Friday, 31 January 2020
ReadItDaddy's Chapter Book of the Week - Week Ending 31st January 2020: "Pests" by Emer Stamp (Hodder Children's Books)
You're going to have a bit of a wait on your hands before you get hold of our fantastic Chapter Book of the Week but we were so excited about it, we couldn't hold it in any longer.
We first read "Pests" by Emer Stamp as an ARC over Christmas and for quite some time now we'd been wondering...
ReadItDaddy's Book of the Week - Week Ending 31st January 2020: "The Art of Disney Costuming" by Rebecca Cline and Jeff Kurti (Disney Editions)
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Disney Editions,
Jeff Kurti,
Picture Book of the Week 2020,
Rebecca Cline,
The Art of Disney Costuming
Our Book of the Week this week is a mammoth tome indeed, showing some of the most amazing character costumes created for some of you favourite Disney live action movies.
With a family of Disney obsessives, and a daughter completely obsessed by fashion design, this book was an absolute...
Thursday, 30 January 2020
Cheerleading online buddies vs the bizarre sense of entitlement around being published - This Week's Readitorial
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#ReadItTorial2020
It's been a hectic week as January seems to linger on like an eggy fart in a VW Beetle, but there have been some fab moments in kidlit, with several of our online pals finally getting their first publishing deals, mentorships and - in a couple of cases - seeing their books finally...
ReadItDaddy's Chapter Book Roundup - January 2020
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Chapter Book Roundup 2020
Wow, I can't quite believe we're here in the year 2020! Still missing our robot servants, flying cars and food in pill form but thankfully books are still around - amazing chapter books, and so it's our solemn duty to once again bring you the brightest and best chapter books month...
Wednesday, 29 January 2020
"Put your Botty on the Potty" by Sam Lloyd (Pavilion Children's Books)
Getting a curmudgeonly 11 year old to review a book about potty training would normally be a hopeless cause - if it wasn't for the fact that this is a Sam Lloyd book, and Sam's books were a huge part of C's early reading journey.
"Put your Botty on the Potty" by Sam Lloyd might at...
Tuesday, 28 January 2020
"Little People Big Dreams: David Attenborough" by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Mikyo Noh (Frances Lincoln Children's Books)
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Frances Lincoln Children's Books,
Little People Big Dreams David Attenborough,
Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara,
Mikyo Noh
The cutest biography series on the planet begins its 2020 run with the 40th book (wow, 40? Really?) in the series - and a very special chap who has become a national treasure, as well as a respected elder statesman and spokesman for the conservation movement across our ailing planet.
"Little...
Monday, 27 January 2020
"Find Your Girl Squad" by Dr Angharad Rudkin and Ruth Fitzgerald (Wren and Rook)
Here's a book that couldn't have arrived at a better time. I had no idea that becoming a parent would also involve a brutal lesson in human psychology that (to me at least) was entirely new, and completely all-encompassing in a young tween's life. It's absolutely incredible how the...
Friday, 24 January 2020
ReadItDaddy's Chapter Book of the Week - Week Ending 24th January 2020: "Darkwhispers: A Brightstorm Adventure" by Vashti Hardy (Scholastic)
Vashti once again makes our Chapter Book of the Week slot her very own with another delicious slice of sky-ship-soaring adventure, sizzling with steampunky goodness.
"Darkwhispers" follows in from "Brightstorm" and plays in the same gorgeously inventive book universe, this time pitching...
ReadItDaddy's Book of the Week - Week Ending 24th January 2020: "Search and Find a Number of Numbers" by A.J Wood and Allan Sanders (Wide Eyed Editions)
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A.J Wood,
Allan Sanders,
Picture Book of the Week 2020,
Search and Find a Number of Numbers,
Wide Eyed Editions
Wide Eyed effortlessly bag their first Book of the Week of 2020 with a book that we road-tested with our guest star mini book-blogger, C's 5 year old cousin. She loves maths and numbers already, and really loved this fantastic cross between a 'find the hidden objects' book and a counting...
Thursday, 23 January 2020
"The Book Murderers" - What's with those people who mistreat lovely books in horrible ways? Today's ReadItTorial
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#ReadItTorial2020
They called him "The Book Murderer" and this image - of a particularly weighty tome being rent in half across its spine by a canny chap who just wanted to make it more portable - had Twitter a-fire this week.
When I first saw the image, the first thing I thought of was the cries of...
