Where to buy books in St Albans, Herts
I think it’s absolutely shocking that 3 in 10 kids in the UK do not own books. I’ve never counted them but I’d hazard a guess that there are between 75-100 books upstairs in my daughters room. She has everything from picture books to non-fiction.
I appreciate for some that this is down to financial circumstances but there are cheaper alternatives. We often have book fairs in town, local charity shops have shelves of them and there are a few book swap schemes around.
Libraries are eventually going to fade away. (via Forbes)
If I’m completely honest I tend to buy her books. I should make more use out of our public library but I’m dreadful at remembering to return them on time and end up paying a reasonable amount in fines.
As a busy mum, I don’t really have time to be searching through all the books online, catalogues or in the bookstore so I tend to get my books from Lisa Nichols from Usborne. She is passionate about books/literacy, very knowledgeable and full of personality. You have not lived if you haven’t had the chance to have a cuppa with Lisa. I simply tell her what topics she is currently doing at school and what reading level she is at. I haven’t once been disappointed with her choices.
One of our best investments was the Box Set of Usborne Very First Reading Books, which is a collection of 15 books. They start with parents and child alternating reading pages and you progressively move towards your child reading independently. There are enough books in the set to cover at least a term, possibly more.
To celebrate World Book Day on the 6th March 2014, Lisa has kindly offered one of my readers a chance to win a Beginner’s Animal Pack New from Usborne this Spring which consists of 20 titles.
Simply enter using the Rafflecopter form below. Full terms and Conditions can be found at the bottom of the form but in short, it’s open to residents of the UK 18+ and closes on the 6th of March.
Good luck and happy reading!
This competition is listed on Loquax, Prize Finder and Competition Hunter.
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May I be the first to comment and say thank you very much for your kind words Chrissie. They are all true *wink*. Good luck to everyone who enters. This pack of 20 non-fiction titles are perfect for all curious animal lovers in the Infants.
Harry the Dirty Dog by Gene Zion
Guess How Much I Love You. :)
my son loves all kinds of books but his favourite are the Pip and Posy books
I loved Enid Blyton books as a child but my son’s current favourite is the Very Hungry Caterpillar.x
As a child it was Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren, I think it is Winnie the Pooh now!
Fantastic Mr Fox
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
The lion the witch and the Wardrobe.
The Gruffalo
Meg from the worst witch , wow used to love this so much xx
The Jolly Postman
The very hungry caterpillar
we had stig of the dump at junior school
my favourite book is the secret garden, a friend got me it as my 7th birthday present (over 20years ago) and i still have it on my shelf
I had loads when I was a child, Danny The Champion of The World was one of them
The Grufallo!
the lion, the witch & the wardrobe
Ballet shoes by Noel Streatfield is my first memory of enjoying reading
I loved Enid Blyton books, any I could get my hands on at all ages
hungry caterpillar
Harry Potter and the Goblet of fire
Any Enid Blyton book
The Gruffalo
Roald Dahl’s revolting rhymes…it still makes me laugh today
The Gruffalo
Little Rabbit Foo Foo
The Hungary Caterpillar
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
I loved the Magic Faraway tree, I am looking forward to my daughter being old enough to read it.
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George’s Marvellous Medicine – I must have read it about 20 times as a child!
Room on the Broom
James and the giant peach
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
Alfie’s new red shoes, my mum use to read it to me
George’s Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl
I think it has to be the Brambly Hedge series by Jill Barklem
The BFG :)
The magic faraway tree
Mr Noisy
The Silver Sword by Ian Serraillier
a tie between Dear Zoo and the Gruffalo x
Stanley Bagshaw – very funny indeed
I love the Magic Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton.
Going on a bear hunt
George’s Marvellous Medicine
your not my friend
The Dinosaur That Pooped Christmas! :)
Green eggs & ham
It has to be the Pirate Cruncher for my boy
It has to be Charlie & the Chocolate Factory. Still read today.
I liked the goosebumps books but my daughter loves her disney stories esp the little mermaid
The Secret Garden, or a Little Princess – both so beautiful, and sad, and beautiful again.
my 3 year old loves his truck book, my 11 year old love diary of the wimpy kid books
James and the giant peach
My favourite book of all time is ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ because it was the first book I ever read by myself at nursery school. :)
The Gruffalo
My daughter’s favourite book is “The Tiger Who Came To Tea”. :-)
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Gruffalo
were going on a bear hunt
the magic faraway tree x
Danny the champion of the world, that book was magical to me!
My favourite was The BFG. My 4 yr old sons is currently the Gruffalo. He even has the onesie!
The Gruffelo
spot the dog!
Famous Five go to Treasure Island
The Tiger Who Came To Tea
the BFG we like
My little boy is very much into “factual books” he loves an Usborne book about Dinosaurs and the body. Even Ive learnt a bit!!!!
My favourite is Matilda, we went to see the musical last year too and it was amazing x
My favourite children’s book of all time is The Enchanted Wood by Enid Blyton; I read this as a child over and over again.
Some dogs do…
Dogs don’t do ballet
the gruffalo
The Enchanted Castle by E Nesbit
Telling me what your favourite children’s book of all time is?
The Emperor’s New Clothes – so funny and has a moral too
Astrid Lindgrens books, especially Pippi Longstockings
Matilda
The Gruffalo – just finished reading it to my toddler for bed – yet again! We never tire of it.
