Playing by the book

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

A new house

We had a wet summer this year, but since September we’ve had almost no rain and when M has come home after school we’ve been able to play outside, much to everyone’s delight. With our sunflowers well and truly past it the time came to uproot the giant stalks, but instead of immediately chopping them [...]

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Penguins

How many library books do you think you’ve read with your kids in the last year? I’ve always imagined that we’re big users of our local library, but then I came across Reading My Library – Carrie is aiming to read every single one of the children’s picture books in her local library in the [...]

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A crown of fire

We have a few birthday traditions in this house (chocolate cake, of course, bunting and Dutch slingers – paper bunting / garlands often with words, shapes or characters – see here for some pictures), and last weekend we added what I hope will become a new tradition – a crown of flowers for the birthday [...]

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