I’m looking for a book about… inventors and inventions

Welcome to “I’m looking for a book about….”, the topic-themed monthly carnival of children’s literature. Every month I encourage anyone who likes to review books for children (of any age) to leave links to their reviews of books that match the given month’s theme. The idea is that over time, this carnival will become a [...]

A dazzle of books..?

A plague of locusts… A pride of lions… A flock of sheep… But what do you call a collection of books about collective nouns? A brilliance? A giggle? A talent? When it comes to the set published by PatrickGeorge, all of the above could apply. A filth of starlings, A drove of bullocks, A crackle [...]

Books which rock!

Today’s Picture Book Month theme is NATURE and so we’ve been looking at books about rocks. A Rock is Lively by Dianna Hutts Aston and Sylvia Long is a surprising book, which will change the way you look at the stones quite possibly for ever. Instead of being something inert, Aston and Long make a [...]

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