July 03, 2015

popup fun that guarantees squeals of delight!

July 03, 2015/ Kim Fulcher

If you want to see a 1-3 year old child’s eyes glisten and their cheeks turn tight with grinning, their body tense in anticipation and their little hands curl in and out ready to reach out and touch – this is the book for you! You’ll need to be prepared to read it again and again and to constantly go back to a favourite page – but what a joyful time that will be. I know that because our Ivy is on to her 5th reading in a row!

ages newborn to about 4 years

May 18, 2015

6 picture books full of amazing art

May 18, 2015/ Kim Fulcher

Art that is created for picture books is amazing stuff – it’s diverse, it’s accessible, it’s designed to help tell a story and it’s right there in front of us. To gaze on, ponder, critique, adore or wonder at.

Art created as a stand alone piece is a different story, pardon the pun. In this collection, we’ve selected 6 books designed for children to view and appreciate and talk about the paintings and art works of the masters.

April 13, 2015

finding the compassion and courage to give even when we feel unappreciated

April 13, 2015/ Kim Fulcher

ages early childhood to preteen
Sophie is a spider with a heart full of compassion, a soul full of courage and an amazing talent for weaving webs. When she sets out to find her place in the world she finds a boarding house, moves in and sets to work weaving wondrous webs...

March 11, 2015

The Museum: a fun and physical look at art through the eyes of a young girl

March 11, 2015/ Kim Fulcher

ages 4 to grownup.
I’m not a really big fan of telling children how they should react to art, but I am a big fan of reminding adults that when children do react to art – or anything for that matter – it’s very often physical. The Museum is a fun book written as a poem that follows a young girl through an art museum (think MoMA). She’s an exuberant child who lets her body show what she is feeling.

March 04, 2015

Jambo Means Hello: a joyous book about Africa and the lives that are lived there

March 04, 2015/ Kim Fulcher

ages 4 to 10 years

Set in Africa. Essentially an alphabet book, Jambo Means Hello assigns a Swahili word to each letter of the English alphabet. And along with the words goes a short paragraph explaining something about culture, traditions and everyday life in Africa.

November 07, 2014

The Wrong Thing: sometimes things that seem wrong are simply out of place

November 07, 2014/ Kim Fulcher

Age guide: 4 to 12
With surrealist pictures and a slightly tense story, this is a charming picture book. Hurricane, the cat, follows the Wrong Thing through the house, trying to protect his family who are sleeping. Until he realises that the Wrong Thing is a Lost Thing.

The Wrong Thing just needed its own place and family.

This is one of my favourite stories about things that seem Wrong being simply out of place. Hurricane worries that 'the big ones would not see it. And the small ones might want to catch it'.

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