Playing by the book

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

Interview with author and illustrator Katie Cleminson

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Today I’m honoured and excited to be bringing you my very first author/illustrator interview here on Playing by the book – an interview with Katie Cleminson, Best Emerging Illustrator in the Booktrust Early Years Awards 2009, and author and illustrator of two glorious books, Box of Tricks (Magic Box in the [...]

Wake up! It’s going to be a beautiful, busy day…

One of my first posts back at the start of the year was all about the book I had chosen for M’s 5th birthday – Katie Cleminson’s Box of Tricks. It was a book everyone in our family fell in love with and it continues to be read most weeks, especially now by J at [...]

Magical birthdays

Just before Christmas it was M’s 5th birthday. We had a really happy weekend, first her birthday at home with just the 4 of us playing, playing, reading and playing, and then the following day enjoying ourselves enormously at her dinosaur party (which I’m so happy to report couldn’t have been a bigger success [...]

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