The stick man :)
The Wind in the Willows
Anything to do with Thomas Tank
The Tiger Who Came To Tea
The Gruffalo
The Hungry Caterpillar is still a big favourite.
Room on the broom
The magic faraway tree
Pooh Bertie! is my son’s favourite. But mine had to have been The Magic Faraway Tree :)
anything by Enid Blyton was my favourite
My children absolutely adore ‘ oh no George’ by Chris Haughton. When i was little I loved the story of Eliza and the swans
having 4 children the favourite books in this house are The Gruffalo ,Jack and the beanstalk and the princess and the pea !
my daughter loves books and stories. her favourites are the disney princesses.
Stick Man
The enormous crocodile – Roald Dahl, looking forward to my boys enjoying it just as much as i did x
green eggs and ham
The Puddle Lane series, great for helping children to read
My son loves The Very Hungry Caterpillar
my son loves we are going on a bear hunt and Two by two and a half
he loves Usborne look and say Home .. He loves to find the pictures of them in the bath and of them sat at the table eating dinner .
She loves the Very Hungry Caterpillar which has been a classic in our home for years from back when I had my eldest ..
The tiger who came to tea
My favourite childrens book of all time is ‘The Faraway Tree’ by Enid Blyton :)
Would You Rather by John Burningham
The Railway Children
Five Go Down To The Sea, by the great Enid Blyton
the gruffalo
My pair loved all the Hairy McClary books when they were little .. i passed them all to my niece & nephew & they are enjoying them now ..
Thanks for the giveaway!
My daughter was loved The Owl Babies, she is way to old for it now but still refuses to get rid of it
Little Red Riding Hood.
Wow super hard question but I will go with the book I have happily reread time and time again to my children which is monkey puzzle.
dear zoo
Dogger. :)
the gruffalo
The Secret Seven series
The Tiger who came to Tea
The singing Mermaid
The Hobbit
Topsy and Tim Go To The Airport
The tiger who came to tea. I love it and so did my mum when she was little and so does my daughter! It’s timeless and such a great story. I also love the illustration.
The Gruffalo
My favourite children’s book was the magic faraway tree by Enid Blyton
giraffes cant dance
I absolutely adored all the enid blyton books when I was younger, always wanted to go to St Clare’s lol
Not 1 book, but the famous five series was my favourite, and really got me into reading as a youngster.
Superworm
Room on the Broom – but often its whatever her current library book is
The BFG xx
The Gruffalo
I loved ‘Thursday the Mouse’ by Michael Bond and still have my original copy which I read to my son
The Gruffalo :)
Treasure Island
Beauty and the beast
We are loving The Snail and The Humpback Whale
The Little Red Hen
Jolly Postman
The Very Hungry Caterpillar :)
Enid Blyton’s Magic Faraway Tree
The Gruffalo
Famous Five Enid Blyton
The Gruffalo
guess how much i love you
as a child i loved reading cinderella :)
James and the Giant Peach :)
Fantastic Mr Fox
englebert sneem
The magic faraway tree!
My favourite children’s book was George’s Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl
I love reading to my daughter, she drinks in every word, and I hope as her reading progresses her imagination will carry her off into those stories the way mine did as a child.
The right books in formative years can make such a difference to a child’s interest in reading.
I hope this giveaway will give her some good first steps down the path of a lifetime. ;)
The gruffalo
Goodnight Mr Tom
Anything by Roald Dahl
My daughters is The very hungry caterpillar. Mine was all of Enid Blytons.
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Enid Blyton – Faraway Tree Stories
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
cars
The Gruffalo
My son likes James and the giant peach
the bfg
Roald Dahl’s The Enormous Crocodile :-)
winnie the pooh
the magic faraway tree, enid blyton
the gruffalo
The BFG :-) love it x
The tiger who came to tea
Either Room on the Broom, or the Hairy Maclary series
Georges marvellous medicine
The owl that was afraid of the Dark
My favourite childrens book is Alfie by Shirley Hughes
Colours by Shirley Hughes
matilda
we’re going on a bear hunt
My son currently loves Zog, & Stick Man (both by Julia Donaldson)
The tiger that came to tea x
love the jolly postman
I really love Julia Donaldson books for younger kids (especially Room on the Broom and The Snail and the Whale). For older kids (including my-30-something-self) you can’t beat anything by Roald Dahl or JK Rowling :)
Gruffalo
Stig of the dump!
the famous five
The Very Hungry Caterpillar!
I like reading the Gruffalo to my youngest and any Roald Dahl book to my eldest.
the 3 little pigs
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
The curious little kitten
The gruffalo of cause
Guess how much I love you
Dear Zoo
The Gruffalo
The Magic Porridge Pot
Superworm
My son loves a squash and squeeze its our bedtime story nearly every night
Santa Claus Needs a Wee is always very popular in our house
My most favourite children’s book is Guess How Much I Love You, I used to read it too my eldest every night as it was her favourite book. My younger daughter loved Room On The Broom, which I also enjoyed, which is lucky because I also had to read that every night for several years lol :)
At the moment it is room on the broom
Carrie’s War
My little boy loves his Thomas the tank engine books.
My son and i enjoy reading the gruffalo, hes very keen on all Julia Donaldson titles, I enjoyed enid blyton when I was young.
room on the broom :)
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