Playing by the book

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

Books about bilingualism for kids

As some of you may know we’re raising M and J bilingually. My husband, W, is Dutch and he and I met when we were both studying for PhDs in Linguistics so given our interest in language it was never really an issue whether our kids would be raised with one language or two. For [...]

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Fish feet…

With J’s current fish obsession we’re on the look out for books about fish at the moment. One Smart Fish by Chris Wormell was a chance find when we were visiting the Natural History Museum a few weeks back – it’s not a book I had previously heard of – but it’s now definitely one [...]

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“Reading” the Red Book

Following on from the wordless Welcome to the Zoo by Alison Jay we have recently been enjoying another story told without words, The Red Book by Barbara Lehman. Through simple line drawings and the clever use of frames to create pace Barbara Lehman tells the story of a young girl who, on her way to [...]

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