Wednesday, 12 August 2020
All Good Things...
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Goodbye
Q from Star Trek: The Next Generation. Probably had a pretty good library...
So here we are then. 12th August, ten years (and a day) since we began our book blogging journey, armed with little more than a Blogger account and an armful of picture books from our local library.
It's...
Tuesday, 11 August 2020
#Booky100Keepers Day 100: All the wonderful art books
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# Booky100Keepers,
Art books
Looking through our bookshelves, it's clear that one type of book is almost in danger of completely taking over. They're usually thick weighty hardback tomes, filled to the brim with delights a-plenty, they're books that are read and re-read again and again, and they are books that...
Monday, 10 August 2020
Out Today - "100 Things to do in a Forest" by Jennifer Davis and Eleanor Taylor (Laurence King Publishing)
As we enter the final week of our blog, we wanted to review the heck out of a book that offers a quirky, sometimes rather eccentric view of something that we - in lockdown over the last few months - have been dying to do for ages. Thankfully as the lockdown rules are eased, and the...
#Booky100Keepers Day 99: The books of Julia Donaldson
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#Booky100Keepers,
Julia Donaldson
One thing we've noticed in ten years of book blogging is that huge success, and becoming a best-selling author also sometimes means that a particular author will end up being placed in the dock, accused of market saturation - their success almost being used against them as a blunt...
Sunday, 9 August 2020
#Booky100Keepers Day 98: "We're going on a Bear Hunt" by Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury (Walker Books)
As our #Booky100Keepers list nearly draws to a close, I had to cast eyes back over the entire list to make sure I hadn't already featured this one. Any children's book list of recommendations will have certain books that folk will firmly get behind, and "We're going on a Bear Hunt"...
Saturday, 8 August 2020
#Booky100Keepers Day 97: "The Rescue Princesses" and the other fantastic books by Paula Harrison (Nosy Crow)
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Nosy Crow,
Paula Harrison,
Rescue Princesses,
Sharon Tancredi
I think it's fair to say that this fantastic joy-filled book series, showcasing kindness and a love of animals, was the first series C became a superfan of.
Prolific and hugely talented author Paula Harrison wrote the fantastic "Rescue Princesses", with a fab collection of positive...
Friday, 7 August 2020
ReadItDaddy's Second Picture Book of the Week - Week Ending 7th August 2020: "Marvellous Magicians" by Lydia Corry (Thames and Hudson)
Magic! As a kid I was obsessed with magic, always asking for magic sets and always closely scrutinising magic shows that would appear on TV (why oh why have these died out? It's such a huge shame).
I've also passed on this love of magic to my daughter so imagine our delight when this...
#Booky100Keepers Day 96: The fabulous Etherington Brothers
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#Booky100Keepers,
How to Think when you Draw,
How To Think When You Write,
Long Gone Don,
Monkey Nuts 1 and 2,
The Art of Stranski,
The Etherington Brothers,
Von Doogan
Oozing with talent from every pore, and a pair of creative geniuses who do something that you seldom see in the world of children's publishing or illustration - paying their awesome success forward by helping others with an awesome creative blog and sizzling set of tutorials.
What...
ReadItDaddy's First Picture Book of the Week - Week Ending 7th August 2020: "Lady Pancake and Sir French Toast: Short and Sweet (Book 4)" by Josh Funk and Brendan Kearney
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Brendan Kearney,
Josh Funk,
Lady Pancake and Sir French Toast Book 4: Short and Sweet,
Picture Book of the Week 2020,
Sterling Children's Books
On the bittersweet occasion of our last Picture Books of the Week we wanted to share a book filled with giggles, with joy and of course with our favourite subject - yummy scrummy food!
"Lady Pancake and Sir French Toast: Short and Sweet" is the fourth book in the series from awesome...
Thursday, 6 August 2020
Kids will never tire of stories, no matter how old they are. The final ReaditDaddy #ReadItTorial
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#ReadItTorial 2020
The very last #ReadItTorial is saved for something that may worry those of you whose kids are getting to the point of eschewing their bedtime book reading session with you, in favour of doinking around on their mobile phones or catching up with a bit of late night telly, or any other...
