Picture books have very much monopolised the market of books for little people. American author, comedian and screen writer B. J. Novak (of The American Office fame) is releasing a book for small children that breaks the convention of traditional children’s books with “The book with no pictures.”
The book with no pictures is just as it’s title suggests, a book with no pictures. This is potentially a hard sell to young children and early readers but the book is more than just words on a page.
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Reading a story with your little ones before bed is the best thing EVER!!! Guess how much I love you by Sam McBratney is the perfect story to share before bed.
Guess how much I love you tells the story of a young hare and his Dad preparing to go to bed. As they settle down for the day just like many parents and children they exchange comments of loving one another.
Every year I see children’s books wash in and out of fashion. Few are able to stay the course like the Percy Jackson series has.
The books, written Rick Riordan, make ingenious use of the classic stories of Gods, Monsters and Men from Greek Mythology and sets them in the modern world.
The Blood of Olympus is the final in the epic series.
We picked up this little gem from the local library the other day and EVERYONE should check it out.
It’s a very simple book that’s a lot of fun to share.
This week David Baddiel’s new book, The Parent Agency, is released.
The book tells the story of a boy named Barry Bennett who is deeply feed up with his own parents. He finds himself in a position to choose his own parents when he discovers the Parent Agency.
I’ve a brand speaking new copy of the book to give away. To be in with a chance of winning simply follow me on Twitter and RT the competition tweet. The winner will be chosen this Sunday and 9pm. The competition is open to UK residents only.
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This next book that I wanted to write about that is one that you should definitely try to share with your children, The very Hungry Caterpillar.
This is the oldest book that I’ve written about yet, being first published in 1969. It still remains an absolutely classic is incredibly popular with really young children.
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The How to train your Dragon films have been a huge success (check out my review of it HERE). The book that started the increasingly popular franchise is definitely worth a look too.
The books do share many of the same named characters as the films and they are about Vikings and dragons, but other than that they follow a very different plot.
In the book the children have to go through a series of coming of age challenges that involve finding and training dragons to work for them. There is no human/dragon conflict in the book like there is in the movie version.
Instead the books main plot follows Hiccup, son of the village leader, as he attempts to train his rather awkward dragon Toothless. Continue reading
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Not now Bernard was one of the first books that we brought when we found out we were having a baby.
It’s a book that I remembered from my childhood and has been lovely to revisit now with my own children. Continue reading
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Not now Bernard was one of the first books that we brought when we found out we were having a baby.
It’s a book that I remembered from my childhood and has been lovely to revisit now with my own children. Continue reading
Read all of my posts of suggested books to read with your children HERE
The Meg and Mog series of books are a fantastic selection of books to experience with your child.
I say experience because they are quite something to behold. The stories frequently don’t make a great deal of sense, the writing in the pages can be hard to follow and the pictures are an aggressive assault on your eyes.
For example, in the first book “Meg and Mog” Meg takes Mog to a spell party, there she meets a few friends, casts a spell, turns them all into mice and then leaves. It reads as if the author simply ran out of space to finish off the story!
This slap dash approach only seems to add to their charm though. Continue reading
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