I’ve written previously about helping reluctant readers and last month a local school asked if I could help out with their own set of unwilling literacy students.
They told me they had a particular problem with …

It Must Be Somewhere
It must be somewhere, it must, it must
It’s not that I’ve lost it – it’s really just
I got it
And then I forgot it
I put it down here, I’m sure I did
It’s not …

Giving a child a love for reading is a gift that involves more than a story.  The texture, size and turning pages are parts of the experience of reading, and what are in important part …

You may say at 34 years-old I really should know my phonics, but you know what?  I’m not sure that I do.
I have always supported my son’s schoolwork without really making a big fuss about …

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 have a brand new regular slot on the Tidy Books blog with poet, Elli Woollard, and we’re really chuffed because her poems for kids and and the young at heart, are funny observances of …

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 …

I love reading children’s books.
Partly as my child is normally on the receiving end, but also because they often have very warming tones and include tales that put a smile on your face.
Like one of …

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 …