Wild Oak C.C.Harrington Katie Hickey Chicken House Wild Oak Themes: UK London/ Cornwall 1963Woodlands Snow Leopard?Friendship Protecting wildlife Intergenerational relationship Stammer/ Stutter Natural remediesMiddle grade This website contains affiliate links. As an affiliate I may earn commission from qualifying purchases, this is at no cost to you. Thank you for helping support our little site. Please see affiliate link and disclaimer page for more information. Wild Oak Magic Wild Oak was just the read I was looking for. I read it aloud to Floss (age seven) as we w ..read more

It’s W W W Wednesday. Wednesday book time! Hosted by Sam @ Taking on a World of Words. You can find Sam’s post for this week here. The Three Ws are: What are you currently reading? What did you recently finish reading? What do you think you’ll read next? This website contains affiliate links. As an affiliate I may earn money from qualifying purchases. Thank you if you do use one of my links – it helps keep my website going. Please see affiliate link and disclaimer page for more information. Bookish Staircase Update Well I started back on www Wednesday last week a ..read more

Secrets of the Snakestone Piu Dasgupta Cover art by Helen Crawford-White Nosy Crow Themes: Paris (set in)/ Calcutta (much talk of) Sewers Circus?Friendship Mystery Adventure HeterochromiaMiddle grade Secrets of the Snakestone Trailer This website contains affiliate links. As an affiliate I may earn commission from qualifying purchases, this is at no cost to you. Thank you for helping support our little site. Please see affiliate link and disclaimer page for more information. Incredible Debut from Piu Dasgupta What an incredible debut by Piu Dasgupta.  To repay a ..read more

Sister Spirit Efua Traoré Zephyr Themes: NigeriaJujuDeath including suicide and sacrificesKiss (nothing else) ?Friendship and relationships Gay relationship Yoruba  & Pidgin English language used Adoption Boarding school early YA fiction This website contains affiliate links. As an affiliate I may earn commission from qualifying purchases, this is at no cost to you. Thank you for helping support our little site. Please see affiliate link and disclaimer page for more information. Efua Traoré Master Storyteller Efua Traoré knows just how to draw you into a story. S ..read more

Be A Scribe!: Working for a Better Life in Ancient Egypt Michael Hoffen Christian Casey Jen Thum Cover illustration by Joel Tippie Callaway – thank you Sally Oliphant for sending this one for review This website contains affiliate links. As an affiliate I may earn commission from qualifying purchases, this is at no cost to you. Thank you for helping support our little site. Please see affiliate link and disclaimer page for more information. Clicking on highlighted words or buttons will take you to more information about a book, resource or to a further link. Be A Scri ..read more

It’s W W W Wednesday! Hosted by Sam @ Taking on a World of Words. You can find Sam’s post for this week here. The Three Ws are: What are you currently reading? What did you recently finish reading? What do you think you’ll read next? This website contains affiliate links. As an affiliate I may earn money from qualifying purchases. Thank you if you do use one of my links – it helps keep my website going. Please see affiliate link and disclaimer page for more information. It’s been a while since I’ve managed to keep up with a wwwWednesday and it feels lovely to be ..read more

Earth Day Earth Day is the 22nd April each year. Each year has a different theme and this year’s theme is Planet Vs Plastics. It’s a theme that you could explore with children in many different ways. One way is looking at how plastics affected our oceans. The two books I’m recommending to you are Little Turtle and the Sea and Turtle Rescue. Both are firm favourites of ours. This website contains affiliate links. As an affiliate I may earn commission from qualifying purchases, this is at no cost to you. Thank you for helping support our little site. Please see affiliate link and  ..read more

As an erstwhile teacher, mainly in reception, I can attest to that fact that I’ve never come across a child who hasn’t enjoyed listening to me read aloud in class or eager to share a story with me. So when does this change and why? There can be many reasons children don’t want to read but there are things you can do to help your child to like reading. This website contains affiliate links. As an affiliate I may earn commission from qualifying purchases, this is at no cost to you. Thank you for helping support our little site. Please see affiliate link and disclaimer page fo ..read more

Little ones are naturally inquisitive about the world, especially the natural world. Board books and other early picture books seem so simple but they’re actually very complex. Clever ones are not just designed to entertain through their words and illustrations but are part of a sensory feast for babies and young children. Many also impart significant facts that help small kids to make sense of the world around them. This blog post will share some of the fabulous books we stumble upon that help children discover more about the natural world. It will continue to be added to as we discover new e ..read more

New Tonie Characters for Toniebox Tonieboxes are such a brilliant gift for children and what’s perfect is that you can add to your collection during the year. When family and friends ask – what does x want for their birthday/ Christmas you can have a wish list of Tonie characters. Throughout the year there are often Tonies on sale and other discount offers to entice. We’ve had a Tonies Box for over four years now. I did think the novelty would wear off – how wrong I was. Floss our daughter is now seven and still adores her Tonie characters (we do have a Yoto player too – if you’re deciding bet ..read more