sweet dreams. darling.

Hubby found this on Amazon.com (heaven knows what he was looking for!)

 

But with chapters like;

 

"Your upstairs neighbour kills people"

 

"I said not to touch that"

 

and

 

"No, it isn't just the wind",

 

it's sure to be a big hit with the littlies.

i knew it.

I knew it. All those Elvis conspiracy theorists/enthusiasts/sightings couldn't be wrong...

This 'Where's Wally?'-esque children's book immediately appealed to my warped sense of humour.

And I laughed harder when I saw this:

naaawwww x)

Cutest thing found in a book today :)

i feel smarter already

Well, you are what you eat, so they say... :S

go to your room! (and read this.)

You may or may not know that I collect old girl's pony books. I remember my mum promising me a box of her old books if I helped clean out my grandparent's garage one weekend, and when the old carboard box tumbled down and out poured all these old pony stories - I was IN HEAVEN. It was all my christmases at once as a 10 year old pony-mad booklover! I still have them all to this day, and have now accumulated more over the years from Vinnies, and garage sales, and 2nd hand book shops. I Can NEVER resist them (as my husband will attest to!)
Doesn't everyone want their children to follow in their footsteps? A little? I try to foster a love of books and reading in my daughter, and luckily, she seems to be catching on! Hubby and I are both avid booklovers, and always have been.

So in saying this, there are a few books that have made their way onto my daughter's bookshelf for the furture, and I desperatley hope they become as good a friends to her as they have been to me. :)

1) Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
2) The Secret Garden - Francis Hodgenson-Burnett
3) National Velvet - Enid Bagnold
4) The Naughtiest Girl in the School - Enid Blyton
5) The Jinny Series - Patricia Leitch
6) Charlotte's Web - EB White
7) Pippi Longstocking - EM Longfield
8) Matilda - Roald Dahl
9) Anything by Josephine, Christine or Diana Pullein-Thompson!
10) The Jill Series - Ruby Ferguson (Yeah I was a bit of a pony-mad girl!)
11) Grandma Cadbury's Trucking Tales - Di Bates
12) Hairy MacLairy From Donaldson's Dairy - Lynley Dodd

What are your favourite childhood books?

tmi

Just thought I'd share 2yo CupKatie's favourite library book of the moment.

Priceless.

unless u hav musophobia (fear of mice)

Found this children's book "Little Mouse's Big Book Of Fears" and thought it was worth a post. It's designed to be used as a scrapbook where kids can express their fears and explore them, on the premise that "A fear faced is a fear defeated".

ie Ailurophobia: Fear of cats.

But... um... some of these pages are quite... dark. And a bit disturbing. In fact it wouldnt surprise me if ur kids developed a few more phobias after reading this one! O.O

Hydrophobia: Fear of water.

Aichmophobia: Fear of knives

Clinophobia: Fear of going to bed.

what's that on the coffee table?

Oh that? That's just

so simple - yet so poignant.

No wonder kids love this book... You get to say "Bum"!

... *snigger* ...

...

BA HAHAHA - 'It says BUM!!!!' XD

confession

On a whim I recently picked up a copy of a title in my favorite series when I was a horse-crazy teen for a re-read and a trip down memory lane. I loved the Jinny series by Patricia Leitch. I love the mix of horses and spirituality, and the descriptions of the animals and the untamed Scottish moorlands. Most of all, Ms Leitch managed to capture in the character of Jinny exactly how I passionate I felt about horses and riding. Like it was etched into my very soul.

Read them if you get a chance! Especially if you love horses! They're exceptionally hard to track down nowadays, being out of print and not widely popular. I, however have the set.

And here, dear readers, is where I need to make a confession. (Surely fellow bibliophiles will sympathize?)

I collect vintage pony books.

I love them. I find them at second hand book shops, at garage sales, at markets, at thrift shops, and I just have to buy them. It's compulsive. Maybe it's my way of clinging to my childhood, and holding on to a time where the world was simpler, more fun, and a hell of a lot less scary. I think I've read so many English pony books, I actually feel like the Pullein-Thompson's long-lost 4th sister, and that I actually grew up in a cottage in country-village England.

Ahh what it is to be transported to another time and place with a good book...

sick of angsty teen vampires? me too.

'Today' published a list of 10 books they think teens should read, including:

• To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
• The Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
• The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Pride and Predjudice - Jane Austen
• Lord of the Flies - William Golding

... *APPLAUSE* Bravo! 

I'd like to add a few more books I read/wish I'd read as a teen that changed the way I think:

• Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
• Animal Farm - George Orwell
• The 'Tiffany Aching' series - Terry Pratchett
• The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
• Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
• Black Beauty - Alice Sebold

...oooohhhhh there's so many more!!! :)

What books do you wish you'd read? What books will you encourage your kids to read?

how do u describe a colour?

So I just found this on the book TARDIS - this is one of the coolest books I've seen.



I opened this, and thought: "Wha...?!" Every page is black...




:S Wha...?



This is a book of colours for VISION IMPAIRED kids!!! Is that not the coolest thing?! The writing is in print AND Braille! It describes what the colours FEEL like, then the next page appears blank, but have raised 'pictures' on them to feel! I turned them into the light so I could photograph a couple:


















I LOVE THIS. And books SHOULD be for everyone. ESPECIALLY picture books! :)

- Posted on the road from my iPhone

(it's what we're all thinking...)

This book is not only a 'wtf book', but the MOST HONEST children's book I've ever read. I laughed, and it almost made me cry.

It's 'Go The F--k To sleep' read by veteran Aussie children's entertainer Noni  Hazlehurst.

Can I get an "AMEN!" from all the parents out there?!

Thankyou Adam and Ricardo for writing this f--king book. It's f--king brilliant.

scaring daddy

Let's hope this is a joke. Surely.

Found at: Haunt Style

is this why kewpie dolls never took off in asia?

I know it's not a book, but Maximoo & I had to share this WTF kewpie-esque doll she found at the markets this morning.

Creepy, no?

oh really - i thought that was goth babies..?

(Borrowed this morning for Miss K.)

Apparently Urban babies also "visit galleries", "do yoga" and "drink lattes". And live in Mossman, I suspect.

childhood friends

After the death this year of Elizabeth Taylor, I dug up my old dog-eared copy of National Velvet ready to read it to my daughter, which I always dreamed I would. Miss K is only 1 year old, but I figure, there's no harm in being prepared, and maybe re-reading it again, for the hundredth time, just to refresh my memory... :)

Books I am dying to read to Miss K - in no particlar order:

1) The Secret Garden - Francis Hodgenson-Burnett
2) Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
3) National Velvet - Enid Bagnold
4) Matilda - Roald Dahl
5) The BFG - Roald Dahl
6) Hairy MacClary from Donaldson's Dairy - Lynley Dodd
7) Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
8) Thing - Robin Klein
9) The Lorax - Dr Seuss

What books do you love/would you love to read to your kids?

I think one of the reasons that I am so passionate about kids literacy, is that one of my earliest, clearest memories, is when I realised I could read.

I remember it so well, I can transport myself back there instantly. I was the only one up in the house, it was about 6am. I was on the couch with a blanket and a book - "The Cat in The Hat" by Dr Seuss. This book had been read to me many times, but I distinctly remember the exact moment where I thought "Oh my god... that says 'and we did not like it, not one little bit'... I can understand those words! That's 'cat', those squiggles mean 'cat'! And those ones, and those ones, and those ones...! Oh my god... I can READ THAT!" And I read the whole book aloud from cover to cover.

Isn't that a cool memory?! :)

Do you remember your first favourite book? Or when you learnt to read?