What makes you happy?

My Happy Life by Rose Lagercrantz, illustrated by Eva Eriksson, translated by Julia Marshall is a great early chapter book about friendship, school and holding on to the good things in life, despite its ups and downs. Dani is probably the happiest person she knows. When she can’t sleep at night instead of counting sheep, [...]

How to foster a budding inventor

Today sees the start of National Science & Engineering Week in the UK. I’ll be celebrating it with books of course, and so the focus for the next couple of posts here on the blog is… INVENTIONS! This afternoon I’m in school doing a book+craft session based on Wouter van Reek‘s Coppernickel: The Invention. After [...]

Cybils nominee: The One and Only Stuey Lewis

The One and Only Stuey Lewis by Jane Schoenberg, illustrated by Cambria Evans (nominated for the Cybils by Sarah Wendorf at Page in Training) is the first book I’ve read with my book-judging hat on, and if all the books I read as part of the Cybils judging process are as good as this, I’m [...]

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