Friday, 31 July 2020
ReadItDaddy's Second Picture Book of the Week - Week Ending 31st July 2020: "Shy Ones" by Simona Ciraolo (Flying Eye / NoBrow)
We had to make our "Book of the Week" slot a double header for Flying Eye / NoBrow - simply because both the books we recieved for review from them recently are just SO GOOD!
This one, in particular, feels like the book we've been waiting on for the last 10 years of our book blogging...
ReadItDaddy's First Book of the Week - Week Ending 31st July 2020: "Season of the Witch" by Matt Ralph and Nuria Tamarit (Flying Eye / NoBrow)
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Flying Eye Books,
Matt Ralph,
Season of the Witch: A Spellbinding History of Witches and Other Magical Folk,
Tamarit Nuria
Wow! I mean you had us at "Witch" but we hadn't expected the perfect halloween book to drop into our laps before August is even upon us. But let's face it, there's never a bad time of year to read a brilliantly researched and gorgeously illustrated book all about witches, is there?
"Season...
#Booky100Keepers Day 89: "Board Games to Create and Play" by Kevan Davis and Viviane Schwarz (Pavilion Children's Books)
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Board Games to Create and Play,
Kevan Davis,
Pavilion Children's Books,
viviane schwarz
Man, we were properly obsessed with this book when it first turned up at ReaditDaddy Towers and you know what? Though our copy is pretty well mauled, we still use it today as there's no better way to pass a long boring school holiday than to delve into this exquisite book and start...
Thursday, 30 July 2020
Parental influence - Are we 'hard wiring' our children's reading tastes from an early age? Today's #ReadItTorial
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#ReadItTorial 2020
Today's #Readitorial is more of a brain fart really. I'd been thinking a lot about an exercise I undertake from time to time, where I try desperately to 'read outside my comfort zone' - picking books that normally I wouldn't touch with a 50 ft barge pole. For one reason or another...
#Booky100Keepers Day 88: "Mi and Museum City" by Linda Sarah (Phoenix Yard Publishing)
Sometimes we're left feeling a little sad by some of the entries in our #Booky100Keepers list. Some titles never quite gained the traction they so richly deserved and this is definitely one such title, the utterly original, brilliant and sublime "Mi and Museum City" by Linda Sarah.
Imagine...
Wednesday, 29 July 2020
#Booky100Keepers Day 87: "Hurricane Lane" and "256 Postcards Ago" by Michelle Vinall (Self Published)
We'll probably be accused of some hideous bias in including two books by Michelle Vinall in our #Booky100Keepers list - after all this extremely talented artist illustrated our current blog header for us.
But there's something about Michelle's two self-published books that still...
Tuesday, 28 July 2020
#Booky100Keepers Day 86: The stunning comics and graphic novels of Metaphrog
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#Booky100Keepers,
Metaphrog
I still can't quite remember what originally caught my eye about the fantastic work of Metaphrog. I think it was at a point where I knew C was becoming more and more interested in comics - even at a young age she seem drawn to them, drawn to the format of strips and panels as a way...
Monday, 27 July 2020
#Booky100Keepers Day 85: The books of Alex T. Smith
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#Booky100Keepers,
Alex T Smith
Another creative mind worthy of inclusion in our #Booky100Keepers list is none other than Mr Alex T. Smith, creator of the fantastic "Claude" series, and of course a brilliantly funny middle grade author of the superb "Mr Penguin" books.
We were lucky enough to meet Alex at a book...
Sunday, 26 July 2020
#Booky100Keepers Day 84: The books of Helen Hancocks
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#Booky100Keepers,
Helen Hancocks
Some author-illustrators make our hearts almost sing with joy whenever they release a new book. One such gifted individual is Helen Hancocks, whose picture books are an absolute delight, striking the perfect balance between being gloriously involving and entertaining, and as clever...
