Tuesday, 3 April 2012
The Bear Under the Stairs - Re-Review
We originally reviewed this book way back in the mists of time and I was unusually cruel and dismissive about it.
Now some time on, it's cropped up in our borrowing pile again and a now slightly more brave, slightly more interested Charlotte has named it as her...
Unfortunately
It's a formula we've seen before here at ReadItDaddy, and in "Unfortunately" we follow the exploits of a little boy making his way through the perilous jungle. He encounters Snakes, lions, cannibals and deep dark caves before teaming up with a brave young girl who saves...
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