Welcome back to the Tidy Books blog – it’s great to see you here again.Will you be putting together a summer reading list?
It is certainly amongst my to-do items, and I shall also be casting …
The Society for Storytelling is currently in the midst of running its annual ‘National Story Telling Week’.
This initiative is in its tenth year, and was set up to promote the ancient art of storytelling, an …
Going near a classic tale, or fable, taking it from your children’s bookcase, and doing anything other than reading it, is always going to be a tricky business.
Children’s stories, classics, those laced with subtle, and …
This story is a children’s classic, from the author of the very classic “Rosie’s Walk” written in 1968; so classic that you may remember it from your own childhood. “We’re Going on a Picnic!” published …
The answer to that, is we all do, bless their very existence, but I hope by reading on, you will get my point.
Like many other parents, it seems I am constantly pulling at the few …
Over to Pat (of Tidy Books) and her six year-old daughter, for a review of;
‘A Child’s Book of Faeries’.
This is a collection of Faery stories in the broadest sense. There are poems and fictional stories, …
Speaking in public, while something I have always been quite competent at, has been something I have loathed doing, even back since my school days.
People who know me would argue that I do like to …
The choice for this month’s review was made for me by my two year-old, who is gripped by an obsession with this book. We picked it up in the library last week, and have read …
When I was a child, the Christmas season would induce several rituals, as I am sure it does, or did, for the rest of the country’s children.
There were obviously such things as the school play, …
When I became a parent I instantly became excited about the prospect of reading to my child.
The harsh, yet joyous arrival of a newborn, quickly established to me that I would not be reading to …
Be careful of the lions.
That was the warning that I heeded, but sadly Jim did not.
Mine came from a representative of Random House, and I was of course delighted to receive a review copy of; …
I often read about how we should be encouraged, and encouraging of others, to find a love of reading.
The means and methods appear unimportant. If you can engage people with, and get them to enjoy …
Jack and Boo are characters created by family publishing team, Philip and Eleanor Bell. Their first book takes them to the beach, and on an adventure to discover hidden treasures.
The Beachy Books website explains what …