#Booky100Keepers Day 95: "The Apartment: A Century of Russian History" by Alexandra Litvina, Anna Desnitskaya and Antonina W. Bouis (Abrams Books for Young Readers)
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#Booky100Keepers,
Abrams Books for Young Readers,
Alexandra Litvina,
Anna Desnitskaya,
The Apartment: A Century of Russian History,
translated by Antonina Bouis
Russia has always fascinated me. There's just something about this amazing nation that draws you in from its often turbulent history, to its triumphant and successful space program, and its rich and diverse culture.
Finding books on Russia that aren't dry and boring isn't that easy...
Wednesday, 5 August 2020
#Booky100Keepers Day 94: "The Legend of Sally Jones" and "The Murderer's Ape" by Jakob Wegelius (Pushkin Children's Books)
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#Booky100Keepers,
Jakob Wegelius,
Pushkin Press,
The Legend of Sally Jones,
The Murderer's Ape
We couldn't possibly miss these books off our #Booky100Keepers list, purely because A) they're so damned good and B) they almost give me hope that the children's publishing industry isn't going to collapse under a tsunami of samey books.
"The Murderer's Ape" by Jakob Wegelius is quite...
Tuesday, 4 August 2020
Beat the "Back to School" blues by making some fabulous art with Marion Deuchars' new "Let's make Some Great Art" series of activity books (Hachette)
Aw, just the ticket for the long summer holidays but sadly not out until the 7th September. BUT a good way of beating the 'Back to school" doldrums for creative kids, with a new range of fantastic activity books from top creative Marion Deuchars.
Marion's tutorial and art books are...
#Booky100Keepers Day 93: The Mighty Beano Comic
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#Booky100Keepers,
DC Thomson,
Studio Press,
The Beano
Oh dear, that whole "parental influence" thing again, responsible for C's absolute unending adoring love of all things Beano shaped.
The little miss and I were on a day trip to Brighton, strolling through the Lanes and looking through comic shops I'd been a regular visitor to when...
Monday, 3 August 2020
"Amazing Women of the Middle East" by Wafa Tarnowska with illustrations by Margarida Esteves, Hoda Hadadi, Sahar Haghgoo, Christelle Halal and Estell Meza (Pikku Publishing)
There are so many books out there that round up impressive historical and contemporary figures who provide such a huge inspiration to our youngsters.
It's about time there were books that stepped outside our own rather narrow view of figures that we consider inspirational, to examine...
#Booky100Keepers Day 92: The Asterix Books by Goscinny, Uderzo, Ferri and Conrad (Orion Children's Books)
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#Booky100Keepers,
Albert Uderzo,
Asterix,
Didier Conrad,
Jean-Yves Ferri,
Orion Children's Books,
Rene Goscinny
Well we've already mentioned Tintin in our #Booky100Keepers list so it would be incredibly unfair not to mention Asterix.
Again, these were books that were hotly sought after at school. The stories of the diminutive but powerful gaul Asterix and his menhir-lugging bestie Obelix are...
Sunday, 2 August 2020
#Booky100Keepers Day 91: Herge's Adventures of Tintin (Egmont)
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#Booky100Keepers,
Egmont Publishing,
Herge,
Tintin
Back in primary and middle school, the "Tintin" books were always the most sought-after titles in the school library. You had to put your name down on a waiting list for them, and when your turn came, you'd end up with the most dog-eared copies (tsk, some kids just don't look after...
Saturday, 1 August 2020
#Booky100Keepers Day 90: The fantastic non fiction books from Wide Eyed Editions
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Wide Eyed Editions
We love non-fiction and we've been very lucky during our tenure on the blog to see the rise and rise of absolutely top quality non fiction titles shouldering aside fiction picture books to establish themselves as a force to be reckoned with in engaging young readers with a lifelong...
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