Regular readers will recall that I blogged about the brilliant Maverick Early Readers in November last year (here). My son – Hugo – is notoriously picky when it comes to reading: he is completely turned-off by school readers, predominantly due to their relatively lacklustre content and formulaic text, and is only interested in books that…
Regular visitors to the blog will know that we do love a bit of non-fiction in the Merry Bookworm household, and this recently-published retelling of Charles Darwin’s On the Origins of Species is rather special in our view. Sabina Radeva is both an illustrator and a molecular biologist and has thus combined her 2 loves…
My daughter is a ‘free reader’ at school. However, as she is quite young, she doesn’t have a long attention span and still loves illustrations, so I am always on the lookout for books that are not too lengthy and that will encourage reading for pleasure. I only came across these books recently: I was…
‘In the deepest dark, you must be the light’ As some of you will know, Cerrie Burnell has been an author of picture books and young fiction for some time and is a real advocate for inclusion. We were thus expecting good things about her first foray into middle grade fiction – The Girl With…