Tag Archives: children’s book

Percy the Park Keeper

Posted on November 13, 2014 by ofamily

Blue finally discovered the Percy the Park Keeper books (written by Nick Butterworth).  We have some of the books around the house as Pink loves any story that involves kind animals but until recently Blue was not that interested.  Now … Continue reading →

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Goldilocks and the three bears

Posted on October 31, 2014 by ofamily

Pink has never been a big fan of traditional stories but the last month I have tried to gently re-introduce some of the stories.  We have had some big hits and some clear losers.  We managed to pick up a … Continue reading →

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The Owl’s lesson and Owl Babies

Posted on October 24, 2014 by ofamily

Pink is still reading the Owl Babies story over and over.  So when a recent trip to our local Oxfam store resulted in us finding a copy of this sweet Percy the Park Keeper story called The Owls Lesson and … Continue reading →

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Children’s Dinosaur books

Posted on October 20, 2014 by ofamily

Over the weekend as my kids where sitting on the couch reading their dinosaur books I realised just how many we have collected.  So these are our all time favourite books about Dinosaurs. Our very first dinosaur book was purchased … Continue reading →

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Owls

Posted on October 15, 2014 by ofamily

After a recent trip to the local library both kids chose Owl books.  Pink actually choose Owl Babies to be one of her readers and Blue choose The Owl who was afraid of the dark.  Both are lovely children’s books … Continue reading →

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