Blog Tour – 100 Ideas for Primary Teachers: Reading for Pleasure by Scott Evans

Welcome to my stop on the Blog Tour for this must-have book for any primary school teacher or TA interested in encouraging Reading for Pleasure (RfP) within their workplace. Like many of those within the children’s book-reading community on Twitter, I have always read for pleasure and cannot remember a time when I didn’t, even

Not Now, Noor! by Farhana Islam and Nabila Adani

Like many other adults who work in schools, I need no excuse whatsoever to buy and read children’s books but it has to be said that I have used moving to Year 3 in September as the perfect reason to buy many more picture books than I did in Year 5. With my own children

The Tale of Truthwater Lake by Emma Carroll

I think all of the Twitter children’s book-reading community knows that I read a lot of books – more than many of my friends are able to. In part this is because I read quite quickly but I also don’t have young children to care for and am far too lazy to do the housework

The Boy Who Made Monsters by Jenny Pearson

There was a time when I saw reading as a very black-and-white affair. I either read for pleasure or I read to enable myself to do something – to gain knowledge on a subject I wanted to know more about or acquire skills I wanted, like making a cake or knitting a jumper. By sharing

Catfish Rolling by Clara Kumagai

My New Year’s resolution this year was to read more Young Adult titles – one that so far has proved far better for my soul than dieting or starting a new exercise regime. When I was sent this new title by debut author Clara Kumagai, I was immediately drawn to its gorgeous cover and spredges

Love You to Death by Gina Blaxill

I’m of an age where when I was growing up the idea of all-consuming, romantic love was pitched as something very desirable – something at which my 26-year-old daughter now scoffs and rolls her eyes. With the popularity of romcoms and classic love stories such as Pride and Prejudice still enduring, there are a great

Wild Family by Ben Lerwill and Harriet Hobday

I’d like to think that as well as my charges learning in school, I learn alongside them and one thing that I have really take on board over the last couple of years is that many children not only enjoy reading non fiction, they actually prefer it to stories. As a result of this, I

The First Shadowdragon by Lee Newbery, illustrated by Laura Catalán

Before I moved to teaching Year 3 I had already started to explore books aimed at lower KS2 – both to improve my own knowledge of titles written for a younger audience and so that my little library shelf had a better selection of reads for the less confident readers in my then Year 5

Until the Road Ends by Phil Earle

Within the children’s book-loving community on Twitter there is quite regularly a certain amount of book-envy. Sometimes, I am envious of books that other bloggers have been lucky enough to receive and sometimes I am the fortunate recipient of a title that will prompt my friends to say that they are most envious of me.

Olly Brown, God of Hamsters by Bethany Walker, illustrated by Jack Noel

Hamsters are often seen as a gateway pet – one with which children might be entrusted to prove to their adults that they can take care of an animal before they move on to something bigger and more needy, such as a dog or cat. For some children though, a tiny furry friend is at