"Love from Alfie McPoonst, the Best Dog Ever" by Dawn McNiff and Patricia Metola (Walker Books)
Wow, this one will definitely deliver a solid 'whump' to your heartstrings. It's never easy to deal with the subject of grief in picture books but in "Love from Alfie McPoonst, The Best Dog Ever" by Dawn McNiff and Patricia Metola, a gentle and sometimes humorous piece of storytelling...
Wednesday, 22 January 2020
Delve into the fascinating lives of amazing people who left their mark on the world with stunning new books in the "Biographic" series from Ammonite Press
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Ammonite Press,
Biographic
Biographies are a tough 'sell' to kids, who often don't want to read a huge long tome intricately breaking down the lives of the influential, inspirational and downright famous folk they would love to know more about.
The "Biographic" series from Ammonite Press is a perfect jumping-on...
Tuesday, 21 January 2020
"The (Ferocious) Chocolate Wolf" by Lizzie Finlay (Five Quills)
Wolves get a bit of a raw deal in children's books. I mean quite often they're painted to be the baddie.
But in "The (Ferocious) Chocolate Wolf" by Lizzie Finlay, there's a bit of a twist.
The wolf in the story doesn't like eating his animal friends. Oh no, he loves nothing more...
Monday, 20 January 2020
"Discovering Energy (Discovering Big Ideas Series)" by Professor Veronica Sanz, Johannes Hirn and Eduard Altarriba (Button Books)
Kids absolutely love science - to them it feels like the closest approximation to magic, and in the fantastic Discovering Big Ideas series from Button Books, they can find a huge range of topics to fascinate, befuddle but most of all to inspire them towards looking at science in different...
Friday, 17 January 2020
ReadItDaddy's Chapter Book of the Week - Week Ending 17th January 2019: "The Cure for a Crime (A Double Detectives Medical Mystery)" by Roopa Farooki (OUP / Oxford Children's Books)
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Chapter Book of the Week 2020,
OUP / Oxford Children's Books,
Roopa Farooki,
The Cure for a Crime
It's fair to say that we have a very tough choice on our hands when it comes to middle grade fiction, separating out the also-rans from the truly stunning books that we know are going to be a huge hit with C.
When it comes to detective fiction our work is doubly difficult - it feels...
ReadItDaddy's Picture Book of the Week: Week Ending 17th January 2020: "A Giant Dose of Gross" by Andy Seed and Claire Almon (QED)
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A Giant Dose of Gross,
Andy Seed,
Claire Almon,
Picture Book of the Week 2020,
QED Publishing
Our fantastic non-fiction Picture Book of the Week comes from an author who doesn't mind getting his hands dirty when it comes to some truly gross things, and a talented illustrator who managed to turn us a little green around the gills as we read through this one.
"A Giant Dose of...
Thursday, 16 January 2020
That ol' "Book to Screen" thing raises its ugly (and beautiful) head again - This Week's #ReadItTorial
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#ReadItTorial2020
Oh Mrs Coulter... (sigh)
When the winter months arrive, the incumbents of ReadItDaddy Towers find themselves snuggling up on the sofa together to watch a bit of seasonal telly. There's usually something we agree we can watch together (though most of the time I find myself needing...
Out Today - "Fearless - How to be your true confident self" by Liam Hackett and Mike Perry (Scholastic)
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Anti-Bullying,
Fearless,
Liam Hackett,
Mike Perry,
Scholastic
Parents don't have all the answers. That's something both my wife and I have been brutally honest about with our daughter as she grows up, and though we can impart wisdom based on our own experiences, sometimes kids need a little bit more than that - they need to hear from other kids,...
"The End of Something Wonderful: A Practical Guide to a Backyard Funeral" by Stephanie V.W Lucianovic and George Ermos (Sterling Kids)
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George Ermos,
Stephanie V.W Lucianovic,
Sterling Children's Books,
The End of Something Wonderful: A Practical Guide to a Backyard Funeral
Now and again a children's book comes along that makes you think "Well, that's a new one on me!"
So far I can't recall ever seeing a children's picture book that takes such a quirky, charming and original look at a subject that we go to great pains to avoid.
Death.
In "The End of...
Wednesday, 15 January 2020
"Queen of Physics: How Wu Chien Shuing helped unlock the secrets of the Atom (People Who Shaped Our World)" by Teresa Robeson and Rebecca Huang (Sterling Kids)
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Queen of Physics,
Rebecca Huang,
Sterling,
Teresa Robeson
To most people, the name Wu Chien Shiung is completely unknown, but in "Queen of Physics" by Teresa Robeson and Rebecca Huang, it's time to raise the profile of this astonishingly accomplished physicist, rightly placing her name amongst other more well known and easily recognised figures...
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