Friday, 28 June 2019
ReadItDaddy's Chapter Book of the Week - Week Ending 28th June 2019: "The Jolley-Rogers and the Pirate Piper" by Jonny Duddle (Templar Publishing)
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The Jolley Rogers and the Pirate Piper
Our Chapter Book of the Week heralds the triumphant return of our all-time favourite pirate family and their best friend Matilda, this time for a tuneful but ratty tale!
"The Jolley-Rogers and the Pirate Piper" by Jonny Duddle might seem a little familiar at first...riffing on the...
ReadItDaddy's Picture Book of the Week - Week Ending 28th June 2019: "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll and Julia Sarda (Two Hoots)
Pairing one of the most magical and influential children's stories of all time, with one of the most incredible illustrators working in children's books today is, quite honestly, a stroke of genius.
"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll and Julia Sarda may well be yet...
ReadItDaddy's Comic / Graphic Novel of the Week - Week Ending 28th June 2019: "Akissi Volume 2: More Tales of Mischief" by Marguerite Abouet and Mathieu Sapin (NoBrow / Flying Eye)
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Akissi Volume 2,
Flying Eye Books,
Marguerite Abouet,
Mathieu Sapin,
NoBrow Press,
Picture Book of the Week 2019
We need joy in our lives right now. Pure unbridled joy, whether in book form or not. "Akissi: More Tales of Mischief (Akissi Volume 2)" by Marguerite Abouet and Mathieu Sapin provides a heck of a lot of joy, with the newly translated volume of Akissi's extended adventures now available...
Thursday, 27 June 2019
We need diverse books and better diverse book coverage more than ever - but who's actually to blame for the kidlit whitewash? Today's ReadItTorial
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#ReadItTorial 2019
Last year, this infographic presented a stark view of diversity in children's books and it seems not much has changed this year either.
No one even vaguely interested in children's literature could possibly deny that there's been a huge upsurge in the number of brilliant and diverse...
ReadItDaddy's Chapter Book Roundup - June 2019
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Chapter Book Roundup June 2019
Welcome, welcome! Settle down and sit a spell, it's time for another dip into our Chapter Book bag of win for another selection of gorgeous titles to become your new summer best book friends.
Starting off with the sizzlingly tense "The House of Light" by Julia Green.
Bonnie is a...
Out Today! The fantastic "A Planet Full of Plastic" by Neal Layton (Hachette Children's Books)
I think if we could have chosen one author-illustrator to write the perfect eco-message book, it'd be Neal Layton.
The illustrator of the fantastic "Emily Brown" books (with Cressida Cowell) and author-illustrator of several brilliant stories, Neal's trademark collage / doodle style...
Wednesday, 26 June 2019
"The Tide" by Clare Helen Welsh and Ashling Lindsay (Little Tiger)
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Clare Helen Welsh,
Dementia,
Little Tiger,
The Tide
We're horribly late to the party with this one but after tracking down our lost copy (post office had somehow managed to lose it down the back of the sofa) we're glad to be all caught up with one of the most powerful and impressive books about dementia that we've ever had the good...
Tuesday, 25 June 2019
"The Worst Book Ever" by Elise Gravel (Drawn and Quarterly)
Owchers, here's a book that sets out its stall right from the front cover with a piece of self-deprecation that is, we're pleased to say, entirely unjustified. But let's hear Elise Gravel out, as we delve into "The Worst Book Ever".
This is the quirky and very funny new book from...
Monday, 24 June 2019
Dreams PS4 Early Access - The First Few Hours (A ReadItDaddy Game Review)
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Dreams PS4,
Media Molecule,
Playstation 4 game
Creative little souls that we are here at ReadItDaddy, we're instantly drawn to anything that promises to unleash the power of our imaginations.
Though C and I don't actually get a lot of time to play videogames, when we do we're always looking for stuff that allows you to put...
"Colours" by Anita Lester (Encounters Publishing)
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Anita Lester,
Colours,
Encounters Publishing
Books that take you on a journey of discovery are vitally important for kids, particularly at an early age when there's so much for them to experience and to learn.
Children very quickly learn all about colours when books go the extra mile to present these simple lessons in an original...
Friday, 21 June 2019
ReadItDaddy's Chapter Book of the Week - Week Ending 21st June 2019: "Geek Girls Don't Cry" by Andrea Towers (Sterling)
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Geek Girls Don't Cry
Our Chapter Book of the Week this week is a truly original idea for a self-help book that's chock-full of pop-culture references and characters in a book that's a hugely positive and inspirational read about a wide range of issues young folk (not just girls) go through in their transitions...
ReadItDaddy's Second Picture Book of the Week - Week Ending 21st June 2019: "Secret Agent Elephant" by Eoin McLaughlin and Ross Collins (Orchard Books)
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Our second Picture Book of the Week is a hilarious spy romp with a difference.
In "Secret Agent Elephant" by Eoin McLaughlin and Ross Collins, the spy isn't some suave sophisticated lantern-jawed action man. It's an elephant, and one who can barely wriggle into his stylish tuxedo,...
ReadItDaddy's Picture Book of the Week - Week Ending 21st June 2019: "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse - The Art of the Movie" by Ramin Zahed and various artists (Titan)
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Picture Book of the Week 2019,
Ramin Zahed,
Spider-Man Into the Spider-verse - the art of the movie,
Titan Books
It's taken absolutely ages for us to get hold of a copy of this, and in the end it was well worth the 8 MONTH WAIT (Yes, it really has been that long since I ordered it).
It's not hard to see why "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse - The Art of the Movie" by Ramin Zahed was out of...
Thursday, 20 June 2019
Can picture books just STOP ALREADY with the "You can only succeeed if you have / make / get the help of friends" books? A ReadItTorial
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#ReadItTorial 2019
"I'll be there for you...for a hundred grand a showwwwwwww"
I've finally lost count.
I have, I've honestly lost count of the number of books we've seen for review over the last few years of blogging that have had one core moral at their heart.
Sometimes that moral is delivered with...
"Humperdink our Elephant Friend" by Sean Taylor and Claire Alexander (Words and Pictures)
What would you do with the elephant in the room?
One set of nursery school kids find out in the adorable "Humperdink, our Elephant Friend" by Sean Taylor and Claire Alexander.
Playtime at the nursery is always awesome, but one little girl discovers that she loves to play games that...
Wednesday, 19 June 2019
"There's a Spider in my Soup" by Megan Brewis (OUP / Oxford Children's Books)
Yikes! Not a fan of spiders here at ReadItDaddy Towers, and definitely not a fan of finding them languishing in our food.
In "There's a Spider in my Soup" by Megan Brewis, a mischievous spider loves nothing more than energetically swinging on her web.
Despite her mum and dad's warnings,...
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