Books
As some of you are aware, I am Austrian and am keen to bring Red Ted & Pip Squeak up bilingually. Key to the success is that I speak lots of German with them, but I also think music and books are important. To me language is also about culture and music and books are integral part [...]
In honour of this month’s Get Crafty – All things Red – I have decided to tell you about 3 books that are all about colour (there are very few books that are JUST about red, so colour it is…). The books below are linked to amazon store – any (small) proceeds will go towards [...]
Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler is another one of our favourites. (We have many favourites by the looks of it!). Here are three of their books: The Gruffalo – Now I know that this is the “Obvious one”, but there is no way you can do a review of said author and illustrator, without the [...]
I have no real definition of who “the little ones” are, but we started reading to our two from the word go!! So I guess these books can be for anybody – especially those sub 6 months!! (But they have appeal beyond that too!) My big animal book, by Roger Priddy. We inherited this book [...]
Who’s Hiding, by Satoru Onishi. Always on the look out for something new, different and unusual. Came across Who’s Hiding and love the quirky illustrations. In some ways this is a little bit of a “memory” game, as animals “hide” on different pages – though there are clues. It encourages children to explore and recognise [...]
Hippos Go Beserk, Sandra Boynton. I love this little board book by Sandra Boynton. I love picking up “something different” by authors I haven’t heard of.. maybe this shows my ignorance. Mmmh. Anyway, musings aside, this again (again again) is a lovely little read. It is a board book and it is all about one [...]
Follow The Line, by Laura Ljungkvist. Another one of my random purchases – I liked the cover. I bought. I know you should never judge a book it’s cover (and I have failed on that count several times before), but I wasn’t disappointed this time. What a beautiful book. Reminiscent of child activity books where [...]
Lost and Found, Oliver Jeffers Finally! Red Ted is old enough for the fabulously lovely Oliver Jeffers books! We love the quirkiness and we love the gorgeous drawings. Get one. Nuff said. Think Jeffers will be our first stART project – http://tinyurl.com/yf5hykc). For more books visit my Books page on this blog!
Klipp Klopp – Nicola Smee – as Red Ted gets older, suddenly the German Book market explodes with excellent books. We recently ordered “Klipp Klopp” – about some farm animals going for a ride on a big horse and he LOVES the book! I can lure him upstairs with a promise of Klipp Klopp when [...]
So.. I had dinner to cook for the kids and I had a handful of craft sticks. So I gave these to the kids, a bunch of pens and some googly eyes, whilst I sorted their dinner. And we got.. these adorable Craft Sticks Bookmarks. They would be a FABULOUS little gift for Father’s Day [...]
Well! Yes, Father’s Day isn’t for a little while and Father’s Day dates vary around the globe.. and you know, Fathers have birthdays too, right? What to make? And they can be whenever, so some crafty bloggers got together to talk Gifts for Dad that Kids can make!! Brilliant. There are of course the Father’s [...]
Quick Craft: Father’s Day Feet Bookmarks
We saw these super cute and easy footprint bookmarks over at The Seeds Network Blog. We used contact paper and wrote the children’s ages on the back. The ribbons are recycled! Father’s Day sorted (we made extra for the grandfather’s too). We love footprint crafts and have made plenty of thank you cards and even [...]
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