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Category: Butterfly Book Club

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…

Posted in Butterfly Book Club, Reviews 35 Comments February 14, 2016 by

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…

Posted in Butterfly Book Club, Reviews 35 Comments February 7, 2016 by

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…

Posted in Butterfly Book Club, Reviews 22 Comments January 31, 2016 by

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…

Posted in Butterfly Book Club, Caterpillar Corner, Reviews 74 Comments January 13, 2016July 13, 2016 by Laura

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…

Posted in Butterfly Book Club, Reviews 28 Comments December 4, 2015 by

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