Author Archives: moretobooks

To finish off an amazing year for More to Books and my work as a Nanny, this blog is a whistle stop tour of the Nanny Awards and New York. Earlier this month, I was invited to New York to receive an award for exemplary work in the Nanny Industry! It was an absolute honour. […]

Ice sculpture experience I got to take my G7 to the ice sculpture experience which was the story of A Christmas Carol! Proving there really is more to books than reading but wrap up warm because it’s -10 degrees in there! Do you want to build a snowman?The story was written in sentences as you […]

Kidzania is AMAZING! https://kidzania.co.uk/ This is an “indoor city run by kids” and they have them all over the world. What I’m most excited about is that they have Careers fairs coming up for children in January and March in London so they can start to think about what they’d like to be and what […]

It’s not Christmas until you’ve seen the John Lewis Christmas Ad (or the Coca Cola ad- which I’ve not actually seen yet- but I don’t watch live TV anymore so I have to look up adverts these days! But I did see it in Picadilly Circus last night) I thought this years ad was wonderful, […]

It’s been a nerve-wrecking few months. My book was entered in to the Creative Play 2019 Awards in August of this year. Independent testers have judged my book and I’m so proud to announce that…. *drum roll please* IT WON! Check out my book and the other winners here: http://creativesteps.co.uk/competitions/creative-play-awards/ I found out a couple […]

Thanks giving is on Thursday the 28th if November this year. I’m going to make my Nanny children a thanksgiving feast. Does England even sell pumpkin pie? We do baking Thursdays so I might check out a recipe for us to make. I’m not American but I’ve always loved the friends episodes of Thanksgiving. I […]

There really is more to books than reading with this next blog. While speaking at the Childcare Expo in Coventry last month, I met so many wonderful people. Chico is a cheeky dog who goes on adventures on a narrow boat and his owner, Janet Roberts has shared them all in her books. I “interviewed” […]

This weekend, I went to the National Gallery. I’d really encourage you to take your children to an art gallery and let them lead the way. Let them be curious and find the paintings that they are most interested in. The most wonderful thing is the the stories they can make up from looking at […]

Guy FawkesYou wouldn’t want to be Guy Fawkes by Fiona MacDonald and David Amtram (photo credit: Amazon.co.uk) For our older learners, I love these sets of books, it’s like a colourful version of Horrible Histories. And that says singed as in burnt by fire, instead of singed, la la la (as it’s not a word) […]

Witches Pongwiffy books by Kaye Umansky (photo credit: amazon.co.uk) Pongwiffy was one of my favourite book series when I was in lower key stage two. I even made a fancy dress outfit, entirely by myself for a dress up day. I won an award for it. It was probably the only non-bought outfit. I probably […]