Pre-reading loves

There’s a wonderful little item over at the Guardian: What were your favourite books before you could read? As is pointed out: the bookish often rhapsodise over books that we loved as child readers, but the books we loved before we could read, and the reasons why we loved them, are not always so discussed.
Since [...]

It’s a bookish meme

A book meme, via Laura, Pavlov’s Cat and Sterne. My post will be far less impressive and humorous than any of those but there you go.
What was the last book you bought?
The Gift of Speed by Steven Carroll. It was the day the Booker was announced and I had originally gone to the only-half-decent-bookshop-in-town to [...]

Proud as punch

This evening Dash’s choice for bedtime reading was Farmer Duck. He had borrowed it from the school library. It’s about a duck who lives with a lazy farmer. The duck does all the work while the farmer lays in bed and calls out ‘How’s the work?’ all day. One day the other animals, incensed at [...]