⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Challenging. Hilarious. Powerful. This is quite possibly the strangest book I will ever read. And one that I just can’t stop thinking about. Our story is a journal of sorts, written by an unnamed man, who we “know” to be about forty years old. (But therein lies the rub…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ What is true parental love - in its purest form - and what is actually narcissism, loneliness, vanity, fear of the emptiness left by our own unfulfilled parenting? Does it matter why we love our children as long as we do? What does it take to spin this love…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I love this book. It doesn’t happen often enough for me but from the very first pages I felt myself sinking into this story, so warm and comfortable, exactly like the way you feel when you meet someone for the very first time and instantly know you are going…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Shame. It’s such an overwhelming stomach-churning terrible feeling, that can be so quick to rear its nasty head, particularly when you are young and vulnerable. Alex and the Shaming Monster is a charming picture book that deals with this very issue, helping children understand that shame, like a scary…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ What child (and this applies to many adults too!) isn’t afraid of dark things that go bump in the night. This beautifully illustrated picture-book introduces us to Nick, a chubby four year old boy, and his visitor, a shadow monster that comes to feed in his room at night.…