Playing by the book

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

You’ll never guess who’s to blame…

Who gets blamed in your home when something goes missing? The cat? An invisible friend? In Ophelia Redpath‘s The Lemur’s tale funny goings-on in a quayside home of a slightly eccentric naturalist keep being blamed on the family’s only child. Little does the Family Laruby know that a mischievous lemur is actually to blame. Having [...]

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Chameleon, calm down! A picture book from Brazil

Gisele at Kids Indoors is a passionate sharer of children’s books. She happens to be based in Brazil, but thanks to blogging, our paths have crossed, and recently we swapped a few wordless picture books with each other. She sent me some real gems, but our absolute favourite has to be Calma, Camaleão! [Chameleon, calm [...]

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On Eating books

I can’t resist any longer… I’ve just got to let you know that the International Edible Book Festival returns to Playing by the book next month, even bigger and better thank last year (which was already pretty spectacular ) The official announcement with all the details of how you can enter, wherever you are in [...]

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