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It doesn't happen every day, that a Tiger comes around to play...
It doesn't happen every day that a Tiger comes around to play...Sometimes it is the longeivity of a memory, months and months on, that points to the success of a childhood experience. As we ambled past...
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My First Ballet: Cinderella
For the second year, the girls and I returned to the Peacock Theatre in London to see the young and talented dancers from the English National Ballet School perform for the tiniest aspiring ballerinas....
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The Essential Mighty Girl's Picture Book Library
Suffragettes, Manchester, 1908 from WikiCommonsYesterday in a local shop Culturebaby (now five) pointed to a greetings card featuring two defiant-looking young women from the early 1920s wearing...
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The Night Pirates
We've recently been invited to review a range of children's performances at one of our local theatres - The Rose in Kingston. It's a lovely child-friendly theatre with a children's area, cafe and...
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Swallows and Amazons Forever
Five years ago I wrote about the experience of taking a baby to the Lake District. We go annually and some years the hills and meres are flooded with glorious light. Some years they are simply flooded....
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Around the World in 80 Days
The girls and I see quite a bit of children's theatre and we enjoy much of it, but it is rarer to encounter a family show quite so excellently devised and executed as The New Vic Theatre’s celebrated...
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Big Music for Little People: A Concert for Every Season
The girls have been lucky to attend some fabulous large-scale concerts over the last year. We love our small and intimate venues with their brilliant children's programming (see here for a selection of...
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BBC Music's Ten Pieces III Announced - and the full set of videos to watch
I've written before about Culturebaby's brilliant experience of the 2016 Ten Pieces II Prom at the Royal Albert Hall: There's nothing quite like seeing your daughter falling in love with music;...
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The Hunting of the Snark
The Rose Theatre has been host to some fabulous children's programming this season. Over half term we were treated to a performance of the scrumptiously quirky Hunting of the Snark, based on Lewis...
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Walking in the Air (for twenty years)... The Snowman at Sadlers Wells
This Christmas for the 20th Year running, and our third, the Birmingham Repertory Theatre's magical production of the Snowman has returned, again triumphant, to London's West End. There is little in...
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Alice in Winterland
On Saturday we returned to our local theatre to see a wintery interpretation of how Lewis Carroll's Alice would deal with falling into a land of winter, ruled by a despotic Red Queen and her deck of...
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Sounds of the Southbank
The Southbank Centre feels rather like a playground for my little ones. We've been to some lovely events that the girls associate with the venue, from family concerts to the superb Imagine Children's...
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The Owl and The Pussycat Went to Sea...
In October, we headed over to the Lilian Baylis Sudio at Sadlers Wells for a perfectly pitched little production of The Owl and the Pussycat. Designed by Let's All Dance, and performed in an intimate...
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You Can Never Run Out Of Love
Already the girls at 4 and 6 are coming home from school with Valentines cards, thankfully addressed to Mummy and Daddy. Their view of the whole event is that it is a day for showing people how much we...
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The Saga of Noggin the Nog
We never cease to be impressed by the quality of children's programming at Kingston's Rose Theatre. Celebrating its 10th Anniversary this year, this fabulous, cosy and high quality theatre has provided...
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The Essential Library for Mighty Girls - The Second Shelf
In February we celebrated 100 years of the first swathes of women gaining their hard won right to vote and last month saw the annual International Women's Day. The times they-are-a-changing, and...
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George's Marvellous Medicine & Chocolate Cake - Scrumptious Easter Theatre...
We are really lucky in South West London to have two theatres that are fantastic for children. The family programming at The Rose in Kingston is of a really high quality, and this Easter we also went...
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Baby at the British Museum
When I began writing this blog, Culturebaby was tiny and I was constantly on the look out for high quality, brilliant books for babies and toddlers to introduce them to art and history. Even 6 years...
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Let's All Dance: The Princess and the Frog
Since discovering Let's All Dance and their engaging, tailored and well pitched ballets for children, we've been to see The Owl and the Pussycat and most recently the Princess and the Frog. Short and...
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What the Ladybird Heard - Live on Stage
When Culturebaby was really young, one of the first pieces of childrens' theatre we went to see was the stage production of What the Ladybird Heard based on the modern classic by Julia Donaldson and...
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Toddler Utopia: Dream Worlds, the Night Garden and Chaucer.
Last year I wrote about the simple and arresting joy of a trip to see In the Night Garden Live in Richmond and as we passed the inflatable snow dome this year (with children finally emerged from the...
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The Everywhere Bear
One of the more adorable shows we've seen this year is the warm-hearted, tear-inducing tale of a class bear, much loved and lost, sought and found. Each of Julia Donaldson's illsutrators bring a...
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A Cat For All Seasons
Today was international cat day, and its been rather a fun exercise to meander through the many shelves to pull out some of our brilliant picture book odes to the feline. Here's a miaow to our...
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Christmas is Open - The Snowman Returns
Culturebaby has just reached seven, seemingly in the blink of an eye, and is keen to write her own reviews . So for the first time here's why she thinks you'll enjoy The Snowman, in her own words..."On...
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Culturebaby Reviews: Aesop's Fables at the Unicorn Theatre
7 year old Culturebaby is now starting to review her own events, and frankly what could be more satisfying than hearing directly from her? "Aesop’s Fables was great, I saw it at the Unicorn Theatre....
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