Bryn, Freya & I wrote this for the Guardian Childrens Books Family Reviews

Freya gave this book 2 thumbs up and a smile, well deserved praise for this lovely book, which had us both feeling happy, a little worried & finally happy again.

A bear finds a lost toy bunny & sets out to find its owner covering the forest in ‘Found’ posters. As they become friends Bear soon discovers what he will lose once the bunny is found.

I really liked the black bold outlines of the illustrations & we were both swept away with the mood of the story depending on the expression on the bears face. The double page spread of ‘Lost’ posters provided plenty of humour for an older reader, Bryn especially liked the one with Peter Pan’s shadow.

This is a book we are very happy to have found.

Bryn & I wrote this for the Guardian Children’s Family Reviews

My Pop Up City Atlas is a treasure trove of information focusing on cities across the world. Each double page spread looks at a themed group of cities such as coastal cities & religious cities. Aside from a pop-ups there are also flaps to lift & wheels to turn.

Our first reading of the books was to race through admiring the pop ups & to uncover all the flaps. We then moved onto the text which is full of bite sized interesting facts, like the city with the most bridges or the city with the most billionaires, accompanied with bright colourful illustration. ‘A fun way to learn’ Bryn declared.

We all enjoyed this introduction to some marvellous cities.

Bryn, Freya & I wrote this for Guardian children’s books family reviewers

This was a favourite from my childhood so I was excited to share it with Bryn & Freya.

The Barbapapas are a fantastical surreal family each with they own special characteristics & the ability to change into any shape. In Barbapapa’s New House we get to see them build a family home together which they then have to defend against developers.

Bryn & Freya were fascinated with the Barbapapas especially spotting what they had changed into, from snails to catapults. We had lots of fun reading this story & can’t wait to see what other adventures the Barbapapas get up too

Bryn & I wrote this for the Guardian Family Reviews

We put this activity book to the test during a recent two hour car journey. For about an hour we barely heard a peep from Bryn aside from the odd chuckle & ‘that’s disgusting’.

The book has a good range of activities with word searches, spot the difference, mazes, codes to crack, drawings to finish off and more. There are also pages & pages of stickers which I suspect will be popping up all around the house.

The activities revolve around Dirty Bertie’s favourite things so fans of the series will know what typically gross things to expect.

Entertaining puzzles & Dirty Bertie in glorious technicolor this book is a winning combination.

Bryn, Freya & I wrote this review for the Guardian Family Review

A little girl & boy are less than impressed when they find out they are getting a babysitter, the titular Aunt Amelia. They begin the story in a ‘bad mood’ but by the end they are all smiles. The parents leave Aunt Amelia with a long list of instructions,lucky for them she’s a firm believer that rules are made to be broken leading to a fantastically fun time.

Bryn, feeling uncomfortable at all the rule breaking, described it as “too naughty”. Freya on the other hand giggled her way through the story, approving of such behaviour. Bryn and Freya’s reactions accurately reflect their different characters! For me, Aunt Amelia was the type of aunt I always wanted to be.

Freya and I have read this book many times and she gleefully uses the pictures to tell me the instructions which aren’t being followed. This is a book about the joys of being a child & the pure fun to be found in abandoning the rules

This is a review Bryn, Freya & I write for the Guardian Family Review

This is a glorious little book full of vibrancy, rhythm & colour. It’s a story about a girl exploring a market with a pocketful of change to spend and a head full of ideas of what to buy. Set in India she darts around the market from bangle stall to flower stall to a stall selling livestock & another selling spices having lots of fun.

I love the vivid detailed illustrations and how the text on the page mirrors the quirky rhyming narrative. The kids were equally intrigued and had plenty of questions about what they could see in the pictures & some of the words that were used.

A perfect glimpse into another country & culture.