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Tag Archives: reading
Rain
This is a photo from half term. I sat on the beach in the sunshine while the children pottered about in the shallows. No one needed a wee or a snack, no one was having a meltdown, no one was … Continue reading
Bath Children’s Literature Festival 2019
We are very lucky to live within striking distance of the Bath Children’s Literature Festival here, which is the biggest of its kind in Europe. Little Owl and I headed up there on the train on Saturday. We hit the … Continue reading
Picture Books 2018
I woke up one morning over the weekend and peered out bleary-eyed from under my duvet. The room was dark and nothing stirred, but something had definitely woken me up. As my eyes adjusted to the dimness they came to rest … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends, Illustration
Tagged 2018, A Letter for Amy, Aurelie Guillerey, Charlotte Guillain, children, Daddy-Long-Legs, Emily Gravett, Ezra Jack Kets, Gigantosaurus, Goggles! Whistle for Willie, Hannah Foley, How Billy Hippo Learned to Swim, Janet Burroway, John Vernon Lord, Jonny Duddle, kids, Nadine Brun-Cosme, non-fiction, parenting, Peter, picture books, reading, reading aloud, strange creatures, The Giant Jam Sandwich, The Snowy Day, The Street Beneath My Feet, Tidy, V&A Illustration Prize, vivian french, Yuval Zommer
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July
In my seasonal reading, Stephen Moss, in Wild Hares and Hummingbirds, describes July as a month of stasis, “a chance to reflect on the rollercoaster ride of spring.” Now chicks have been raised, parent birds are moulting ready for the colder … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Illustration, Wildlife
Tagged an english year, bees, beetles, birds, butterflies, Derbyshire, dragon, Early reader, Hannah Foley, hummingbird hawkmoth, illustration, july, moths, moult, purple loosestrife, reading, seasonal, snails, Stephen Moss, steve roud, Tissington, well-dressing, Wild Hares and Hummingbirds, willow herb
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May
I’ve been delving into my seasonal reading again this month. Steve Roud’s chapter on May in his book The English Year, is a riot of flower strewn celebrations. Roud says that traditionally May would have rivalled Christmas in the scale … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Illustration
Tagged buttercups, cheese-rolling, cow parsley, cuckoos, ducking day, elms, hedgerows, hobby horses, illustration, jack-by-the-hedge, may, May Day, maypoles, nightingales, ragged robin, reading, seasonal, seasonality, seasons, Stephen Moss, steve roud, stitchwort, the english year, thresholds, Wild Hares and Hummingbirds
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Fireside Tales of the Traveller Children
Getting up in the night to feed Finch has had a number of unexpected benefits. I heard the dawn chorus one morning, bright and unearthly coming through the gently diminishing gloom and seeping between the layers of my sleep-thickened brain. … Continue reading
Posted in Illustration
Tagged AOI, Association of Illustrators, birlinn, body-snatchers, books, breastfeeding, burkers, caravans, children, dawn chorus, dialectograms, Duncan Williamson, fairytales, Fireside Tales of the Traveller Children, glasgow, illustration, kindle, Mitch Miller, motorhomes, reading, review, scotland, sleep, storytelling, tents, Travellers, Travelling community, Travelling people
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