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Oh, okay, I never got round to updating last week with a competition so it will be this week after all. And I think I have updated Goodreads at last. We’ve mostly been reading the same things over and over so not many added each week, the 16 below are from the last four weeks (last time I updated oops!)
I owe lots and lots of comments from the last four weeks, thank-you all for your patience, and it’s still been lovely reading about the books even if I haven’t commented.
Thank-you for the comments on whether to do this weekly or monthly. I think I’ll leave it weekly, with the monthly giveaway, and then you can link up whenever you want.
This month’s giveaway has a kind-of specific theme in mind so I’m opening it up to anyone, although #300PB members can get two entries by commenting twice (random selection from comments) – see details below.
Chaos Household ‘new’ picture books read for the last four weeks:

#300PBs progress: 137/300 = 45.7%
2014vs2013 progress: 137/228 = 60.1%
Monthly Giveaway
This month’s prize is a selection of toddler books from Barefoot Books, Little Tiger Press, Bloomsbury Children’s Books and Puffin. This selection would be great for someone with a toddler or pre-schooler and who is expecting, although the books are suitable for any toddlers/pre-schoolers. There are four activity books to keep small children amused in waiting rooms, two books about new siblings, a pack of small picture books that can be easily transported, and a picture book and board book for sharing any time. The titles included are:

Baby Animal Sticker Activities and Farm Sticker Activities (Little Tiger Kids, 2014) – packed full of early learning activities and real-life picture stickers, these books are great for toddlers and pre-schoolers. 80 pages of activities and 200 photographic stickers with RRP £6.99, these are great value for money compared to weekly magazines and excellent quality too. The Little Tiger Kids imprint has impressed me with every one of their books we’ve been sent to review and I only wish I had younger children so I could justify keeping them!
Red, Blue, Peekaboo! Katie Saunders & Annette Rusling (Caterpillar Books, 2014) – an absolutely gorgeous board book with big flaps suitable for the smallest hands. The flaps have cut outs so you can ‘peekaboo’ and guess what’s underneath. With one colour focussed on each page, there’s plenty of learning but even more fun. Another one I want to keep (and at 4 & 7, my two still loved sharing this book together!)
My Little Box of Springtime Stories (Little Tiger Press, 2014) – similar to the mother’s day box, but with an extra book instead of a card, this sturdy cardboard carry-case contains five small paperback versions of Little Tiger Press stories. Great for overnight stays, holidays, waiting rooms, or snuggled up reading anywhere.
Don’t Call Me Sweet: Smriti Prasadam-Halls & Angie Rozelaar (Bloomsbury Children’s Books, 2014) – an adorably cute little monster tries to be scary in this cute rhyming tale, until he decides that maybe being sweet is okay after all… Beautifully illustrated fun for little monsters everywhere.
Dotty Spotty Doodles & Zig Zag Zebra – activity books from Barefoot Books.
Ruby’s Baby Brother: Kathryn White & Miriam Latymer (Barefoot Books)
There’s an Ouch in my Pouch: Jeanne Willis & Garry Parsons (Puffin Books)
Baby Animals Sticker Activities; Farm Sticker Activities; Springtime Stories (5 books); Red, Blue, Peekaboo; and Don’t Call Me Sweet were received for review. Dotty Spotty Doodles, Zig Zag Zebra, and Ruby’s Baby Brother are new Barefoot Books from when I was an Ambassador. There’s an Ouch in my Pouch is from a Bookstart pack and has been on our shelves and therefore in good but not as new condition. Lovingly cared for in a smoke & pet free home.
To enter the giveaway, you must* enter the linky and leave a blog comment. The winning entry will be chosen at random from blog post comments. If you don’t leave a comment, I’ll assume you don’t want to enter.
* You can enter by just leaving a blog post comment if you have nothing to link up, just tell me where you are in the challenge or a favourite read from the last week instead. Open to everyone, #300PBs members please leave a second comment for an extra entry.
The giveaway is open to enter until the linky list closes on Sunday 20 April, and a winner will be chosen at random from the comments. This giveaway is not endorsed by the publishers, and postage is paid from my own pocket. Open to UK addresses only I’m afraid but if you’re based elsewhere and have someone in the UK I can send to, that’s not a problem.