Book Review: Xalien The Purple Alien by Michelle Path
I’ve always been a huge fan of anything space or alien-related (I blame growing up with The X Files) and, with help from Alien’s Love Underpants, Caterpillar is becoming a big fan of all things…
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Book Review: How Bobby Got His Pet by Jo Simmons
It’s a little embarrassing but this charming story about a boy begging his parents for a pet actually hit home pretty hard for me as I was desperate for a cat as a child but was…
Mother’s Day Gifts That Take Care of YOU
Mother’s Day is such an exciting time when you’re a mum to young children. One day a year solely dedicated to us, in honour of the desperately hard work and mayhem we deal with on…
Baby-led Weaning: First Foods & Favourites
Following my last Caterpillar Corner post – Six Reasons To Love Baby-led Weaning – today I wanted to share some of our favourite recipe ideas and on-the-go snacks, and review Gill Rapley & Tracey Murkett’s…
Book Review: A Monster Ate My Mum by Jen Faulkner
I’m reviewing another picture book for this week’s Butterfly Book Club but this one is a little different – and incredibly special. On the surface, A Monster Ate My Mum seems like a fairly ordinary story about a…
Book Review: Supermarket Gremlins
Caterpillar loves the supermarket. I can get away with calling a trip to Asda a ‘treat’. So when I saw that this book involved supermarkets and gremlins I knew instantly it would be a hit. He also…
Six Reasons to Love Baby-led Weaning
Inspired by my best friend’s success with Baby-Led Weaning this is the method I chose when Caterpillar was six months old. Gill Rapley and Tracey Murkett are the go-to experts on the technique and their books helped…
Book Review: Cat’s Colours by Airlie Anderson
Many of you seemed to really enjoy my recent post Favourite Books for Toddlers, and since both Caterpillar and I love reading so much I’ve decided to start a regular book review feature. This week we’ve…
Favourite Books for Toddlers
I’ve always been an enormous book lover and I’m ecstatic that my sweet boy seems to be following suit, so I thought for today’s Caterpillar Corner I would share some of his (and my!) firm…
Book Review: Mothering Through The Darkness
*Trigger warning: this review contains reference to suicidal thoughts.* What strikes me most when reading the heart-wrenching anthology Mothering Through the Darkness is how indiscriminate Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders really are. They can, and…