Playing by the book

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

Play with your food and create the landscape of your dreams!

A World of Food: Discover Magical Lands Made of Things You Can Eat! by Carl Warner doesn’t actually come out in the UK until May, but given that we’ve been playing a lot with our food recently, I couldn’t resist sharing this title with you now. A World of Food showcases the incredible landscapes created [...]

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Combining World Book Day and World Maths Day with 752 smarties

Are you ready to celebrate letters, words, numbers and sums? Not only is tomorrow World Book Day but next week, on March 7th, it’s World Maths Day! The teachers at M and J’s school asked me to come up with a list of fiction picture books with a mathematical theme to use this week and [...]

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A scrumptious new picture book and my best cake ever

Lulu may only be a little dog, but she has lots of BIG ideas. She also has enthusiasm and buckets of joie de vivre, and lives with a bunch of great friends in Wagtail Town. It’s the day of the school cake competition and Lulu enlists her best buddy, Alfie, to help make what Lulu [...]

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