Cute animals + word play = happy kids

Do you know the fabulous children’s book blog, Bookie Woogie? It’s a real breath of fresh air and originality; author/illustrator Dad, Aaron Zenz, and his kids review books through conversation with each other, and pretty much every post will make you laugh, smile and delight in the artwork the kids produce to illustrate their review. [...]

There are Cats in this Interview! (An Interview with Viviane Schwarz)

Illustrator Viviane Schwarz won a Booktrust Best New Illustrators Award in 2011 and in the same year was shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny Award. She’s also been shortlisted twice for the CILIP Greenaway award. Surely it can only be a matter of time until she walks away from a big award ceremony as the [...]

Making tiny books for creative play PLUS Axel Scheffler original for £2

The girls wanted some books for their Sylvanian families to play with so I recently made these: Each is about 2cm tall. I used the thin strip-like post-it note pads (like these) to create the pages, adding a little extra PVA glue at the binding edge. Book covers were made out of origami paper. This [...]

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