'The Little Wooden Horse'

Anyone who gets talking to Eddie is soon going to get talking to Eddie about buses. As regular readers of this blog will know, buses are ju...

There are a lot of maps in this house. For a start there's a magnetic map of the world in our hall with name magnets that we push aro...

I think I may have mentioned before my complicated relationship with a book called 'The Unexplained' that could be found in Cambrid...

Ah Romans. Romans, Romans, Romans. For an empire that fell a pretty long time ago now they don't half exert a lot of influence over ...

We're not a sporting family. The gene pool for physical co-ordination that I could provide for my children was always going to be pret...

'The Interactive Art Book' by Ron Van Der Meer and Frank Whitford is an updated reissue of an art pop-up book that first appeared in...

So Super Keen readers may recall, that back in the Spring (remember that season of hope and light?... really?... it's the one with the w...

I have a cold. I've had it for a while now and it's boring. I want it to go away. I shall probably take a Georgette Heyer to the bat...

Bill turned 8 this weekend (must update the side of my blog). He had a Lego party. It was...tiring. 5 minutes in -craft activity ('p...

So what do you get for a boy who loves to cook and read but hates to draw or paint? Hervé Tullet's 'Doodle Cook' that's wh...

Still looking for more rain-enthusing suggestions? How about a lovely little pop-up book about the rain forest? Hey- maybe we can grow our ...

Another of the books that followed me home from the Nobrow shop and well timed because Zoe is hosting a space themed round up at Playing by ...

Another beautiful art book today but of a completely different variety. 'The Art Treasure Hunt' compiled by Doris Kutschbach offers ...

Right- children back to being entertained by their teachers and I have leisure to pillage their bookcases uninterrupted once more. Phew. B...