Wednesday, 31 October 2012
ReadItDaddy Halloween Horror Double Feature Part 2. "The Elephantom" by Ross Collins (Templar Publishing)
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ReadItDaddy Halloween Horror Double Feature,
Ross Collins,
Templar Publishing,
The Elephantom
Here's the second part of our dark and ghoulish Horror Double Feature for Halloween and once again we take a look at another one of Ross Collins' creepy and ghostly creations.
When a young child discovers she's being haunted by a rather rude, rather large and rather mischievous...
ReadItDaddy Halloween Horror Double Feature. Part 1: Dear Vampa by Ross Collins (Hodder Children's Books)
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Dear Vampa,
Hodder Children's Books,
Ross Collins
Welcome to the spookiest double feature in children's picture books, the ReadItDaddy Halloween Double Review. In part one we'll be looking at Ross Collins' superb vampish story "Dear Vampa" and in part two we'll also be looking at another Ross Collins book, The Elephantom.
So...
Tuesday, 30 October 2012
Child's Play partners with ITV to bring Signed Stories app to iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad
Here at ReadItDaddy we've covered several storytelling apps but we're always on the lookout for projects that do things a little differently.
ITV have developed a brilliant new app, Signed Stories which sees the company partner with Child's Play, an independent publisher specialising...
The Snow Child by Debi Gliori (Francis Lincoln Children's Books)
Debi Gliori is a lovely person to tweet to, and she let slip a few pearls of wisdom about "The Snow Child" that made us smile. I told her how Charlotte always wished for snow, and that the stuff we get down here "darn sarf" isn't the real thing as depicted in her book.
Debi...
Monday, 29 October 2012
TOCA Tailor by Toca Boca (Bonnier Digital) - iPad App
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Bonnier Digital,
iPad App,
Toca Boca,
TOCA Tailor
One of the things Toca Boca do well is respinning the sort of apps that are extremely common on the app store with the 'Toca Boca' take on things. This usually means high production values and hour after hour of your little ones being totally absorbed in their brightly...
Just Because by Rebecca Elliott (Lion Publishing)
When I was a wee whippersnapper, my two best friends were two girls - one called Selma and one called Merrel. Merrel had Spinabifida and had also suffered severe birth trauma and when I first read "Just Because" it took me back nearly 40 years to a time when the three...
Friday, 26 October 2012
Zoo Girl by Rebecca Elliott (Lion Children's Books)
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Lion Children's Books,
Rebecca Elliott,
Zoo Girl
Oxford-based Lion Press were kind enough to send us a lovely bundle of books to review. We've previously reviewed Rebecca Elliott and Clemency Pearce's wonderful "Fragoline" (which is also in our Halloween Top Ten, by the way!) so I was intrigued to see Rebecca's other...
Thursday, 25 October 2012
TOCA Tailor is out today at a reduced price!
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App,
Childrens Apps,
iPad,
Toca Boca,
TOCA Tailor
TOCA Boca recently had a sale on all their fantastic apps for iPhone and iPad to celebrate the launch of their latest greatest creation, TOCA Tailor.
Being such a fantastic bunch, they're selling TOCA Tailor today on launch day for the absolutely stupendous price of 69p...
Of Pink and Blue and Books - A ReadItDaddy Editorial
I apologise in advance for this mini rant. I recently found myself in the unique position of being a bit miffed about something encountered on a (usually quite excellent) book blog and felt compelled to add my two penneth. My two penneth was subsequently deleted from the blog...
Wednesday, 24 October 2012
The Red House Children's Book Award Blog Tour - We're in!
We're very pleased to announce that we've signed up to become part of the Federation of Children's Book Groups Red House Children's Book Award Blog Tour. Phew, that's a mouthful but it basically entails something rather cool and special happening on November 1st.
We've got...
Father Christmas Goes On Holiday by Raymond Briggs (Picture Puffin)
"Ou vas tu passe les vacances, Pere Noel?" - Alright that's the extent of my French language skills but where on earth does Father Christmas go on his summer holidays?
Raymond Briggs' bloomin' grumpy take on Father Christmas is back and this time he's planning to get...
TOCA BOCA sale now on - Time to hoover up the best kid apps on the iPad
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Bonnier Digital,
Paint My Wings,
Toca Band iPad,
Toca Boca,
Toca Doctor,
Toca Hair Salon,
TOCA House,
Toca Kitchen,
Toca Monsters Kitchen,
Toca Robot Lab,
Toca Store,
Toca Tea Party,
Toca Train
We love TOCA BOCA here at ReadItDaddy, and it's almost unbelievable to think that you can now grab the entire existing range of TOCA BOCA apps for the ridiculously reasonable price of 69p each (or 99 Cents if you're stateside). Even the very-recently-released TOCA Band is reduced...
Tuesday, 23 October 2012
Father Christmas by Raymond Briggs (Picture Puffin)
Labels:
Father Christmas,
Puffin Books,
Raymond Briggs
If you believe the hype in the supermarket, the constant barrage of yuletide recipies, gift sets appearing on shelves nudging the Halloween stuff aside - it's almost Christmas.
