Friday, 30 December 2016
Once again it's that time of the year where we chew over our 2016 blogging efforts. Our 2016 Book of the Year / Publisher of the Year Awards!
It's almost time to say "So Long 2016, We Hardly Knew Ye!" and though in some respects it's been a bit of a sucky year (particularly for how many awesome celebrities we lost during the year) it's been one heck of a bumper year for books. Again. Honestly, we just do not know how you...
Saturday, 24 December 2016
Bonus Christmas Eve Booky Advent Calendar - "Snow Day" by Richard Curtis and Rebecca Cobb (Picture Puffin)
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Rebecca Cobb,
Richard Curtis,
Snow Day
It's Christmas Eve, and you get a double dose of Booky Advent calendar today, a bit like that extra-big choc or picture you get on your proper advent calendar.
We're returning to a book we reviewed back in 2014 because we dug it out again recently. I was probably a bit unfair in my...
Booky Advent Calendar: Christmas Eve - "ANNUALS!"
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Annuals,
Booky Advent Calendar 2016,
Egmont,
The Beano Annual,
The Dandy Annual,
The Rupert Bear Book
Every single year without fail from about the age of 0 to about the age of 15 I got an annual for Christmas....
Friday, 23 December 2016
Booky Advent Calendar Book of the Week - Week Ending 23rd December 2016 - "Klutz Lego Crazy Action Contraptions Book Kit" by Doug Stillinger (Klutz Publishing)
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Booky Advent Calendar Book of the Week,
Doug Stillinger,
Klutz Lego Crazy Action Contraptions Book Kit,
Klutz Publishing
It's Christmas Eve Eve and we've got a rather special Booky Advent Calendar Book of the Week for our penultimate review of 2016....
Thursday, 22 December 2016
10 Booky New Year's Resolutions we might have to make in 2017
New Year's Resolutions suck don't they? Every year it's the same old stuff. Eat healthier (poo to that), lose some weight (yawn), get fitter (waves hand indeterminately in the air). We'd much rather make some resolutions about books so here's 10 resolutions (five of the best from...
Booky Advent Calendar Day 22: "The Polar Express" by Chris Van Allsburg (Andersen Press)
Day 22 on our Booky Advent Calendar and the big day is SO CLOSE now....
Wednesday, 21 December 2016
Booky Advent Calendar Day 21: "Katie's London Christmas" by James Mayhew (Orchard Books)
For Day 21 on our Advent Calendar, a magical trip to one of our favourite festive destinations.....
Tuesday, 20 December 2016
Booky Advent Calendar Day 20: "When It Snows" by Richard Collingridge (David Fickling Books)
For Booky Advent Calendar Day 20 we're revisiting a book that we've included in our Christmas round-up every year since it was published....
Monday, 19 December 2016
Booky Advent Calendar Day 19 - "Home Alone - The Classic Illustrated Storybook" by John Hughes and Kim Smith (Quirk books)
There are certain movies that just 'have to be done' around this time of year....
Sunday, 18 December 2016
Booky Advent Calendar Day 18: Norton and Alpha by Kristyna Litten (Simon and Schuster Children's Books)
We're on Day 18 of our Booky Advent Calendar and though we've been straying away from festive books we're still dead set on bringing you brilliant books to stuff in a stocking....
Saturday, 17 December 2016
Booky Advent Calendar Day 17: "I Love you Baby" by Claire Freedman and Judi Abbot (Simon and Schuster Children's Books)
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Booky Advent Calendar 2016,
Claire Freedman,
I Love You Baby,
Judi Abbot,
Simon and Schuster Children's Books
A super special preview of a title that's not actually out until March 2017 is our Booky Advent calendar title behind door number 17....
Friday, 16 December 2016
Booky Advent Calendar Book of the Week - Week Ending 16th December 2016 - "King Baby" by Kate Beaton (Walker Books)
We're sneaking this one in as a bit of a cheeky Nativity reference. Our Booky Advent Calendar Book of the Week this week is "King Baby" by Kate Beaton....
Thursday, 15 December 2016
Bonus ReaditTorial: Ten things that may happen in the bookworld in 2017...
