A beautiful morning here in South Lincolnshire, with such a lovely book keeping me company. The Book Cat is based on real-life cat, Morgan, a stray who set up home at Faber and Faber during WW2 as resident mouser and door cat. In this story, Morgan embodies the Blitz spirit, helping those felines less fortunate…
This fabulous book is the only ray of sunshine to be found in South Lincolnshire this morning – what a miserable day weather-wise! I love it when I discover new books that I haven’t seen or heard of before. I was mooching around WH Smith on Thursday, killing time while waiting for a school music…
My daughter loves books that feature her hobbies and interests, so this brilliant chapter book series, The Fabulous Cakes of Zinnia Jakes, is perfect for her. The Super Spy is the latest book to be published and just like the first 2 books (which can be read as standalones) it’s full of adventure, fun and…
Today’s Saturday morning ‘hanging around in the car park’ read was the first book in the Planet Omar series – Accidental Trouble Magnet – and what a brilliant story it is. Not many books can boast a new school, a stinky class bully, a dragon and a zombie, an Eid fest and presents, and a…
It’s a glorious, if a bit cold, day here in south Lincolnshire and I’ve really enjoyed reading with the sun on my face while waiting for my daughter to finish her drama class. Keeping me company in the car park has been the brilliant Dog Ears by Anne Booth, an empathic, moving story of a…
I was in #readingmyshelf mode last weekend, and really enjoyed this lovely book that I found buried in my Kindle. It tells the story of Libby, a bright, intelligent girl who wants to be a scientist when she grows up (her hero is the American astronomer Cecilia Payne, who first determined the composition of stars).…
A trip to the hairdressers always means quality reading time! The Smidgens really hit the spot today – it reminds me a little of The Borrowers, but far more up to date, brilliantly illustrated and much, much funnier! Gafferty Sprout, a Smidgen, thinks that her family is the last of its tiny kind. However, after…
I actually purchased this middle grade book the day it was released 2 years ago, but somehow it got lost in my Kindle library, only to re-emerge yesterday while I was having an e-book re-organise. I started it this morning, and found that I couldn’t put it down until I’d reached the last page. 11-year-old…
I’ve really enjoyed this fab middle grade book by Sarah J Dodd which, I’ll admit, I was first drawn to because of the beautiful cover art created by Becky Thorn. A wintery tale, it tells the story of Emily and her veterinarian father, who move to a new village 6 months after the loss of…
I had such a laugh reading this book. Aisling and Joe just don’t get why they have to do as they’re told, so when Mrs Grough, a seriously strict, no-nonsense childminder comes to stay on the run up to Christmas and witnesses their bad behaviour, she soon decides – oh horror of horrors – that…