The Extremely Inconvenient Adventures of Bronte Mettlestone

I had so much fun reading this book aloud to my twin girls, 9. If you have a daughter, you must put this on your Christmas shopping list and then read it to them. It is wonderful in so many ways: The story is interesting. The heroine, Bronte, has just found out her parents have…

How to Look After Your Dinosaur

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…

Rockabye Pirate

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…