Noah CooperI never really got it I didn’t read this book when I was a kid. In fact I had never even heard about it until the film came out. There was quite a bit of hype around the film with a number of people saying they had loved it when they were...
Gravity is a concept, right? Last week I posted about how Thomas had learnt the concept of himself as an independent person. He did this by proudly pointing to himself when I asked him who had scribbled all over the window in blue crayon. When I was...
I like walking. Give me the chance to walk or drive or get the bus and I’ll walk almost every time. I walk a lot in Curitiba, but very few other people do. Here follows a bit of a rant, but it’s all true, I even have photos to back it...
Flag of Brazil (Photo credit: Wikipedia) If I wanted to tell you about Brazilians and what they are like I could spend ages talking about their likes and dislikes, their politics, history and culture, how they spend their free time and what they...
I like this book. It is a simple story of a little mischievous lion called Clovis who likes to cause havoc with his roar. Clovis has the loudest roar in the jungle and he is very proud of it. He likes to wait until the other animals in are...
(Photo credit: Wikipedia) When I was kid the best writers, for me anyway, were Enid Blyton and Roald Dahl. Roald Dahl is still up there in my imaginary Top 10 List of favourite writers ever, but I don’t think I’ll even bother...
Parque Barigui with a touch of early morning frost. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Wednesday 13th March was just as hot and sunny as practically every day since November. A long summer made even better by the news of the wet and cold winter back home in...
Dear Zoo by Rod Campbell was a book that Thomas absolutely adored from about the age of 4 months until he about 14 months. It is a simple story of a kid who wants a pet and so he writes to the local zoo and they send him an elephant. But the...
What are books for? I thought they were for reading; for enjoying; for learning things; for transporting yourself to whole new worlds and possibilities. Well, in the last few weeks I have discovered that books are for a lot more. Here are some of...
This was a blast from the past. I bought this book when Thomas was born because I remembered reading it a kid and, I think, seeing it on TV. We didn’t read it for ages as it isn’t a hard cardboard book and up until recently Thomas...