Playing by the book

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

Searching for a happy ending…

**Don’t forget to enter the giveaway for a pair of beautiful Moomin Mugs!** This year’s family Christmas production at an art centre near us is an adaptation of the short story The Lost Happy Endings by Carol Ann Duffy (the UK’s poet laureate), originally illustrated by Jane Ray. After the success we had taking M [...]

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Polly and the North Star

I wish I were better at keeping notes… Polly Horner is an author/illustrator I discovered on someone else’s blog but I can’t now remember whose, which is very frustrating! We’re smitten with Horner’s first book, Polly and the North Star and I should love to be able to thank whoever it was who first brought [...]

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Glowing in the dark

As I wrote last week, our local library is closed for the foreseeable future and we now have to take a bus journey to get our library books. Although this is time consuming, it’s not entirely without silver linings – next to the new library is a lovely little playground, and just round the corner [...]

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