Playing by the book

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

Nonfiction Monday Roundup

Today I’m very happy to be hosting Nonfiction Monday! If you’ve recently reviewed a great nonfiction book for kids please leave a comment below and I’ll add you to this post as the day develops. I’ve recently reviewed several books that have blurred the boundary between fiction and non fiction – Satoshi Kitamura’s Stone Age [...]

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Travelling back at least 10,000 years in time

For us, summer holidays are all about doing a few crazy things we wouldn’t normally have the time or energy for, and also about living the simple life at a slower pace, and today’s book ensured both these things happened for us this week. Stone Age Boy, by one of our favourite author/illustrators – Satoshi [...]

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Butterflies, mud and stick-on velcro

Summer Birds: The Butterflies of Maria Merian by Margarita Engle and Julie Paschkis was a book I made a point of recently tracking down. It is about butterflies, a biography of a talented and independent woman of the sort I hope will inspire my children, and there’s a link to the Netherlands – so all [...]

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