So we'll be covering a lot more christmas books over the next few months and no coverage would...
Monday, 22 October 2012
Edwin the Super Duper Otter by Seattle Aquarium (iPad E-Book)
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App,
E-Book,
Edwin the Super Otter,
iTunes,
Seattle Aquarium
We're coming at you thick and fast today with our reviews in a bid to catch up after a few days off sick. The divine @thestrollingmum found this rather neat little e-book while browsing the iTunes App Store and it's the sort of thing you'd absolutely love to see more...
Simms Taback's Dinosaurs by Simms Taback (Blue Apple Books)
Our most excellent friends at PGUK / Blue Apple Books have sent us a rather fantastic and eye-catching book to take a look at. Simms Taback is a name I've not come across before, but it's easy to see why his graphic design skills and children's books are much sought after....
Me Books (app) by Me Books Ltd
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iPad App,
Me Books,
Me Books LTD,
Story Telling App
When we did our round up of book-based apps recently, we were delighted to preview the Me Books app - a fantastic book framework that encourages children to 'be part of the story', taking well known and well loved Ladybird (and other publisher's) books, and encouraging...
Anisha's Adventures in Bangladesh by Moinul Islam and Calvin Innes (MyLittleBigTown Publishing)
Ugh, our profuse apologies for being off the grid for a couple of days. We've all been coughing and sniffling for most of the week and weekend, so we were unable to bring this "Book of the Week" to you as planned last Friday. But it's a cracker, so read on...
Every now...
Thursday, 18 October 2012
Sticker Dressing - Spooky by Louie Stowell and Diego Diaz (Usborne Publishing)
Year after year, the shops seem to be more and more stuffed to the gills with Halloween things - fortunately this doesn't just extend to horrible cheap plastic halloween costumes and dreadful sweeties, but also some surprisingly brilliant book ideas for your little ones...
Stuart the Bug Eating Man by Calvin Innes (MyLittleBigTown Publishing)
Our friends at MyLittleBigTown kindly sent us copies of some of their latest books and amongst them was one of their new range of 'Tiny Twisted Tales', bite-sized books with rhyming text and illustrations by one of the busiest guys in the business, Calvin Innes.
Calvin...
Wednesday, 17 October 2012
Scribbles and Ink by Ethan Long (Blue Apple Books)
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Blue Apple Books,
Ethan Long,
Scribbles and Ink
Scribbles is a cat who loves to...scribble! Ink is a mouse who loves to paint and ink. The two live side by side but absolutely detest each other's work.
Ethan Long's artistically inspired book finds out what happens when the two clash spectacularly, and decide to play...
Tuesday, 16 October 2012
Gorgeous George and the Zigzag Zit-Faced Zombies by Stuart Reid and Calvin Innes (MyLittleBigTown Publishing)
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Calvin Innes,
Gorgeous George and the Zigzag Zit-Faced Zombies,
MyLittleBigTown Publishing,
Release January 2013,
Stuart Reid
Zombies. Not the sort of shambling brain-obsessed monsters you'd really expect to see anywhere near children's fiction, but how about zig-zag zit-faced zombies? Not obsessed with feasting on the rich goo you keep between your ears, but the sticky green matter you keep...
Monday, 15 October 2012
Ten spine-chillingly fantastic children's books for Halloween
Labels:
Halloween Top Ten,
ReadItDaddy Recommends
Meg and Mog by Helen Nicoll and Jan Pienkowski
Hubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble! It's getting closer and closer to Halloween and the shops are struggling to balance between starting their christmas displays, packing the shelves out with fireworks, or stocking christmas stuff.
It's...
George's Invisible Watch by David and Brett McKee (
A new David McKee book is always something to shout about. A new Brett and David McKee book (Father and Son) is even better, as the two work so well together that you can barely see the join. "George's Invisible Watch" has all those wonderful characters in it that you...
Fill in the Blank by Muratyan Varham and Elodie Chaillous (Quirk Books)
We're really struggling under the weight of some seriously brilliant books this week and the first to knock our eyes out was kindly sent to use by the superb Mat at PGUK / Quirk Books. We've been rooting for this one for a while so it was great to finally be able to take...
Friday, 12 October 2012
"Goldilocks and Just the One Bear" written and illustrated by Leigh Hodgkinson (Nosy Crow)
Last week we felt a bit deflated and disappointed with Cinderelephant - a classic children's fairy tale retold with just a few cursory changes in place to mark it out from the original.
This is most definitely NOT the case with "Goldilocks and Just the One Bear" which...
ReadItDaddy's Book of the Week: When I dream of Christmas by Oakley Graham and Patricia Yuste (Top That! Publishing)
I ran out of fingers and toes trying to count how many sleeps it is till Christmas, but if you're super-organised and are doing your christmas shopping now rather than rushing around the shops on Christmas Eve, here's a lovely little stocking filler for children that...
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