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ReadItTorial
I know, I know. I said last week's ReadItTorial would be the last one of 2016 but we're rubbing our crystal ball and casting our eyes forward for some fun faux predictions about children's books that may or may not happen in 2017.
Without further ado, and in no particular order,...
Booky Advent Calendar Day 15: "I Don't Know What to Call my Cat" by Simon Philip and Ella Bailey (Simon and Schuster Children's Books)
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Booky Advent Calendar 2016,
Ella Bailey,
I Dont know what to call my Cat,
Simon and Schuster Children's Books,
Simon Philip
Cats and Dogs get almost equal coverage on the blog but today we're clawing one back for the kitties (did you see what we did there...
ReadItDaddy's last Chapter Book Roundup of 2016. Here's December's fun-packed book bag of win!
As the snow gently falls outside, and Santa is making his final preparations for "The Big Drop" as he likes to call it, we're delving into our book sack for one last final Chapter Book Roundup for 2016.
We're pulling out all the stops - all of them - to bring you book-sized brilliance...
Wednesday, 14 December 2016
Booky Advent Calendar Day 14: A Child of Books by Sam Winston and Oliver Jeffers (Walker Books)
Once again we're recommending a non-festive book for our Advent Calendar selection, but this one should find its way onto many a christmas list.
Oliver Jeffers and Sam Winston have combined their colossal creative talent to write the perfect love letter to books.
Charlotte nodded...
Tuesday, 13 December 2016
Booky Advent Calendar Day 13: "Willy and the Cloud" by Anthony Browne (Walker Books)
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Anthony Browne,
Walker Books,
Willy and the Cloud
We're mixing a selection of Christmassy and non-Christmassy books for this year's Booky Advent Calendar (mostly because it's a bit of a case of slim pickings trying to find great festive books for middle graders).
Nevertheless we'd still recommend any of our December book reviews...
Monday, 12 December 2016
Write-on Wipe-off Learning Cards - Print Writing (Flash Kids Editors / Sterling Publishing)
Here's a fantastic idea to help your kids neaten up their writing, practice their letter shapes or just have some messy fun with a wipeable marke...
Booky Advent Calendar Day 12 - "The Twelve Days of Christmas" by William Morris and Liz Catchpole (V & A Publishing)
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Booky Advent Calendar 2016,
Liz Catchpole,
The Twelve Days of Christmas,
V & A Publishing,
William Morris
For our 12th day of christmas books, how about a gorgeous version of "The Twelve Days of Christmas".
Taking William Morris designs and using them as the basis for the book, Liz Catchpole has brought her own artwork in and has come up with the most gorgeous illustrative plates for...
Sunday, 11 December 2016
Booky Advent Calendar Day 11 - Time for some awesome colouring fun with two new Harry Potter-inspired titles from Studio Press
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Bonnier,
Booky Advent Calendar 2016,
Harry Potter magical Places and Characters,
Studio Press,
Templar,
Warner Bros
If there's one thing sure to keep kids busy over the festive period when the batteries in their other toys have run down (or been removed by parents who can't stand all the electronic beeping and burping), it's a fantastic colouring book or tw...
Saturday, 10 December 2016
Booky Advent Calendar Day 10 - "Snowflake in my Pocket" by Rachel Bright and Yu Rong (Walker Books)
A delicious December-ey book now for our 10th day of Christmas...It's "Snowflake in my Pocket" by Rachel Bright and Yu Rong....
Friday, 9 December 2016
Booky Advent Calendar Book of the Week - Week Ending 9th December 2016 - "The Queen's Present" by Steve Antony (Hodder Children's Books)
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Book of the Week 2016,
Booky Advent Calendar 2016,
Hodder Children's Books,
Steve Antony,
The Queen's Present
Our second Booky Advent Calendar Book of the Week for 2016 is a rollicking romp that we just couldn't resist....
Thursday, 8 December 2016
The rise and rise of "reviews by proxy" sites - good news or bad news for book bloggers? A ReadItTorial
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a readittorial,
Reviews by Proxy
Competition, they say, is healthy. Competition promotes and provokes innovation and change, and can drive markets and individuals to improve what they do - sometimes by subtle force, sometimes not so subtle. Sometimes it can feel like drowning.
This week's ReadItTorial dips into...
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