Tuesday, 8 July 2025

Babyliography CCXVII

Jan Burchett, Sara Vogler and Anastasiya Kanavaliuk, Collins Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds: Too Much Soap

2022 / School book / 16 pages

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She wants to read as well as Savannah does, so we're reading her phonics books three times a week as instructed all along rather than getting them out of the way for unicorns. This was an atmospheric journey, so I didn't mind taking it again.


Susanna Davidson, Mike Gordon and Carl Gordon, The Frog Prince

2012 / School book / 24 pages

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A few tweaks, but I squashed the theory going around Reception that the frog dies before metamorphosing.


Roger Hargreaves, Little Miss Shy

1981 / Library book / 32 pages

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Another 'flawed' personality pressured into conforming. We discussed why this wasn't good.


Catherine Casey and Lee Teng, Collins Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds: Food on the Farm

2021 / School book / 16 pages

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The non-fiction ones are our favourites, even when they're inaccurate about the colour of beetroot.


Various, Oxford Reading Tree: Level 3 – Traditional Tales – Chicken Licken and Other Stories

2013 / Library book / 80 pages

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Some dumb changes for the sake of it, but she zipped through them.