Published in early January this year, The Girl who stole an Elephant is the stunning debut title from Nizrana Farook that tells of a young girl called Chaya and all that she experiences on her adventure through the jungle after she flees her home having put herself in danger as a consequence of her reckless … Continue reading The Girl who Stole an Elephant – Nizrana Farook.
My first picture book blog of 2020 features some fantastic titles that are definitely perfect for sharing with classes of little ones in the school library, at home on the sofa, during bedtime with children of all ages, and as stock in the school library for staff and students alike to borrow. Sit back and … Continue reading Peeking At Picture Books – January 2020
With two teenagers at home I am eager to increase my awareness of titles released and publishing within the YA genre of children's publicity, so here are a couple of my recent reads that I would massively recommend to my children and their peers, as well as young adults beyond those that I can advise. … Continue reading Titles for Teens in 2020 – #1
This is intended as a quick glance type post that can be used as a checklist throughout the year for library purchasing, TBR piles, reading challenges, etc. There are plenty of books that could have featured on this list, just bare in mind that these are the ones I would definitely recommend to others to … Continue reading ICYMI – Books published in January 2020 (List form)
Our children's book meeting was held on 28th January at Broke Hall Primary School, and we discussed books that had been determined at our previous meeting late last year, which were : I,Cosmo by Carlie SorosiakA Pocketful Stars by Aisha BushbyWe Won an Island by Charlotte LoThe Unimaginary Friend by Guy BassJasper and Scruff by … Continue reading Book Talk – January 2020
I completely surprised myself today because in working on my picture book blog I completely overlooked this weekly themed one until quite late in the day, and I think that has to do with having an extremely busy day yesterday and not being home straight from work and school run as instead I attended this … Continue reading My Mid Week Musings of 2020 #4
Few middle grade titles are written by a person that played a huge part in a cult children's tv series, but this debut title from Holly Rivers is a welcome example of just that. Holly played Drusilla Paddock, best friend to Mildred Hubble in the original tv series of The Worst Witch aired in the … Continue reading Demelza and the Spectre Detectors – Holly Rivers
As January draws to a close I would like to share my other reads that I have enjoyed this month and recommend for school library purchase as well as for young readers to enjoy at home. Whilst there is a nice variety to the titles I am about to share on this blog there is … Continue reading Titles to Try – January Edition
There are few if any children's books where the entire story takes place on a train, granted there are plenty where trains play a vital part in the story - The Railway Children (Edith Nesbit) being one timeless example and more recently I think highly of The Skylarks War (Hilary McKay) - but none that … Continue reading The Highland Falcon Thief – M.G.Leonard and Sam Sedgman
Week Three of 2020 already! Scary thinking how quickly this month is going and how much there is still to do before I am willing to find myself 1/12 of the way through the year. I finally started blogs specific to one title on Monday of this week with a post about The Kid who … Continue reading My Mid Week Musings of 2020 #3
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