We get a lot of books out of the library. I choose very much based on the illustrations, I can’t help it. Recently I seem to have been picking up alot of books illustrated by Russel Ayto. There are a couple that I hadn’t realised he’d illustrated when I checked them out. I’m obviously a [...]
We are starting a new baby fad soon to be the next yummy-mummy trend to hit the coffee shops – baby led reading – aka sitting your baby in front of the bookshelves and letting them pick their own bedtime stories. We’ve been doing this for a while and one book gets chosen every night [...]
“When Nate woke up one morning,
The Opposite was standing on his ceiling
staring down at him.
“You can’t stand on the ceiling”
said Nate. “Get down!”
But the Opposite happened, and it
stayed where it was.”
“Ben tried to feed Penguin to a passing lion.
Penguin said nothing.
Lion didn’t want to eat Penguin.”
The first time we read this book I laughed out loud. It’s a lovely story about a little boy called Ben who receives a penguin as a present and nothing he does (even sending the penguin into outer space) will [...]
“The witch had a cat
and a very tall hat,
And long ginger hair
which she wore in a plait.
How the cat purred
and how the witch grinned,
As they sat on their broomstick
and flew through the wind.”
I now know that there are loads of Julia Donaldson/Axel Scheffler books and that this one is probably not the most well-known, but [...]