Sunday, 24 December 2017
Booky Advent Calendar Day 24 - Christmas Eve! Bonus Book Number 3 "The Christmas Eve Tree" by Delia Huddy and Emily Sutton (Walker Books)
We've saved the best till last, a Christmas Eve classic that's going to really warm the cockles of your heart.
Our final Booky Advent Calendar book this year is the fabulous "The Christmas Eve Tree" by Delia Huddy and Emily Sutton.
It's the night before christmas, and just as the...
Booky Advent Calendar Day 24 - CHRISTMAS EVE BONUS BOOK - "Search and Find: A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens and Louise Pigott (Studio Press)
Well as it's Christmas Eve we couldn't resist queueing up an extra book recommendation for our Booky Advent Calendar, after all don't the christmas eve advent calendars always feature the biggest chocolate?
Here's "Search and Find: A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens, with fantastic...
Booky Advent Calendar Day 24 - CHRISTMAS EVE! - "Red and Lulu" by Matt Tavares (Walker Books)
For our final Booky Advent Calendar entry on Day 24, Christmas Eve in fact, we've got something truly stunning.
Has there ever been a more magical Christmas destination than New York City in the USA? So good they named it twice?
In "Red and Lulu" this amazing destination weaves a...
Saturday, 23 December 2017
Booky Advent Calendar Day 23: "Poppy Pym and the Beastly Blizzard" by Laura Wood (Scholastic)
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Booky Advent Calendar Day 23 sees the return of a book series we've really enjoyed over the last couple of years.
Mighty girl Poppy Pym is back in Laura Wood's latest book in this fantastic set for a festive adventure par excellence!
"Poppy Pym and the Beastly Blizzard", clad in...
Friday, 22 December 2017
Our Blog Roundup for 2017 - All our book of the week winners, our Publisher of the Year, Picture Book(s) of the Year and Chapter Book(s) of the Year Winners 2017!
It's time for another one of those huge roundup posts to chronicle 2017 so without further ado, let's talk about some stats.
In total, we reviewed a whopping 721 books! That's not counting the books we've read, re-read and re-re-read during 2017.
This year 65 DIFFERENT publishers and...
Booky Advent Calendar Day 22: "Snow Penguin" by Tony Mitton and Alison Brown (Bloomsbury Children's Books)
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Day 22 of our Booky Advent Calendar and here's a gorgeously cute little story for your really tiny ones.
Who could resist a story about a brave little penguin.
In "Snow Penguin" our curious little penguin hero decides to explore the ice and the snow and the sea.
On his travels...
ReadItDaddy's Book(s) of the Week - Week Ending 22nd December 2017 - "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone / The Chamber of Secrets / The Prisoner of Azkaban" by J.K Rowling and Jim Kay (Bloomsbury)
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Harry Potter and the Philospher's Stone,
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban,
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J.K. Rowling,
Jim Kay
Our triple-headed Cerberus of a Book of the Week collection this week sees us finally let loose on the first three illustrated editions of J.K Rowling's awesome Harry Potter books....
Thursday, 21 December 2017
Stare into the Crystal Book Ball of 2018 - Some fun ReadItTorial musings and predictions for the year ahead in kidlit and comics
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It's our final ReadItTorial of 2017 here on ReadItDaddy (no, really this time) and we're going to throw our hats into the wind, and try once again to second-guess what we think might be the big trends in children's books, chapter books and comics for 2018 - with a few fun nonsense...
Booky Advent Calendar Day 21: "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens and Sir Quentin Blake (Pavilion Children's Books)
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Clad in a new festive and glorious clothbound cover, this timely reissue of Quentin Blake's take on "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens is a looker from the word go.
Everyone is probably familiar with the classic tale of Ebenezer Scrooge and his miserly ways, but Quentin brings...
Wednesday, 20 December 2017
Booky Advent Calendar Day 20: "Three Little Owls" by Emanuele Luzzati, John Yeoman and Quentin Blake (Tate Publishing)
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Three cheeky and endearing little owls make Christmas truly special in our Booky Advent Calendar book for Day 20. 5 more sleeps to go but let's find out just how busy these three little owls are.
These amazing mums lay an egg each before jetting off on an incredible journey all around...
Tuesday, 19 December 2017
Booky Advent Calendar 2017 Day 19: "Make and Play: Nativity" by Joey Chou (Nosy Crow)
Here's a fantastic little activity book for the very young, with 20 play pieces that are easy to slot together and make.
"Make and Play: Nativity" by Joey Chou is a chunky board book that allows little ones to make their own nativity scene complete with Mary, Joseph, wise men, angels,...
Monday, 18 December 2017
Booky Advent Calendar 2017 Day 18: "A Kitten Called Holly" by Helen Peters and Ellie Snowdon (Nosy Crow)
We're covering a mixture of early / middle grade readers and picture books in our Booky Advent Calendar for the first time this year, and we're delighted to see another entry in the fantastic Jasmine Green series of animal stories from Helen Peters and Ellie Snowdon.
In "A Kitten...
