Inspiring reluctant readers in the classroom
24 January 2012 – 11:08 am | No Comment

Welcome back to the Tidy Books blog – it’s great to see you here again.I’ve written previously about helping reluctant readers and last month a local school asked if I could help out with their …

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Who is dictating the bedtime reading?
26 May 2010 – 2:19 pm | 2 Comments
Who is dictating the bedtime reading?

Virtually every night we are at home, I stand with my son at his Tidy Books bookcase, and we set about choosing what books we are going to read.
Sometimes this is a very quick process, …

Are bedtime stories really in decline?
20 April 2010 – 1:49 pm | 12 Comments

A recent tabloid headline got our attention.
‘Half of all parents too busy to read a bedtime story to children’ Read the article headline, published earlier this month in the Daily Mail.
The story was based on …

The Terrible Plop: Kids book review
22 February 2010 – 3:10 pm | 2 Comments
The Terrible Plop: Kids book review

What is the ‘Terrible Plop’?  It was, to be frank, the title that caught my eye, but, really, the story is not about what the plop actually is, but how it can look pretty silly …