May 18, 2010

My almost-1 year old daughter Jovie absolutely ADORES this book – From Head To Toe which was written by Eric Carle. You may know Eric Carle’s super popular book The Very Hungry Caterpillar, but this book is every bit as colourful and fun for kids of all ages. From the Official Eric Carle website – [...]

April 12, 2010

A dear friend of mine, Amanda Gilligan, recently moved to Vancouver, from Sydney where she was an amazing school teacher. On her blog, Mocking Bird, she’s posted about inspiring our kids to be book lovers My most favourite point that she’s made is the first – Love books yourself- children model their parents behaviour. If [...]

April 1, 2010

It’s important to provide our growing children with a range of educational books to help them learn and to give them some mental and visual stimulation. From their ABC’s to their 123′s, their Opposites and basic daily skills – there is a book for everything these days (even about pooping!). Above are my favourites that [...]

January 12, 2010

About 18 months ago on my personal blog, I posted about The Wonder Weeks book that I had received and was quickly falling in love with. I tend not to be a “parenting by the book” person, but we all know there are periods in a baby’s life where you just don’t know what is [...]

December 23, 2009

My just-turned-2-year-old Jasper is VERY much into reading all of his books. And by that I mean, mummy and daddy need to read every single one of his books before he can even fathom going down for the night! Here are our most popular books to read together – The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric [...]