tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56923113570845227602024-03-05T17:52:10.046+00:00Fun with Dick and Jane"Fun with Dick & Jane" is a blog of Children's' Books that inspire me , that are awesome , that are beautiful or that are all 3 in one!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5692311357084522760.post-58688142961030119992011-12-08T21:25:00.000+00:002011-12-08T21:25:56.846+00:00Ladybirds Books<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV2TWPnUGNSDNHzme-aG2PXBBkpIxGQMi_5rTvMblWbNpsFiYQdTONeWiY22774lsS5JXfQTAKkz9O8UzDZm5kCDOjiDSRMyVaxNcEj7g9_rXAVGUQZFl0aSjfD1R3kp1GR1oHZE9XKMlP/s1600/ladyb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV2TWPnUGNSDNHzme-aG2PXBBkpIxGQMi_5rTvMblWbNpsFiYQdTONeWiY22774lsS5JXfQTAKkz9O8UzDZm5kCDOjiDSRMyVaxNcEj7g9_rXAVGUQZFl0aSjfD1R3kp1GR1oHZE9XKMlP/s200/ladyb.jpg" width="130" /></a></div><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">This book was like a magic treasure trove to me when I was small. The projects it contains seemed so full of promise and so achievable (even though looking back I'm sure my attempts at making dolls furniture out of cotton reels or tracking animals for example were largely very imaginative rather than well executed).</span></span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">This book, though, appealed then and still appeals now - you open it (I had lost my copy and recently bought a second-hand copy on Amazon for 1p + postage - it was like seeing a long lost friend when it turned up in the post) and immediately get drawn in to all the possibilities that are on offer (themed Month by Month to make it easier to know what activity is most suitable).</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">Some of my favourites were Campfire (July ) - I tried this with my friend though and used paraffin I found in the shed and my father was incandescent with rage as we could have had a terrible accident and it also burned a big patch of the grass. Though we had tried to hide the fire behind the shed but somehow he still found it...)</span></span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">Also Growing Broad Beans in a jan jar (May) and Making a doll's bed (April).</span></span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">The whole book, however, is teeming with amazing ideas. A total treasure.</span></span></b>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5692311357084522760.post-61652220972840631022011-11-29T23:05:00.000+00:002011-11-29T23:05:38.504+00:00The Colossal Book of Costumes by Joëlle Jolivet<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>This book is, by my standards anyway, HUGE! Ginormous! Well quite tall.</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>Here it is next to an adult's leg :</b></span><br />
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