by KittyCat on July 22, 2009
After the success of reading Margaret Wise Brown’s “Goodnight Moon” I was happy to find “Two Little Trains” written by the same author for my No. 1 Thomas the Tank Engine fan.
My toddler was delighted to see that the first few pages had the illustration of a present, which contained a wooden toy train. He [...]
by KittyCat on June 8, 2009
My 3 year absolutely LOVES this book!
And I can’t get over how I’d just grabbed “The Trucks are Stuck” (originally published as Preschool to the Rescue) off the shelf after a quick browse – adding it to our check-out pile when I saw the lively illustrations, fairly sure my Bob the Builder fan will [...]
by KittyCat on May 18, 2009
Lucas picked this book off the library shelf himself and Hubby and I must have read this book at least 3 times a week last month.
“My Race Car” begins with a little boy playing with his race cars in the room and then he imagines himself at a real stock car race. The book [...]
by KittyCat on May 12, 2009
I remember this story from a collection of books I read as a kid called “A Child’s World”.
Browsing through the bookshelves, I was happy to find “The Little Engine That Could” at the library for my train-crazy toddler.
What’s more, it’s the original edition by Watty Piper
“The Little Engine That Could” is an [...]
by KittyCat on April 20, 2009
A row of Tonka books were set in front of the low sofa at the library and this “Big Book of Trucks” with a dump truck in action caught my toddler’s eye immediately!
Grabbing the book, he sat down on the settee and flipped through the pages, enjoying every colourful page of front loaders, dump trucks, [...]
by KittyCat on April 10, 2009
We bought this book when we where in Hong Kong last year from Book Buddy.
At HKD175, it’s quite pricey but since it’s a collection of the original stories (and illustrations!) on Thomas, Percy, Toby, Edward, Gordon, Henry and James, we bought it for Lucas.
He loved listening to the stories (which seems to be the source [...]
by KittyCat on February 24, 2009
Yesterday evening, my 3 year old and I sat together for our reading time. He’d chosen “Bulgy” from his My Thomas Story Library collection, which I bought at MPH Gurney Plaza under the “3 for 2 Value Buy” promotion.
First page of “Bulgy” – I was reading the line “Duck, Donald and Douglas were taking passengers [...]
by KittyCat on November 24, 2008
My toddler and I were stuck at home for more than a week with croup and a bad flu. Imagine my delight when I found this book about TRAINS online for FREE!
It’s a printed book with pages scanned in with permission from the copyright owner.
Written by a Sri Lankan author and illustrator, the [...]