So we brought you Cape Town’s Design Indaba and we brought you Cape Town’s Good Food and Wine Show and in a week or two we will definitely be bringing you Cape Town’s very own Book Fair… Meanwhile we have been reading away and I have a heap of books to review and GiveAway… So we decided to have a bit of a party over the next two weeks and to do a a bit of a build up to Cape Town’s Premier Book Show…
So expect lots of bookish posts, bookish crafts, bookish reviews and especially bookish GiveAways!!! A really lovely “local is lekker” book launch report back and giveaway!!! We have baby books, board books, chapter books, activity books… teen reads, whatever we are reading reads… heaps and heaps of reads… stacks and stacks of books. Hope you love it and join in, I think it may be a lot of fun!!!
Here’s a List of se7en + 1 GiveAways so far… Just to help you keep track:
- A Giant Priddy Activity Book GiveAway – closing date: 16 June 2012.
- Brilliant Barefoot Books and a Brilliant GiveAway – closing date: 16 June 2012.
- Vumile and the Dragon, a story with a local flavor, a GiveAway – closing date: 17 June 2012.
- Se7en + 1 Steps to Raising a Good Samaritan – A GiveAway. – closing date: 17 June 2012.
- Face Painting 101 A Really Wild GiveAway… – closing date: 18 June 2012.
- Rabbits in the Parks, Quick Handwarmers – A Crafty GiveAway… – closing date: 18 June 2012.
- This is a special GiveAway for Cape Town readers… not a book, but an outing and books could be involved!!! – closing date: 18 June 2012.
- Se7en’s Fabric Farmyard Friends and Another Brilliant Barefoot Book GiveAway… – closing date: 18 June 2012.
To warm up I thought would do a round-up of many of our previous book posts…
Our most popular book posts:
Plenty of Book Crafts:
- Se7en Baked 100 Dresses and Met Up With Augustus.
- Roald Dahl Inspiration Tray and Peachy Insect Shadow Puppets.
- Se7en Million Colorful Camoflauged Chameleons.
- Se7en Illustrate a Book in Se7en Steps…
- Se7en Welcome’s the Crafty Crow…
- Book Illustration: Le Ballon Rouge by Owl Books.
- Our Sketchbook Project.
- Se7en Steps to Quick, Curious, Creeping Bookmarks.
- Se7en Quick Pockets for Corduroy.
- Se7en’s Visual Diary – “What We Did Last Summer…”
- Bill Martin Junior Book Covers in Se7en Steps…
- Where the Wild Things Are, Se7en Pairs of Terrible Yellow Eyes…
- Happy Birthday Madiba…
- Articulated Beasts and Where the Wild Things Are Round-Up.
- Se7en Make Poetry Books.
- It’s a Back to School Wrap in Se7en Steps.
- Basically Brilliant Bookplates.
- Se7en Do Ravenous Beast Collages.
- Se7en Start a Book Nook.
- Tubby and the Lantern and a Se7en Lamp Extravaganza.
- Alpaca Hats in Se7en Steps.
- Mrs. Armitage and Her Se7en Hundred Surfboards.
- Eric Carle’s Radical Rockets.
- Go Dog Go Do You Like My Hat? – in Se7en Steps…
- The Far Pavilions and a Magnifying Glass in Se7en Steps…
- Se7en City Crafts – The Complete Book of Art Ideas – A Review.
- A Bear Hunt Board Game.
- Madiba Magic… Silk Shirts.
- Where the Wild Things Are Shadow Puppets.
- Owl Books: The Jungle Path.
Cookbook Reviews.
- Se7en Review Justin Bonello Cooks For Friends – Brilliant!!!
- Se7en Visit With Justin Bonello.
- Yuppie Chef’s Enkosi Cookathon: A Whole Week of South African Recipes.
- Cooked Out of the Frying Pan by Justin Bonello.
- The River Cottage Family CookBook by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall & Fizz Carr.
- DK’s Children’s Healthy and Fun CookBook *****
- Se7en Go Around the World in a CookBook.
- Sam Stern’s Get Cooking.
- African Animals, Rhymes and Recipes by Tracy Going.
- Cooked in Africa by Justin Bonello.
- The Ministry of Food, reviewed by the Celebrity Chef by Jamie Oliver.
- Little Children’s Cookbook by Rebecca Gilpin.
- Cooking With Daisy by Josie Klafkowska.
- The Usborne Children’s Book of Baking by Fiona Patchett.
That’s Books for you… Join us for a fortnight of book posts… it is going to be fabulous!!!
We just received a whole box of summer reading books from Sonlight. 🙂 I am being aggravating and not letting us open the box until we finish our school year on Friday. We have all those lovely new books and some art supplies waiting for summer! Yea! Looking forward to the book posts. Lillian
Oh Lilian, How exciting!!! I love the look of there summer reads!!! Totally fabulous!!! We are all reading frantically to get our books read for review, just the right weather for it – wintry, wintry, wintry!!! Hope you have a good week!!!
ohhh I can’t wait to see what you have up your sleeve. I always enjoy your BOOK posts and crafts!!! we are just starting our big summer reading program here… so your book ideas will be welcome with open arms. and I love your book fair PAINTING!!
Hi Katherine Marie, I think you may love it!!! Lots of books for your younger age group are coming your way… in our madly busy week I just have to remember to hit “publish”… Look out to “seeing you” pop by!!! Have a great day!!!