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20 Apple Books for Kids

Posted on September 13, 2022 Leave a Comment

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These apple books for kids are a great way to add some language and literacy learning to the autumn/fall season. Kids will love learning about apples with non-fiction apple books, as well as enjoying all these fun apple themed stories! This apple book list is great for an apple theme or autumn/fall theme in preschool […]

All About Me Books for Kids.

Posted on August 19, 2022 Leave a Comment

All about me themed picture books

These All About Me books are are perfect for kids of all ages. Kids will love reading, learning, and sharing about themselves, and the people around them. This book list is great for an All About Me theme in preschool or kindergarten/foundation, or for a learning project focussing on ‘Me’ or ‘My family’. Read them […]

20 Awesome Kids Books about Secret Codes and Ciphers

Posted on May 31, 2021 Leave a Comment

secret code books for kids

These awesome kids books about secret codes and ciphers will keep your budding spies and coders busy for days! If your kids loved our cool secret codes for kids printables and activities they will love these awesome code breaker stories, non-fiction, and activity books. Whether your kids want to read a mystery book about code […]

The Best Children’s Books About Hospital.

Posted on February 18, 2021 Leave a Comment

children's book about hospital

Whether your child needs to go to hospital, or they are visiting someone in hospital, or perhaps they are just really interested in hospitals, these children’s books about hospital are a great way for kids of all ages to learn more about what happens when you go to hospital. When my kids were small they […]

Adventure Series for Tween Readers

Posted on September 17, 2020 Leave a Comment

text - adventure book series for tween readers and book covers

One our favourite Aussie authors, A. L. Tait, has taken some time out of her busy schedule to share this list of some favourite adventure series for tween readers by Australian authors. Adventure stories come in many guises. Some are fast-paced, heart-in-mouth contemporary thrillers. Some are full of magic and mayhem. Some have mystery at […]

Polar Habitat Imaginative Play – Plus Book list and Craft ideas.

Posted on May 31, 2018 Leave a Comment

Polar Habitat Imaginative play - plus lots of books and craft ideas for the Arctic and Antarctic

“Are there penguins in the Arctic?” “Do polar bears eat penguins?” “Is Antarctica a polar habitat?” I wasn’t sure where my son’s sudden interest in polar habitats had come from, and I wasn’t sure about my answers to all of his questions either! But with a bit of help from google and some lovely library […]

A House for a Tiger – Imaginative Play

Posted on September 7, 2017 5 Comments

A House for a Tiger - easy imaginative play plus extension ideas

You can go all out setting up an amazing small world play scene, or you can keep it simple and whip up an easy imaginative play activity in a few minutes. For this big cat invitation to play, we went with simple. Imaginative play can be a great sanity saver. You can set up a […]

20 Kid’s Books That are Also Great Movies.

Posted on August 9, 2017 1 Comment

20 kids books that are also great movies

Are you looking for something to read? Or maybe something to watch? There is nothing better than when a good book is made into a great movie, and there are so many good kid’s books that have been made into great family movies! From picture books, to chapter books, there are so many great book […]

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