Playing by the book

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

Win a signed copy of Thank You for Looking After Our Pets by Tim Hopgood

**THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED** Thanks to the generous folk at Simon and Schuster I have five (yes, five!) copies of the very funny, very colourful, brilliant read for summer that is Thank You for Looking After Our Pets by Tim Hopgood. And what’s more they’re signed by the author himself! I reviewed Thank You [...]

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The Perils of Pet Sitting

Life and books (as if they really were two separate things!) came together just beautifully this weekend. To start with, we’ve been looking after our neighbour’s cat, a tom cat, which for some reason M and J have renamed Alice. Not having any pets of our own, it always makes the girls very happy to [...]

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The magic of balloons

One of the contributors to last week’s popular post 50+ picture books every child should be read was an author/illustrator much enjoyed in our home – Tim Hopgood. One of the very fist books I reviewed on Playing by the book was his award winning Here Come’s Frankie, which is still the book I pick [...]

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