Children’s Book Review 2 – The Gruffalo

The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson My rating: 5 of 5 stars This is a children’s classic and we have been reading this to our daughter since she was around 10 months old. She loved the beautiful illustrations by the talented Axel Scheffler, that are so vidid and lifelike yet still imbued with a child’s view [...]

Children’s Book Review 1

Otto’s Trip to the Moon: Seriously Cute – a Pull-tab Book by Katherine Lodge My rating: 3 of 5 stars My 2 year old daughter picked this book out of many choices in a local children’s bookshop. Since then she has become obsessed with it, even though there is not much in terms of story [...]

The Golden Treasury

After just 5 hours sleep it was always going to be a struggle to get up and drag myself to visit London’s largest Independent Children’s bookshop, The Golden Treasury, on a cold, grey Saturday Morning. It helped that, being the father of a walking, talking near 2 year old toddler, I have a very effective and persuasive [...]