What girl doesn’t dream she could be a mermaid? I know my 8-year-old twins certainly do. Well, in this book, the mermaids get to spend time as humans, on land with legs! It’s a kind of coming of age tradition, so they can see what it’s like and return to the sea content, knowing that…
Playful endpapers set the scene for this story, showing a mailman hauling a giant dino egg wrapped in brown paper and marked fragile. Behind him is a sign shouting that eggs are on sale. A little boy looks surprised when he receives his huge parcel, but luckily this book is a guide to looking after…
I am so excited to share this book with you all. My four year old has been asking me to read it over and over! It is a beautiful non-fiction picture book that’s just right for 3-6 year olds who are curious about the world. There’s a fun cut-out on the cover little hands just…
It’s no secret my family is into basketball, so I am a bit excited to show you the first two books in a new series being launched this week by Aussie basketball star Patty Mills. Mills plays in the NBA for the San Antonio Spurs, is a triple Olympian and the first (and only) Indigenous…
This story had us all in giggles and very glad we don’t have any monster friends! It begins with a wide-eyed monster telling us he has just eaten his friend. He’s most upset about it and can’t seem to make any new friends. Funny that! This book is fun to read aloud – very loudly…
The Perfect Picnic sees two friends carefully pack a picnic, complete with crockery plates, a warm drink in a flask and a wonderfully creamy cake. But the path to their picnic spot takes them through thorny brambles which, unbeknownst to the pair, tears a hole in the picnic bag. As they search for the perfect…
This book is so very funny. The ending made me gasp and laugh with surprise, even though I saw it coming. It’s beautifully simple in both words and pictures and perfectly executed. I’m yet to find a book by this author that I don’t like. While Open Up, Please is my favourite, Little Man really…
This book is wonderful. It’s beautifully poignant and genius in its simplicity. And the illustrations are irrisistible. My little man, 4, asks for it every night and his sisters, 8, put down their books to share this story with us too. It’s about a girl who has just moved to a new house, in a…
We often read this as our last book on the bedtime pile and I love it when I look over and see my little man has fallen asleep by the last line: “And rockabye pirate has fallen asleep”. The gentle rhymes are just right for calming down, as the pirates in the story are taken…
This was the best impulse buy! I made the kids wait for the weekend so we could make paper planes with Dad and we’ve had a great time racing them on the lawn. There’s instructions for six types of planes and 101 sheets of patterned paper to fold. Of course you can just use plain…
This book has inspired my girls to pull out their pencils and have a go at drawing tricky things they might not usually try – and with great success too. I mean, how cool is that cute kitty, the lollypop and little boy they drew?! There’s loads in this book, with a getting started chapter…
This book is jam-packed with paper crafts with a nature focus and a healthy smattering of science too. There’s activities to cut out and make on every page, including jumping froghoppers, a duck whistle, beehive-like honeycomb, piecing together a dinosaur skeleton and making paper flowers bloom by sitting them on a saucer of water. Each…
