**All Amazon links on this page are affiliate links. This means if you make a purchase via this link, I will receive a small commission payment, at no extra cost to you. We’re back with another round-up of books we’ve enjoyed reading recently. Some of them are new releases, some...
I haven’t written a children’s books round-up for ages so I thought the start of the new year was a good chance to resurrect this old series and offer out a few recommendations of books we’ve been enjoying recently. In this series we share the books we have loved reading...
If you’ve been reading Cardiff Mummy Says for a while you’ll know we’re a family of book lovers. Reading stories to my children has always been one of my favourite things to do and it’s been a big part of our bedtime routine ever since my eldest was a few...
If you’ve been reading Cardiff Mummy Says for a while you’ll know we’re a family of book lovers. Reading stories to my children has always been one of my favourite things to do and it’s been a big part of our bedtime routine ever since my eldest was a few...
Paid collaboration with Librio and Y Goeden, Yr Allwedd & Fi As the third child and second son, Littlest lives in a world of hand-me-downs. The majority of his clothes, toys and books were once owned by his older siblings. Some of his belongings are even fourth or fifth hand, having...
I love reading my children books which challenge conventional thinking and take a quirky twist on the norm – and both The Day The Crayons Quit and The Day The Crayons Came Home do exactly that. They are lovely picture books with a quirky sense of humour and intriguing illustrations....
Inspiring, fascinating and utterly empowering, Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls is the literary sensation of the last year – and deservedly so. Originally starting life as a crowd-funded project, this hard-back collection of stories of 100 heroic women quickly became a global best-seller following its release in March 2017....
Paid collaboration with The Book of Everyone I can hardly believe Little Miss E is now eight years old. I know it’s a complete cliché but the years really have flown by. It seems like no time at all ago she was a tiny baby being placed in my arms...
Paid collaboration with Cymraeg i Blant Back in January, I wrote a post on 14 bilingual Welsh and English picture books my children love. It had a great response from readers of my blog, so I thought it was time for a follow-up, looking at books for children up to...
Cardiff Children’s Literature Festival opens this weekend, celebrating the best in English and Welsh language children’s writing and illustration. Taking place over the weekends of Saturday 25th and Sunday 26th March and Saturday 1st and Sunday 2nd April, the festival, now in its fifth year, will see events in locations...
Now that Little Miss E is six, she has been leaving behind the picture books of her pre-school years in favour of first chapter books. I’ve loved re-discovering some of my favourite childhood classics with her – The Worst Witch series by Jill Murphy; the Faraway Tree collection by Enid...