Tuesday, 30 June 2020
#Booky100Keepers Day 58: "The Diary of a Wimpy Kid" by Jeff Kinney (Puffin Books)
I'm not sure what it is about the diary format that appeals to kids but so many well loved works of kidlit use the diary format, how can you possibly say whether one is better than another?
Quite simply, "The Diary of a Wimpy Kid" broke the mould for the diary format - away from stuff...
Monday, 29 June 2020
#Booky100Keepers Day 57: The Mighty Phoenix Comic
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#Booky100Keepers,
Children's Comics,
David Fickling,
Oxford,
The Phoenix Comic,
Tom Fickling
For a lot of comic-loving parents, they will have a particular memory of "Their" comic, the comic they grew up with, stuffed rolled up inside a back pocket while riding their Raleigh Chopper off to some bit of scrubland, to scrutinise every page, thrill at the stories, marvel at the...
Sunday, 28 June 2020
#Booky100Keepers Day 56: "The Books of Dr Seuss" (HarperCollins Children's Books)
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#Booky100Keepers,
dr seuss,
Green Eggs and Ham,
HarperCollins Children's Books,
The Cat in the Hat,
The Fox in Socks
These books are almost like family heirlooms! The late great Dr Seuss, one Theodore "Ted" Giesel himself is a master crafter of bouncy rhymes, outlandish characters and of course truly bad behaviour that kids absolutely cannot resist seeing in their picture books.
We started off reading...
Saturday, 27 June 2020
#Booky100Keepers Day 55: The "A Series Of Unfortunate Events" books by Lemony Snicket / Daniel Handler (Egmont)
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#Booky100Keepers,
A Series of Unfortunate Events,
Daniel Handler,
Egmont Publishing,
Lemony Snicket
We love dark books, we love books that also feature memorable villains - and could there possibly be a more memorable villain than Count Olaf?
Way back in the mists of time I picked up an anthology of "A Series of Unfortunate Events", not realising that the mammoth task of ploughing...
Friday, 26 June 2020
ReadItDaddy's Chapter Book of the Week - Week Ending 26th June 2020: "Love on the Main Stage" by S.A. Domingo (Hachette)
Sometimes when I hand over a book for 'the boss' to review, I'm never sure whether she's going to take to it or not.
But with "Love on the Main Stage" by S.A Domingo, she was in just the right mood for a summery and romantic novel with a beating pulse of musicality at its heart.
Nova...
#Booky100Keepers Day 54: The Harry Potter books by J.K. Rowling (Bloomsbury)
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#Booky100Keepers,
Bloomsbury,
Harry Potter,
J.K. Rowling
Good grief, what is there left to write about the publishing phenomenon known as Harry Potter? We started to read the entire set of books about four years ago, and it took us nearly that long to get through them all.
At first I wasn't really sure what C would make of them, and I think...
ReadItDaddy's Book of the Week - Week Ending 26th June 2020: "Generation Brave" by Kate Alexander and Jade Orlando (Andrews McMeel Publishing)
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Andrews McMeel Publishing,
Generation Brave,
Jade Orlando,
Kate Alexander,
Picture Book of the Week 2020
This week's Book of the Week won't be around until October but once again we wanted to make sure we squeezed in coverage before we disappear...
...and wow, what a book! If anything has lit a fire under children's publishing over the last few years, it's the real-life stories of youngsters...
Thursday, 25 June 2020
#Booky100Keepers Day 53: The "Dork Diaries" / "Max Crumbly" books by Rachel Renee Russell (Simon and Schuster Children's Books)
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#Booky100Keepers,
Dork Diaries,
Max Crumbly,
Rachel Renee Russell,
Simon and Schuster Children's Books
Every child eventually starts to read on their own, and will inevitably find their way into chapter books and middle grade fiction once they start moving on from picture books. In some cases though they still want plenty of awesome illustrations and doodles in their books, and they...
Wednesday, 24 June 2020
#Booky100Keepers Day 52: "The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl" by Ryan North, Erica Henderson, Derek Charm et al (Marvel Comics)
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#Booky100Keepers,
Derek Charm,
Erica Henderson,
marvel comics,
Ryan North,
The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl
In my constant quest to lure C deeper and deeper into a love of comics, I wanted to find a Marvel or DC super-hero series that she could call her own. Luckily, as it happens, Marvel have been going through something of a radical reinvention over the past ten years, switching comics...
Tuesday, 23 June 2020
#Booky100Keepers Day 51: The Little Tim Books by Edward Ardizzone (Picture Puffin / Frances Lincoln)
Sometimes a book's popularity with little miss would completely take me by surprise, as was the case with Edward Ardizzone's "Little Tim" series.
These are classic books, no doubt about it, but when lined up against modern picture books they look slightly quaint and out-of-date, and...
