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Carrying on with a long weekend of reading, I am bringing a book to our blog readers that I read over a weekend, because it was unputdownable and a great escape. You are very quickly drawn into the story, because there is so much that one can see of oneself in it… I cannot even […]

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We have cooler weather this weekend and we are pretty much lazing around, walking down to the beach with friends and reading through piles of books… I thought I would bring you a weekend of reading. So here are se7en of the latest and greatest reads for children from Pan Macmillan South Africa. Almost Wordless […]

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This past week was International Children’s Book Day, so I thought I would bring you a pile of the latest and greatest picture books that have been on our reading pile for the last little while. Some of these books are destined to be classics, some have become family favourites and all of them have […]

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We have been reading a ton this year, lots and lots of new books are on my desk waiting for their reviews to be written… so let’s dive in and begin… Parenting The Happiest Kids in the World by Rina Mae Acosta and Michelle Hutchison published by Penguin Random House South Africa: I have to […]

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It’s World Water Day… and Cape Town is experiencing critical water shortages. We have done no swimming in the pool all summer long, and as a result we have had an almost daily walk down to the beach for a swim and refresh. The thing about living right at the beach is that you can […]

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It’s World Book Day, a huge day on the world of children’s books. This is the day we think about all the books that fired up our imaginations as kids… our favourite favourites. The ones we have to keep on our shelves forever and the ones we love so much that we have to share […]

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On one of the hottest days of summer, we headed into the city, to meet one of our favourite authors who is on a world tour and stopped in Cape Town to meet up with some of his fans. Andy Griffiths is the writer behind the author/illustrator team that creates the Many Storey Treehouse Series. […]

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