Saturday, 25 July 2020
#Booky100Keepers Day 83: The Seth Seppi Mysteries by Nicki Thornton (Chicken House Publishing)
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Nicki Thornton
Though we pledged not to feature too many chapter books in our #Booky100Keepers list (otherwise we'd need to make it a #Booky1000Keepers list instead) there are just some books, and some authors, who have to feature in this list. One such author is Nicki Thornton, the fabulous local...
Friday, 24 July 2020
ReadItDaddy's Picture Book of the Week - Week Ending 24th July 2020: "Pierre the Maze Detective: The Curious Case of the Castle in the Sky" by Hiro Kamigaki and IC4 Design (Laurence King Publishing)
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Hiro Kamigaki,
IC4 Design,
Laurence King Publishing,
Pierre the Maze Detective: The Curious Case of the Castle in the Sky
Time for another truly stunning book in the fabulous "Pierre the Maze Detective" series, this time with a dizzyingly imaginative new adventure set against the backdrop of dreamy Canal City (Venice in all but name) in "Pierre the Maze Detective: The Curious Case of the Castle in the...
#Booky100Keepers Day 82: "Lumberjanes" by Shannon Watters, Noelle Stevenson, Grace Ellis and Brooke Allen (Boom! Comics)
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#Booky100Keepers
I like clever stuff that comes along just at the right time to tap into C's interests. Just as she was beginning to embrace the world of Rainbows, Brownies and Guides I spotted the cover of "Lumberjanes Volume 1: Beware the Kitten Holy" and knew it would be a big hit with her. Thankfully...
Thursday, 23 July 2020
Thank goodness for the NHS and thank goodness for books like this - Today's #ReadItTorial
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#ReadItTorial 2020
Today's #ReaditTorial goes off on a tangent a bit so apologies in advance if you don't make it all the way through to the end. I've been reading "Dear NHS: 100 Stories to say Thank You" by Adam Kay and it's the sort of book that (obviously) makes you incredibly thankful for this amazing...
Out Today: "Wild" by Sam Usher (Templar Publishing)
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Sam Usher,
Templar Publishing,
Wild
Sam Usher's gentle storytelling makes his books a complete draw, but what we love about the books written as a series about a young boy and his grandad is the beautiful cross-generational relationship depicted so wonderfully in his book series.
"Wild" is the second in Sam's new quartet...
#Booky100Keepers Day 81: "Winnie the Witch" by Valerie Thomas and Korky Paul (OUP / Oxford Children's Books)
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Korky Paul,
OUP / Oxford Children's Books,
Valerie Thomas,
Winnie the Witch
Moving from one excellent witchy series to another in our #Booky100Keepers list, the "Winnie the Witch" books by Valerie Thomas and Korky Paul were early favourites of C - and that rare thing, a series of books that she discovered herself without any prodding or cajoling from me.
Back...
Wednesday, 22 July 2020
Four gorgeous new books to brighten up your summer from Walker Books
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Africa Amazing Africa Mouni Feddag,
Angela Brooksbank,
Anna Hibscus,
Atinuke,
Catch That Chicken,
Lauren Tobia,
Too Small Tolla,
Walker Books
The summer holidays are here, as is the sunshine, and you can almost hear the exasperated exclamations of parents across the land as their kids grump around the house, listlessly scrolling on their tablets or mobiles. But hark, there is hope - and there's no better time to drag 'em...
#Booky100Keepers Day 80: The Meg and Mog Books by Helen Nicoll, David Walser and Jan Pienkowski (Picture Puffin)
The "Meg and Mog" books were another example of me remembering books I'd loved as a child, and surreptitiously introducing them into C's reading pile as soon as I possibly could.
The first "Meg and Mog" is an absolute timeless classic, now 48 years old which means it came out when...
Tuesday, 21 July 2020
#Booky100Keepers Day 79: The Books of Judith Kerr
Judith Kerr was a remarkable woman and it'd be impossible to feature any kind of children's book roundup without featuring her brilliant books. Working right up until her death a couple of years ago, Judith's books have always been favourites - and yet we didn't start out with the...
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