'Weading Wednesday' (on Thursday, oops!) - Moon Cow

This is a beautiful book featuring the night sky and different phases of the moon.

Moon Cow by Kyle Mewburn is about a cow, Milly, befriending the moon despite what her fellow cows think. Milly discovers the mysterious changes of the moon and finds her place in the world around her.

Ladybug loves the pictures in this book and likes to point out Milly and the moon to us while we read it.

 We used this book to talk about how the moon changes and then one day, while playing outside Ladybug pointed up in the sky shouting "Moon! Moon!" And she was right, there it was. We have since shown her the moon at night too. Definitely one of her favourites! 

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'Weading Wednesday' - Advance Australia Fair

Having just had our Australia Day celebrations I thought this book was a suitable pick for this weeks review.


As the title suggests, this book, by P.D McCormick is Australia's National Anthem in story book form. It was Ladybugs favourite for awhile and she was bringing it to us daily to be read! She loves the colourful bright pictures even if she doesn't quiet understand the meaning yet.

Having an ex - Army dad, we're pretty patriotic here. Teaching Ladybug about the country she lives in is important to us, not just in the sense of National Anthems and so forth, but also about our culture, lifestyle, native animals, environment, etc. I love the country we live in and can't wait to help her discover and learn about it too.

The book has BOTH verses, which Mr Ladybug and I are now pretty competent in (making us look super, super patriotic whenever this fact is found out!)

It even has the music - totally lost on us unfortunately but may be useful to some!

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"Weading Wednesday" - Press Here

This is one of Ladybug's favourite books, well, there's lots of favourites, but this is definitely up there for her.

Press Here by Herve Tullet is an invitation for kids to interact and use their imagination. The book, primarily consisting of simple dots on the pages and repeatedly asks children to press the dots, shake the book, turn it around, etc, with each action having a different affect.

Ladybug will sit there giggling and laughing, clapping and blowing the pages whenever we read this book. It really encourages her imagination and helps her learn cause and effect. There have been a few times where I have found her in her room turning the pages and pressing all the dots by herself, too cute!

I really recommend it for someone looking for something a little bit different (along with any of Herve Tullet's colouring books!)

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"Weading Wednesday" - Bookshelves!

Ladybug LOVES books. When she toddles off on her own she is almost always found in her room 'reading' her books or holding a book up to you saying "Wead, wead!" So I thought it fitting to do a book review every week.

To kick things off though, we will start with our bookshelves. A massive part of her book love is due to the fact that she can access her books whenever she likes. They are always on display and not kept up on a shelf out of her reach.

When I first caught a glimpse of these library style 'rain gutter bookshelves' which went a bit viral last year, I was in love. Unfortunately my husband wasn't! So these spice racks from a storage shop were my compromise (that and the fact that I did this while he was working away in WA for 2 weeks!) These particular ones are from Howard's Storage World and were a bit pricey to buy all at once, so I bought them gradually row by row. For us though, the expense has been totally worth it. Plus they come with everything you need to install them. Easy!

Now Ladybug has all of her books out at once and can choose her own for story time before bed and can go and look at them whenever she pleases - so now just be prepared to read whatever the current fave is a gazillion times a day! ;-)

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