I’ve loved A. A. Milne’s stories about Christopher Robin, Pooh Bear and friends ever since I was given paperback copies of Winnie-the-Pooh and When We Were Very Young as a child. I still have those books – according to the back cover they cost 20p each. The books were originally published in the 1920s but […]
Children’s books giveaway
Laurence King Publishing have two engaging new books for kids coming out in August and I have ten copies to give away to Mums do travel readers. The Superhero Comic Kit The Superhero Comic Kit by Jason Ford is a step-by-step activity book which helps you to create your own comics. The book contains enough comic […]
London & Paris sticker books giveaway
Stickyscapes This month sees the publication of two beautiful new sticker books for children. Stickyscapes: London by Robert Samuel Hanson and Stickyscapes: Paris by Malika Favre are published by Laurence King. Each book contains 100 re-usable stickers and a double-sided concertina cityscape to stick them on and I have two copies of each book to give […]
Seven great things about Seven Stories
I think Seven Stories, the National Centre for Children’s Books, may actually be one of my favourite places in the world. I spent a morning there exploring on a recent trip to Newcastle. There’s loads going on from story times, craft activities, exhibitions and special events and there’s even a bookshop and a café. Here […]
Harry Styles on World Book Day
I wrote this in 2013, when my kids still had to engage in World Book Day at school. I’m truly thankful that they no longer have to do that, as it was always a trial! So it’s World Book Day and the eldest has gone to school dressed as that classic hero of teenage fiction, Harry Styles. (She was […]
The Story Museum, Oxford
Oxford’s Story Museum aims to celebrate and promote children’s literature, and is due to open in the city centre in 2015. It should be a great success if its patrons are anything to go by: the fabulous authors Philip Pullman, Michael Rosen, Michael Morpurgo and Jacqueline Wilson. At the moment the museum runs outreach programmes in […]
