Today’ gorgeous post is from Karen at Earthly Joyride, reading it started to make me feel super Christmassy in all the right ways. Karen is passionate about reading to children. Her blog …
Book Review: Harry the Happy Caterpillar Grows (Helping Children Adjust To Change)
The day this book arrived in the mail, I didn’t have time to sit down and read it straight away to my four year old. We had just come home from running …
Book Review: The Midnight Zoo by Sonya Hartnett
Having not heard of Sonya Hartnett before this year, this is now the third book that I have read from this fantastic Australian author. Her skill as a writer is evident as …
Book Review: Leo The Littlest Seahorse by Margaret Wild and Terry Denton
Leo The Littlest Seahorse is one of those picture books that has a great message for parents reading it to their children. It is written by Margaret Wild and has the most …
Book Week Ideas
You can find more ideas for celebrating book week on my current post for 2011 here – Book Week Activities 2011 – Ideas for CBCA Shortlisted Book. It is only a month …
Book Review: The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night Time by Mark Haddon
Welcome to the July Teach/Learn Blogging Carnival. The Teach/Learn Blogging Carnival hosted by Science@home is for anyone, because we are all teachers and learners all the time. This month our theme is …
Book Review: Yellow Is My Favourite Colour by Judy Horacek
As I have children aged from 11 to 1, I read a vast range of children’s texts to my kids which I thoroughly enjoy. I do however have a soft spot for …
Book Review: The Boy and The Toy by Sonya Hartnett
The Boy and the Toy is Sonya Hartnett’s first picture book. Hartnett has written a several novels including Butterfly which has just been shortlisted for the 2010 Miles Franklin Award. Hartnett partners …
Book Review: Conspiracy 365 January by Gabrielle Lord
This is a guest post by Thinker, my 11 year old son. Back in January I did some research and listed Books For Boys – 8 to 11 Year Olds. The Conspiracy …
Book Review: A Giraffe In The Bath By Mem Fox and Olivia Rawson
Mem Fox is one of my favourite children’s authors. In her new book, Fox has teamed up with a former student Olivia Rawson to write the funny picture book A Giraffe in …
Books For Boys – 8 to 11 Year Olds
Our 8 year old and 11 year old sons both do independent reading each night as part of their school requirements and will also read of their own accord on weekends. It …
Ideas For Celebrating Book Week
You can find more ideas for celebrating book week on my current post for 2011 here – Book Week Activities 2011 – Ideas for CBCA Shortlisted Book. The Children’s Book Council of …
2009 Children’s Book Council of Australia Winners
The Children’s Book Council Of Australia’s (CBCA) Book Week starts today and runs until 28th August. The winners of this years CBCA judges awards have been announced as part of the celebrations …
Book Review – Surprise!
My five year old daughter received this book from Santa last year. Santa was even clever enough to have it signed by the wonderful author Karen Andrews (Miscmum)! I first heard this …
Sandra Boynton Board Books
Earlier this month I had a wonderful surprise in my inbox. I received an Amazon Gift Certificate from a lovely reader named Kristina from Croatia. Her message with the gift was as …
10 Favourite Children’s Books – Toddler’s Choice
During the month of August I have been making my way through my children’s favourite books, in celebration of Children’s Book Week (officially this week in Australia). So far we have had: …
Children’s Book Council Awards
The winners of the Children’s Book Council Awards were announced on Friday. My older two children read with anticipation the winners in Saturday’s morning’s paper. Like most Australian school children they had …
10 Favourite Children’s Books – Preschooler’s Choice
Image by Manchester Library During the month of August I have been making my way through my children’s favourite books, in celebration of Children’s Book Week (officially this week in Australia). So …