Since Sunday, we have been starting and finishing our days with the same book – Birds of a Feather by Bernadette Gervais and Francesco Pittau. This gorgeously illustrated book won Budster’s heart from the first look. It comes to us from France, where the talent...
Some of them are more than twenty years old, and some are new. At first, I preferred those which pages were white and fresh, carefully chosen and delivered from overseas, but as Budster brought me my old books, without bright illustrations, but loved now by the second...
This year we had a long winter, and even now, as I show grass and leaves on the pictures to Budster, I wonder whether he remembers how it should look when the warm weather finally settles. Time goes slowly for children, and if we think that the winter was long, for...
I could have called this blog post Liska’s Favourite Books, and it would have been just as fair. For of all the books we collected for Budster over the first year, Bear Snores On by Karma Wilson was without doubt my favourite. Now the choice would be more...
Did you know that one of the most popular English children’s books nowadays was completed using only fifty words? Dr Seuss did just that in creating Green Eggs and Ham, as a result of a bet with his publisher. Here is the list: a, am, and, anywhere, are, be,...
There are few defined hopes I have for Budster’s future. I would like him to be happy. I would like him to be healthy. I would like him to adore books. I believe that if you are a passionate reader, the world is a much more pleasant place. Bigger, too. In the...
Books by Julia Donaldson are among our favourite on the shelf. The plots are invariably interesting and understandable for Budster, and I enjoy the lively rhythm, humour and dialogues which invite the possibility of turning reading into performing. Many of her stories...
