BOOKS
Get reading with Storytime Magazine!
The other day I was saying to my husband: we really should find some more gripping things to read for Fergus, our seven-year-old son. His sisters love reading and being read to, but our boy, well… he could use a little bit of encouragement. It must have been a sign -- Esther, the next day, ...
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COLOURING AND ACTIVITY BOOKS
Storytime Magazine, short stories on your doormat
Is there anything better than magazine mail day? My children look forward to it ALL week. Usually on Thursdays, they get their children's newspaper, their horse riding magazine, their junior National Geographic magazine AND, once a month, Storytime Magazine. They all LOVE this magazine! Storytime Magazine is a subscription magazine for kids, packed with brilliant ...
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BOOKS
Indestructibles -- books for babies (and their big siblings!)
Don't you love it when your books or toys get a new lease on life? I think this is why I am drawn to quality items that last year after year and have multi purposes. And now we have realised that a book series that I loved for Beatrice has a new use I had ...
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BOOKS
The wonderful world of Storytime magazine
Fables, fairytales, historic tales, poems, myths, stories from around the world -- my kids love them all and so do I. On weekend mornings, often one child after the other comes crawling into our big bed (if they weren't in there already!), and we all snuggle up together, like a big pile of baby mice around their mama. ...
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BOOKS
Storytime Magazine
My kids are really into the idea of receiving their own subscriptions in the mail, whether it's a packet of stickers from a sticker club or the comic book magazine that arrives for the boys every Friday, they literally run home from school eager to get their mail. The girls were feeling slightly left out, ...
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MUSIC, FILMS & APPS
A high-tech classic
I don't know about you but my i-phone is becoming an increasingly important tool in retaining my sanity as a parent. It now holds a dozen or so children's Apps which get us through those boring, frustrating daily-life melt-down moments. As boredom levels peak whilst my 2-year-old is pushed around in the Supermarket trolley, I ...
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BOOKS
My Secret Affair...
Yes, it's true. I've been having a secret affair with a man called Roger. It started shortly after my son was born 3 years ago and my husband doesn't know about it ... yet. I got caught up with this guy when I bought a book called The Happy Lion for my son (A Babyccino ...
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BABY
Mother Goose
When I had my first daughter, my mother pulled out several of my childhood books to give me. I instantly recognized the quaint, '70s-ish illustrations of one of them, Mother Goose, by Gyo Fujikawa, and am so excited to share this one with my girls. When researching Fujikawa for this post, I found out that ...
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