Playing by the book

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

A book loving reading session at school

As some of you know last term I started reading regularly to two classes of 5 and 6 year olds at M and J’s school – reading great stories just for fun, to show them that learning to read isn’t all about phonics and literacy but also about exploring, delighting and laughing. The sessions went [...]

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Katie Cleminson’s 8 books on route to becoming an illustrator

When I recently fell in love with Katie Cleminson’s newest book, Otto the Book Bear, I had fun re-reading an interview I did with her last year. It was my first ever interview with an author/illustrator and I was so nervous! Since then I’ve got to know Katie a little better and so I recently [...]

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Save our Libraries! Reserve this book today!

Last week we were on holiday in a county where 9 libraries have had their funding withdrawn. If volunteers can’t be found (putting aside the whole issue of whether volunteers running libraries is a good thing) the libraries, more than a quarter of all the libraries in the county in question, will shut their doors [...]

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