This May has been unusually busy around the Children’s Bookroom given a lot of old things coming together, so I wanted to give a roundup of what I’ve done here and elsewhere!

An older review of mine for Hilary McKay’s Time of Green Magic was featured among other reviews over at Twinkl’s Magical Books for Kids to Beat the Summer Reading Slide. While I’ve never really understood the whole summer slide thing, I think that list of recommended books looks absolutely fantastic and am keen to check out a few of them myself, so I recommend taking a look.

I have already mentioned the review I got to write for Two New Years over at JArts, but if you click this link here, you’ll see all of my reviews there, including Aviva vs the Dybbuk by Mari Lowe, a collection of stories by Etgar Keret, and more.

Here, snug in our own Children’s Bookroom, I’ve written about an early reader, Orris and Timble, featuring a cranky rat who seems curiously well-read, and a little owl who wants to hear stories. I have written about characters in Ferris who don’t so much leap off the page as beckon you into it. And I’ve written about A Poem for Peter and how sharing stories, as Orris and Timble do, can turn the misery Olympics on its head and let us all have our say.

I never do have any idea what’s next, here in the Bookroom, because it all depends what’s published, what mood I’m in, and whether a child elsewhere in the house decides to spill my coffee beans on the ground or starts to barf, but since the past few weeks turned out to have so much going on, I just wanted to make sure that anyone who cared could find what they wanted on the shelves, as it were.