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Pictures from visit to Juanita Beach, WA. Planning to chronicle all the lovely places we visit. Hopefully Ana will grow up , see this post and remember these places.  
Ana enjoyed the beach a lot.  She loved walking on the broad walk and the quacking ducks. We found it too crowded .   

Book name : Poorly Pingu and Pingu's Bouncy Fun combo

synopsis : Pingu is making mother very cross by bouncing on everything in the igloo, including Pinga's rabbit! Then father comes up with an idea!

Our views :

Oh what joy this little cracker of a character is! I have seen the series on TV many many years ago , and  have thoroughly enjoyed watching the antics of Pingu, the penguin. When I saw this book in the library I had to pick it up. This book is by far the most-loved book in our...

Book name : Dora's Storytime Collection

Synopsis (from Goodreads )

Dora and her best friend, Boots, go on more adventures than you can count. Now Dora fans can enjoy many of their favorite Dora stories all in one book! This best-selling collection includes:

Dora's Backpack
Little Star
Happy Birthday, Mami!
Meet Diego!
Dora Saves the Prince
Dora's Treasure Hunt
Good Night, Dora!We we thought: Beanie is a big big fan of Dora. She loves watching the Dora shows on TV and I must admit that I have foun...

What's the book about : (thank you Goodreads)

Lola and Lotta are best, best, BESTEST friends who do completely everything together. They always pair up, they look after the tadpoles in the pond, and they especially always swap lunches. But when Evie, a new girl, joins the class, suddenly it's Evie whom Lotta does everything with, even lunch swapping. Lola tells her brother Charlie that she has lost her best friend forever, but Charlie isn't so sure.

The always lively Lola is fron...

Book name : Now you See me
Author : Tish Rabe
Illustrated by : Christopher Moroney

What is the book all about (taken from Goodreads)

Hide-and-seek is a great game, but Nick always finds where Sally is hiding. And that's no fun! Enter the Cat in the Hat. His friend Gecko is an expert at hiding. Maybe Gecko can share some tips with the kids? So off they go to the jungle, where Gecko teaches them how to hide in plain sight—using camouflage! Kids won't be able to hide their delight in this...

So I thought I would regularly blog for the next fifty days , but couldn't! When school's out , it is practically impossible to find time to pen thoughts down. So I am going to try to be as regular as possible. We've read more than a book a day , but none of them stood out and spoke to us :). Which is why I have decided to only chronicle the books that we enjoyed, and not everything that we picked up.  
 
Today's pick is a lovely book that is also one of my daughter's favourite.


Book n...

The fifty-days Bookathon project.

 We ( Beanie , the daughter and I )are planning to read a book a day and blog about it for the next fifty days. Beanie  is three and can't read yet , so I read to her. But I suspect she can identify clusters of words that she keeps seeing regularly. I thought I would be a Momazilla, but I have discovered that I not too demanding  . I just want her to learn at her pace. But increasingly I find that I need to do more research to keep her engaged a...

I never thought I would come back and write another word on this blog.
I didn't even think that I would ever write a word again.
A strange burst of nostalgia dragged me in here,
And I found my heart thumping as I typed in the password to the blog.
Oh well, I hadn't forgotten it , after all.

I had a dream. I wanted to be a  writer. I wrote two books that sold a few copies.  I practically begged people to buy my books,because that was expected of me. I cringed out of embarrassment, but sti...

        Today on Chai Pe Bulaiya we have a poet Kuhoo Gupta, who is the author of Zindagi Ke Martbaan se.     Zindagi Ke Martbaan Se is a poetry collection written in conversational language - Hindi mixed with Urdu and English. The poems are inspired by a plethora of topics like love, nostalgia, remembrance, random human emotions, natural beauty and spirituality. It is something everybody will be able to relate to because it is inspired from the ja...

This post has been in the offing for more than a month and got delayed due to travel , health issues and bad internet connectivity. Today's guest is a chocoholic( dark chocolate with Hazel nuts being her favourite indulgence).She's won many writing awards and lives in Glasgow. Want to know more about her? Read on...    
Lets meet author Leela Soma  in Chai Pe Bulaiya today.
    



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