by The Kids Book Company | Jun 21, 2018 | Kids Book
You walk down the street, sit on a train, get on a plane, sit in a restaurant, out shopping, whatever you do these days, you will no doubt see a young child with some form of tablet or electronic device. Electronics have taken over our world, and the take over is only...
by The Kids Book Company | Jun 19, 2018 | Heroes, Kids Book
On a bit of a war path the other week, I started looking into information about the numbers of books that have female heroes in them. (I know it should be ‘heroine’ – but, in the voice of my mind they’re always ‘heroes’ regardless of gender so go with it. First, I...
by The Kids Book Company | Jun 19, 2018 | Kids Book
A friend shared a video with me the other day which was quite disturbing. It was a video made by the creators of “Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls” entitled “the Ugly Truth of Children’s books” in which they took a shelf of children’s books and removed all but those...
by The Kids Book Company | Nov 15, 2017 | Kids Book
We sometimes grieve a little for the childhoods we had and the childhoods kids are experiencing now. Somehow it seemed a safer, less complicated world where kids were kids and there was so much more … freedom somehow. Certainly there was a whole lot more outside...
by The Kids Book Company | Nov 15, 2017 | Kids Book, New Zealand
There’s something about being a kiwi. Growing up on a large-by-pacific-standards but globally little island in the South Pacific. As a kiwi kid, I grew up with the knowledge of two absolute certainties. One, if I ever wanted to experience the world I’d...
by The Kids Book Company | Nov 15, 2017 | Kids Book
1. Education makes heroes Confucius famously said “Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.” Hold on a sec – so world peace lies at the hands of our educated little ones? Ok, that may be a bit of a stretch – but one thing’s for sure...