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Friday Favourites :: 4 June
Happy Friday bookish friends! Doesn’t the week fly when you start with a long weekend? It’s been a real whirlwind type of week here – I was super busy at work this week, out at painting class on Wednesday, and catching up on things at home today. I’m planning a bit of a furniture re-arrange over the weekend – does anyone else love shifting things around at home? My family always get nervous when they see me with the tape measure haha. One of my favourite things this week has been the way that my 7 year old reads “secretly” under her blankets with her owl night light every night.…
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What’s your kid reading Wednesday
I had fun with my post from a few weeks ago about what my seven year old was reading, so I thought it might be good to make it a semi-regular sort of thing. I might call it “What’s your kid reading Wednesday” , because I do like the alliteration, even if it’s a bit of a stretch. A is really into graphic novels right now – she gets through them in a single sitting but then reads them over and over again. Here are her 3 latest reads: Pizza and Taco: Who’s the Best? by Stephen ShaskanBest friends are the BEST! But WHO is the BEST? Is it Pizza…
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Last Now Next :: 21 April
Today’s post is coming to you from my 7 year old’s bedside table! I’m always interested to hear what everyone’s kids are reading, and A is really getting into planning her reading the moment so i thought I’d share her last, current, and next reads. LAST: Dog Man: Unleashed by Dav PilkeyA loved Cat Kid Comic Club when she read it during the summer holidays, and when we told her she could pick out something from the bookshop a few weeks ago she went straight for the first Dog Man book. She read that one four times in a few days and was super keen to pick up book 2…
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KIDLIT :: EVERY THING WE KEEP :: Di Walker
Trailing her orange suitcase, and a heart full of worry, thirteen-year-old Agatha is about to go home. She has been in and out of foster care for years now, but her latest new life lived with naval precision with Katherine, Lawson and their dog, Chief, has proved to be the salvation that Agatha needed. She has new friends, a sense of place, and space to breathe. But when the social worker says it’s time to return to her parents, her world comes crashing down. “Home” has always made her anxious and ashamed – and she can’t understand why now she is being forced to go back. Is it possible to…
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KIDLIT :: Cuckoo’s Flight :: Wendy Orr
If she had stayed to load the kiln as she should have, she’d never have seen the ship. Mama said the ship still would have been there, so everything had to happen the way it did. But that’s not true. Clio saw it, and the world changed.When a raiders’ ship appears off the coast, the goddess demands an unthinkable price to save the town – and Clio’s grandmother creates a sacred statue to save Clio’s life.But Clio is torn between the demands of guarding the statue and caring for her beloved horses. Disabled in an accident, she must try to put aside her own grief at no longer being able…
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Kidlit :: CAT KID COMIC CLUB :: DAV PILKEY
Cat Kid Comic Club is the first book in a BRAND NEW graphic novel series featuring Pilkey’s fan favourite character Li’l Petey who, along with friends Flippy the Fish and Molly, try to teach twenty-one baby frogs how to create their own comics. Cat Kid Comic Club was my first experience with Dav Pilkey’s work, although my daughter is familiar with Dog Man and Captain Underpants, and we both really enjoyed it! My daughter was completely engrossed in this one – she read it in a single sitting, and tells me it was excellent, she would recommend it and she loved the toilet humour (natch). I loved that it sparked…
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CHRISTMASSY :: Q&A :: DI WALKER
Harper Holt’s close-knit family is always moving. All she wants is to have a normal, quiet life – in one place. But when she experiences a devastating loss, she realises that her future will never be the way she imagined it. She will have to find a support system and a strength she never knew she had to overcome her grief and redefine herself. This is a heartbreaking but ultimately hopeful story about the way one unexpected moment can change your world. Hello! Welcome back for another Christmassy chat! Tonight I’m excited to have author Di Walker with me to talk a bit about her books and her favourite things…
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CHRISTMASSY :: TINSEL :: Sibéal Pounder
What if somewhere along the way we’ve all got the Santa story a bit wrong…? Join Blanche Claus and her best friend Rinki for a funny festive sleigh ride you’ll never forget!From Sibéal Pounder, bestselling author of the Witch Wars and Bad Mermaids series, this tale of friendship and mince-pie feasts is the perfect book to curl up with this winter. Funny, feminist and with a huge heart, it’s a gloriously Christmassy adventure that will delight even the biggest Grinch. You know I love a middlegrade adventure, and if it has a festive spin, even better. This made Tinsel: The Girl Who Invented Christmas one of my most anticipated books…
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KIDLIT :: Step Up, Shine On! :: Angela May George
Kat’s got all the ingredients to go all the way. But she fails her exams-on purpose-to avoid the pressure of the top classes. She kills it in soccer, but never trials for the rep teams. She’s happy to fly under the radar, unlike her oh-so-perfect Wonder Brother. But this year things are shifting. Not least in her friendships. Lavinia has defected to none other than The Triad of She-Wolves, but Kat’s gained the new girl, the Goth, and after tutoring Bayani’s brother, a boyfriend! When secrets are revealed and loyalties are tested, Kat discovers that it is time for her to step up… and shine! I really enjoyed Step Up,…
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KIDLIT :: The Wild Way Home :: Sophie Kirtley
When Charlie’s longed-for brother is born with a serious heart condition, Charlie’s world is turned upside down. Upset and afraid, Charlie flees the hospital and makes for the ancient forest on the edge of town. There Charlie finds a boy floating face-down in the stream, injured, but alive. But when Charlie sets off back to the hospital to fetch help, it seems the forest has changed. It’s become a place as strange and wild as the boy dressed in deerskins. For Charlie has unwittingly fled into the Stone Age, with no way to help the boy or return to the present day. Or is there?What follows is a wild, big-hearted…
