I last posted on this blog nearly 3 years ago, which is a long time by most considerations. Many things combined to make me stop, or prevent me from restarting in the last 3 years, but I’ve kept this blog at the back of my mind and wanted to come back to it. It was never intended to be a place to go for the latest releases in children’s literature. It was meant to be more of a playground conversation or the chat on the side of a kid’s birthday party – we enjoyed this, we hope you will too, what did you enjoy reading?
As my children have grown and developed as readers, the joys and challenges have changed. How and what I read to them has changed. And I’d like to share those thoughts and reflections with you again.
So hello again! I’m excited to talk about books and reading with you!
As before, I can be contacted by email: contact[at]booksforourchildren.com (though I do ignore all marketing emails) or please add a comment on the website. I do still have an X account: @BooksForOurKids but I’m also now on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/booksforourkids.bsky.social so I hope to see you there.
P.S. I was invited to join a book group (for grown-ups!). In this new iteration, I may occasionally add notes about what I’m reading too.
P.P.S. In case it needs to be said, all the posts on this website are written by the author they are credited to, without any use of AI generated material. They are sometimes proof-read or edited by friendly other humans. I cannot say I never use AI – if I do a Google search to check some information, there’s AI giving me its view whether I asked for it or not. Same with trying to get online help. But I don’t rely on AI for my information and try not to use it deliberately beyond the spelling check function in Word or the dotty red lines that appear under my typos, or those ‘helpful’ Help searches.
In the same way as I avoid AI, AI is asked to avoid me: NO AI TRAINING: Without in any way limiting the authors’ and publisher’s exclusive rights under copyright, any use of this publication to “train” generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to generate text is expressly prohibited. The authors reserve all rights to license uses of this work for generative AI training and development of machine learning language models.
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