Happy Birthday Mr Dahl! Wherever you are I imagine that you are currently having a mug of tea, a KitKat and a huge hearty chuckle at every adult that has spent the past 24 hours getting costumes of your fabulous creations together. The celebration of what would have been your 100th birthday epitomises many of your stories; children getting one over on adults. Congratulations you have definitely had the last laugh!
Whether you want to learn something, empathise with someone or just lose yourself in a novel, A Boy Made of Blocks might just be the next book you should read.
Finally… my daughter has selected a Chris Riddell book to enjoy – and believe me there is SO much to enjoy.
The children have been devouring books ever since the Read to Rio reading initiative was launched at school. This is definitely a good thing but in the quest to keep T supplied with something other than the *shudder, spit* “Rainbow Magic” series I have been searching through my archive for some of my own childhood favourites. Enter the positively delightful “Milly-Molly-Mandy” by Joyce Lankester Brisley.
A few months ago a friend and I were bemoaning the fact that we never seemed to read very much any more. That when we did read, our book choices were a little off and our general reading habit was more than a little un-inspired. So we set up a Book Club.
My children have become really anti-social. They don’t talk to me, apart from the odd grunt, and they barely even look at me. They aren’t teenagers and I don’t actually mind. Why?
They are reading. On their own. ALL the time.
Following the inaugural meeting of our new book club it’s time to start a new book. I’m off to the Alaskan winter with ‘The Snow Child’ by Eowyn Ivey. So excited.
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Photography by Oliver Jordan.
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Life of Ryrie 