Magnolia Square Ivanhoe – A Hit of Colour

We are thrilled to be ‘popping up’ with Magnolia Square in a new location – The Centre in Ivanhoe, which looks amazing.

The theme of the event is COLOUR and so we have chosen lots of beautiful, colourful books to take along.

All our favourite people will be attending, we have been saving up for weeks so we can splurge! Pop over to the Magnolia Square website for a full list of all the gorgeous retailers.

You can also join Magnolia Square on Facebook for all the latest.

We hope to see lots of you there, for what promises to be a spectacular shopping experience.

Dallas Clayton is Awesome

True inspiration…

We are so glad that you have found these opportunities Dallas because we have seen your incredible books bring so much joy to children and adults alike!

Dallas has created the Awesome World Foundation to promote children’s literacy across the USA and the world. For every copy of his books sold the foundation donates a copy to a child in need.

You can read all about Clayton and his books and foundation on his website – Very Awesome World

We books is proud to stock The Awesome Book and The Awesome Book of Thanks

Happy Easter

Copyright 1990 by Tomie dePaola. From the book My First Easter

Katie and I would like to wish you all a very happy and safe Easter and ANZAC day.

We apologise for that our blog posts have been a little quiet over the last couple of weeks but we promise we will be back bigger than ever after the Easter break. There are exciting things going on in We Heart Books land, including some new projects and for me a new addition to the family – little Tess pictured here with her, very excited, big brother Ned….

Our boutique little book store is still going strong and you can have a look at the gorgeous stock here or why not follow us on Facebook, where we share some cool links to other blogs and also have some special offers for the We Heart Books store.

We ♥ Checks and Spots

Today we were mentioned on the lovely design blog Checks and Spots.

Clare who writes this gorgeous blog ordered the Charley Harper Memory Game from our store last week, click over to Checks and Spots see what she says about our little store.

Thank you Clare xxx

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Did you know we are on Facebook? If you like the posts on our blog then join our page on Facebook too.  On Facebook we regularly post about  new arrivals to our store and also include lots more links to all that booky cool stuff that we love and we know you do too.

Leave us comments and questions…let us know what your little ones (and big ones) are reading. And stay tuned for give away details and special offers from the we heart books store.

It’s a lot of fun. Click here or on our little book below to be taken to our Facebook page…

In print!

Here we are in our local glossy! Lou and I were interviewed for this week’s Melbourne Weekly about We Heart Books, how we started and some of what’s next… Can’t argue with being called ‘young at heart’! You can read the whole article here.

Caldecott winner

It was so exciting to hear today that our absolute favourite book of 2010 is the recipient of the 2011 Caledecott Medal for the most distinguished American picture book for children! A Sick Day for Amos McGee is a first book by a young husband and wife team, Philip Stead and Erin Stead, and gee we can’t wait to see what else they come up with! Philip’s gentle words are exquisitely paced and partner perfectly with Erin’s stunning pencil and woodcut artwork in sepia tones and splashes of soft colour.

This is a book we have recommended over and over to our friends at our markets, and it’s always an absolute joy when a book like that receives the highest level of recognition.

Here are some more beautiful images from this treasure of a book. There are a few copies currently available in our store.

A complete list of the American Library Association Youth Media awards with some interviews with the authors is available here.

||A Sick Day for Amos McGee is available from the We Heart Books store||