Do you ever remember thinking about the things you would share with your kids, when they came along? All those things you love. All those things that you know something about. All those things that you think might even be helpful to them when they grow up. Well. Some of that happens. Occasionally they even …
Category archives: Reading
Moments: September 2014
September comes round, and for once this year, it’s not about starting up writing again. But it might be about not getting stuck when I don’t post for a while. I like September. It’s often one of the best picture months on the calendar (have you noticed? Go and look at your own wall calendar …
Lit Kid: pulling strings and lifting flaps
Mini Reader continues to have some clearly expressed views about books. Amongst them are: Flaps are good. There is a whole slew of lift the flap books out there. Mini has a particular fondness for Spot the dog, who has a good number of flap books to his credit, but there are many others besides …
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Lit Kid: books with counting
Cometh the reader, cometh the reading preferences. Which is fair enough really – and it keeps it fresh for the adult narrator too. Junior Reader could be relied on to spot rhymes. Sometimes to guess a rhyme before I’d read it. Or to fill in the gaps where I left a space. Mini Reader is …
Lit Kid: books with holes in
I’m not here to encourage you to get the scissors out (and you’d have a hard time doing so with board books). But I am being reacquainted with certain categories of books, following in the wake of Mini Reader, who has some very definite ideas about what makes a good book. One with holes in, …