I’ve recently bought three lovely new craft books and have ear-marked a couple of projects to get me through the autumn and winter. You may know I love English Paper Piecing and have been carrying around a little hexagon project for a while. One it’s finished I’m going to start on my own version of…
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Dear Zoo turns 30!
Last week we were invited to a lovely party to celebrate the family classic Dear Zoo turning 30 in 2012! In case you’ve never read it, it begins ‘I wrote to the zoo to send me a pet. So they sent me an…’ A series of unsuitable animals are sent by the zoo which are…
Geri Livingston’s Bugbears
The toddler was sent copies of Geri Livingston’s Bugbears books to read. If you haven’t heard of them before the Bugbears live in a small world but have BIG adventures! The Bugbears have recently been re-launched and we received four paperback books to read – Happy Little Homes, Learn to Fly, Get their Wings and…
Book review: Mary Berry’s Complete Cookbook
I’m ashamed to say I didn’t own a single general cook book until Dorling Kindersley very kindly allowed me to chose a couple of books from their recent catalogue to review and Mary Berry’s Complete Cookbook arrived on my doorstep. I’m a huge Mary Berry fan and own a couple of her baking books but…
Tractor Factor, or X Factor for animals
The toddler is very taken with reading at the moment. He has a very full bigbooklittlebookcardboardbox which he goes to frequently, pulls out a book and brings it to me, saying “Read, mummy”. He was sent two new picture books from Macmillan Children’s Books to review. We read Matilda’s Cat by the fabulous Emily Gravett….
What I’m reading: Marshmallow Madness
As a home baker with a *very* sweet tooth I was happy to receive a copy of Marshmallow Madness by Shauna Sever to review. It may be summer but with the wet weather it’s also pretty good to hide indoors from the rain drinking hot chocolate with whipped cream and marshmallows. I didn’t ever think…
My summer reading list
What’s on your reading list this summer? Idealo UK have teamed up with Foodies100 to challenge us to share our holiday reads. Once upon a time I read all the time but with two children and no time I have to admit I prefer flicking through cookery books and pattern books to reading a novel….
Book review: Phillipa Knickerbocker Glory
Phillipa Knickerbocker Glory is a beautifully illustrated children’s book aimed at children aged 3-6. It is the debut picture book by Sarahjane Funnell. Phillipa loves ice cream. She loves ice cream almost as much as she loves her pet cat Little Miss Whiskers. Little Miss Whiskers is her fluffy white cat with a purple collar…
Book review: Lunchtime by Rebecca Cobb
The well known illustrator Rebecca Cobb has recently written her second children’s book – Lunchtime. Featuring an adorable little girl this story tells the tale of one lunchtime. Unfortunately she’s just not hungry. However, luckily for her a visiting crocodile, bear and wolf are. The wolf munches on her apple, the bear slurps her soup…