Friday, 28 June 2013
Louis - Red Letter Day by Metaphrog (Metaphrog Publishing)
Ah Louis, how I empathise greatly with you today! We're back once again looking at the wonderful work of Metaphrog, and here's the book that started it all for one of the most intriguing, interesting and downright surreal characters in comics, the sublime Louis.
You may...
ReadItDaddy's Book of the Week - Week ending 28th June 2013: "Wild" by Emily Hughes (Flying Eye Books)
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Wild
We kept spotting glimpses of this book on the back of other Flying Eye titles, we kept hearing people whispering about how great it was on Twitter. Now it's in our grasp and we're definitely, positively not letting it go.
Emily Hughes "Wild" is beautiful, and the cover...
Thursday, 27 June 2013
The Cat in the Hat by Dr Seuss (HarperCollins Children's Books)
Though my memory is hazy at times, I can remember my childhood being dominated by Dr Seuss books. I can also remember exactly how many copies of this utterly essential book I have owned. 6. The reason we ended up having to buy a new copy for Charlotte recently was mainly...
Letterland - My First Dictionary by Lisa Holt (Letterland)
Back when Charlotte was still learning her ABCs, we picked up a brilliant Letterland ABC book - which we still read with her today (even though she's pretty hot on her alphabet).
So it was great to be able to revisit the idea of using letter-shaped characters to introduce...
Wednesday, 26 June 2013
It's Ed Vere Week at MeBooks - Fancy winning yourself a brace of brilliant titles for your MeBooks app?
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Ed Vere,
MeBooks,
Rik Mayall
Ed Vere's utterly awesome Banana! Made even more awesome with a Rik Mayall Voiceover!
You may have already seen our slightly gushing review of the MeBooks app - and things have certainly taken off for this innovative storytelling app over the last few months. Now the zany characters...
Night Zookeeper - Teleporting Torch (Interactive App) by Wonky Star
What happens at the Zoo when darkness falls? Call the Night Zookeeper!
We'd not encountered Wonky Star's pair of "Night Zookeeper" apps before, but when they rather kindly contacted us to offer us a promo code for "Night Zookeeper - Teleporting Torch" we were rather intrigued. We're...
Baggy Brown and the Royal Baby by Mick Inkpen (Hodder Children's Books)
My goodness, has it been that long since we last read "Baggy Brown"? Back when we used to 'rate' books, the original Baggy Brown (just Baggy Brown, mind) got a respectable 4 out of 5 stars as we rather loved the touching tale of a lost teddy finding its way to its rightful...
Spotlight on Okido Magazine, a brilliant arts and science magazine for kids!
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arts and science,
Okido magazine,
spotlight
Issue 24: Animals. Bear Blueberry and Banana Pancakes are more awesome than awesomeness itself!
Though we narrowly missed featuring Okido Magazine as part of our #ReadItMD13 Comics and Magazines Week last week, we still wanted to tell you all about Okido Magazine - an arts and science...
#ReaditMD13 Theme Week - "Book Merchandising - Let's play a game (or puzzle a puzzle!)"
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle - Very popular puzzle fare!
This week we're looking at all sorts of aspects of book merchandise, products spawned by some of the most successful children's books and perhaps even some we'd really love to see.
Thanks to an excellent suggestion...
Tuesday, 25 June 2013
My Big Truck Book by Author Unknown (TickTock Books)
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My Big Truck Book,
TickTock Books
We've been quite impressed by the range of TickTock non-fiction books, branching out into subjects as diverse as fast cars, fleet of foot animals and here with huge whopping great big diesel-chugging roaring trucks.
Chock full of facts and figures about everything from...
Tom and Millie's Whizzy Busy People by Guy Parker-Rees (Orchard Press)
We're back for a second look at Guy Parker-Rees' fantastic Tom and Millie books. This time Tom and Millie aren't on a Great Big Treasure Hunt , they're wondering what they'd like to be when they grow up (depressingly, I put the question to Charlotte while we were...
