Author: Cristin

Listening Ears On!: A Review of Keep It Real by Caspar Babypants
October 30, 2018 No Responses

Listening Ears On!: A Review of Keep It Real by Caspar Babypants

A disco hippo, an bubble trying to stay out of trouble, penguins in California, a dancing flower, and a robot with a lot of feelings: These clever creatures (along with that rainbow unicorn on the album cover) are a pretty...
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Book Review: All the Ways to Be Smart by Davina Bell & Allison Colpoys
October 24, 2018 No Responses

Book Review: All the Ways to Be Smart by Davina Bell & Allison Colpoys

*This post contains affiliate links.* My Miss 5 started kindergarten this year and, if you haven’t yet reached this milestone, my goodness is school hard work these days! They ask a lot of these little people. It’s been amazing to...
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Yo Diddle Diddle at the Sydney Opera House
October 10, 2018 No Responses

Yo Diddle Diddle at the Sydney Opera House

Have you ever thought what a bizarre scene it is in the nursery rhyme, “Hey Diddle Diddle”? A cat with a fiddle? The laughing dog? A cow jumps over the moon? A cow? How? And, what is the deal with...
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The Snow Dragon at the Sydney Opera House
October 4, 2018 No Responses

The Snow Dragon at the Sydney Opera House

  Sometimes it’s the quiet ones that speak volumes. U.K. based Tall Stories company brings their production of The Snow Dragon to the Sydney Opera House for the October school holidays. It’s not the brightest or loudest production you’ll...
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Bambert’s Book of Lost Stories at the Sydney Opera House
September 30, 2018 No Responses

Bambert’s Book of Lost Stories at the Sydney Opera House

Kate Parker of The Online Watercooler and her 8 year old daughter saw Bambert’s Book of Lost Stories at the Sydney Opera House, and let us know why they feel it fills a void in the children’s theatre landscape. I’m...
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Listening Ears On!: Review of Bunny Rumble by Bunny Racket
September 27, 2018 No Responses

Listening Ears On!: Review of Bunny Rumble by Bunny Racket

Did your rock and roll days screech to a halt when you became a parent? I know, I know! We all used to be so much cooler! But, young kids and rock music can just feel so incompatible.  True story...
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October School Holidays Arts Guide – Sydney
September 17, 2018 No Responses

October School Holidays Arts Guide – Sydney

Title Image: The Snow Dragon by Tall Stories, appearing at the Sydney Opera House   Can we really be staring down school holidays again? I actually love school holidays, because there is always oodles to do. With the gorgeous Spring...
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How We Find Great New Kid’s Books
August 30, 2018 No Responses

How We Find Great New Kid’s Books

Up until a couple of years ago, I was squarely in the “classics and best sellers” camp when it came to how I bought children’s books. I bought a lot of Dr. Seuss and sometimes I’d pick up a book...
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Listening Ears On!: Storytime Singalong Volumes 1 & 2 by Emily Arrow
August 28, 2018 No Responses

Listening Ears On!: Storytime Singalong Volumes 1 & 2 by Emily Arrow

Between Book Week and Love Your Bookshop Day, I was deep into the wonderful world of children’s books this month. Not to waste a good theme, I had the idea that, surely, someone must have done an album about children’s...
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A Book My Child Adores: Mopoke by Philip Bunting
August 24, 2018 No Responses

A Book My Child Adores: Mopoke by Philip Bunting

This week I have been sharing posts by some of my favourite bloggers about a book or books that are much loved by their children. We’ve had a wonderful range of kid-tested reads, and I’m concluding the series with a...
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