Playing by the book

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

A crown of fire

We have a few birthday traditions in this house (chocolate cake, of course, bunting and Dutch slingers – paper bunting / garlands often with words, shapes or characters – see here for some pictures), and last weekend we added what I hope will become a new tradition – a crown of flowers for the birthday [...]

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Hats

Satoshi Kitamura is an illustrator and author we first fell in love with when we came across Igor, the bird who couldn’t sing. One of Kitamura’s most recent books is Millie’s Marvellous Hat and a marvellous book it is indeed. One day, walking home from school, Millie falls in love with a hat she sees [...]

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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 [...]

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