As the winter nights draw in and the sparkly lights go up, conversations with kids start to turn to Christmas and Santa Claus.  If the excitement is building in your house, reading a story about …

We love comics.
You will always find a few in our Tidy Box.
As a parent to a young boy – one pretty reluctant to reading – I think comics are a fabulous way of engaging children …

My three year old has a strong attachment to soft, cuddly (toy) animals, and carries armfuls around the house, and so when we were invited to review the Fudgy Bear books, I knew there was …

We’ll shortly be reviewing The History Keepers, a new series of books for young readers, aged from 9 upwards.  For anyone whose children are into Harry Potter or Horrible Histories, this will be one to …

If in your house, like ours, a cardboard box is a magical plaything, then the appeal of Box of Tricks by Katie Cleminson is immediate.
Box of Tricks begins as Eva is given a very special …

If you’re off somewhere nice this year, or you’re just relaxing in the back garden, what are you going to read?  And what are the kids going to read?
Tidy Books are off on their hols …

Newly published in the UK this month, ‘Good Little Wolf ‘ has been a welcome addition to our kids’ bookcase.
As with most good books, its the title that first intrigued me and the kids, and …

As spring and summer seem to be here to stay, we’ve recently started to think about the garden again.  So, I was interested to be offered a book about gardening with kids to review from …

I spotted this one, quite by chance, when I was out looking for something else.  The unexpected things you find, are often the most interesting and striking.  And that is the case with this book, …

It seems a shame sometimes for more fluent readers, that they don’t get the fantastic illustrations of the picture books, now that they can read for themselves.  So, I was very interested to pick up …