After my rants of recent posts, this one is a little more light-hearted, you will be pleased to hear. Or maybe you won’t. Anyway. I’ve recently finished re-reading all of the Harry Potter books. I do love that series. I have to admit I resisted reading them until they’d been out a while (I think [...]
Tag Archive > children’s books
Nosy Crow – Three Little Pigs
One of the things I’ve said about ebooks from the beginning is “Great idea, but children’s books won’t work that way.” One of the many examples of me not thinking out of the box, as proven recently by Nosy Crow‘s Three Little Pigs iOs app. We got this recently as a treat for Daniel as [...]
Twilight vs Harry Potter, By Request
I’d like to see a post on Twighlight vs Harry Potter please. Apparently that is incredibly important in the world of 14 year olds. If you’ve been following my blog at all over the last few months, you may remember a post here about needing a challenge in my writing, so I asked people to [...]
Aaaaand Press ‘Send’…
So, in the last couple of weeks, after putting it away for a while, I have taken out my picture book (which you may remember from my post Lightning Bolts and Dragons). I have revised it, changed the character name a couple of times, tweaked it and polished it. I have bought a copy of [...]
Book Review: Stick Man
This week’s book review is a book we got out of the library and now have to buy for our son as he fell instantly in love with it. Don’t forget to click here for Daniel’s own opinion! Stick Man, written by Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Axel Scheffler (who also brought us The Gruffalo), [...]