Children's Books For All Ages

I was recently sent a wonderful collection of books, one for each of my girls. I reviewed Ten On The Sled separately here but I thought I'd share my thoughts on the rest of the books in this one post. The other books I received were : A Children's Treasury of Lullabies, Monster Party and Calvin, Look Out!

Tales From My Kitchen

I was recently picked to join in the Britmums challenge #kitchentales with Fairy Platinum. I was sent a pack of fairy platinum to help with washing my dishes, which gave me the time to think of ideas of the stories to tell you lovely lot about what goes on in my kitchen.

Now I have to admit the kitchen I have isn't my dream kitchen.

I long for a nice big kitchen with an island in the middle so that everyone can congregate

and be social as I cook.

Of course a fridge dedicated to wine would be nice and quite honestly some more storage space would be appreciated but I make do with what I have.

Finally, there's the colour. I'd love for all of the kitchen doors to be a nice shade of grey accompanied by marble worktops and white splash backs.

Pinterest worthy would be how I'd describe my dream kitchen.

I would say my kitchen is slightly chaotic due to the lack of cupboard space but I like to see it as organised chaos, it is like the rest of our house, it looks lived in and surely this is part of what makes a house a home.

It is open plan, so the kitchen, dining room and living room are all in one.

What I love about this, is that I can always see what the girls are up to. They can be sat at the

dining room table drawing or of recent times making loom bracelets whilst I make dinner. Or perhaps lounging on the sofa watching Frozen for the millionth time as I do the ironing.

Adventures of the Shir Sha - Pharha's Quest Review

My eldest daughter is the biggest fan of books and if you have read my previous posts, you will know that when she grows up she would love to be an author. I was recently asked to review a book called Adventures of the Shir Sha - Pharha's Quest, this book is written by Sami Jaffer and is aimed at children aged 8 and above so I thought it would be appropriate for Elise to read and review the book herself.

The story follows a young girl, she takes us on a journey from her small village right out into a land filled with strange creatures and people. Along the way she learns some important lessons with some help from others…

Elise spent 3 weeks reading the book and below is what she thought about it :

I like the story, it was quite adventurous and I think it would definitely keep readers interested. One of the characters was really weird, it was Zodishan the Scoundrel, he was so funny in places. This is one of the sentences that I found funny :

"Oh so impatient! Beware of where that gets thee to lady."

I like the way Pharha was not going to give up. It was so nice to hear the happy ending but in the next Pharha story I think Pharha and Careen will end up being boyfriend and girlfriend but no snogging!!

I too read the book and I agree with Elise, it was lovely seeing such a strong and courageous character in Pharha, her quest in the story is bringing back the village's medicine man who has disappeared and I think she makes quite the role model for young girls they way along the way. 

The book is written well and manages to keep you interested until the end, great book for teaching your child about patience. I am now being pestered by Elise to find out when the next book will be out. 

You can currently purchase the kindle edition of this book over on amazon, if you have a daughter aged around 8 or above, I would recommend them reading it.

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Disclaimer : We were sent this book free of charge for reviewing purposes however all thoughts and opinions are our own.

Let me tell you a story...

Well I say me, I actually mean my daughter. I had one of those proud mummy moments last week when my eldest daughter's teacher came up to me excitedly before school started. She said that Elise had started to write a story and she was really impressed so wanted me to read it too.

Now I know Elise is very creative, she has a wonderful imagination and she is always telling people that she wants to be an author in real life. Her teacher actually sent her home with more paper because she wanted her to finish the story because I'm sure the rest of you will be the same, you want to know just what happens in the end!!

I, as her mum, am slightly biased but for someone who is 7 years old, I think she has done a really amazing job, so I just wanted to share with you all what she has created.

The Tale of a Castle War

One day, well you may have guessed, a long, long, long time ago in a medieval castle called Castle Ivy, a baby princess was born. Her name was Princess Destiny. 
She lived in Castle Ivy with her mum, Queen Daniella and her father, King Ben. What the king and queen didn't know was that Princess Destiny had fallen in love with their knight, Sir Robinson. They had a secret love that was as sweet as cake.
One day on her 15th birthday, their worst enemy returned, Queen Vivian. Her knights were coming across the sea from Palace Evil.
Sir Robinson tried to get Princess Destiny away on his noble stead, Billy the dragon. When they thought they were far enough away, Queen Vivian came on her dragon Frankenstein and snatched Princess Destiny. Sir Robinson was heartbroken.

Meanwhile in Castle Ivy, there was a humungous battle between Castle Ivy and Palace Evil. A lot of knights got killed without their best knight, Sir Robinson and his noble stead Billy to help. 
In Palace Evil, Queen Vivian had captured Queen Daniella, King Ben and Princess Destiny. Suddenly Princess Destiny had an idea. She took her toy vampire teeth out of her pocket that she remembered she had. Then she got her red pen out of her pocket that she also remembered that she had. She got her red pen and put some red on the toy vampire teeth. Princess Destiny put the toy vampire teeth in her mouth and you can guess what happened next.
Princess Destiny looked like a vampire who had just eaten. "I'm going to eat you if you don't set me free" said Princess Destiny. "Goodness me, I didn't know you were a vampire, please don't eat me princess" said Queen Vivian. "You'll be a tasty snack" said Princess Destiny. "Alright! ok ok, I'll set you free if I can rule Castle Ivy till my death" said Queen Vivian. "And if that happens I'll have you for my snack" said Princess Destiny, giving Queen Vivian a look. "I'm out of here, bye" shouted Queen Vivian.

"Ha, that was clever" laughed a voice. It was Sir Robinson. He bought Billy the dragon too. As you may have guessed, Sir Robinson had then captured Queen Vivian and put her in her own dungeon. He set Queen Daniella, King Ben and Princess Destiny free.

Two months later, Sir Robinson and Princess Destiny got married and had twins. A boy called Antony and a girl called Olivia and they were happy for the rest of their days.

THE END

Thanks for reading. Always nice to see a happy ending!!!

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