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Last night we finished reading Spider Stampede which is the first book in the SWITCH series of books by Ali Sparkes. I bought this for Anya when Ali visited Matthew’s school last half term. The book centres around twins Danny and Josh who live next door to scientist Petty Potts. They accidentally get transformed into […]

Errr. I’m a parent. Relaxing doesn’t happen! Actually that isn’t true. The problem is that when I do have 5 minutes of freedom, me-time, peace that doesn’t need to be filled with chores, work or blogging I feel guilty. Yep, the dreaded mum guilt steps in to make me feel bad 🙁 I feel selfish […]

I am a bit ‘bah humbug’ over Halloween so to try to get me in the ‘spirit’ before the big day I read this new release from Carolyn Arnold. Halloween Is Murder is a fun novel centred around a pair of private investigators, Sean and Sara MacKinley, and their team. They have to negotiate with […]

Matthew’s school was lucky enough to be visited by award winning author Ali Sparkes who gave the children an inspirational talk that had Matthew completely enthused about writing. After school we went along to the book signing, and wow, I think every child in the school went along to buy copies of Ali’s books and […]

Reading is such a magical thing. It can take you to new worlds, let you discover new people, places and events and most of all have fun. I am so proud of my children developing their reading, all 3 of them love books. Being able to share books from my childhood with my own children has […]