Sunday, 31 May 2020
#Booky100Keepers Day 28: "Mrs Macready was Ever So Greedy" by Julie Fulton and Jona Jung (Maverick)
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#Booky100Keepers,
Jona Jung,
Julie Fulton,
Maverick Arts Publishing,
Mrs MacCready Was Ever So Greedy
Sometimes, books ended up in our "Keepers" list not just because they're thoroughly entertaining books, but because they evoke such happy memories and with "Mrs MacReady was Ever So Greedy" - the first of the "Ever So" books by Julie Fulton and Jona Jung, this was one of the first...
Saturday, 30 May 2020
#Booky100Keepers Day 27: "Mr Tiger Goes Wild" and "My Teacher Is a Monster" by Peter Brown (Two Hoots)
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Mr Tiger Goes Wild,
Peter Brown,
Two Hoots
Today's #Booky100Keepers is a bit of a rare old bird, a book that we never really see trumpeted about, yet it's utterly brilliant and one that we've read many, many times. So why don't we hear more about "Mr Tiger Goes Wild" by Peter Brown? In fact why isn't Peter Brown more widely...
Friday, 29 May 2020
ReaditDaddy's Picture Book of the Week - Week Ending 29th May 2020: "The Stone Giant" by Anna Hoglund (Gecko Press)
This week's Picture Book of the Week is a fantastically dark little tale, not too scary for little ones but definitely one that evokes memories of classic Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Anderson tales...
"The Stone Giant" by Anna Hoglund is the story of a plucky little girl who...
#Booky100Keepers Day 26: "The Storm Whale, The Storm Whale in Winter, Grandad's Island and Grandma Bird" by Benji Davies (Simon and Schuster)
A bit of a quadruple-header for our #Booky100Keepers entry today, with four author-illustrated books from a creative who just knows exactly how to put together the perfect picture book. Though we love Benji Davies' collaborations with others, it's always in his own books that we find...
Thursday, 28 May 2020
ReadItDaddy's Chapter Book Roundup - May 2020
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Chapter Book Roundup 2020
Welcome, welcome to our May Chapter Book Roundup where we're once again bringing you a gorgeous selection of chapter books to keep things ticking over while you're in lockdown. The sun is shining, the birds are singing and there's no better time to tuck yourself into your favourite...
#Booky100Keepers Day 25: "I Really Want to Eat a Child" by Sylvianne Donnio and Dorothee De Monfreid (Hodder Children's Books)
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Dorothee De Monfried,
Hodder Children's Books,
I Really Want To Eat A Child,
Sylviane Donnio
Oddly it looks like this book has been renamed to be slightly more polite. What a shame! Anyway, when we first bought / reviewed this book it was called "I Really Want to Eat a Child" and was one of the reasons we fell hook line and sinker in love with all things kidlit and comic-shaped...
"Don't go....stay" - This Week's #ReadItTorial
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#ReadItTorial2020
Saaaaaam! Don't Go....! Stay!
We're officially on the slowly meandering path to eventual wind down here at ReadItDaddy Towers, but weird things keep happening to draw us back into the idea of "staying on" in some form or other after August 12th. I can almost hear the collective groans...
Wednesday, 27 May 2020
"The Big Book of Football" by Mundial, illustrated by Damien Weighill (Wide Eyed Editions)
"Ball Ball Ball! Footy Footy Footy! Ball Ball Ball...FOOTBALL!"
We must admit we are utterly and completely clueless when it comes to the beautiful game, not knowing our Spurs from our Arsenals, but if you're looking for a giant-sized book that is a mammoth encyclopaedia filled with...
#Booky100Keepers Day 24: "Troll and the Oliver" by Adam Stower (Templar Publishing)
There's always something quite thrilling about getting a 'back cover quote' when you're just a small humble book blog. Our first was this fantastic book which we quite rightly made a "Book of the Week" back in the day, the utterly brilliant "Troll and the Oliver" by Adam Stower.
Troll...
Tuesday, 26 May 2020
"The Blue Giant" by Katie Cottle (Pavilion Children's Books)
A fabulous, beautiful book about our amazing oceans, Katie Cottle's "The Blue Giant" is out today, from Pavilion Children's Books.
Saving our planet, and the plastic in our oceans is of course a hugely important topic that children are focused on at the moment, and this book brings...
#Booky100Keepers Day 23: "The Clarice Bean Books" by Lauren Child (Orchard Books)
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#Booky100Keepers,
Clarice Bean,
My Uncle is a Hunkle,
What Planet are You From Clarice Bean? Lauren Child
Though C was obsessed with Charlie and Lola (the TV show rather than the books, strangely) she really, REALLY loves Lauren Child's other genius creation far more.
"Clarice Bean, That's Me" by Lauren is that perfect example of a book that was pretty far ahead of its time, and one that...
Monday, 25 May 2020
"Go Big - Survive and Thrive in Secondary School" by Matthew Burton (Hachette)
It feels like a weirdly different landscape for schools at the moment, but one thing that never goes amiss is a good dose of awesome advice from someone who knows what they're talking about.
Entering senior school can be a daunting prospect for youngsters and in "Go Big: Survive and...
#Booky100Keepers Day 22: "The Princess and the Pony" and "King Baby" by Kate Beaton (Walker Books)
Who is Kate Beaton? Well she's the genius behind a series of pant-wettingly funny (and er, really only for Grown Ups!) web comics where she pokes raucous fun at everything from history to romantic literature and popular culture.
So a shoe-in for someone who could produce the most...
Sunday, 24 May 2020
#Booky100Keepers Day 21: "The Talkative Tortoise" by Andew Fusek-Peters and Charlotte Cooke (Child's Play)
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#Booky100Keepers,
Andrew Fusek-Peters,
Charlotte Cooke,
Child's Play,
The Talkative Tortoise
Sometimes, author / illustrator teams can being a well-loved traditional tale to life in such an engaging way, that it outstrips and out-performs any other version of that story.
We have seen this many times with classic fables, and it's definitely the case with this version of "The...
Saturday, 23 May 2020
#Booky100Keepers Day 20: "The Dunderheads" and "The Dunderheads Behind Bars" by Paul Fleischman and David Roberts (Walker Books)
David Roberts is a name that's going to come up quite a few times in our #Booky100Keepers list - here working alongside Paul Fleischman to provide two utterly fantastic and diverse books that don't bore the absolute pants off you by making diversity some sort of horrid mechanism to...
Friday, 22 May 2020
#Booky100Keepers Day 19: "The Book With No Pictures" by B.J. Novak (Picture Puffin)
I love it when a #Booky100Keeper crops up that elicits such a sharp and happy memory of our book blogging journey.
This one arrived without fanfare, without prewarning (we literally saw no hype, no build up, not even a polite "Do you want to review this book?" but nevertheless "The...
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