Playing by the book

Reviews of kids' books and the crazy, fun stuff they inspire us to do

What makes us happy

I try very hard not to buy books on impulse when we go into a bookstore; instead I endeavour to use our bookshop more like a library with lots of recent stock – I can browse through all the new publications and then go back to our real library and put in reservation requests. Then [...]

Flower Power

A couple of weeks ago we came across The Three Little Wolves and The Big Bad Pig by Eugene Trivizas, illustrated by Helen Oxenbury in a charity shop. I had not heard of the author but Helen Oxenbury’s illustrations are always gorgeous so we paid out our 70p for it, and once we got it [...]

Hats

Satoshi Kitamura is an illustrator and author we first fell in love with when we came across Igor, the bird who couldn’t sing. One of Kitamura’s most recent books is Millie’s Marvellous Hat and a marvellous book it is indeed.

One day, walking home from school, Millie falls in love with a hat she sees in [...]

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