Moving from one excellent witchy series to another in our #Booky100Keepers list, the "Winnie the Witch" books by Valerie Thomas ...

Another cracking slice of awesome colourful fun and hilarity from a truly original creative. Jon Burgerman's fantastic books are bri...

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 fro...

Ah, Unicorns, still a firm favourite mythical beast - and there's no reason why they shouldn't be a central character in a fabulou...

Day 7 on our Booky Advent Calendar sees a very talented chap turn his hand to his first christmas book, with brilliant results in a timely...

A fab series gets you ready for christmas in the most charming and delightful way, as Anne Booth's "Lucy Makes a Wish" with ...

Our Chapter Book of the Week reminds me of a little boy who was properly obsessed with this character as a little kid. He would dress up i...

We're delighted to bring you five new books in OUP / Oxford Children's Books Autumn release schedule. So let's start with a ...

Our Chapter Book of the Week this week is a series that has proved wildly popular at C's school, so much so that she coasts quite a lo...

Being the oldest of three siblings I can still remember my brother and sister as tiny babies, though I can't remember a thing about th...

Yikes! Not a fan of spiders here at ReadItDaddy Towers, and definitely not a fan of finding them languishing in our food. In "There...

Oh Gizmo. You broke us. You really broke us. Our Chapter Book of the Week is the sort of book that you just know is going to end up with...

Kindness can't be overrated. Kindness towards others, towards animals, there's a lot to be said for any book that makes kindness i...

Sometimes it takes seeing things through the eyes of your child to really change your lifelong mind about something you've previously ...

When we returned from holiday to a huge stack of mail, and of course a huge stack of books to review, this was the one we both made a beel...

After a break from reviewing chapter books we're back with a bang, and with a book that had C in stitches as soon as she cracked open ...

For a moment we had a little bit of book Deja Vu about this one, though there's no doubt that this is a superbly powerful story that i...

I wonder what it is about penguins that makes them the perfect characters to sum up what it feels like to be an outsider, struggling for a...

Meet a wonderful snail who happens to share his name with a truly fabulous artist. "Matisse's Magical Trail" by Tim Hopgoo...

Stare into the eyes of one of the most feared characters in children's fiction (and children's TV if you have a long enough memory...