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Wednesday, 31 July 2019

Meet a brilliant new mighty girl with a nose for detection in the truly brilliant "Agatha Oddly" chapter book series by Lena Jones (HarperCollins Children's Books)

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 If there's one thing we both like it's a rip-roaring mystery with a mighty girl character basically sticking her nose into a curious situation, and coming up trumps. Meet Agatha Oddlow, star of the fantastic "Agatha Oddly" stories from Lena Jones with book one ("The Secret...
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"Ella Upgraded" by Dan Whitehead, PR Dedelis, Abby Bulmer and Jim Campbell (ZebraComics / Gumroad Publishing)

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A lot of dads from my generation had two main obsessions when they were kids. On the one hand you'd find them blinking in the twilight of an old CRT telly, stabbing buttons on a rubber-keyed ZX Spectrum in order to make an on-screen collection of pixels bend to their every whim. On...
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Tuesday, 30 July 2019

"Ravi's Roar" by Tom Percival (Bloomsbury Children's Books)

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Here's an interesting book that took us a while to truly 'get' - as it seems to mix a couple of messages together before it gets to the nitty gritty of what it tries to impart. "Ravi's Roar" by Tom Percival is the story of little Ravi, a kid who is the smallest in his family. It...
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"Iced Out" by CK Smouha and Isabella Bunnell (Cicada Books)

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If you're going to write a children's picture book about friendship, or about how being different can be cool, you'd better bring your A-Game because - to be quite honest - we see so many books with those core themes that they all begin to blur into one. Thankfully in the case of...
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Monday, 29 July 2019

Out today! Charm your kids away from their screens with the fantastic "The Board Game Family" by Ellie Dix (Crown House Publishing)

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Do you know your Meeples from your Exploding Kittens? Chances are that you love board games as much as we do then, and we're delighted to see the release today of a superb book that will help you navigate the sometimes complicated field of modern board gaming. "The Board Game Family...
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"Science you can Eat - Putting what we eat under the Microscope" by Stefan Gates (Dorling Kindersley)

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Oooh, two of our favourite things combined in a brilliantly presented and seriously absorbing new book from DK? How could we resist! Food and Science meet with a pop, and a fizz in "Science you can Eat" by Stefan Gates. Stefan is a brilliant host in this amusing and utterly fascinating...
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"Flock (A Tree Keeper Adventure)" by Gemma Koomen (Frances Lincoln Children's Books)

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There's just something so appealing about stories that feature tiny little folk, and anyone who's loved "The Borrowers" will utterly fall in love with "Flock (A tree keeper adventure)" by Gemma Koomen. It's a daydreamy and magical little story of the folk who look after and maintain...
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Friday, 26 July 2019

ReadItDaddy's Chapter Book of the Week - Week Ending 26th July 2019: "The Misadventures of Max Crumbly: Masters of Mischief (Max Crumbly Book 3)" by Rachel Renee Russell (Simon and Schuster Children's Books)

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Our Chapter Book of the Week elicits the sort of hugely soppy satisfied grin across C's chops, that it's impossible not to love these books. Rachel Renee Russell, best known as the author of the superb "Dork Diaries" series (which C absolutely ADORES TO BITS!) also has a male dork...
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ReadItDaddy's Second Book of the Week - Week Ending 26th July 2019: "Powers of a Girl" by Lorraine Cink and Alice X. Zhang (Studio Press / Marvel Comics)

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Marvel pretty much have "Mighty Girl" all sewn up, and if you want a truly fantastic example of how much work they've put in to providing one of the most diverse and brilliantly feminist comic universes in the world, take a look at our second book of the week this week, the stunning...
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ReadItDaddy's Book of the Week - Week Ending 26th July 2019: "Leo Baxendale's Sweeney Toddler" by Leo Baxendale (Rebellion)

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Our Book of the Week this week has been an absolute pleasure to share with my daughter, harking back to an era in comics where weekly I was faced with one of the trickest decisions a youngster could ever make. "Which comic should I buy this week?" Pocket money wouldn't stretch to...
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Thursday, 25 July 2019

Get stuck into the fabulous "Treacle Street" series with "Prima's Missing Bunnies" and "Marcel's Parcels" by Kate Hindley (Simon and Schuster Children's Books)

