February Book Challenge – DAY 15

First “chapter book” you can remember reading as a child This is difficult, because i read from a young age and read a lot of chapter books and i can’t remember the first one! It was possibly The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame, but i’m not certain!

Book Review: Grimm’s Fairy Stories

I have been reading Grimm’s Fairy Stories on my Kindle and really enjoyed re-reading stories from my childhood! These are the early versions of the stories we know and love, although they are a bit darker than the modern Disney versions we know, but that makes them much better i think! My favourite stories include: [...]

June Book Challenge – Day 17

Today’s question: Pick a random book in your collection and tell us about it? “Great Lies to Tell Small Kids” by Andy Riley – This is a humorous book that i got as a gift one Christmas, and the cartoon style is really cute, and the little scenarios are just really funny! It’s like the [...]

June Book Challenge – Day 10

Today’s question: Which book(s) could you never give away? “Peter Rabbit” series by Beatrix Potter – Not that i ever like giving away my precious books -except for a stupid phase during my teens where i went off reading and gave pretty much all my childhood books away to charity (i regret that now). But [...]

My Childhood/Young Adult Reading List

Lately I’ve been thinking about the books I read as a child. Possibly because at uni we’re currently studying Children’s Publishing, and someone happened to ask me what I read as a child. Having had a period during my teens where I read very little because I was given access to my own computer with [...]

Calling all parents! – reminder of deadline

Hello, A few weeks ago, i posted a blog telling you about the project we are doing on my MA Publishing course, in which we are publishing a book of stories on parenting. ‘Blessing and Bother: How to Have Children and Live to Tell the Tale’ is going to be published this summer by UCLan [...]

Calling all parents! (looking for submissions)

Hi, As part of my publishing Masters course, we are putting together a book about parenthood and how to survive it! If you are a writer and a parent, or even if you just have a story to share, please get in contact and submit your stories! (UK and US entries only) The all important [...]

World Book Day 2011

World Book Day will be held on 3rd March 2010, and to celebrate and encourage children to read more, a range of flipbooks is being created especially for the occasion. 13 million schoolchildren are due to receive a £1 World Book Day token to spend either on the flipbooks or any other book they want. [...]