Free crafty activities from The Gruffalo and Harper Collins

For my last selection of free activity sheets from children’s authors and illustrators I bring you a modern childhood classic – The Gruffalo. The Gruffalo website has all sorts of games and activities to keep little hands and minds busy. There are domino sets to make, treasure hunts to complete and word searches to puzzles [...]

Today is National Poetry Day!

National Poetry Day is here and I’m celebrating by sharing two poems with you. The Reading Mother by Gillian Strickland I had a mother who read to me Sagas of pirates who scoured the sea. Cutlasses clenched in their yellow teeth; “Blackbirds” stowed in the hold beneath. I had a Mother who read me lays [...]

What would you do if your child painted on the walls?

A couple of weeks ago (already!) I reviewed Stone Age Boy by Satoshi Kitamura. It was the perfect picture book for M – full of detail, both in the illustrations and the text, and bursting with imagination. The historical facts washed over much younger J, but I didn’t want her to miss out on her [...]

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