Playing by the book

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

A creatively translated world for little ones

Today I’ve my last review for this month as part of Gathering Books’ Award Winning Book Challenge, and again it’s a picture book which has won the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis (German Youth literature prize). One, Two, Three, Me by Nadia Budde is a board book for the pre-school / nursery crowd. It is a quirky take [...]

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Books good enough to eat (really!)

Last week I read one particularly thoughtful piece about reading deeply and reading for pleasure, written by a headmaster. It’s full of detail and will require you to spend some time with it, but I do urge you to read it. It was a highlight of my week. My thanks to Anne Harding, via whom [...]

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(Sort of) Counting down the days till Christmas

I’ll start today with an admission. We don’t really “do” Christmas in our home. It’s not that we go out of our way to avoid it, but it’s not a celebration we wait all year for. M’s birthday is just before the 25th, we’re not a religious family, and we don’t want to be sucked [...]

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