Playing by the book

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

50+ picture books every child should be read – a non-prescriptive list for inspiration

Last week the UK Secretary for Education Michael Gove suggested that children as young as 11 should be reading 50 books a year as part of a drive to raise literacy standards. This raised a lot of eyebrows amongst the British book-loving public, not least as it comes following large cuts in funding for libraries [...]

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Owls

We’ve got a bit of thing about owls in this house, so when my younger daughter put T’wit T’woo by Maddy McClellan in my lap at the library I was more than happy to read it to the girls. Like many baby board books the text is brief – just ten lines of rhyme, but [...]

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When is a sofa not a sofa?

After the success of Here comes Frankie we immediately put out a reserve notice at the library on all other Tim Hopgood books we could find in the catalogue. Within a couple of days Our Big Blue Sofa was waiting for collection and since we’ve got it home it has stayed very near the top [...]

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