Fearless with Dad is a story that features all the things we get up to with our dads!
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My First Book of Aussie Animals is a beautifully designed lift-the-flap board book that features a search for a range of Australian animals.
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He was Tremendously Scary and Extraordinarily Hairy is a gorgeous wordless picture book about not letting your fears keep you from living.
Read More »Picture Book Review: Winner Winner Bin Chicken Dinner
Everyone is familiar with the dreaded bin chicken. They do have quite the reputation these days, the poor ibis. This sequel to the popular “Bin Chicken” book by the same authors, gives us some more insight into the ibis’ life and this poor ibis is not let off the hook looking for a meal.
This book is a fun easy to read story about an ibis looking for some dinner. The poor ibis tries all kinds of places from French restaurants to fish and chips. The rhyming is perfect and great to read out loud, making it fun for all ages. I felt a little bad for the bin chicken whose relentless attempts to secure some food continue to get muddled. But the end is sweet and funny.
Winner Winner, Bin Chicken Dinner is a clever and enjoyable book that features themes of friendship and how we treat others. The illustrations are fantastic in great colours and my favourite are the ones of the seagulls acting tough and flexing their muscles.
To grab yourself a copy of this book and get to know the misunderstood ibis a little better, click here!
Title: Winner Winner, Bin Chicken Dinner
Authors: Kate and Jol Temple
Illustrator: Ronojoy Ghosh
Publisher: Scholastic
Published: 2021
Ages: 3+
Review: Ash Invites Her Friends to Tea
Ash is back again in this sequel to her original book Ash Dresses Her Friends, and the sweet little bird in a red jacket is learning all about tea.
Ash and her grandpa are sitting in a tree when they start talking about leaves. Ash thinks they are all the same, but her grandpa tells that not all leaves are the same, and these leaves are magic! He then shows her the steps in turning the leaves into something special that everyone can enjoy. Once the process is finished and they make a lovely cup of tea, the magic works and it brings all kinds of mysterious animals to enjoy the tea (even a big giant dragon!), all who get something different out of it.
I just adored this book. There is something special about the gorgeous illustrations with the bright minty green and how it contrasts against the black and whites and greys – it’s just a delight for my eyeballs. I love the themes of family and culture and friendship. Afterwards, I had a new appreciation for tea and gained some new knowledge into the actual process on how it is made. I really enjoyed this book, although my toddler was a little hesitant until the dragon turned up, then he was hooked.
To grab your copy of this book and join ash for a cuppa, click here!
Title: Ash Invites Her Friends to Tea
Author & Illustrator: Fu Whenzeng
Publisher: New Frontier Publishing
Published: 2021
Ages: 3+
Picture Book Review: I Wonder
I Wonder is a thoughtful book about a little boat that got left behind. It has themes of environmentalism and shows how every action and step can contribute to something special.
Read More »Review: Dinosaur Dads
Three dinosaur kids are sitting around bored with nothing to do – but that’s about to change when their dads come bursting out of the forest with a whole day of wild adventures. Dinosaur Dads is all about having fun with dads – making it a perfect book for fathers day!
Read More »Classic Review: Ella Enchanted
Today I have a different kind of review – a quick classic review. This was created due to a collaborative post for The Best Children’s Books of All Time’ with the wonderful people over at Twinkl, where I shared my favourite children’s book that I read as a child.
Read More »Middle Grade Review: Carly Mills 2nd and 3rd books
Today I’m doing a double review today with the second and third instalments of the Carly Mills – Pioneer Girl books. I read the first one of these last year and thoroughly enjoyed it, and so I was stoked to receive these two and was delighted to find them just as enchanting as the first.
Read More »Picture Book Review: How Not to Annoy Mum
How NOT to annoy mum is a funny story by the dynamic duo that is comedian Dave Hughes and Holly Ife, with fun bright illustrations by the popular illustrator Heath McKenzie. This is a follow up on their other book ‘How NOT to Annoy Dad’.
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