As well as the BritMums book club we’re also part of Parragon Book Buddies so I’m delighted to share Charles Fuge’s Wonderful Wildlife 123 with you today. The children both love books and animals so this book has been a big hit with them. Wonderful Wildlife 123 is a deliciously funny first introduction to the… Read More »
The latest book from the BritMums book club was The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka. It’s a very short novel but utterly absorbing so I read it in a couple of days. Between the wars a group of young, non-English speaking Japanese women travelled by boat to America. They were picture brides, clutching… Read More »
Over the last couple of weeks we’ve been enjoying Wake Up Do Lydia Lou by Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Karen George. A little ghost tries to give Lydia Lou a scare . . . but he can’t even wake her up. So he fetches his noisy animal friends to help: Mew! Moo! Too-whit too-whoo!… Read More »