Tag: reading

  • To Celebrate World Book Day #giveaway

    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…

  • Do you read to your kid’s every night?

    ‘83.6% of Mums spend time reading to their children at bed time, despite studies showing a growing number of Mums returning to work’ As a working mum, I’m often tired after being on the motorway and fairly stressed by the time I get home, but the one thing I make sure I do every night…

  • Struggling to read messages on your phone?

    I thought this was pure genius so I wanted to share it with you.  I’m now in my 40s and a few months ago I started noticing that I was struggling to read text messages on my iPhone.  I was having to progressively hold my phone farther and farther away until it came into focus. Oh…

  • Bud & Roo’s Spectacular Adventures – The Beach by Jessica Valentine

    Fostering a love of reading I do love a book that inspires a bit of Art.  Bud & Roo’s Spectacular Adventure is about two doggies who dig up treasures and sniff their way to where it has come from.  The Author, Jessica Valentine wanted to create a book that her 5 year old could read…

  • 1 in 3 children in London do not own a book!

    I was absolutely horrified to read in a paper a few weeks ago, that 1 in 3 children in London do not own a book!  One child, when asked to bring a book into school, brought an Argos catalogue as this was the only book in the house. Bloody hell! I believe this stems to…