Playing by the book

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

Fantastic Fiction for Kids – Death and grief

This week’s Fantastic Fiction for Kids is once again selected by me, Zoe, at Playing by the book. Today it is exactly a year since my paternal Grandfather died, and it is with him in my mind and in my heart that I have selected today’s beautiful, but I’m afraid to say heart-breaking books, all [...]

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Bits and bobs

As promised, here are a couple of photos of my new bookcases now that they’ve lived with us for a little while! There’s still plenty of opportunity for sorting out books which we’ve yet to give in to (to sort by size? author? age band? colour??), but at least the books are on the shelves [...]

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Nonfiction Monday – The Planet Gods

For my contribution to this week’s Nonfiction Monday I’m reviewing The Planet Gods: Myths and Facts about the Solar System by Jacqueline Mitton and Christina Balit The Planet Gods is a tremendous, beautifully written, stunningly illustrated introduction to the solar system. Each of the planets (plus three so-called dwarf planets) in our night sky is [...]

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