Wait a minute, wait a minute! Didn't you guys quit? Well yes we did but we had one more piece of unfinished business to attend to before we properly shut the shutters, closed the doors, lock...
https://readitdaddy.blogspot.com/2020/12/our-final-no-really-final-end-of-year.html
Q from Star Trek: The Next Generation. Probably had a pretty good library... So here we are then. 12th August, ten years (and a day) since we began our book blogging journey, armed with litt...
https://readitdaddy.blogspot.com/2020/08/all-good-things.html
Looking through our bookshelves, it's clear that one type of book is almost in danger of completely taking over. They're usually thick weighty hardback tomes, filled to the brim with delights a...
https://readitdaddy.blogspot.com/2020/08/booky100keepers-day-100-all-wonderful.html
As we enter the final week of our blog, we wanted to review the heck out of a book that offers a quirky, sometimes rather eccentric view of something that we - in lockdown over the last few mon...
https://readitdaddy.blogspot.com/2020/08/out-today-100-things-to-do-in-forest-by.html
One thing we've noticed in ten years of book blogging is that huge success, and becoming a best-selling author also sometimes means that a particular author will end up being placed in the dock...
https://readitdaddy.blogspot.com/2020/08/booky100keepers-day-99-books-of-julia.html
As our #Booky100Keepers list nearly draws to a close, I had to cast eyes back over the entire list to make sure I hadn't already featured this one. Any children's book list of recommendations w...
https://readitdaddy.blogspot.com/2020/08/booky100keepers-day-98-were-going-on.html
I think it's fair to say that this fantastic joy-filled book series, showcasing kindness and a love of animals, was the first series C became a superfan of. Prolific and hugely talented autho...
https://readitdaddy.blogspot.com/2020/08/booky100keepers-day-97-rescue.html
Magic! As a kid I was obsessed with magic, always asking for magic sets and always closely scrutinising magic shows that would appear on TV (why oh why have these died out? It's such a huge sha...
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Oozing with talent from every pore, and a pair of creative geniuses who do something that you seldom see in the world of children's publishing or illustration - paying their awesome success for...
https://readitdaddy.blogspot.com/2020/08/booky100keepers-day-96-fabulous.html
On the bittersweet occasion of our last Picture Books of the Week we wanted to share a book filled with giggles, with joy and of course with our favourite subject - yummy scrummy food! "Lady ...
https://readitdaddy.blogspot.com/2020/08/readitdaddys-first-picture-book-of-week.html
The very last #ReadItTorial is saved for something that may worry those of you whose kids are getting to the point of eschewing their bedtime book reading session with you, in favour of doinkin...
https://readitdaddy.blogspot.com/2020/08/kids-will-never-tire-of-stories-no.html
Russia has always fascinated me. There's just something about this amazing nation that draws you in from its often turbulent history, to its triumphant and successful space program, and its ric...
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We couldn't possibly miss these books off our #Booky100Keepers list, purely because A) they're so damned good and B) they almost give me hope that the children's publishing industry isn't going...
https://readitdaddy.blogspot.com/2020/08/booky100keepers-day-94-legend-of-sally.html
Aw, just the ticket for the long summer holidays but sadly not out until the 7th September. BUT a good way of beating the 'Back to school" doldrums for creative kids, with a new range of fantas...
https://readitdaddy.blogspot.com/2020/08/beat-back-to-school-blues-by-making.html
Oh dear, that whole "parental influence" thing again, responsible for C's absolute unending adoring love of all things Beano shaped. The little miss and I were on a day trip to Brighton, stro...
https://readitdaddy.blogspot.com/2020/08/booky100keepers-day-93-mighty-beano.html
There are so many books out there that round up impressive historical and contemporary figures who provide such a huge inspiration to our youngsters. It's about time there were books that ste...
https://readitdaddy.blogspot.com/2020/08/amazing-women-of-middle-east-by-wafa.html
Well we've already mentioned Tintin in our #Booky100Keepers list so it would be incredibly unfair not to mention Asterix. Again, these were books that were hotly sought after at school. The s...
https://readitdaddy.blogspot.com/2020/08/booky100keepers-day-92-asterix-books-by.html
Back in primary and middle school, the "Tintin" books were always the most sought-after titles in the school library. You had to put your name down on a waiting list for them, and when your tur...
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We love non-fiction and we've been very lucky during our tenure on the blog to see the rise and rise of absolutely top quality non fiction titles shouldering aside fiction picture books to esta...
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We had to make our "Book of the Week" slot a double header for Flying Eye / NoBrow - simply because both the books we recieved for review from them recently are just SO GOOD! This one, in par...
https://readitdaddy.blogspot.com/2020/07/readitdaddys-second-picture-book-of.html
Man, we were properly obsessed with this book when it first turned up at ReaditDaddy Towers and you know what? Though our copy is pretty well mauled, we still use it today as there's no better ...
https://readitdaddy.blogspot.com/2020/07/booky100keepers-day-89-board-games-to.html
Wow! I mean you had us at "Witch" but we hadn't expected the perfect halloween book to drop into our laps before August is even upon us. But let's face it, there's never a bad time of year to r...
https://readitdaddy.blogspot.com/2020/07/readitdaddys-first-book-of-week-week.html
Today's #Readitorial is more of a brain fart really. I'd been thinking a lot about an exercise I undertake from time to time, where I try desperately to 'read outside my comfort zone' - pick...
https://readitdaddy.blogspot.com/2020/07/parental-influence-are-we-hard-wiring.html
Sometimes we're left feeling a little sad by some of the entries in our #Booky100Keepers list. Some titles never quite gained the traction they so richly deserved and this is definitely one suc...
https://readitdaddy.blogspot.com/2020/07/booky100keepers-day-88-mi-and-museum.html
We'll probably be accused of some hideous bias in including two books by Michelle Vinall in our #Booky100Keepers list - after all this extremely talented artist illustrated our current blog h...
https://readitdaddy.blogspot.com/2020/07/booky100keepers-day-87-hurricane-lane.html