There are alot of books that I’m not going to do individual posts on simply because they’re already well known, but I can’t pass them by completely as they have played a big part in our reading journey. George really loves all of these as I think all children and parents do so they’re definitely [...]

I can’t believe I haven’t done this one yet. I think this was George’s first favourite book. It was given to him by his cousins Jude and Sadie and he loved it from the first time we opened it. It has very simple, bright illustrations and very simple explanatory text and is, funnily enough, all [...]

This book became a favourite around the same time as Eee-orrh. We had already had Hairy Maclary from Donaldson’s Dairy, also by Dodd, out from the library for several weeks and that was definitely one of my favourites. Need to get it out again and see if George enjoys it as much as me. I [...]

I think this was one of George’s first personal favourites. We originally got it from the library, but we ended up renewing it so many times that we had to buy it. Shockingly, it’s out of print! Such a shame as it is a brilliant book with a lovely message. We managed to find some [...]

Where does the time go! Perhaps we’ve been so busy reading there’s been no time for blogging. Who knows but we’re definitely still reading and it’s a very different experience to what it was a year ago. At 21 months, our son is now fully in charge of what we read. He picks his bedtime [...]

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 [...]

“And on that granny
there is a child,
a dreaming child
on a snoring granny
on a cozy bed
in a napping house,
where everyone is sleeping.”

“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 [...]