This is a Book Week post for Sunday’s theme of Mother’s Day. This is the last day of Book Week. I hope you’ve all enjoyed it – do go and read over the rest of the week’s posts if you haven’t seen them yet. This evening, I’ll be putting up …
This is a Book Week guest post from Susan K Mann for Saturday’s Fiction, fiction and more fiction theme Urban fantasy as a genre and the effect films like Twilight has had on it… Authors like Stephanie Meyer and JK Rowling have had huge success with their Twilight and Harry …
This is a Book Week post for Saturday’s theme of Fiction, Fiction and more Fiction I came to Joanne Harris’s books in a different order to when they were published, starting with Five Quarters of the Orange, then reading Blackberry Wine and then Chocolat and Coastliners and then The Lollipop …
This is a Book Week post for Saturday’s theme of Fiction, Fiction and more Fiction I’ve been reading since I was three and hope to still be reading when I’m a hundred and three (optimistic, I know) because, even then, there still won’t be enough time to read everything I …
Walker Books have set up The Picture Book Picnic, which is a campaign to encourage families and friends to share books like they would a picnic. What a lovely idea. I have to say that my early morning reading sessions with Eleanor can end up looking a bit like a …
This is a Book Week guest post from Vickie at Never Found the Plot. What makes a good book for pre-schoolers? Three things mainly: colour and lots of it, the brighter the better noises, accents, silly voices actions. These three things to me are what I watch all the children …
Good morning. I hope you’ve been enjoying Book Week – and if you haven’t read any of the posts, please go back and look as there are some great pieces by a wide variety of contributors. I’ll do a big round-up on Sunday (which will also be Giveaway day, so …
This is a Book Week guest post from JoJo Kirtley of JoJo’s So-Called Life. Back in the day, when I started out teaching, I did some voluntary work for a charity who offered one-to-one tuition to help illiterate adults. The basic ethic was to teach adults how to read and …
This is a Book Week guest post from Becky Goddard-Hill (no relation!) of Baby Budgeting and Book reviews for mums. A wonderful poem that sums up the effects books have on our lives. I like to read books With lots of new things to learn About how to teach my …
This is a Book Week post on Thursday’s theme, which is ‘General Book Love’. Noble Savage wrote a beautiful post a while back about her daughter’s journey into the world of reading and I know exactly what she means. I think the reason I worry so much about Rosemary’s reading …
