Archive for the ‘Childrens’ Category
Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
This book is one of my old time favourites, now having recently moved
house i had to dig in the loft.. and discovered i still have several books
from when i was in primsry school... !
Funny Bones was the first book i bought as a child from the schools
'book club' i think ...
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Saturday, October 13th, 2007
This book is one of my four year old son's favourite books. I have
found him asleep with this book in his bed, sat on the sofa with it, and packed
in his overnight to Grandma's bag countless times.
It is a simple little story book. Each page has a simple illustration
of a ...
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Saturday, October 13th, 2007
This is the first book in the young adult science fiction and fantasy
series known as The Dark is Rising Sequence. I first read this book over
twenty years ago, and it is as fresh now as it was then.
The Drew children are summering in Cornwall. They and their great ...
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Saturday, October 13th, 2007
The first in the fictionalised memoirs of Laura Ingalls Wilder, this
book takes place during her early childhood. Four year old Laura lives with
her parents and older sister Mary in the wilds of Wisconsin. It is a place
of huge forests, with no end in sight and no neighbours ...
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Saturday, October 13th, 2007
This funny book is a lovely piece of reading fluff. Told to us
via the conceit that it has been narrated to the author by a child just past
his first birthday, we get a comic look at early childhood. Parents and
grandparents alike will chuckle at the nappy high view of the
milestones ...
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Saturday, October 13th, 2007
When first learning to read, my daughter got immensely tired of reading
and rereading the very same old readers they had read and reread in class
numerous times. These books address that issue. Following the same
format as the high quality readers they use in schools, but provide variety and a
sense of fun ...
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Wednesday, October 10th, 2007
This is a book my husband and I recalled fondly from our childhoods, and as
our copies had long ago fallen apart from being read so many times, we decided to buy a new copy for our children.
The illustrations are charming, with animals dressed up like people and all living in ...
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Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
This is one of those books that childhood was made for! I first read it for my children over twenty years ago. Most of the bedtime stories they had were safe to re-read to them after a month or so, because they'd forgotten enough about it not to mind ...
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Tuesday, September 25th, 2007
Watership Down is a classic book by Richard Adams, made into a full-length cartoon some years ago . I have read ths book many times and own a well thumbed paperback, which was published by Penguin and is a comfortable 477 pages.
I adore this book for it's simplicity and charm ...
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Monday, September 17th, 2007
This was one of the first books i ever read, i was only 13 and found this book to be very helpful to me around that time of life, it wasnt a very long book, but one i started it, i got straight into it, could picture the characters, how ...
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