Tag Archives: loft treasures
‘The Mousehole Mice’, by Michelle Cartlidge (and some special loft treasure too!)
It’s been a while since I posted about any of my loft treasures, though hopefully the wait will have been worthwhile as the book from my childhood that I’m sharing today is just soooooo lovely! ‘A Mouse’s Diary’, by Michelle Cartlidge (published by Picture Lions) This was one of my very favourite books EVER. The detail […]
Someone else’s loft treasure!
After a recent meeting at the Oxfam bookshop about my storytelling sessions, I allowed myself a quick browse of their children’s bookshelves. Fifteen minutes later, I was staggering home under the weight of several gorgeous discoveries, one of which was a book that made me literally squeeeeeeeeal with glee. ‘My Book of Country Life’, published […]
‘Keeping’ books
This might well be my shortest post ever (famous last words, I know) but I just *had* to share this endearing habit that both C and H possess and which makes me smile every single day! M and I read to the boys every evening (and I often read to them during the day as […]
Christmas loft treasure no.5 – ‘Christmas’, by Jan Pieńkowski
I’m not enough of a wordsmith to describe just how elated I was when I discovered this book – the last festive loft treasure I’m sharing this week – among the boxes in Dad’s loft. This book, beyond all the others I owned, epitomised Christmas for me (dare I say it, even more so than […]
Christmas loft treasure no.4 – ‘Mog’s Christmas’, by Judith Kerr
This gorgeous book was among my own loft treasures, but I know Judith Kerr’s delightful protagonist will be familiar to people of many different ages as well. This particular adventure of Mog’s details how she feels about the Thomas family’s Christmas preparations (to sum up: not a fan) but this is nothing compared with how […]
Christmas loft treasure no.2 – ‘Angelina’s Christmas’, Katherine Holabird, illustrated by Helen Craig
In the second post about my festive loft treasures, I’d like to share a book from a series that my sister and I used to absolutely adore when we were younger. This makes sense for her, as the Angelina Ballerina books are about a little mouse who loves ballet. My mum used to call my […]
Christmas loft treasure no.1 – ‘The Christmas Book’, by Dick Bruna
We’re great fans of Dick Bruna’s books in the Story Seekers house and C (who is really into wordless stories at the moment) is having fun using ‘A Story To Tell’ to create his own adventures to share with us. However, this book, which retells the Nativity using Bruna’s distinctive illustrative style, is one […]
Loft treasure no.6 – vintage Child’s Play books
I recently posted about an amazing book called ‘Rabbityness’ (you can read the post here), which is published by Child’s Play. I have to confess that I don’t always remember who has published the books that I love and it’s something that I need to start noticing and recording more diligently. Anyway, having clocked the publisher […]
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