The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Vienna got The Very Hungry Caterpillar for Christmas 2009, she loves to sit with Mummy and read the story, she also loves to MUNCH the caterpillar that came with her book.

At La Leche League we found a GIANT version of this story - I thought it was awesome and Vienna seemed pretty impressed too!

New Books - Slinky Malinky

Yay!!!!!!!! New Books!!!!!!!!!


We love adding to our book collection and yesterday we bought 2 new Lynley Dodd books; Slinky Malinki, Open the Door and Slinky Malinki, Catflaps.


I am almost ashamed to admit that they are the first Lynley Dodd books to make it into our collection, I don't quite know how that happened, I guess sometimes we put off the obvious purhases!


Best news, they were on special! and they are totally cute mini hardbacks, 4 x 6 inches.




I was wrong! It is hard to admit and it doesn't happen very often but when I was putting the books away on the shelf I discovered that Lynley Dodd wrote The Nickle Nackle Tree and so the Slinki Malinki books aren't the first Lynley Dodd books we own, phew!

Christmas Books

This year I added A Kiwi Night Before Christmas to our book collection. We have lots of childrens books on our shelf but I discovered that this is only the 2nd Christmas book. A few years ago when I was teaching at the Montessori School House in Hamilton we put this story on as our Chrstmas play, it was great and I really enjoyed it.

Nanny Mihi's Christmas is part of the great series of Nanny Mihi books, of which we have several. Unfortunately is is my least favourite in the series but it is great to have southern hemisphere Christmas books.

The Terrible Underpants

Today I bought The Terrible Underpants - written and illustrated by Kaz Cooke for our small person bookshelf. Have you ever read this book? It is sooooo funny!!! and has great illustrations too.

All the good underpants are in the wash and Wanda-Linda has to wear the terrible underpants - they have bung elastic, a stain, a hole, baggy bits, and a scratchy thing, then ... everybody sees the terrible underpants ... what will Wanda-Linda do?