Playing by the book

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

What makes a home?

Earlier this month Jutta Bauer received the Hans Christian Andersen Illustrator Award at the at the international IBBY (International Board on Books for Young People) congress in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Interested to find out more about this German illustrator I tracked down one of the books she has illustrated – When We Lived in [...]

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Where does it go?

[Yes, here's the poo post - if it's not your sort of thing please ignore and come back later in the week when we'll have left all toilet business behind. I really don't want to offend anyone with this. If on the other hand you're comfortable with talking about no. 2s (I hope that's not [...]

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Perfect picture books by post – a new swap

After the success of the International Postcard Swap for Families back in May I knew I would want to do another swap before long. And now the time as finally come to announce the Perfect Picture Books by Post swap. Perfect Picture Books by Post is all about sending and receiving wonderful, indeed brilliant children’s [...]

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