Playing by the book

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

What would you do if your child painted on the walls?

A couple of weeks ago (already!) I reviewed Stone Age Boy by Satoshi Kitamura. It was the perfect picture book for M – full of detail, both in the illustrations and the text, and bursting with imagination. The historical facts washed over much younger J, but I didn’t want her to miss out on her [...]

Travelling back at least 10,000 years in time

For us, summer holidays are all about doing a few crazy things we wouldn’t normally have the time or energy for, and also about living the simple life at a slower pace, and today’s book ensured both these things happened for us this week.

Stone Age Boy, by one of our favourite author/illustrators – Satoshi [...]

Butterflies, mud and stick-on velcro

Summer Birds: The Butterflies of Maria Merian by Margarita Engle and Julie Paschkis was a book I made a point of recently tracking down. It is about butterflies, a biography of a talented and independent woman of the sort I hope will inspire my children, and there’s a link to the Netherlands – so [...]

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