Good Knight, Sleep Tight by David Melling (Hodder Children's Books)
We were lucky enough to meet David Melling at a recent Hugless Douglas book event in one of our local bookstores recently. I don't think he knew who we were though, but he was a very busy guy so we'll forgive him! Tucked into our library book bag was a copy of this very...
Beachmoles and Bellvine (Blue Nose Island Stories) by Mick Inkpen (Hodder Children's Books)
Mick Inkpen, megastar in children's books, has a knack of coming up with original characters that become firm children's favourites almost overnight. So it was quite something to find a Mick Inkpen book from a series we'd not previously heard of.
The Blue Nose Island...
Monday, 24 June 2013
#ReadItMD13 Theme Week - "Children's Books as merchandising opportunities"
Jane Cabrera merchandise. Cute as heck but I wouldn't want to blow my nose on the handkerchiefs, they're too nice!
This week on #ReadItMD13 we're delving into the world of children's books in a slightly off-centre way. We're looking at products and ideas that have leapt off the page,...
Write to Read (iPad App) by WriteReader AP
Write to Read is Easy, intuitive and can help your child to learn to read through writing!
Here's an interesting educational app from WriteReader AP, a Danish developer who has flipped traditional learning methods on their head to show that children can actually learn to read by writing.
It...
Friday, 21 June 2013
TOCA Builders (iPad App Review) by TOCA BOCA
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Bonnier Digital,
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iPhone,
Toca Boca,
TOCA Builders
Need to build something tall? Use Connie the Crane!
The release of a new TOCA BOCA app is always cause for excitement at home. TOCA BOCA have been producing some of the best children's 'toy' apps for a long time now, and so we were extremely excited to hear that TOCA Builders would...
#ReadItMD13 Comics and Magazines Week - "Can comics change your child, and the world for the better?"
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#ReadItMD13 Comics and Magazines Week,
A Child's Garden a story of hope,
Azzi In Between,
Can Comics Change your child and the world for the better,
Michael Foreman,
Sarah Garland
Azzi In Between by Sarah Garland (Frances Lincoln Children's Books). Deep, thought provoking, vital.
We've delved into the world of comics and children's magazines for our #ReadItMD13 Theme Week this week, and often dealt with the light-hearted and knockabout world of children's comics....
ReadItDaddy's Book of the Week - Week ending 21st June 2013 - "Green Eggs and Ham" by Dr Seuss (HarperCollins Children's Books)
This week, as rain and sunshine fought
We read a lot, new books we sought
And hearing Charlotte's plaintive plea
To purchase something filled with glee.
And so here is "Green Eggs and Ham"
(I'm sure you like it, Sam I Am)
Familiar, loved by mums and dads
and grandmas,...
Thursday, 20 June 2013
#ReaditMD13 Comics and Magazines Week - Nostalgia Fest! "There ain't no comic like an old skool Brit comic!"
Looking around for great child-friendly comics for Charlotte got me thinking about the comics I loved as a kid. I was always completely nuts about comics, and at school comics were almost a currency. If one of your friends bought Buster and Monster Fun, you could swap it with your copy...
Tom and Millie's Great Big Treasure Hunt by Guy Parker-Rees (Orchard Books)
The super-talented awesome Guy Parker-Rees (the genius illustrator of "Giraffes Can't Dance", by Giles Andreae) got in touch with us to ask us if we'd like to take a look at his new Tom and Millie books.
For the uninitiated, Tom and Millie are a playful pair of perfect...
#ReadItMD13 Comics and Magazines Week - ReadItDaddy interview the mighty Metaphrog!
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ReadItDaddy Interviews Metaphrog
Louis - Red Letter Day. If you haven't "met" Louis yet, it's high time you did!
It's #ReadItMD13 Comics and Magazines week and we've been very fortunate to have a brilliant response from all manner of fantastic comic and magazine folk on the blog this week. Today we feel extremely...
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