Hello there! It's Friday again... it's FINALLY ALMOST THE CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS. There'll be a "first term wrap up" post coming... but today just a bit of fun. I'm taking on the Christmas Cracker Tag, which I first saw on my friend Cora's blog. Check out her post here. Lets get on! Pick A Book With … Continue reading Christmas Cracker Tag
Happy Wednesday! Today I'm here as part of the blog tour for the brilliant Rosie Loves Jack by Mel Darbon. "They can't send you away. What will we do? We need us. I stop your angry, Jack. And you make me strong. You make me Rosie." Rosie loves Jack. Jack loves Rosie. So when they're … Continue reading BLOG TOUR: Rosie Loves Jack
A Darkness of Dragons: a brilliant adventure! "After playing a forbidden spell-song to save a village from rats, 12-year-old piper Patch Brightwater is thrown in jail. But there he meets Wren – a noble girl under a rat-shaped curse – and together they befriend Barver, a fearsome dracogriff, and set off on a grand adventure … Continue reading BOOK BLOG: S.A. Patrick
Halo, halo, halo! It's Friday... that means it's TAG DAY. (I should start posting tags on a Thursday cause alliteration is my jam... but old habits die hard, maybe in the new year!) Today I'm taking on the Christmas Songs Book Tag. I saw this while browsing the interwebs for different tags and thought it … Continue reading Christmas Songs book tag
It may be December 10th, but I still am yet to round up my (rather pitiful looking) November reads! In November, I: Only read 3 books! Started a few books, but my brain wouldn't let me read. Suffered from some pretty bad SAD. Was a bit poorly. Slept a lot. Started rehearsing for the Christmas … Continue reading November wrap up!
Morning troops! How are we all? What's going down this here Friday morning? Has Christmas reached your house yet? As we all know, Christmas is the time when you are deemed "naughty or nice", so I thought I'd find a naughty or nice themed tag to do! I luckily found the perfect one... a bookish … Continue reading The Bookish Naughty or Nice tag
Here we are, day 3 of my gift guide. I hope you've enjoyed reading them! It's been a blast looking back at my year in books and thinking which ones I would recommend people buy and read AND SHOVE IN EACH OTHERS FACES *ahem*. Today, on this here final day of recommending, I'm sorting through … Continue reading Looking for a brilliant read for a teen in your life?
Yesterday, I shared 10 recommendations for emerging chapter book readers - check it out if you're after recommendations for 6+ years! Today I'm sharing books that I've shared with the kids in my class, school and life! Today is the turn of those who are confidently reading longer chapter books - longer chapter books that … Continue reading “Which books should I add to my Christmas list, Miss?”
The amount of times I've been asked for recommendations over the past few weeks is LUSH. Whether it's from my kids for what to read next, for parents on what to buy their kids for Christmas or from my colleagues on what to read, it's all lush to talk books. Over the next 3 days … Continue reading “You know books… can I have some recommendations?”
The Boneless Mercies: a beautifully brilliant book! "Frey, Ovie, Juniper, and Runa are Boneless Mercies – death-traders, hired to kill quickly, quietly and mercifully. It is a job for women, and women only. Men will not do this sad, dark work. Frey has no family, no home, no fortune, and yet her blood sings … Continue reading BOOK BLOG: April Tucholke
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