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Sometimes a book crosses my desk and inspires my kids to create great artworks, before I even get to look at it myself. Tug of War by Naomi Howarth is such a book… This is the story of a tortoise, who lives on the banks of the great African river. It is a classic fable […]

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Hooray, Hooray… It is World Book Giving Day and we are so excited about that… as usual we are going to be creating a library for a school in need over the next couple of weeks. And we are going to need your help, as usual as we are starting from scratch. I am finalising […]

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So it’s Monday and I am kicking off this week with a GiveAway… we ended our school year last year, with reading this book and as we are getting ready to begin our new school year… this book was top of the list to begin again. We decided to create a GiveAway Post for you… […]

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Well our holiday is over and we dashed home to do all our Christmas preparations in just one day… exciting times, I tell you!!! Anyway, I thought I would bring you our final collection of books we have been reading for the year… Christmas Reads “Tis the season to be reading Christmas stories and I […]

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So we are on holiday, enjoying the sights and sounds of life in the city. Last winter we did a house swap with friends and it was fabulous and we are doing it again in the summer… we are trying to do one or two fun outings or activities each day and otherwise we are […]

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This is the time of year when all the beautiful gift books are published and this year is no exception. There is a pile of lovely lovely giftable reads that we have been reading our way through, so that we could share them with you. We are working our way up from books for the […]

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Another week and another visit to the Two Oceans Aquarium. We recently attended the book launch of Struik Nature’s The Annotated Old Fourlegs by Mike Bruton, at the aquarium. This is the story of the mysterious Coelacanth, a fish that appears to have four limbs from the fossil records, but these are fins that provide […]

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