Tag Archives: Clara Vulliamy

‘Bubble and Squeak’, plus awesome interviews and a cool competition!

May 10, 2013 · by · in Authors, Giveaways, Illustrators, Interviews, Reviews, Reviews of current books · 22 Comments

‘Bubble and Squeak‘ by James Mayhew, illustrated by Clara Vulliamy (published by Orchard Books) OH. MY. GOSH. Not often do you come across a book that Has It All, but James Mayhew and Clara Vulliamy have collaborated on something truly special here and we cannot find a single thing not to love about it. There […]

Our reading list – April 2013

May 8, 2013 · by · in Family reading fun, Reviews, Reviews of current books, Reviews of vintage books (loft treasures!) · 2 Comments

Here’s the update on what we’ve read this past month, with apologies for the fact that we’re already over a week into another month before I managed to get this post together! The full list of books that we’ve read can be found here on Pinterest. In April, our favourite books were: Me  – ‘Weasels’, by […]

Loft treasure no.8 – ABC, 123, and some vintage rhymes

May 2, 2013 · by · in Family reading fun, Reviews of vintage books (loft treasures!), Story Seekers · 4 Comments

I haven’t posted about my loft treasures for ages and what better time to reintroduce them than for my one hundredth post?!  When I first started this blog nearly a year ago I didn’t think I’d get past one post, let alone up to a hundred, and it took me quite a few months to […]

Lovely Lucky Wish Mouse

March 2, 2013 · by · in Family reading fun, Reviews, Reviews of current books · 1 Comment

    ‘Lucky Wish Mouse: Sweet Dreams‘, by Clara Vulliamy (published by Orchard Books) I’ve been meaning to post about this utterly gorgeous book for ages, but I am glad that I’ve only just got around to finishing off the review as it means I can post it today, in celebration of the birthday of […]

Loft treasure no.2 – In honour of Clara Vulliamy and Shirley Hughes

September 29, 2012 · by · in Family reading fun · 4 Comments

Just a quick post, but it’s in honour of today’s event at the Soho Theatre, where the super-talented author/illustrator and all-round good egg, Clara Vulliamy and her mum, the children’s book legend Shirley Hughes, gave a talk (along with Clara’s brother, Ed Vulliamy, a journalist and writer) as part of the Soho Literary Festival about how […]