Playing by the book

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

A new house

We had a wet summer this year, but since September we’ve had almost no rain and when M has come home after school we’ve been able to play outside, much to everyone’s delight. With our sunflowers well and truly past it the time came to uproot the giant stalks, but instead of immediately chopping them [...]

When is a sofa not a sofa?

After the success of Here comes Frankie we immediately put out a reserve notice at the library on all other Tim Hopgood books we could find in the catalogue. Within a couple of days Our Big Blue Sofa was waiting for collection and since we’ve got it home it has stayed very near the top [...]

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