Today, I want to tell you about a really cool book that came out earlier this week. It's called 'A Year of Forest School' - Outdoor Play and Skill-building Fun for Every Season' and was written by Jane Worroll and Peter Houghton. The couple are parents to a 7-year old son and Forest School leaders who have a combined experience of over 20 years of working in the great outdoors. After their first ...
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Wise(ish) Words for Amy with The Book For Everyone: Review/Competition
The world around us is changing at lightning speed, especially for children, and Christmas is a time when I become particularly aware of it. While I'm desperately trying to grab hold of Christmas traditions, more and more families spend the run-up to Christmas and big parts of their daily lives together but worlds apart. While baking Christmas cookies and decorating your Christmas tree were once ...
Bedtime Story Competition with The Book People
I get a lot of press releases every single day but there are only a few that really grab my attention. One that did, was an email from The Book People which revealed the results of a YouGov survey that questioned 448 UK parents with children aged 5 - 11 commissioned for their annual Bedtime Story Competition. The results were quite frankly shocking. Why you should read your child a bedtime ...
Let’s explore with Lonely Planet Kids sticker books
Confession time: I am 32 and I'm obsessed with stickers. Okay, all sorts of stationery but I do regularly order stickers worth a hundred pounds or more for my Erin Condren Life Planner simply because it makes it look pretty and therefore encourages me to use it. No surprise really that Amy feels the same, is it? While I'm always encouraging sharing with others, I really draw a line when it comes ...
Our favourite kids books – reading with children
We're big bookworms in this house. I go through two to three books each week and although Amy can't read yet, we read together every single day - most days, it's numerous times. I think instilling a love for books and reading into children from a very young age is one of the biggest gifts you can give to them. Reading improves children's vocabulary and language skills and helps them develop ...
5 unique ways to encourage your kid to read
In a lot of ways reading is the foundation for everything else your child learns, it’s a crucial skill. But while it’s essential, it should also be enjoyable. You don’t just want your child to be able to read, you want them to hunt down words everywhere they go, you want them to crave books, to discover the favourite books that they’ll still be thinking of warmly into adulthood. This isn’t just ...