Welcome to the Tidy Books blog, If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to the RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Will you be putting together a summer reading list?
It is certainly amongst my to-do …
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 …
Tabby McTat is Fred the busker’s cat “with a miaow that is loud and strong.” Picture man, cat and guitar yowling in harmony! The latest story, from ‘The Gruffalo’ creators, Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler …
I’m Ian, and the smaller guy you can see in the picture is my son, Max. I’m a 32 year-old freelance writer and parenting blogger. I first came into contact with Tidy Books when I ordered one of …
It was National Bookstart day last week, and as part of the initiative designed to get all young children interested in reading books, the Bookstart organisation decided to try to establish the nation’s favourite nursery …
Books are a tremendous resource for learning. They hold many facts, opinions, recounts of history, explanations of how things work, and how experts theorise on how things have been in the past.
Sometimes it is very …
Like many families,the summer was packed full of outings to various museums, historic sites and places that we do not generally call home.
Often with children everything is done at breakneck speed, especially if you are …
Does anyone still own, or can you even buy, a mobile phone that simply makes and receives calls?
The cellular phone has certainly come a long way. From the systems that now look very primitive, …
Via Twitter, Super Nanny, or the people behind the programme, asked their Twitter following if they believed that personalised books encourage reading in reluctant readers.
This is something that interests us, and indeed did interest us …
It would seem, and certainly for Anne Fine, that an era of magical children’s books, that were predominantly based on hope, in part by continually providing unrealistic happy endings, have been replaced by on kids …
The Booktrust have recently announced their shortlists for their annual Early Years Awards. The aim of the awards is to celebrate, reward and publicise the exciting range of children’s books, specifically aimed for pre-school children. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
