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You all know us and how we can’t resist an opportunity to celebrate!!! We love making books memorable and today was Today was World Book Day and the perfect day to bring one of our favourites to life. Let’s introduce our favourite picture book ever: The Green Ship by Quentin Blake: It is the story [...]

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This week we have been enjoying our book reviews on a stick… There comes a time when the fun of a book can be totally destroyed by another written book review… and I am happy for our kids to be able to enjoy what they are reading in any number ways… Today we took a [...]

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This is a special edition… When my friend Zoe at Playing By the Book calls for books on a particular topic… then we respond!!! I thought we might battle to find books about “Back to School” since we have never been in school… turns out there are heaps of school books out there and tons [...]

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It has been a while since I had a little girl who was wild about fairies and since fairy parties were the order of the day… everyday!!! But suddenly this past summer we had two small girls of just the right age: the moment between everything being just too tricky for little hands and too [...]

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Today is Shakespeare’s birthday and in our Summer of reading and we have been reading Shakespeare… lots of it!!! I know, it’s a weird homeschool thing!!! When we started blogging a couple of years back we mentioned that Hood #1 was mad about Shakespeare. In the first few years of homeschooling we covered quite a [...]

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A couple of posts back I mentioned that this had been the summer of reading… I wasn’t joking – and one book in particular stands out. When we saw that Michael Morpurgo’s War Horse was going to be a movie we knew that we had to read it quickly, before anybody got to see the [...]

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My summer reading plan was well thought out and carefully preprepared!!! It involved a weekly trip to the library: One evening each week we headed out and filled our quota of books then we headed home to hours of silence!!! Whatever the kids selected we read… and read and read… I have to declare we [...]

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