Summer reading lists
6 July 2010 – 9:30 am | 3 Comments

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 …

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Popular Children’s Books
18 August 2009 – 7:10 am | No Comment

The children’s books genre is a vast one, not that any other of the particular sections of reading are narrow, but the difference between books in this section is huge.
A child’s reading will change dramatically …

Reading on the Move
6 August 2009 – 1:56 pm | No Comment

We are in the midst of the summer school holidays here in the UK. There will be many families doing many miles all over these isles, via various modes of transport, as they travel from …

Holiday Time, or Time for a Reading Challenge?
29 July 2009 – 11:44 am | No Comment

The school holidays are upon us. There will be differences all over the UK, but most of us, or the children amongst us, are into their second week of holidays.
It has long been debated, …

Barefoot Books Website Relaunch
22 July 2009 – 8:29 am | No Comment
Barefoot Books Website Relaunch

Barefoot Books, a children’s publishing company, was started by two mothers who wanted to feed their children’s imaginations through reading, whilst simultaneously instilling a respect for diversity and creating a love for our planet.
An ambitious, …

What’s That You’re Reading?
15 July 2009 – 2:59 am | 2 Comments
What’s That You’re Reading?

Encouraging children to read is proven to improve their confidence, and will impact postively on many other facets of a child’s life.
Reading can be laborious for some. Or at least they think it is, but …

It’s Daddy’s Turn to Read
2 July 2009 – 3:24 am | One Comment

We, at Tidy Books, are behind any campaign that encourages parents to read to their children. Our commitment goes further than that; grandparents, aunties, uncles, cousins, older children reading to siblings, all these people can …