Here is another great story by our in-house artist Giovanna Bindi, a true inspiration for London Mums & kids. Come & meet her at our art club Mondays in Putney.
In the deep forest lived four monkeys, mum, dad, boy and girl.
All the family liked jumping up and down the trees and play together.
One day the boy and the girl said to their mum and dad:
‘We would like to go around…
Despite loving the technology and the new ways of reading books via tablets, we still love reading stories to our kids by turning pages. There’s no question about it. Here is London Mums’ selection of top first children’s books for 2013.
My First Touch and Trace: First ABC
Great interactive first ABC text for little people that enables toddlers to use fingers to follow the…
St David’s Day celebrations on 1st March with the Welsh dragon symbol gave us more of a reason to celebrate the dragons on screen too!
Here’s a sample of the most popular dragons found in film…
ROOM ON THE BROOM
The dragon in Room On The Broom is a large, fearsome beast whose favourite food is “witch and chips” – Dragon is hungry and on the prowl. But when faced with the…
We have teamed up with Sainsbury’s to give TWO lucky readers the opportunity to win a £30 gift card each to spend on their child’s favourite books and character costumes at their local Sainsbury’s stores.
Celebrating the nation’s week of reading, Sainsbury’s is inspiring children to read by encouraging them to role play in dress up with their favourite book, be it The Gruffalo…
Children would find it much easier to learn to read and write if they were first taught how the English language works and what words mean, rather than trying to sound out words.
According to new research, English is so complex that relying on phonics – the common practice of teaching children to read by sounding out words – makes learning English much more difficult than it needs to be.
Dr…
Another brilliant book by Sue McMillan. The Witch and the Dog is a laugh out loud story about etiquette. Can a charming witch called Daphne change Harry from a messy, mannerless mutt into a polished pooch?
This story appeals not just to kids but to mums too. The illustrations throughout the book are gorgeous.
On 23 November 2012 London Mums had an amazing Christmas party! And Far Far Away…
Christmas is a time for family; from throwing open the doors to welcome children and grandchildren, to travelling near or far to pay a festive visit. There are opportunities for storytelling aplenty at this time of year; however research from Disney has shown that the amount of time families commit to reading stories is lapsing, with only a tiny margin (3%) of parents and grandparents reading to…
Here is London Mums’ selection of favourite bedtime stories.
I Don’t Want to go to Bed!
To celebrate 25 years of Little Tiger Press, a special edition of the classic title, I Don’t Want to go to Bed!, is being reissued in a new paperback format for 2012. I Don’t Want To Go To Bed! written by Julie Sykes and beautifully illustrated by award-winning illustrator Tim Warnes is a very…
The princess and the pig recently published by PanMacmillan is one of the best stories I have read in years. Forget about fairytales and princess’ dream worlds… this story brings us back to reality and shows how much nicer it is to live a simple life surrounded by loving parents no matter what their wealth is. Absolutely brilliant!
The light-hearted story is also beautifully…
If you like books and you like dogs then this book is a match made in heaven 🙂 We never read a autodogbiography before and we loved this one!
This is a very original book idea because the story is written by James Barklee, author and illustrator of this book, an ordinary small dog living an ordinary life. And because of this, the story makes you reflect on dogs’ lives.
James is…