The BBC has this great Octonauts game for kids.

Oh, and here is a pretty awesome cake my wife made of Captain Barnacles…

I didn’t own a bookshelf before I had kids.  Now I own 6 of them brimming with kids books.  Kids books line the walls and carpet the floors.  I go to book fairs with a suitcase-on-wheels.

A good kids book is one that the kids choose.   Here is a list of books that my kids keep coming back to.

Baby books

(ok, so the kids may not have asked for these, but they giggled as I read them)

Bedtime Peekaboo

Bath time Peekaboo

Popup Peekaboo Farm

That’s Not My… (series)

1-2 years

Dr Seuss Flip the Flap Collection

The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Pop Up)

The Tiger Who Came To Tea (popup)

Good Night Gorilla

Good Night Moon

Not a box

Thank You Bear

Where is the Green Sheep?

Dear Zoo

Noisy farm

Spot (flip the flap versions)

Meg, Mog and Owl

Twit Two (Maddy McClellan)

2-3 years

Harry the Dirty Dog

Mammoth in My Fridge

Chief Rhino to the Rescue

Mr Pusskins: A Love Story

Mr Pusskins and Little Whiskers

Click Clack Moo:  Cows the Type

Vote for Duck

This is not my hat

Owl Babies

Thomas The Tank Engine Word Book

Bark George

Brown Bear Brown Bear What Do You See?

Kipper

Who Sank The Boat?

Bark George

The Story of Peppa Pig

The Pout Pout Fish

Shhh! Little Mouse

Who’s in the bathroom

Animalia by Graeme Base

Rumble in the jungle

Rocko and Spanky Have Company

The Cow That Laid an Egg

3-5 years

Millions of Cats

Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus

No David

Skippyjon Jones

Oh No George

The Duckling Gets a Cookie

Guess How Much I Love You

If you Give a Mouse a Cookie

This Moose Belongs To Me

Harold and the purple Crayon

Fix It Duck

Duck in the Truck

Mr McGee and the Perfect Nest

Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons

Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes

Dr Meow’s Big Emergency

The Cat in the Hat

Green Eggs and Ham

Comic Books – DC Super Pets

Comic – Spongebob comics (United Planton)

Comic – Mr Toast

Captain Underpants (full colour version)

Sam the firefly

Dr Dog (and its sequel)

Hot Wheels ‘I Can Read’ series

Doc McStuffins ‘I Can Read’ series

The snail and the whale

Detective Peabody: Up In The Air

Angel pavement

Dinosaurs Galore

Octonauts (various)

Don’t Let the Pigeon Stay Up Late

The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog

The Incredible Book Eating Boy

This Is My Book

Reggie Queen of the Street

Harry and his bucket full of dinosaurs

Where’s Wally

Olivia

On a tall tall cliff by Andrew Murray

Dandylion by Lizzzie Finlay

Hot Wheels scholastic readers

Dinosaur Train readers

Lego scholastic readers

Clancy the Courageous Cow

Grill Pan Eddy

Roald Dahl (Enormous Crocodile, The Giraffe, The Pelly and Me, The Twits and many many more)

Knuffle Bunny (series)

Tom and the Dinosaur Egg

The Runaway Train

5-7 years

Flotsam

Iggy Peck: Architect

The Magic Tree House #1 – Dinosaurs before dark

Megasaurus mash-up

Stories for five year olds by Dubosarsky and others

I may have forgot one or two, and there are some notable absences because this list only includes stories my kids really liked.

My 5yo loves playing this game from Galt with me. Roll the dice and perform the funny actions on the cards you pick up (with harder options for the bigger kids and adults joining in).

Family fun with Dad and the kids dancing to this in the afternoon.

Had a great time today with the kids playing with these…

(Image courtesy Amazon.com)

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