Playing by the book

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

Taking blogging too far? Torturing my kids to get a blog post…

Sometimes this blog gives the impression that life in our home is idyllic, that I’m some sort of super mum and that our house gives off a continual pleasant, warm and loving glow. Well. Let me assure you that this is not the case. In order to get the material for this post I caused [...]

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On being too busy having fun to do anything else

I really don’t know how it is that I only recently discovered the gorgeous work of Rebecca Cobb. She’s an illustrator with a lovely fresh look, full of colour and a real knack for perfect observation, capturing emotion and feeling with just the tiniest strokes of her pencil or paintbrush. We’ll soon be hearing lots [...]

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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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