What are your favourite books to read to your children? The Very Hungry Caterpillar is the best loved children’s book – according to parents, a study found. Despite being published in 1969, the Eric Carle tale of a caterpillar hatching from its egg and eating its way through various foods, came top of the pile […]
The World’s biggest celebration of reading for pleasure, World Book Day, returns this year on Thursday 1 March. In its 21st year, World Book Day Authors for 2018 include Clare Balding, Adam Hargreaves, Tom Fletcher, Andy Griffiths and Julian Clary. World Book Day delivers millions of £1 book tokens to children and young people across […]
Are you and your family fans of Roald Dahl? His stories were a huge part of my childhood and have continued to feature in my life since having children. I love that the stories that captivated me as a child also captivate my children. From Mr Twit getting food stuck in his beard, to Grandma […]
A love of books I’ve written a lot about books and reading on the blog before and how much our children love books. Like many families we’ve gone through that phase of reading the same books over and over again and even now the little boys in particular have stories they like to hear all […]
I’ve talked quite a bit on the blog before about encouraging the children to help around the house, how this can not only get things done, but also provide both enjoyment and a learning experience for the children. The children love to help out with: watering plants; vacuuming; sorting out recycling, matching socks up from […]
I love coming across new books, especially children’s books. When Borders the book shop existed, I used to take the children in there and we would spend ages reading books, always coming away with a couple of new ones. We could easily spend a couple of hours in there. With World Book Day upon us […]
We all have busy lives. When you look at your to-do list and then think about all the things we should be doing everyday with children it can sometimes seem like an impossible task to fit everything in. How do you make sure you make enough time for reading in all of this? There are […]
Our children love books and of course, like so many children, enjoy reading their favourite stories over and over again. They are very lucky that their grandfather is such a whizz at woodwork as they have a hand made bookcase each to fill with their favourite stories. What books do your children have on their […]