Playing by the book

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

Celebrating Children’s Book Week – Oceans and Seas

Here’s the last lot of session plans for our day off-timetable as part of Children’s Book Week next week. These sessions are for year 2 studens (6-7 year olds) and are based on their current topic “Oceans and Seas”. Session 1 Book: The fantastic undersea life of Jacques Cousteau by Dan Yaccarino Follow up book: [...]

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In at the deep end

Last night as I ordered 3 books from Amazon (this, this and this if you must know ) I wondered what I would feel if the only bricks-and-mortar bookshop in our neighbourhood closed down. It’s not some wonderfully creative, enticing, independent bookshop but merely one of a very large chain. It’s main appeal for my [...]

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Children’s Book Week, rain and cheerios

Today is the start of the UK’s Children’s Book Week, a celebration of reading for pleasure for children of primary school age (5-11) with special events taking place all over the country in schools, libraries and bookshops. 79 years old and going from strength to strength, the theme of this year’s Children’s Book Week is [...]

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