Where‘s Mr King?

By Ingela P Arrhenius While chosing books to read this Coronation weekend, we couldn’t leave out a special recommendation from my youngest brother. He loves these felt flap books for babies and toddlers. We have a few others already at home, including ‘Where’s Mrs Queen? It is a chunky board book with 5 double pages.

The Very Hungry Caterpillar’s Creepy-Crawly Halloween

A lift-the-flap book by Eric Carle Most people know the story of the Very Hungry Caterpillar but have you read about what he did at Halloween? In this book, The Very Hungry Caterpillar goes on a spooky Halloween adventure. Under the light of the full moon, he explores the woods and meets many special nighttime

First Festivals: Diwali

A lift-the-flap-book Illustrated by Aditi Kakade Beaufrand This week we celebrated Diwali, the festival of light and Gujarati New year. Little brothers (3 & 1) had this special new book to enjoy. The book is designed for children aged 2+ and gives a very basic introduction to the Diwali festival that is celebrated by Hindus,

Where’s Mrs Queen?

By Ingela P Arrhenius It is time for baby brother to choose his favourite book to read for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee and he loves this book (as well as Where’s Mrs T-Rex by the same author/illustrator). This title is a good choice for toddlers and babies. It is a strong board book with bold

5 Little Chicks : Lift the flaps to find the chicks

By Lily Murray & illustrated by Holly Surplice The Easter Bunny visited us last weekend & little brother found a copy of this book while egg hunting in our garden! This lift-the-flap Easter book is based on the nursery rhyme ‘Five Little Ducks’, which lots of young children will recognise. Little brother normally sings it

Where’s Mrs T-Rex

By Ingela P Arrhenius This is a brightly coloured board book for babies and toddlers which encourages them to look for dinosaurs hidden behind soft felt fabric flaps. Little ones will enjoy the fun hide-and-seek dinosaur game. There is a stegosaurus, T-Rex, diplodocus, triceratops and the final page has a mirror so that the child

Archie’s War – My scrapbook of the First World War

Author: Marcia Williams Marcia Williams is a brilliant author and illustrator. I have read a few of her books. She is so good at telling stories or explaining things in a way that kids can understand and enjoy. This book has been designed as though it is the scrapbook of a boy living in The

The Library Mouse’s Christmas Book Pile – Week 1

For the next few weeks running up to Christmas, I will post a blog of the books we have enjoyed reading that week! My main read to start the month is this collection of letters by J.R.R. Tolkien so in this first Christmas themed post, I will be introducing you to a few of the

💀 Ahoy there! It’s International Talk Like a Pirate Day! 🏴‍☠️

Here is my favourite band of pirate picture books: The Night Pirates by Peter Harris and Deborah Allwright One night, Tom is hears noises. He peeps out of the window and discovers GIRL PIRATES stealing the front of his house! Tom joins them on an adventure to where they plan to steal the treasure of

Picture books by Janet Ahlberg and Alan Ahlberg

Each Peach Pear Plum This was one of the first books that I enjoyed reading with my Mum and she remembers reading it when she was a little girl (100 years ago – only joking Mum!). This book is very popular with with families. It is written in a rhyming style that is nice to