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Children’s Book Review: Pip And Posy The Christmas Tree

December 2, 2019November 28, 2019 By : Lyndsey OHalloran

AD | Post contains gifted items and affiliate links (marked with *) Today’s book review is for Pip and Posy: The Christmas Tree by Alex Scheffler. It was published by Nosy Crow on 4th October 2019 and it can be purchased on Amazon*. Children’s Book Review: Pip And Posy The Christmas Tree It’s Christmas time and Pip and Posy are busy decorating the tree with candy sticks, and biscuits, and a beautiful sugar star. But the strange thing is that, every time Posy goes out of the room, when she returns, there’s one less decoration on the tree. Eventually, there

Children’s Book Review: Mouse’s Night Before Christmas

November 28, 2019November 24, 2019 By : Lyndsey OHalloran

AD | Post includes gifted items and affiliate links (marked with *) Today’s book review is for Mouse’s Night Before Christmas by Tracey Corderoy. It was published by Nosy Crow on 3rd October 2019 and it can be purchased on Amazon*. It’s Christmas Eve and everyone is fast asleep . . . except for a lonely mouse who lives in the grandfather clock. So when Santa arrives, lost in a blizzard, Mouse is the only one who can show him the way. Together they embark on a magical sleigh ride, delivering presents all around town. But the best present of

Children’s Book Review: The Best Kind Of Bear

November 17, 2019November 10, 2019 By : Lyndsey OHalloran

AD | Contains gifted items and affiliate links (marked with *) This week’s book review is all about The Best Kind of Bear by Greg Gormley. It was published by Nosy Crow on 3rd October 2019 and it can be published on Amazon*. When Nelly asks Bear what kind of bear he is, he isn’t entirely sure how to answer. So off he goes to find out . . . But none of the different bears he meets on his travels are like him. Grizzly bears don’t have funny stitches; polar bears don’t have washing labels attached to their bottoms;

Children’s Book Review: The Boy Who Loved Everyone

November 13, 2019November 6, 2019 By : Lyndsey OHalloran

AD | Contains gifted items and affiliate links (marked with *) Today’s book review, for World Kindness Day, is The Boy Who Loved Everyone by Jane Porter. It was published by Walker Books on 7th November and it can be purchased on Amazon*. “I love you,” Dimitri tells everyone, from his friends at nursery to the big tree in the playground. But why does no one say it back? Dimitri worries no one loves him – until he finds out there are lots of different ways love can spread through the world. As today is World Kindness Day, I wanted

Children’s Book Review: What Will You Dream Tonight?

October 10, 2019October 8, 2019 By : Lyndsey OHalloran

AD | Gifted Today’s book review is for What Will You Dream of Tonight? by Frances Stickley and Anuska Allepuz. The book was published by Nosy Crow on 5th September 2019 and is available to purchase on Amazon. What will you dream of tonight? Will it be a midnight balloon ride, sailing on the tail of a whale or swinging through the leaves on a jungle trapeze? This dreamy, sumptuously illustrated tale travels through deserts and waterfalls to shipwrecks and dragon-filled skies as a parent wonders where their child’s dreams will take them as they drift off to sleep . .

Children’s Book Review: Bizzy Bear Train Driver

October 4, 2019October 2, 2019 By : Lyndsey OHalloran

AD | Gifted Today’s book review is all about Bizzy Bear Train Driver by Benji Davies. The book was published by Nosy Crow on 5th September 2019 and can be purchased on Amazon. Bizzy Bear arrives at the station just in time to start his exciting new job – as a train driver! Join him as he guides the big green steam engine through the city, across the level crossing, and then up into the high mountains. But where are he and his passengers going, and will they get there on time? Being a non-driving family means that we get

Children’s Book Review: Flip Flap Frozen

September 30, 2019September 27, 2019 By : Lyndsey OHalloran

AD | Gifted Today’s book review is for Flip Flap Frozen from Axel Scheffler’s Flip Flap Series. It was published by Nosy Crow on 5th September 2019 and can be purchased on Amazon. What do you get if you cross a narwhal with a reindeer? It’s a nardeer, of course! And how about a penguin with a beluga? Why, that’s a penuga! With over 121 possible creations, silly names and strange noises to make you giggle, this new Flip Flap book is perfect for preschoolers and ideal for animal fans. With a hilarious rhyming text and brilliant illustrations from Axel

Children’s Book Review: Nuts!

September 10, 2019September 5, 2019 By : Lyndsey OHalloran

AD | Gifted Nuts! by Lou Peacock and Yasmeen Ismail was published by Nosy Crow on 1st August 2019. It can be purchased on Amazon. When a little squirrel finds a big pile of nuts, he is VERY excited! But soon he is joined by another squirrel . . . and this squirrel thinks the nuts belong to HER. And when Mouse, Bear, Badger and Rabbit get involved, well, things get VERY confusing indeed! They won’t even listen to wise Rabbit. Will the quarrelsome squirrels ever learn to share? Ever since Erin was really little she has been fantastic at