When I was a little girl our local library had this amazing window set into a concrete pipe that you could curl up in with a book and wile away the time while Mum and Dad took forever picking out their books. I would love to be …
Let me preface this by saying, this is a special kind of book for a special kind of kiwi kid. One that hates to be laced into shoes and stuffed into cars to hustle from here to there, a kid that doesn’t blink at dirty …
I am so happy to be part of the blogging team promoting the New Zealand Post Book Awards again this year. Ethan and I had a blast reviewing some of the Junior Fiction finalists last year and with baby Nixon on board this year we …
Have you seen the Idiot Abroad TV series? It’s awesomely, deadpan and hilarious. Basically the premise is Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant send their mate(?) Karl Pilkington on blind adventures to places he really has no interest in visiting. In fact Karl seems to have …
The New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards celebrates annually the depth and range of talent our home-grown authors can offer kiwi readers. I pre-read a chapter of My Brothers War by David Hill before I unleashed it on Ethan and I’m glad I did. This …
The New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards celebrates annually the depth and range of talent our home-grown authors can offer kiwi readers. Ethan devours books at a rate that is hard to keep up with, so we were so happy to receive a package containing …
Last month I received a gorgeous wee book in the mail to read and review. I was excited. I love books and LOVED this book in particular as it gave me a chance to go back to those precious long days {and short years} of …
Last week I received a gorgeous wee book in the mail to read and review. I was excited. I love books and LOVED this book in particular as it gave me a chance to go back to those precious long days {and short years} of …
The 13-Story Treehouse – By Andy Griffiths Ethan received this book for Christmas from his wonderful Nana – or from Santa who went to Nana’s by mistake, I’m not quite sure – anyway he will finish it tomorrow night and we will be sad. This …
Water for Elephants – Sara Gruen I can’t even begin to tell you how much I adored this book. I would read it again. I don’t often say that these days however this book is beautiful. The characters, imagery and locations conjure an amazing world …