Sunday, 17 December 2017
Booky Advent Calendar 2017 Day 17: "Oliver Elephant" by Lou Peacock and Helen Stephens (Nosy Crow)
Nosy Crow are really spoiling us this year with one of the strongest publisher line-ups for Christmas books. We're getting close to the big day now, with only 7 more sleeps to go and so we're celebrating with another brilliant entry on our Booky Advent Calendar.
Meet "Oliver Elephant"...
Saturday, 16 December 2017
Booky Advent Calendar 2017 Day 16: "Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam: Jingle Bells" by Tracey Corderoy and Steven Lenton (Nosy Crow)
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The fabulous bakin' boys are back, and this time they're ready for a festive adventure in the latest awesome middle grade book from Tracey Corderoy and Steven Lenton.
In "Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam: Jingle Bells" the awesome pooches are all set for a festive mystery, and must...
Friday, 15 December 2017
ReadItDaddy's Picture Book of the Week - Week Ending 15th December 2017 - "Mega Robo Rumble (Mega Robo Bros 2)" by Neill Cameron (David Fickling Books)
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Neill Cameron,
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Robo Rumble
Our Picture Book of the Week this week may have arrived a little late but we're so glad it's here. Let's get ready to Mega-Robo-RUMBLE...
ReadItDaddy's Second Book of the Week - Week Ending 15th December 2017 - "Curiosity: The Story of a Mars Rover" by Markus Motum (Walker Books)
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We're quite literally shoehorning Book of the Week winners into the blog, there are just too many fantastic books around to ignore at the moment....
ReadItDaddy's Picture Book of the Week - Week Ending 15th December 2017: "Bonkers Ballads" by Colin West (Matador Publishing)
We really couldn't be happier to see a fantastic new collection from one of our fave children's poets, the inestimably brilliant Colin West....
Booky Advent Calendar 2017 Day 15: "The Princess and the Christmas Rescue" by Caryl Hart and Sarah Warburton (Nosy Crow)
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The Princess and the Christmas Rescue
It's Day 15 of our Booky Advent Calendar and you know what that means? Even more christmas book loveliness - this time with the latest in the fantastic "Princess" range by Caryl Hart and Sarah Warburton.
This time we meet a mighty girl princess with a difference in "The Princess and...
Thursday, 14 December 2017
I get knocked down, should I get up again? A ReadItTorial
"Come on, ReadItDaddy, let's hear your pitch!!!"
Another sneaky ReadItTorial just before we have a bit of a break (and it'll be just a 'bit' - C'mon, even hard working book bloggers need SOME time off!)
This Christmas Holiday it's going to be make or break time for my writing once...
Booky Advent Calendar 2017 Day 14: "Morris Wants More" by Joshua Seigal and Amelie Faliere (Flying Eye Books)
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Strange bouffant hair. Sharp suit. "I want it all" attitude and prone to childish tantrums? No this isn't a biography of POTUS, it's actually a very funny christmas book for our Booky Advent Calendar Day 14.
It's the run up to Christmas and if there's one thing Morris is sure of,...
Wednesday, 13 December 2017
Booky Advent Calendar 2017 Day 13 - "Winter Magic" curated by Abi Elphinstone (Simon and Schuster)
Another glorious wintry book chock full of magic adds to our festive Chapter Book celebration and a worthy entry on our Booky Advent Calendar for Day 13.
Here's "Winter Magic", another utterly amazing anthology of stories curated by Abi Elphinstone.
Abi's own story "The Snow Dragon"...
Tuesday, 12 December 2017
Anything But Books - a blog tag-o-thon - Tagged by BexCapades
In a break from our usual programming we're joining in a fantastic blog-tag-o-thon, and thank you V much to Bex over at https://bexcapadestravellingwithanxiety.wordpress.com for hitting us up.
So without further ado...bits from both of us!
Name a cartoon that you...
Booky Advent Calendar Day 12: "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" (60th Anniversary Edition) by Dr Seuss (HarperCollins Children's Books)
Our Booky Advent Calendar second book for Day 12 is truly something special.
Very few books can claim to have filtered their way into popular culture to the extent of Dr Seuss' amazing "How the Grinch Stole Christmas". Even on this side of the pond, you sometimes hear people being...
Booky Advent Calendar 2017 Day 12 - "Merry Christmas Hugless Douglas" by David Melling (Hodder Children's Books)
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On the 12th day of our Booky Advent Calendar, our postie gave to us...a great big bear hug of a book!
"Merry Christmas Hugless Douglas" by David Melling is a special festive story for everyone's favourite big fuzzy furry bear.
Hugless Douglas knows what Christmas is all about - snowing...
Monday, 11 December 2017
Booky Advent Calendar 2017 Day 11: "Angel's Great Escape" by Kirstie Rowson and Kristyna Litten (And So We Begin)
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Angel's Great Escape,
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Kristyna Litten
We're returning to a fantastic story that, way back in the archives, we first took a look at in E-Book form all the way back in 2012.
Back then, our review (and a previous Booky Advent Calendar entry for the iBook / Kindle version) spoke very highly of this charming and beautifully...
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