Owl Babies is such a beautiful read for Early Years. Owlets, Sarah, Percy and Bill live with their mother in a comfortable hole in a big tree trunk. Everything is as it should be until one night when the little ones wake up and Mother isn't there. Will she come back? Has she got lost? The…
Our nearly 7 and 5 year old have been having a real rip-roaring laugh at the utterly fabulous, There's a Snake in my School by David Walliams this week after grabbing a copy from the library. We had already really enjoyed the audio version at bedtime but the visual presence of this book broug…
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle has become a mainstay classic over the past 40 years and just as I remember having it read to me as a 7 year old in Year 2 (P3) so too do my own children relish the story of the tiny caterpillar who eats and eats and eats until his seemingly magical trans…
Living slightly out of our nearest town means that short car trips - to school, shops, classes etc are a common part of our daily rythmn. We regularly use travel time as a way to up our daily reading time and find its a great time to grab kids attention and introduce them to new reads.…
We were so lucky this year when Santa gifted some beautiful Grapat Mandalas (pictured) to our eldest girl. I had been eyeing them for years and although they were greeted initially with a sense of - what do I do with those, they have already been used for maths practice, counting, pattern making an…
As the main bulk and darkness of winter falls upon us in bleak January days and nights, there just isn't anything more pleasurable than curling up with a magazine and a warm cup of something. Here at The Family Book Review we download them for FREE from LibrariesNI via the LibbyAp…
If, like me, you have rather 'bouncy' young children then Emma Carlisle's picture book, Lion Practice is sure to be a hit. Telling the tale of a little girl Lucy who just loves practicing to be a crocodile, kangaroo and then a big noisy, pouncing LION - ROAAAARRR - and her e…
With so much Frozen craziness going on in our house and so many others over the past number of years, when I noticed this lovely old book of Hans Christian Andersen Fairytales on the shelf the other day, I realised that I had never read the story of 'The Snow Queen' on which the…
"One hot day a lion strolled into a market square to buy a hat. But the townspeople were scared of lions, so he ran away." When Iris finds a Lion hiding in her playhouse she sets about protecting her new found friend from her unsuspecting parents - Mums and Dad's can be fu…