Friday, 31 May 2013
Bertie's ABC by The Storymouse (App Review)
Bertie's ABC - Squeaky-keen phonics for your youngsters!
Try as we might, we can't keep away from a good app so it was great to hear from The StoryMouse and to take a look at their phonics / early readers app "Bertie's ABC".
For those of you who haven't yet met Bertie the Guinea...
Gum Girl - Tentacles of Doom by Andi Watson (Walker Books)
Every kid needs their own superhero. Even girls, who may love the luxurious dresses and tresses of Disney Princesses but now and again crave a kick-ass superhero instead.
So it's a good job we have folk like Andi Watson around to provide superheroes that are a lot less...
ReaditDaddy's Book of the Week - Week ending 31st May 2013 - "Hilda and the Midnight Giant" by Luke Pearson (Nobrow Press)
How would you feel if one day you found out that the seemingly ordinary world around you was actually anything but, and the simplest actions you carried out day to day had a massive effect on an entire civilisation of unseen folk.
In "Hilda and the Midnight Giant" we...
Thursday, 30 May 2013
Anorak Magazine Issue 28 is out. Time to sharpen your pencils and test your pens and get writing!
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We Love Writing, writing is cool. Anorak Issue 28
Anorak Issue 28 dropped through our letterbox recently, and we've been busy delving into an issue devoted entirely to one of our favourite pursuits - Writing! Whether you choose to tap away at a typewriter, wrestle with a word processor...
My Penguin Osbert by Elizabeth Cody Kimmel and H.B. Lewis (Walker Books)
We like doing things the wrong way round here at ReadItDaddy. We've already reviewed the sequel to "My Penguin Osbert" (which is "My Penguin Osbert is in Love") so it would be rude not to go back to the original book and take a look, wouldn't it?
We find out just how...
Wednesday, 29 May 2013
#ReadItMD13 Theme Week "Sequels and Series" - Why are series and sequels so important to young readers?
Can you imagine if the boy wizard's adventures began and ended in "The Philosopher's Stone" ?
In our continuing examination of this week's #ReadItMD13 theme of "Series and Sequels in children's books" (which we began with some brilliant book recommendations from folk we love to bits)...
Louis - Night Salad by Metaphrog (Metaphrog Publishing)
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It's definitely our week for dancing on the surreal side of life this week, and what better way to do so than in the company of Metaphrog. The mysterious comic publishing alt-beast is the genius hive mind behind "Louis", a shiny headed character who looks a little bit...
The Tragic Tale of Dwayne the Eating Monster by Valentina Mendicino (Top That! Publishing)
Fab books about monsters probably make up about 3/4 of our current book collection but there's always room for one more. Even a very hungry fellow like Dwayne, the star of this colourful and cartoony lift the flap book.
Dwayne is always hungry. You name it, he'll eat...
Tuesday, 28 May 2013
The Mysteries of Harris Burdick by Chris Van Allsburg (Andersen Children's Books)
Children have a wonderful capacity for dealing with the surreal. It might seem like an unfair test, but if your child can find joy in "The Mysteries of Harris Burdick" and it can consume them for an evening, discussing the tiny fragments of story that can, with a little...
Underwater Farmyard by Carol-Ann Duffy and Joel Stewart (Macmillan Children's Books)
"As I walked, I dreamt of deep green oceans"
There's something completely intoxicating about imagining life below the waves, far from the rain-lashed landscape we currently dwell in. But what if below the briny there was a farm, complete with aquatic farm animals tended...
In support of Save the Children - a post on how nutrition directly affects child literacy.
12 Year old Nguoth in class, Wechpuot Primary School, Jonglei State, East Sudan
Save the Children is an international charity behind a campaign to end hunger in our generation. In a few weeks time, world leaders will meet in the UK to make decisions that could have a direct...
#ReadItMD13 Theme Week - "Sequels and Series. Just one is never enough!"
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Helen Nicoll and Jan Pienkowski's fabulous "Meg and Mog"
This week on #ReadItMD13 we asked our faithful Twitterati to tell us their favourite children's books that are part of a series, or have sequels. You did not let us down, and we've had some fantastic recommendations which we'll...
Friday, 24 May 2013
Murilla Gorilla - Jungle Detective by Jennifer Lloyd and Jacqui Lee (Simply Read Books)
This is a very interesting little book that popped through our letterbox, courtesy of Simply Read Books. Interesting because at first glance it would be a very very easy book to completely misjudge. A Gorilla detective eh? OK that's fairly novel. But dive in and you discover...
