Paul & Paula shares their favourite books for kids. We cover books for all ages – from baby till teenager!
We love books and enjoy sharing what we read at home. With so many languages around us our personal library is big. The kids love to read and we all love to spend time in book stores. Enjoy our selection and have a look at our book store.
Me & Buddy is a brand new children’s lifestyle online store. An exciting range of contemporary design-led gifts and must-haves for babies and toddlers aged 0-3.
The shop gathered a very good range of trendy yet very useful things you really need when a little person entered your life!
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‘Built on the principle that baby and toddler products can fit into your lifestyle and your home’s modern aesthetic, Me & Buddy houses a hand-picked collection of over 50 brands featuring beautiful and clever baby and toddler products both established and emerging. Many are award-winning designs cherished by parents.’
Me & Buddy is a primary source for products that are either unquestionably useful or exceptionally beautiful, or both! The range includes Ferm Living, Aden and Anais’ beautiful muslin swaddles, the new Storksak Travel range, KAOS changing bags as well as graphic design-led kids apparel from Nor-Folk, Bloom and Blossom pregnancy and baby pampering products and many more…
Founder Madeline, mum of Darcy and Cillian, created Me & Buddy on the principle that baby and toddler products can fit into your lifestyle and your home’s modern aesthetic.
Every section you check – it is always packed with beautiful things we really want in our house. The whole shop is a great portal to show parents that having kids does not mean your home will lose its style – in the contrary.
PS: Subscribe to their newsletter for 10% off your order!
From designing a menu for a café to decorating a dream ice cream sundae to filling in a bento box, this interactive book invites your kids to think about how food is grown, prepared, cooked and presented.
Delightful illustrations by Louise Lockhart, who created treats for everyone from fussy eaters to budding chefs.
Playing with food!
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My kids loved to go through the book and play with these every day items. And as they are usually not allowed to play with their food, this time they could do what they wanted…
I came across these illustrations just recently and really enjoyed them. A lovely very natural and honest as well as sweet approach to one of the most amazing experiences in a woman’s life – expecting a child.
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Mie Frey Damgaard, based in Copenhagen is a designer, illustrator and visual storyteller. In 2010 she graduated from the Master Program at the Design Academy Eindhoven and also holds a BA from Kolding School of Design, 2006.
“Sometimes waiting is good, sometimes bad. When you are pregnant, waiting gets a completely new meaning. It is the most amazing time and the next moment it’s the hardest time. One moment you feel beautiful and elegant as ever before and the next moment you can sleep for a million years and you don’t even understand the meaning of elegance anymore.”
During Mie Frey’s own waiting she captured the beauty, elegance and exhaustion in her series – “Waiting”.
The print includes 15 moments pregnant women will experience. Each “moment” can also be purchased as a single print. And isn’t this a perfect baby shower gift?
“No more waiting” is the next chapter. The baby is born. You get to know each other, you feel vulnerable and your life and yourself are changing…
A beautiful gift idea when you go and visit the new baby and mum.
Mie combined the Waiting illustrations and the result is this pregnancy journal. To help you to keep the memory of your wonderful experience of being pregnant and becoming a new mom. The journal contains 68 pages with illustrations and pages for notes.
Olivia is getting into the Christmas spirit. There are presents to wrap, ornaments to hang on the tree, snowpigs to build…But what mischief and mayhem will she get up to this time? This delightfully told and beautifully illustrated festive Olivia story belongs under everyone’s Christmas tree!
Jonathan Toomey is the best woodcarver in the valley, but he is always alone and never smiles. No one knows about the mementos of his lost wife and child that he keeps in an unopened drawer. But one early winter’s day, a widow and her young son approach him with a gentle request that leads to a joyful miracle. The moving, lyrical tale, gloriously illustrated by P.J. Lynch, has been widely hailed as a true Christmas classic.
It’s almost Christmas Day. Time to decorate the tree, hang up stockings and bake delicious treats. Boo thinks the best thing about Christmas is the presents waiting for him under the tree. But, with a little help from his friend Belle, Boo learns that kindness and sharing will make for the merriest Christmas of all.
4. Twelve days of Christmas
This visual feast from acclaimed illustrator Alison Jay is the perfect festive gift. On Christmas Eve, a man buys presents for the woman he loves, beginning with a partridge in a pear tree. The couple travel through town and the gifts pile up, until they get to a Christmas party so magnificent it is a little overwhelming… leading them to slip back to the quiet of home, where their partridge is waiting.
5. Illustrated stories from Dickens
Five classics from Charles Dickens including classics such as Oliver Twist, Great Expectations and David Copperfield. Beautifully illustrated for a fun and engaging read, these stories are perfect for bedtime reading and rainy days.
6. Children of the Northlights
From the beloved authors of D’Aulaires’ Book of Norse Myths and other classics comes a new edition of one of Ingri and Edgar Parin d’Aulaires’s most beguiling children’s books. Long out of print, Children of the Northlights introduces readers young and old to siblings Lise and Lasse and to the captivating Sami people and culture of northern Scandinavia. At times mischievous and at others quite courageous, Lisa and Lasse, and their Sami culture, are brought brilliantly to life in the d’Aulaires’ illustrations.
When the ugly little fir tree is taken to the city, no one wants to buy him; they prefer the big tall trees. But a homeless boy asks the shopkeeper if he can take the tree, and down by the river in a cardboard box, decorated with a few candles, the tree finds itself at the centre of a magical Christmas Eve it will never forget. A Christmas tale with a classic feel but a modern theme at its heart.
The Ganesha’s Sweet Tooth by Sanjay Patel & Emily Haynes tells the story of Ganesha. He is just like any other child except that he has the head of an elephant and rides around on a magical mouse. The enchanting tale will charm parents and children alike.
Just when little Joséphine was born we received this great activity book called The New Baby – perfect entertainment for the new big sister {who is 3 years old}.
The book shows how the baby grows in mummy’s belly and what will happen once it is out…
The illustrations are really fun and together with Leonor we had a look together and she was just chatting away and pointing things out. Having fun with the faces, giving names and finding things she knows and so on…
There are lots of activities as well like filling in a family tree, designing a babysuit or to practice how to hold a baby!
We really enjoyed this and my little one loved to see many things she knows and it was great to just sit with her and going through it together…
There is also a video where you can see the whole book, page by page if you like – check here.
