Tiddler Review

Last week Julia Donaldson visited our local bookshop. We have many of her books, What the Ladybird Heard being Nate's favourite at the moment (or was his favourite). Nate had the option of any of her books to buy and get signed, he chose Tiddler.

He loves the sea, and fish so we happily bought him Tiddler. It's a lovely sing song book, with the repetition that Julia Donaldson does so well. There is a surprise guest from a previous Julia Donaldson book (The Gruffalo) which to me illustrates the fun in this book.

Just today alone we have read the book three times, Nate loves it. He loves the refrain and really enjoys giving Tiddlers reasons for being late. And as a sign of his growing, for the first time Nathaniel is joining in with the story. Aided by its repetition, he'll say "Tiddler? Tiddler? Tiddler's late!"

So as with her other books, Tiddler comes highly recommended by Nate. and his Dad and Mum, who have all enjoyed reading it.

Bedtime Story

Enormous Crocodile Review

I loved Roald Dahl books growing up. Fantastic Mr Fox I read several times and I still count it as one of my favourite books so much so I couldn't wait to read it to/with Nate. Fantastic Mr Fox was the first non picture book we had attempted to  read to Nate so we went to find another for bed time.

Nate really enjoyed reading the Enormous Crocodile. The version we chose contained full colour illustrations so he enjoyed looking at the pictures and pointing to the animal being talked about in the story. However, even on pages were there were no illustrations he stayed  sitting listening to the story. Nate loves animals so loved listening to the different animals in the story. It took about three nights to read and finding a good place to stop each night was difficult but it will definitely be read again.