Gifts
Happy 150th Alice in Wonderland (you get the present!) This year marks the 150th birthday of ‘Alice in Wonderland’ and in the week I’ll be sharing some of the very special editions…
READ MOREBook Parties for Kids As you may have gathered, I’m rather a fan of book themed parties. Seriously what’s not to love? The theming is done for you, often there are enough…
READ MORELast Minute Literary Gifts Being a librarian – I am of course super organised in all areas of my life. My Christmas shopping is done and all gifts are beautifully wrapped with…
READ MORELiterary Teacher Gifts Teachers are an enormous part of a child’s life and my glory a good teacher is worth their weight in gold, so I like to put some thought into…
READ MOREGifts for Literature Lovers: Part Two Not in any way, shape or form a sponsored post…just me sharing gift ideas and telling you about a fab company. Nothing in it for me…
READ MORELast year I really did outdo myself with gifts for the librarians and lovers of literature in my life (see here) and this year I’m on the lookout for more literary themed…
READ MOREI asked my soon-to-be-nine niece what she would like for her birthday somewhat dreading the answer. She replied that she knew I would get her books (clearly I am the Book Aunty)…
READ MORETop Ten Favourite Books at Six Years Old Now We Are Six When I was one, I had just begun. When I was two, I was nearly new. When I was three,…
READ MORESpineless Classics: Literature as Art Earlier in the year I spoke about our ‘Secret Garden’ Spineless Classic art print, which I made a display around in the library. The students still adore…
READ MOREToday I’m sharing what will be (at Christmas!) the latest addition to ChickPea’s bedroom; a reading tent with Willow fabric flags. PudStar and I had been pondering what to do with the…
READ MOREGifts for the Librarians in Your Life Just this week I’ve finished my Masters in Teacher Librarianship – insert applause. I now have three degrees to my name, two of them in…
READ MORESpineless Classics I’ve spoken before about creating a print rich environment – surrounding your children with print in all forms. Well I’ve just added the most amazing print form to my library…
READ MOREFather’s Day Gift Books In Australia it is Father’s Day this Sunday. All celebrations in our house call for a new book, and for Father’s Day this year, it’s ‘What’s Dad Doing?’…
READ MOREInscribing books with words from the heart is like icing a cupcake. It’s making something that is already sweet (a gift) even more so. An inscription in a children’s book adds…
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