ReadItDaddy's Book(s) of the Week - Week Ending 24th May 2013 - "64 Zoo Lane Zed the Zebra / Georgina the Giraffe" by An Vrombaut (Hodder Children's Books)
At ReadItDaddy Towers we don't really get a lot of time to watch TV but when Charlotte was a tiny tiddler, the lure of CBeebies was too tempting at times (particularly on 'stay at home daddy days' when I needed to cook, do a pile of washing, and make sure C wasn't getting...
Thursday, 23 May 2013
Melusine - Love Potions by Gilson and Clarke (Cinebook)
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5 years before "The Boy Who Lived" stunned the world with his lightning-flash scar and messy hair, and of course his exploits at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft, a young witch by the name of Melusine attended a rather less famous school of Witchcraft - as the star of...
Random House Children's Books announce the Sony Young Movellist of the Year Shortlist (in association with Movellas)
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Random House popped up this morning to tell us that the final shortlist of ten teens in the Sony Young Movellist of the Year competition have now been officially announced.
Here's a quick rundown of the ten teens, their inspiration and their stories:
WINGS by Danielle Paige, 16...
One Night Far From Here by Julia Wauters (Flying Eye Books)
Once again, Flying Eye books reinforce their position as being the purveyors of the most delectable and beautiful books with this fabulous bestiary, entitled "One Night, Far From Here".
Rendered in subtle reduced palettes, Julia Wauter's book deliciously envelops the...
Eleanor's Eyebrows by Timothy Knapman and David Tazzyman (Simon and Schuster Children's Books)
As anyone who has been the unfortunate recipient of a stag do 'prank' may tell you, eyebrows are extremely useful.
The young girl in this tale doesn't think so though. Eleanor thinks eyebrows are just useless bits of fluff that clutter up your face. After all, eyes are...
Wednesday, 22 May 2013
The ReaditDaddy Interview with Ben H. Winters, Author of "The Last Policeman" and the second book in the trilogy, "Countdown City" (Quirk Books)
Ben H. Winters. Looking very relaxed for a man who brought about the end of the world
Here at ReadItDaddy we've loved Ben H. Winters' "The Last Policeman" books (and you can check out our reviews of Book 1 and Book 2 here). So we were delighted when the man himself agreed...
Just 2 weeks left to enter the Munch Bunch Munch Time Story writing competition!
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Munchtime,
Story Competition 2013
The Munchtime 2013 Story Competition is still open and you've still got time to enter, over at http://www.munchtime.co.uk (UK Residents) or http://www.munchtimeireland.com (Ireland).
Here's the lovely Tamzin Outhwaite reading a bedtime story (If Tamzin is reading this, if you could pop over and read "Dear Zoo" to me before I drift off to sleep, that'd be lovely!) and also...
A ReadItDaddy 'Daddy' review of Countdown City (The Last Policeman Book II) by Ben H. Winters (Quirk Books)
Waiting for a star to fall?
We've previously reviewed the utterly fantastic "The Last Policeman" here at ReadItDaddy and we were delighted when Mat Archer got in touch to offer us the chance to take a look at Book II.
Ben H. Winters has obviously been a very busy man, polishing off...
Tuesday, 21 May 2013
#ReadItMD13 - "Celebrating Inclusive and Diverse Children's Books" - An interview with Beth Cox and Alex Strick - #InclusiveMinds
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Inclusive Minds - Specialists in diverse and inclusive books
We were lucky enough to "meet" Beth Cox, of Inclusive Minds on Twitter (one of these days our hectic schedules will let us meet up for a break for coffee, promise!)
Beth - a freelance editor specialising in inclusive...
The Toucan Brothers by Tor Freeman (Macmillan Children's Books)
I sincerely wish The Toucan Brothers covered our town. You've no idea what it's like getting quality plumbing done.
As ever, I find it near impossible to believe we've never featured anything by the wonderful Tor Freeman on our blog - but we're quickly playing catchup and The Toucan...
Monday, 20 May 2013
Lulama's Magic Blanket by Mari Grobler (Tafelberg Publishers Ltd)
Fitting neatly in with this week's #ReadItMD13 theme celebrating diverse and inclusive children's books, here's a brilliant, colourful and imaginative story of a little African girl and her favourite blanket.
Aha, but it's not just a blanket. As any child knows (usually...
#ReadItMD13 - "Diversity and Inclusivity in Children's Books"
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So much awesomeness, how could you possibly miss out?
We've long been campaigners and champions of diversity and inclusivity in Children's Books and for this week's #ReadItMD13 theme we'll be taking a closer look at diverse and inclusive books, and the brilliant folk who champion...
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