Raiders Of The Lost Car Park

Raiders Of The Lost Car Park is the latest book I have finished reading and is by Robert Rankin. It is a fun follow up to The Book Of Ultimate Truth.

It centres around two 18 year-olds who are trying to save the world from discovering that us humans are actually being manipulated by fairies, goblins and such like. It features such celebrities as Prince Charles, The Queen and Santa Claus. The tale is highly amusing and fast paced. As with most, if not all, Rankin's books it's set in the London Borough of Brentford.

Although I read The Book Of Ulitmate Truths while at Uni I found this booked still worked well after all these years as a stand alone. You do not need to have read The Book Of Ultimate Truth to enjoy Raiders.

This right up the street of anyone who loves Terry Pratchett or P G Wodehouse.

Our Daughter Loves....

Our daughter loves the That's Not My... range of books by Usbourne. These books are great as they are interactive. Each page has a different surface or material for your children to feel and our daughter loves touching those spots.

Some of the surfaces are soft, some are scratchy, some are shiny and some are smooth. There are a number of different types of surface in the books and no book has all the different types in.

Another favourite book our daughter has is Five Noisy Ducks. This has a small round push button in the top corner which when pressed makes quacking sounds. She is not interested in the story too much, she just loves pushinng the button and hearing it quack.

Toddler Taming

We have been reading a fantastic book called Toddler Taming by Dr Christopher Green. It is a guide to the first four years of being a parent.

It details all the stages of development your child goes through and how to combat those nasties that we all dread.

It is all done in an entertaining and easy reading style.

It was recommended to us by a doctor who said, and I quote "if you only buy one book on parenting then by this one".

We couldn't agree more.