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 [...]

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 [...]

“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 [...]