Hannah Love

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Always a lovely time of year when these lists come out and absolutely topple your TBR…

Time to change up the picture book bookshelf for the next month!

Planning dinner for friends staying this weekend and you can bet I’m going to be super unseasonal and make hot cross bun bread and butter pudding.

I’ll add a sprig of holly or something.

They are both thrilled thinking of how excited their friend must be at a tidy garden. It’s just so lovely as the joy doesn’t come from receiving a gift, or a tidy lawn. It’s from having done something for a friend, and secretly, so no thanks is ever expected (luckily!). I love Frog and Toad so much

Frog and Toad really are the list gentle stories. In The Surprise, Frog and Toad sneak around to each other’s houses to clean up the leave on their friend’s lawn. Both sneak back very happily, but a wind blows up and scatter the leaves. They both get home to their seemingly untouched gardens BUT

The magic was just not there in the same way :(

Reader, it was not just the tonic.

Not to make all my Bluesky content 100% Paddington but I am wildly excited to go and see Paddington in Peru tonight. I would like to feel better about the world and I think Olivia Coleman as a wild nun might be just the tonic.

The cover of Paddington Takes a Bath by Michael Bond, illustrated by David McKee

An internal illustration from Paddington Takes a Bath, where Paddington is in the bath, fully clothed

An illustration from Paddington takes a Bath, with Paddington standing anxiously beside an overflowing bath.

I am always looking for small, easy-to-commute-with books. Vinted has a been a gold mine for some really special older books!

Look at this vintage Paddington from 1988 - so old they don’t even bother to list the illustrator in the copyright info. It’s David McKee!