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Monday, 4 August 2025

Babyliography CCXXI

Nick Butterworth, One Springy Day

2019 / School book / 32 pages

**

Percy the parkkeeper seems vaguely familiar. She'll be in for a shock when she gets to Farthing Wood.


Joseph Coelho and artists, Ten-Word Tiny Tales

2023 / Library book / 56 pages

***

An exercise I've tried myself, it wasn't surprising that most tended towards the creepy, sometimes too much for a for a five-year-old whose limit is Monster High. I read her a few choice morsels and enjoyed the rest myself.


Sorrel Pitts, My Little Pony Ladybird Readers Beginner: Izzy's Presents / Hitch Finds an Egg / Sparky, Where Are You? / Where Is Sunny's Lantern? / The Storm

2023 / Library books / 120 pages

**

Before she could read, these were just overly simplified storybooks, but now they're filling in as more appealing school books to keep her practising over the summer holidays. More appealing for her, at least.


Unknown, Step Into Reading: Frozen Story Collection

2015 / Paperback / 160 pages

**

Not new, but she fortunately remembered she had this on the shelf when she'd reached its reading level and it had a purpose, before it was rendered unreadable again.


Chris Van Allsburg, Jumanji

1981 / Library book / 32 pages

****

An eager re-read of the classic picture book after watching the scariest film of her young life.