book love >>>

we're a houseful of book lovers... we own a crazy amount of books and make frequent use of our local library too! here are a few that we've been loving lately

Mog

we love all the mog books, but this is a particular favourite...


Mog sat in the dark.
Mog thought in the dark.
But the dark was not where Mog wanted to be…
And who else was there in the dark?

oscar and the bat

this series is based around oscar, a curious kitten. through the books he meets friends who introduce him to science concepts. all three if my girls have enjoyed these books, the stories are fun and captivating, and they are a great way of introducing and talking about some science topics.

zoo-ology

filled with beautiful illustrations of every animal from aardvark to zebra in unusual groupings, this book is a young childs dream. Miss Baya is wildly in love with it, we spend hours looking through and discussing all the animals.

The Game of Light

We have several of Herve Tullet's books - this one is a particular favourite though. You use a torch with the book to create stars and other shapes on the wall or ceiling.

A Bit Lost

This is one we read over and over.. partly due to this mama's love for owls! It's a cute little story that all three of mine have loved.

There are cats in this book

We've borrowed this book a thousand times from the library - as well as 'there are no cats in this book' 

What books are you and your kiddos loving right now?

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Everything Alice {free printable}

I am a huge Alice In Wonderland fan.... ever since I first read the book many many years ago, I have loved it. We have a ridiculous amount of different editions of the book (and the various movies!). I'm so happy that my kiddos love it too... Lola recently read the full edition and loves it {almost)}as much as I do ;)

We just discovered the 'Everything Alice' book... a book with 50 quirky crafts and cookery makes. I just treated Lola and I to a copy - with the winter coming I'm always on the look out for some fun craft ideas to keep us busy on those cold and wet afternoons. I've already been asked to make three White Rabbit Toys ;)

 

I'd highly recommend getting a copy of this amazing book.

There is also a website that accompanies the book, and they sell some supercute notecards that may just be on my Christmas list!

The lovely authors, Hannah Read-Baldrey and Christine Leech have kindly agreed to share an awesome free printable Alice Doll with you lovely lot! I've printed some out for my girls and they've had hours of fun!!

click on the image to open a full size, printable one!

{I received no payment for this review... I just love it that much!!!} 

books!!!

Look what the delivery man just brought me!

I had a voucher to spend at Amazon - it was a tough job picking what books to buy! I've been wanting some SARK books for ages, so I picked out three (including one which is a journal) as well as my own copy of The Artists Way by Julia Cameron.

Have you seen SARK's website??? I love it!

List 16: More Books I Love!

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Following on from last weeks list... more books that I love, this time non-fiction

• The Dance of Fear - Harriet Lerner
• The Secret - Rhonda Byrne
• Grandma's Remedies - Cherry Chappell
• Yoga for Real Life - Maya Fiennes
• The Bodacious Book of Succulence -Sark
• Celebrating the Great Earth Mother - Cait Johnson and Maura D. Shaw
• Living Out Loud - Keri Smith
• What Mothers Do - Naomi Stadlen
• Journal Bliss - Violette Clark
• Unconditional Parenting - Alfie Kohn
• The Real Witches' Kitchen -  Kate West
• Ever Wonder: Ask Questions and Live Into the Answers - Kobi Yamada
• Teach Your Own - John Holt 
• Raising Our Children, Raising Ourselves  - Naomi Aldort 
• Circle Round - Stawhark, Diane Barker and Anne Hill

List 15: Books I Love

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Here's some of my favourite fiction books, in no particular order, and certainly not all of my favourites!

• The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
• Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Caroll
• The Time Travellers Wife - Audrey Niffennigger
• Wizard of Oz- Frank L Baum
• Valley of the Dolls -Jacqueline Susann
• Finn Family Moomintroll - Tove Jansson
• House of the Spirits - Isabel Allende
• Lullaby - Chuck Palanuick
• Lolita - Vladimir Naboka
• Dolce Vita - Iseult Teran
• The Colour Purple -  Alice Walker
•  The Master and Margarita - Mickhail Bulgakov
• Factotum - Charles Bukowski
• A Spy in the House of Love - Anais Nin