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s VIVI, three years old. "My favourite food is alien food. I like to be loud every day." "Perhaps you think you have a typical, ordinary life. Most of us do. But read even a tenth of the 100 stories that are chattering and rustling away inside here, and you will grasp that there is no such thing." Portrait photographer Jenny Lewis has lived in Hackney for 25 years, and spent the last three photographing locals. JACK, seven years old. "People are always stereotypical to me. Just because I’m a boy they say you can’t like pink, but I love...

Rick Steves, Guidebook author of books by Rick Steves and travel TV host, is America’s most regarded specialist on European travel. In Rick Steves written works, Rick took his first trek to Europe in 1969, visiting piano manufacturing plants with his dad, a piano merchant. As an 18-year-old, in best Rick Steves book series, Rick started going without anyone else, subsidizing his outings by showing piano exercises. In 1976, in Rick Steves books written, he began his business, Rick Steves’ Europe, which has developed from an exclusive task to an organization with a staff of 100 full-time, all around voyaged...

When you are a child there are few things alluring as magic. It is a thing that you cannot see, but you are very confident exists. Because how could so much of what enters your field of view when you are very young function without the help of supernatural forces? When you don’t have the language to describe what happens when your teeth fall out of your mouth there has to be another explanation. Strega Nona, perhaps the most recognizable book in the oeuvre of the recently deceased author-cum-illustrator, Tomie dePaola, explores these early childhood parables of magic and wisdom...

How was your week? We are getting ready for the older children to go back to school on Wednesday. I love that they have a short week on their first week back. While I enjoy the holidays I am looking forward to getting back to a good routine. Here are a few fantastic links that I've been reading this week: This print is gorgeous - I'm looking for one similar!  This is a really good idea!! A Montessori Makeover for the Melissa and Doug See and Spell Word Puzzle at Kindling Kids Montessori.  This playroom is lovely, it's colourful and...