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Review: LeapFrog LeapTV

December 16 2014 By melbournemamma 3 Comments

Have you seen or heard about LeapTV – a new educational, active video gaming system from LeapFrog, built just for kids aged 3-8 years?

 

My kids have seen it advertised on TV and were putting it on the Christmas list, but luckily for them (& Santa), it arrived a little early.

 

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Review: Mini Beanz Comic Landing Pad

December 11 2014 By melbournemamma 34 Comments

What is it about boys (little & big) that makes them so obsessed with superheros?

 

My 4 yr old has been obsessed with Superman for the past two years and by obsessed I mean, he even had us calling him Clark (as in Kent) when he was dressed in his “people clothes” and not his Superman costume LOL.

 

Apparently he is going to BE Superman when he grows, so he can save people and fly around the world.

 

You can imagine his excitement (high pitched squealing excitement in fact) when a Mini Beanz Comic Landing Pad arrived at our door to review.  …

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Funtastic Christmas Toy Giveaway

November 29 2014 By melbournemamma 84 Comments

Thanks to the fabulous folks at Funtastic Toys, I have 5 awesome toys to giveaway – just in time for Christmas!

 

Up for grabs is:

 

1 x Leap Frog LeapBand, RRP $59.99ea

Discover the only activity tracker just for kids that encourages active play and healthy habits with a customizable pet pal. …

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Review: Mocka Box Cart

October 14 2014 By melbournemamma Leave a Comment

The lovely folks at Mocka Australia recently sent me a Box Cart for the kids (and their daddy) to play with.

 

I remember my brother had a billy cart when we were kids and we loved it. (Hopefully my kids will not be reading this) I can remember us flying down the bridge at the end of our street at a million miles an hour with NO helmets!!! We had so much fun, so I was hoping my kids would love their new box cart too – wearing their helmets, of course!  …

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Getting to know Helle from Lucas Loves Cars

September 30 2014 By melbournemamma Leave a Comment

Today we’re getting to know Helle from Lucas Love Cars.

 

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1. Tell us a little about yourself?

I think I am a pretty typical Mum. Our family is loud sometimes and probably on technology too much. Before I started Lucas loves cars I worked for a great company, behind a computer all day. I love to be a bit creative when I have time, knitting, baking or occasionally quilting.

 

2. Describe Lucas Loves Cars in one sentence?

We are an online store for Mums who love quality and have kids obsessed by cars, trucks, trains and all things that move. …

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This beautifully written and poignant novel weaves This beautifully written and poignant novel weaves together the stories of a Cypriot family across generations. 

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“Two teenagers, a Greek Cypriot and a Turkish Cypriot, meet at a taverna on the island they both call home. The taverna It is 1974 on the island of Cyprus. Two teenagers, from opposite sides of a divided land, meet at a tavern in the city they both call home. The tavern is the only place that Kostas, who is Greek and Christian, and Defne, who is Turkish and Muslim, can meet, in secret, hidden beneath the blackened beams from which hang garlands of garlic, chilli peppers and wild herbs. This is where one can find the best food in town, the best music, the best wine. But there is something else to the place: it makes one forget, even if for just a few hours, the world outside and its immoderate sorrows.

In the centre of the tavern, growing through a cavity in the roof, is a fig tree. This tree will witness their hushed, happy meetings, their silent, surreptitious departures; and the tree will be there when the war breaks out, when the capital is reduced to rubble, when the teenagers vanish and break apart.

Decades later in north London, sixteen-year-old Ada Kazantzakis has never visited the island where her parents were born. Desperate for answers, she seeks to untangle years of secrets, separation and silence. The only connection she has to the land of her ancestors is a Ficus Carica growing in the back garden of their home.”
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“In 1901, the word ‘Bondmaid’ was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the story of the girl who stole it. 

Esme is born into a world of words. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, she spends her childhood in the ‘Scriptorium’, a garden shed in Oxford where her father and a team of dedicated lexicographers are collecting words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary. Esme’s place is beneath the sorting table, unseen and unheard. One day a slip of paper containing the word ‘bondmaid’ flutters to the floor. Esme rescues the slip and stashes it in an old wooden case that belongs to her friend, Lizzie, a young servant in the big house. Esme begins to collect other words from the Scriptorium that are misplaced, discarded or have been neglected by the dictionary men. They help her make sense of the world. 

Over time, Esme realises that some words are considered more important than others, and that words and meanings relating to women’s experiences often go unrecorded. While she dedicates her life to the Oxford English Dictionary, secretly, she begins to collect words for another dictionary: The Dictionary of Lost Words.”
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