Believe it or not but I have been looking forward to the school run since starting listening audiobooks while driving. My latest find is Legacy of Spies by John le Carré, a bestselling author for more than half a century, published by Penguin in unabridged, audiobook CD edition which can be a good Christmas gift for a mum who is spending an hour in the car every day taking children to…
London Mums’ picture book of the week is Boogie Bear by David Walliams and funnily illustrated by Tony Ross. We enjoyed it because it has a lot more words than ordinary picture books and is hilarious. What increases the fun factor is the use of invented words and expressions by Walliams in the same style of Roald Dahl. Walliams is in fact considered Dahl’s successor.
Boogie Bear is…
There’s something about spacecrafts and trains that fascinates children and parents alike. There’s a new beautiful book series called Legendary Journeys dedicated to those engineering wonders that we will never stop admiring.
Legendary Journeys: Space tells the history of space through interactive features. In time for Christmas this book is…
It’s not imminent but we at London Mums HQ and the kids’ club are all excited about the release ofthe highly anticipated animation Smallfootset to avalanche into UK cinemas on 5th October 2018.
The story
An animated adventure for all ages, with original music and an all-star cast, Smallfoot turns the Bigfoot legend upside down when a bright young Yeti finds…
If there’s a film released in 2017 that everyone (I mean literally everybody!) should see that is Wonder. This is not just a feel-good family story, but it’s an inspiring, heart-warming tale of a 10 year old boy with a disfigured face (like many in real life) who copes in his own special way with the lack of compassion of our society especially for less-than-perfect human beings. I…
The Statue of Liberty is the star of a new children’s picture book called Her Right Foot written by Dave Eggers and illustrated by Shawn Harris.
Undoubtedly The Statue of Liberty is the most famous statue of all time. In fact if you ask anybody to name any statue, the odds are good they’d mention the Statue of Liberty. I have seen her (yes, for me it is a she, a real lady) already a…
Disney’s Cars 3 has just been released on DVD and Blu-Ray and we are having a house party to celebrate. Cars 3 DVD will be watched over and over in my household and … not just by kids. My 11 year old son Diego has seen Cars and Cars 2 at least 1000 times.
One of my favourite memories of when he was a toddler is that Cars was the first film he watched from…
Christmas stories belong only at Christmas time with two exceptions: Dickens’ A Christmas Carol and Bah! Humbug! by Michael Rosen (with drawings by “Horrid Henry” illustrator, Tony Ross), which is a magical retelling of Dickens’ famous festive story.
Without giving away many spoilers, I can reveal that Michael Rosen has successfully framed A Christmas Carol with a…
Based on Peter Turner’s memoir, Film Stars Don’t Die In Liverpool the film follows the playful but passionate relationship between Turner and the eccentric Academy Award® winning actress Gloria Grahame. The movie is released in the UK on 16th November 2017. Read what I loved about it and why I believe that Film Stars Don’t Die In Liverpool is the best real life movie romance of the…
Professor Marston & The Wonder Women is the controversial and unconventional true story of Wonder Woman’s creator Professor Marston. Whether you are a fan of the most famous female superhero of all time or not, it does not matter as Professor Marston & The Wonder Women is ultimately a love story, in fact a story of true love between a man and two women in the Thirties when…