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We're always excited to see new work from one of our all-time favourite children's book illustrators, so we're delighted to see Kate Hindley's new range of storybooks. The fabulously named "Treacle Street" series is absolutely perfect for little ones who love stories that pique their...
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ReadItDaddy's Chapter Book Roundup - July 2019

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It's time for our Chapter Book Roundup for July. Where on earth has this year gone?! One thing's for sure, it's been a stonkingly good year for middle grade and YA fiction and let's kick off with another belter that deserves a huge amount of recognition, if not a truckload of awards. "Jemima...
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"Baby's First Jailbreak" by Jim Whalley and Stephen Collins (Bloomsbury Children's Books)

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That miscreant tot Frank is back for a new and exciting adventure, following on from "Baby's First Bank Heist" In "Baby's first Jailbreak" Frank's zoo is suffering from a drop in visitor numbers. Who can be responsible? Frank soon realises he has a competitor. Baby Bruce! He's a...
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Wednesday, 24 July 2019

"Alice In Wonderland - A Puzzle Adventure" by Aleksandra Artymowska (Big Picture Press)

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You'll see an AWFUL lot of "Alice in Wonderland" books around at the moment, new anthologies of stories based on Lewis Carrol's amazing books, and of course tons and tons of spin-offs and abridged versions. But how about a huge, brilliantly detailed and luxurious book full of amazing...
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"Ancient Egypt Adventure Activity Book" by Jen Alliston (Button Books)

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As the summer holidays creep ever closer (or, for some of you lucky folk, are already here) the inevitable sound of wailing may commence at home. "MUM, DAD, WE'RE BORED!" So it's probably a good job that books like "Ancient Egypt Adventure Activity Book" by Jen Alliston exist. Filled...
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Tuesday, 23 July 2019

Up for a summer reading challenge? Join the #ToppstaKidsBingo Summer book celebration and win yourself some Smiggle goodies too!

Posted by ReadItDaddy at July 23, 2019
Hot enough for ya? Well, the gorgeous sunny weather (hopefully) means lots of opportunities to get out into the fresh air, find a cosy nook and read our TBR pile! Of course kids needn't miss out, as our fab friends Toppsta are once again running a fantastic summer reading challenge...
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"The Dinosaur Who Lost her Voice" by Julie Ballard and Francesca Gambatesa (Egmont)

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Nary a roar to be heard, nor a sweet musical note! In "The Dinosaur Who Lost Her Voice" by Julie Ballard and Francesca Gambatesa, you'll meet huge hulking great big spotty dinosaur Milly Jo. Milly Jo has a beautiful singing voice, but when a storm rages and brings down a tree, it...
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Monday, 22 July 2019

"Beano - How to Make a Comic" by Nigel Parkinson and Emily McGorman Bruce (Studio Press)

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Imagine for a tiny, tiny moment how super-powered you'd feel if you sat down with all your favourite pens and pencils and began to make your very own comic! We love comics, and we love drawing and making our own so we were delighted to see "How to Make a Comic" from Nigel Parkinson...
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A fab Q & A with Nicki Thornton, author of the fantastic "The Last Chance Hotel" and "The Bad Luck Lighthouse" (Chicken House Books)

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Seth is back! And so is Nicki Thornton with the sequel to her superb "The Last Chance Hotel". In "The Bad Luck Lighthouse" Seth Seppi and his moggy sidekick Nightshade are back for more mysterious antics, all tinged with a touch of dark magic. We've been totally engrossed in this...
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"Busy Tractor" by Samantha Meredith (Campbell Books)

Posted by ReadItDaddy at July 22, 2019 Labels: , ,
Tiny tiddlers love bright colourful books, but love them even more if there's plenty of interaction going on too. "Busy Tractor" by Samantha Meredith is one of the range of awesome "Busy" books from Campbell, with lots of details to spot in each page spread, a bouncy rhyming story,...
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Friday, 19 July 2019

ReadItDaddy's Spacetastic Chapter Book of the Week - Week Ending 19th July 2019: "Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story" by Michael Collins (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

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Our Chapter Book of the Week comes from one of the very men who was part of the monumentous Apollo 11 mission 50 years ago. Michael Collins had a reputation for being the "Arty" astronaut (after all, he designed the mission patch for the Apollo 11 mission) and it comes across here...
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