I have been doing a guest post series on the theme “A Book My Child Adores” for Australian Book Week for 3 years now. That series, plus some of the ones I’ve reviewed here, make up a nice collection of…
A Book My Child Adores: The Captain Jimmy Cook – Alice Toolie Series by Kate & Jol Temple
*This post contains affiliate links.* How amazing is kid logic? Do you remember digging in the ground, convinced that a stick you found was definitely a dinosaur bone? Or, being certain that you were on the case of a serious…
A Book My Child Adores: Rapunzel by Bethan Woollvin
by Sian from Teach Investigate Play *This post contains affiliate links.* A book my child adores is … Rapunzel by Bethan Woollvin I just LOVE the current resurgence in fairy stories and traditional tales. Whilst the originals are great, often…
A Book My Child Adores: Diary of a Minecraft Zombie by Jack Zombie
by Ania from The Sane Mum *This post on Diary of a Minecraft Zombie contains affiliate links.* I don’t know about you, but I have always imagined my kids would grow up to be book lovers, just like I am!…
A Book My Child Adores: The Swap by Jane Ormerod & Andrew Joyner
by Alyssa from The Kids Book Hunter *This post contains affiliate links.* There are so many books that my children adore and so many books that I adore reading to them, so to narrow it down to one was rather…
Listening Ears On!: A Review of “Winterland” by the Okee Dokee Brothers
Our Northern Hemisphere friends may be sweltering in summer, but down here in Australia, we still have a few more weeks of winter. On chilly, rainy days like the one we’re having today in Sydney, celebrating the coldest season ins’t…
July School Holidays Family Arts Guide – Sydney
Planning for the Winter school holidays doesn’t always evoke images of trips to the beach or long days at the pool like the other holidays. That makes them the perfect time to be indoors at theatres or art museums. There…
Listening Ears On!: A Review of Lullabies of Broadway, Act II by Mimi Bessette
Never has a warmer voice come out of my speakers than Mimi Bessette’s. If your family can use a little help winding down before naps or bedtime, her Lullabies of Broadway Act II is the musical pairing for fluffy PJs…
Artsplorers Meet: Megan Daley, Teacher Librarian and Author of Raising Readers
This post contains affiliate links. We were given a copy or Raising Readers for review purposes by University of Queensland Press. Raising Readers I was raised a reader on the lap of my book-loving mother, and if there is one…
The Polly and Buster Series by Sally Rippin: A Review
This Polly and Buster review contains affiliate links Walking to school one morning, a few days after we’d finished reading the first two books of Sally Rippin’s Polly and Buster series, Miss 6,out of the blue, said, “I think that…