This Week We are Reading...

It's just funny and unexpected and easy to learn! We particularly like the ogre doing yoga. Nick Sharratt is one of our favourite authors and as usual, the illustrations are just fantastic.

This Week We Are Reading....

I've not done a reading post for a while. We have been reading, but life has just been so busy recently, I haven't managed to write about our current favourite. Anyway, this book is just lovely. It is so moving, it really got me choked up. Mo Mo is too young to understand the true meaning behind it, just as well really as it is quite sad. The little girl in the story loses her father and becomes so melancholy that she puts her heart in a jar for safekeeping.  She struggles to find meaning in her life until, one day, another young child shows her the way.

"Once there was a girl, much like any other, whose head was filled with all the curiosities of the world. With thoughts of the stars. With wonder at the sea. She took delight in finding new things..."

This Week We Are Reading...

Rabbit, Mouse and Owl are having a very important meeting about what to do if the Monster Of The Woods comes calling! Lots of cute little pictures and an even cuter little monster! Perfect for re-telling over and over again.