Tag Archives: 2012

Crunch Munch Dinosaur Lunch – Paul Bright & Michael Terry – All three kids from 2 up to 9 enjoy this one. This has started a catch phrase in the house Lub-oo Daddy-normous!

Harry and the Dinosaurs and the Bucketful of Stories – Ian Whybrow Adrian Reynolds

Ciarán’s Favourites (Aged 4)

What the Ladybird Heard by Julia Donaldson

Go Tell it to the Toucan – Colin West

Calm Down Boris, Sam Lloyd

Usborne Nativity touchy feely

The Snail and the Whale – Julia Donaldson

Cathal’s Favourites (Aged 2)

Brown Bear, Brown Bear what do you see? Bill Martin Jr

The Gruffalo – Julia Donaldson

That’s not my Puppy

Robyn’s Favourites (Aged 2)

Mouse Mess by Linnea Riley – Beautifully illustrated and has proved to be popular with all of the kids. Sentimental about this one because it was the first book Nathan ever read by himself 🙂

Scaredy Squirrel Series by Melanie Watt. Love reading these, they make me laugh too 🙂 About a paranoid squirrel who is scared of everything, but it always turns out well in the end.

Sitting Ducks – Michael Bedard. A charming little story about an alligator who works in a duck factory (hatching eggs to grow ducks to feed the alligators!). He secretly takes an egg home and makes friends with the duck who starts a duck revolution! Bought this for me one day in Dubray Books when we were wandering down Shop St. – really bought it for me, but the boys have loved it and now Robyn too 🙂

Felix’s Favourites (7 months)

Anything ‘That’s not my…’ books are brilliant from 3/4 months

Tails – Matthew Van Fleet. Gorgeous touchy feely book great for little ones, boys or girls, sent from family in the States for Leon. Robyn really loves this one.

Where’s That Fish? – Dan Crisp. A clever little book with a cut out that makes it look like it the goldfish you’re looking for on the next page but it’s always something else. But there’s a happy ending.

Dec1

December’s Meeting

Posted on December 1, 2012 by dairyfreekids

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December’s meeting will be on Tuesday 18th. For this Christmas book club meeting, each member must buy a book not costing more than €5, and wrap it up for a book kris kindle. We will then put all the books into a bag and pick one each.

We will be discussing The Food of Love by Anthony Capella

Oct25

Our Children’s Favourite Books Part 1

Posted on October 25, 2012 by dairyfreekids

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We brought our kids’ favourite books to discuss at book club this month. As not everyone made it to book club we will do it again at November’s meeting. Here are Orlaith, Oran, Leo, Oscar and Giuseppe’s favourites.

Orlaith’s Favourites

That’s Not my Monster by Fiona Watt

Vtech Peek A Boo

Oran’s Favourites

Orange Pear Apple Bear by Emily Gravett

That’s not my tractor by Fiona Watt

Giuseppe & Leo’s Favourites

Lost and Found by Oliver Jeffers

One Ted fell out of Bed by Julia Donaldson

Usbourne Fairy Tales for Little Children

The Snail and the Whale by Julia Donaldson

Oxford Reading Tree First Experiences set

Tales from Acorn Woods by Julia Donaldson

Oscar’s Favourites

Pig in the Pond by Martin Waddell

The Topsy Turvies by Francesca Simon

What the Ladybird Heard by Julia Donaldson

Stuck by Oliver Jeffers

Díolaim Beag

Sep26

November’s Book – Solace by Belinda McKeon

Posted on September 26, 2012 by dairyfreekids

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Sinéad chose ‘Solace’ by Belinda McKeon for November’s book.

From the back cover:

Mark Casey has left home, the rural Irish community where his family has farmed the same land for generations. He is a doctoral student in Dublin, a vibrant, contemporary city full of possibility. But to his father, Tom, who needs help baling the hay and ploughing the fields, Mark’s pursuit isn’t work at all, and they are set on a collision course, while Mark’s mother negotiates a fragile peace.

To escape the seemingly endless struggle of completing his thesis, Mark finds himself whiling away his time with pubs and parties. His is a life without focus or responsibility, until he meets Joanne Lynch, a trainee solicitor whom he finds irresistible – and who he later discovers happens to be the daughter of a man who once spectacularly wronged Mark’s father, and whose betrayal Tom has remembered every single day for twenty years.

Joanne too has escaped the life circumscribed by her overbearing father, and she is torn between the opportunities to succeed in this new wealthy Dublin and the moral dilemmas it presents. But for a brief time Mark and Joanne are able to share the chaos and rapture of a love affair, an emotional calm, until the lightning strike of tragedy changes everything.

Fresh, sensitive and genuinely brave, Belinda McKeon is a startling new talent in the great Irish mould, and Solace is a work to be admired equally for its spare, intense lyricism as its range, understanding, and deeply compassionate portrayal of life as it is lived now.