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BOOK WEEK: Children’s favourite books
Did you read yesterday’s review of Audrey Niffenegger’s Her Fearful Symmetry? Did you enter the competition to win a copy for yourself? Today’s Book Week post is a round-up of the girls’ favourite...
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BOOK WEEK: Review and giveaway – The Second Baby Survival Guide
Sorry, Book Week got a bit lost in amongst a pretty busy week finishing (most) work and looking after various ailing members of the family. And there were two nights when Eleanor decided the middle of...
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Romantic Prairie Style by Fifi O’Neil
This is a Book Week guest review by Liz of Violet Posy for Thursday’s theme of Holiday Projects. Are you thinking of undergoing a room (or house) transformation this summer? This book might well...
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Tess Gerritsen’s The Killing Place
Tess Gerritsen is one of ‘my authors’ – that is, one of the authors whose books I buy (or borrow from the library) as soon as they come out. I’ve actually started on her more recent one The Silent...
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Sunday Reading: The Silent Girl by Tess Gerritsen
In her acknowledgements, Tess Gerritsen says ‘No novel I’ve written has been quite as personal as this one.’ And I think that this definitely shows. I haven’t read a Tess Gerritsen novel that I didn’t...
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Oliver Jeffers’ Lost and Found Pop-up
We love Oliver Jeffers here. My dad bought RoRo How to Catch a Star when we were on a day trip to Weston-super-Mare a few years ago. Reading it always brings tears to my eyes. Because it’s such a...
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Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua
I read a few articles and blog posts about Amy Chua’s Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother when it was causing so much controversy in the US. And I admit to feeling outrage at many of the incidents and...
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Blog tour: Chris Haughton’s Oh No, George!
Today, we’re very lucky to be part of another Walker Books Picture Book Picnic blog tour. This time, it’s the turn of Chris Haughton, who is promoting his brand new book Oh No, George! George is a dog...
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Review: Bared to You by Sylvia Day
I have avoided (and continue to do so) the Fifty Shades of Grey frenzy because, from what I’ve read about it, it seems to be extraordinarily badly written. What I’d read about Bared to You suggested...
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Review: London for Children by Matteo Pericoli
I was sent a copy of London for Children to review by the publisher Macmillan Children’s Books. (You can read my review focusing on the illustrations over on my illustration blog, Tasha Goddard...
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