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Today might finally be the day we sow our wildflower seeds for our bee-friendly garden 🐝 We prepared the flower bed some time ago but this unseasonal snow and frost has made us reluctant to risk sowing seeds. Excited to be kicking off the blog tour on 21 April for The Abbey Mystery, the first book in the Jane Austen Investigates series by Julia Golding. Rainbow Grey by @laura_ellen_anderson - what a wonderfully special book! 🌈 Not only is this advance proof copy utterly gorgeous but it’s also won a special place in our hearts as it’s the first chapter book that my five-year-old son and I have read together. We’re serialising it each night at bedtime but he sometimes asks for bonus chapters in the day too! 🥰 50 things to do on rainy days & 50 things to do before you’re 5 3/4: two fabulous activity books from the world of Winnie the Pooh and Christopher Robin. The Gruffalo and Friends Outdoor Activity Book - perfect for Easter holiday fun. This lovely book draws on all your favourite Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler stories for play inspiration. Make owl ice cream, go on a Gruffalo hunt, cast mud spells, or fly a parrot kite. There are loads of brilliant ideas and everything will get you and your children outside, having fun in nature. What a wonderful surprise from @faberchildrens today! It was a pleasure to champion Voyage of the Sparrowhawk last year and I’m delighted to see how much success the book has had. The Perfect Fit is a lovely picture book about belonging and individuality. Triangle is trying to fit in. She plays with each group of shapes in turn but always feels self-conscious about being different. She worries that she’s spoiling the fun. Even though the other shapes try to reassure her, she leaves each group, on a quest to find somewhere that she fits perfectly. Yet when she does find the other triangles, she misses the fun she had with the other shapes. Finally she realises that she doesn’t have to be the same as everyone else to have fun. I love this ‘Let’s Go!’ series of board books for pre-schoolers. Each book explores a different vehicle, from diggers and tractors to planes, trains and ferries. There’s a space rocket book in the series too which is not pictured here. 🌈 Inspired by How Do You Make a Rainbow?, a joyful picture book full of hope and colour, we went on a nature rainbow hunt in our garden and local parks.