Playing by the book

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

Dinosaurs preparing for a party!

Just before Christmas my marvellous M will turn 5. This year will be the first time we’ve held a party for her, and at her request, it is going to have a dinosaur theme. After all the running (stomping?) around at the party we’re going to have some dinosaur stories before all the kids go [...]

My palaeontology princess*

Last week we were visiting my parents who live just by the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site, a section of amazing coastline where you can find all sorts of fossils on the beaches. Seeing as my daughters are dino-mad it will come as no surprise that fossil hunting is an activity they enjoy rather a [...]

Dinosaurs

I know many kids go through a stage of being crazy about dinosaurs and yet, the passions that M has for these creatures continues to take me by surprise. She simply can’t get enough of them, whether they are plastic toys, pictures to colour in, songs to sing or fossils in a museum.

So of course [...]

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