Monday, 22 June 2020
#Booky100Keepers Day 50: "Anna and Froga" by Anouk Ricard (Drawn and Quarterly)
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#Booky100Keepers,
Anna and Froga Completely Bubu,
Anna and Froga Out and About,
Anouk Ricard,
Drawn and Quarterly
We make no apologies for ramping up the comic presence in our #Booky100Keepers as a lot of the books we can't bear to part with are comic collections. They're also the books that C reaches for again, and again, and again and I've lost count of how many times I've found her reading...
Sunday, 21 June 2020
#Booky100Keepers Day 49: "The Akissi Comics" by Marguerite Abouet and Mathieu Sapin (Flying Eye Books)
Some creative pairings are legendary from the moment they put pen to paper, or cursor to word processor. In the case of Marguerite Abouet and Mathieu Sapin, the creative gods were definitely smiling down on us all when they began to collaborate on their brilliantly funny comic strips,...
Saturday, 20 June 2020
#Booky100Keepers Day 48: "The Flower" by John Light and Lisa Evans (Child's Play)
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#Booky100Keepers,
Child's Play,
John Light,
Lisa Evans,
The Flower
The practicalities of being a book blogger and living in a modest sized house mean that our #Booky100Keepers sometimes get stowed away safely in a cupboard or in storage only for us to rediscover them some years later.
That was the case with the utterly sublime "The Flower" by John...
Friday, 19 June 2020
#Booky100Keepers Day 47: "While He Was Sleeping" by Ayano Imai (Minedition)
Yesterday in our #Booky100Keepers slot we talked about the wonderful "Pandora" and the story of a lonely fox who befriends a beautiful blue bird, which changes her lonely life forever.
Completely coincidentally, today's book "While He Was Sleeping" by super-talented Ayano Imai also...
ReaditDaddy's Comic / Graphic Novel of the Week - Week Ending 19th June 2020: "Virtual Unicorn Experience" (Phoebe and her Unicorn Book 12) by Dana Simpson (Andrews McMeel Publishing)
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Andrews McMeel Publishing,
Comic / Graphic Novel of the Week 2020,
Dana Simpson,
Virtual Unicorn Experience (Phoebe and her Unicorn Series Book 12)
You may have a bit of a wait on your hands for this one but we couldn't wait to talk about it anyway, so here it is!
We've admired the "Phoebe and her Unicorn" series from afar for a while, pulling a couple of titles out of our local library for a look. My daughter has got to that...
Thursday, 18 June 2020
#Booky100Keepers Day 46: "Pandora" by Victoria Turnbull (Frances Lincoln Children's Books)
Today's #Booky100Keepers entry was recently re-read and both of us were completely rapt with how beautiful this book is - both how it looks but more, the story it tells.
"Pandora" by Victoria Turnbull arrived at ReadItDaddy Towers long before the avalanche of 'eco' books, with the...
Wednesday, 17 June 2020
#Booky100Keepers Day 45: "Mary and Frankenstein" by Linda Bailey and Julia Sarda (Andersen Children's Books)
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#Booky100Keepers,
Andersen Children's Books,
Julia Sarda,
Linda Bailey,
Mary and Frankenstein
This one's a relative newcomer to our shelf of "Keepers" but you couldn't wish for a better combination of creatives to work on a book that chronicles the life of one of the most influential gothic horror writers that ever lived.
"Mary and Frankenstein" by Linda Bailey and Julia Sarda...
Tuesday, 16 June 2020
#Booky100Keepers Day 44: "Hermelin the Detective Mouse" by Mini Grey (Red Fox Picture Books)
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Hermelin the Mouse Detective,
Mini Grey
Oddly enough, I realised that we rather daftly had no Mini Grey books on our shelves except one - a book that has been returned to again and again, a favourite story that's as warm and cuddly and satisfying as curling up in a cosy cheese box at the end of a busy and stressful day.
"Hermelin...
Monday, 15 June 2020
#Booky100Keepers Day 43: The "Hilda" books by Luke Pearson (Flying Eye Books)
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Flying Eye Books,
Luke Pearson,
The Hilda Books
You might be wondering why comics / graphic novels haven't fetched up in our #Booky100Keepers list up till now. The simple answer is that we could easily fill an entire set of 100 blog entries recommending comics to you, but wanted to try and cover as many different books from our...
Sunday, 14 June 2020
#Booky100Keepers Day 42: "The Welcome to the Museum" Series (Big Picture Press)
It's about time we had some non-fiction in this list, and what better series of books to feature than the wonderful "Welcome to the Museum" series from Big Picture Press.
These gigantic books aim to recreate the thrill (for us at least) of visiting museums, checking the exhibits and...
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