Little Moons Library

Bodies Are Cool!

This picture book took us an hour to read! Not because it’s long, but because we had to stop and look at every single person on each page! We inspected and went through it like a fine tooth comb every single body we saw!

It invoked so many conversations about different types of people, from skin colour, religion, disabilities, hair types, everything!

L pointed out characters that looked like her and people we know! She spoke about others who looked different to her, even remembering when we saw someone in with a prosthetic leg a while ago!

This book opened up so many different but important conversations and has definitely opened her eyes to all the types of people we see in day to day life, while also learning to respect each and every one of them!

✏️ Written and illustrated by Tyler Feder

*not an ad - we just really like this book😁

William Shakespeare📖🖋️

Did you know April 23rd is Shakespeare day to celebrate the day the greatest playwrights birth and death? I remember most people moaning in school when we had to study Shakespeare but I loved it! So tonight’s bedtime story is William Shakespeare by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara - another addition to the little people, big dream book series!

On another note, who else has seen or read Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell? It’s honestly so beautifully heart wrenching and I bawled my eyes for a good 10 minutes after the movie had finished! I’d definitely recommend if you feel like having a good cry!!

Easter reads!🐣

Switching our spring shelf for an Easter one this weekend! Lots of Easter pictures books, activity books and chapter books to keep L entertained and in the Easter spirit!

✨ We’re Going on an Egg Hunt - Martha Mumford
✨ Pick a Perfect Egg - Patrica Toht
✨ Eliza the Easter Bunny Fairy - Daisy Meadows
✨ Will You Be My Friend? - Sam McBratney
✨ Easter Fun - Usborne
✨ Oh Carrots - Mariajo Ilustrajo
✨ Easter Egg Day - Tara Knudson
✨ Beatrix Potter - Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara
✨ Five Little Easter Bunnies - Martha Mumford

The Royal Request 🥭👑

When Ari’s family get a royal letter asking for his Grandad’s famous mango jam cake for the queen and her royal peacock, they of course have to oblige!
But they must have to walk through 4 towns to deliver the spectacular bake! Will they make it through each town without any problems? What will the passer bys say?

This is a lovely, wholesome and playful story about sharing a traditional family recipe while also looking at boundaries and not being able to please everyone they meet! The author also added her own mango cake recipe at the back too!

🖊️author: Monika Singh Gangotra -
🖌️ illustrator: Mirna Imamović - .mirna
📚 publisher: Owlet Press -
Thank you for a gifted copy of this book!

Halloween reads🎃🦇

It’s arguably the best time of year, not just for the cosy days, crunchy leaves and cinammony scents but also for the fun, spooky books we get to read!

Here’s are favourite Halloween books to read this time of year:
✨ No Home for Ghost - Jess Rose
✨ The Crayons Trick or Treat - Drew Daywalt
✨ Pumpkin Soup - Helen Cooper
✨ Room on the Broom - Julia Donaldson
✨ Winnie the Witch - Valerie Thomas
✨ Funnybones - Janet and Allen Ahlberg
✨ Are You There Little Bat? - Sam Taplin
✨ The Baddies - Julia Donaldson
✨ Pick a Pumpkin - Patrica Toht
✨ We’re Going on a Ghost Hunt - Martha Mumford
✨ 5 Little Pumpkins
✨ Spookley the Square Pumpkin - Joe Troiano

What are your favourite Halloween reads?
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Grief🦋🌈🩵

What happens after a loved one passes? The answer to this question can be difficult for littles to understand, but it doesn’t have to all be sad! What Happens After explores the different ways we can celebrate the life that was lost by looking out for their signs and holding on to their memories!

What Happens After? written by Diana Namm and illustrated by Laura Jäger
AD|gifted
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Books to celebrate Diwali 🪔

We’ve been reading all about Diwali recently as the 5 day festival of light began yesterday! These lovely story and information books have taught us about diya, rangolis and mithai!

✨ Deena the Diwali Fairy - Daisy Meadows

✨ Little Glow - Katie Sahota

✨ A Year full of Celebrations and Festivals - Christopher Corr & Claire Grace

✨ Garland of Lights - Chitra Soundar
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Autumn has arrived!🍂🍄

My favourite time of the year is here (and I’m not just being bias because it’s my name🤭). The ‘ber months are so cosy and A Field Guide to Autumn is a wonderful book to help fall right into this wholesome season with plenty of activities, bakes and poems!
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Autumn reads🍂

Autumn is in full force and we’ve been soaking up all the changes that this season brings! Here are some of our favourite autumn books from cosy picture books to whimsical first chapter books, L has been loving learning about the changing colours of the leaves, the falling acorns & conkers and the growing pumpkins and toadstools!
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