Playing by the book

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

One way to launch a library! (or 4 ways to celebrate World Book Day)

If you were invited to design a school library launch, how would you go about it? What events would you want to facilitate? Who would you want to involve? These questions have been very much on my mind since the start of the year, for designing and delivering a school library launch is exactly what [...]

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On Eating books

I can’t resist any longer… I’ve just got to let you know that the International Edible Book Festival returns to Playing by the book next month, even bigger and better thank last year (which was already pretty spectacular ) The official announcement with all the details of how you can enter, wherever you are in [...]

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I’m looking for a book about… books, authors and illustrators

Welcome to “I’m looking for a book about….”, the topic-themed monthly carnival of children’s literature. Every month I’ll be encouraging anyone who likes to review books for children (of any age) to leave links to their reviews of books that match the given month’s theme. The idea is that over time, this carnival will become [...]

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