Playing by the book

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

Owls

We’ve got a bit of thing about owls in this house, so when my younger daughter put T’wit T’woo by Maddy McClellan in my lap at the library I was more than happy to read it to the girls. Like many baby board books the text is brief – just ten lines of rhyme, but [...]

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My palaeontology princess*

Last week we were visiting my parents who live just by the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site, a section of amazing coastline where you can find all sorts of fossils on the beaches. Seeing as my daughters are dino-mad it will come as no surprise that fossil hunting is an activity they enjoy rather a [...]

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Home is where the heart is

Although we’re happily back home now, one of the many treats for M (and me) whilst we were at my parents was being allowed to play with the dolls’ house that used to belong to my sister. As it is full of rather beautiful but fragile fixtures and fittings this was the first time it [...]

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