Playing by the book

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

Fantastic Fiction for Kids – Shifting Perspectives

Today’s Fantastic Fiction for Kids selection comes from Nancy at Bees Knees Reads. Nancy has two girls, aged 4 and 6, and they live in a small town on the coast in northern California.

Three years ago she started blogging about picture books with her sister Kim Baise at Bees Knees Reads and around the same [...]

Living in colour

I don’t know about you, but since Christmas we’ve been seeing a lot of grey. Grey clouds, grey sleet, grey sky, grey rain. I’m beginning to get a bit itchy now for some splashes of colour. Some early crocuses would be nice, or even just some sunshine!

So I’m having to get my colour fix another [...]

Colours

“A family friendly summer exhibition celebrating the use of colour in contemporary art” – this by-line for the summer exhibition on at our local museum and art gallery certainly caught my attention. It sounded right up my street – and on Saturday we finally made it there.

The curators had indeed been successful in creating a [...]

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