Esther and William celebrated their second third birthday yesterday.
Though it was their actual third birthday in July, yesterday was the anniversary of their due date.
For some reason I decided that the best thing to buy them would be 68 Thomas books!
We have read so many in the last 48 hours that I have to keep requesting voice breaks!
In this house we love Thomas well, some of us do.
But we all adore books.
We have books in every single room of our house.
Books in the lounge for quiet reading, noisy and activity books in the playroom, mummy and daddy’s books in the office, food related books in the kitchen, books in the bathrooms.
We read anywhere, any table, any chair …
Anywhere.
And we store books anywhere, anywhere we can and we are always running out of book storage space.
Because of all of this I was thrilled to be asked to be a Tidy Books Ambassador and to review a children’s book case that would be ideal for Esther and William’s new bedroom.
And it is perfect in every way.
It fits in with the room beautifully and we are already busy filling it with books.
The tall bookcase from Tidy Books is perfect for preschool aged children. It displays books the way a toddler needs them to be, with the front covers facing out. It means that children can find a story that appeals to them, they can literally judge and choose a book by it’s cover.
Esther and William have always loved looking at books and talking about them.
We have had various boxes and baskets of books over the years since they were born.
We always end up with a carpet of books over the floor as we try to select one story to read.
Now Esther and William can look at books and choose one they know or like the look of without having to empty them all out of the shelves.
The Tidy Books Children’s Bookcase is easy to put together and sturdy once built. It can be attached to the wall or other hard surface such as a cabin bed. The wood finish is lovely and we chose the case with the colourful letters on. The letters are a wonderful learning resource for young children and can be used for fun songs and games. They also look good and add colour to the design. Esther and William really like the letters and love link each one to an engine (Thomas!) Esther spent quite a bit of time when the bookcase first went up trying to get the letters off to play with them but now she understands that on the shelves is where they stay.
The bookcase has four shelves for different sized books. We are filling the shelves with picture books and board books full of favourite stories, songs and rhymes. We have had a lot of fun choosing which books to have upstairs and we have read and reread lots of our old family favourites.
This bookcase makes books accessible for children, even the smallest like mine!
I am going to write a full review of the bookcase in use next week. I want to show you some videos of Esther and William choosing books to put on the shelves and then how they access the books from the case. I also want to show you the bookcase in the context of their finished and furnished room!
In the meantime I would like to offer you the chance to win a Tidy Books Bookcase of your won.
This tall standing book case is a fabulous addition to any room. You can choose your colourway, with or without letters, to suit your children and your room. The bookcase holds around 85 books and makes them easy for children to access and browse. The bookcase is made with wood from sustainable resources and finished with eco-friendly water based lacquer, creating a natural finish that allows the wood grain to be just visible.
It is a stunning treasure trove for any family of book lovers or book lovers to be!
As a Tidy Books Ambassador I am able to offer you a 15% discount on anything that you buy from Tidy Books and I can also offer you a bookcase to win!
If you would like to win one then just fill out the form below.
Good Luck!
I would like the pink baby buddy because it would be very useful in the bathroom.
We have nearly bought one of these so many times and not quite done it because of cost, but they are lovely. We have so many books and never enough places to store them, so it would be perfect 🙂
I’d love the Transportation Wall Decals because I need to do little mans room up and encourage him to sleep in it!
That would be amazing. Pi am short on space & have recently started having a friend as little boy on a weekly basis aswell as spending a lot of time caring for my uncles 3 children. Currently I either have to stand the child on the coffee table( it’s old and wobbly) or moove the sofa. It would be safer, save my back and so much ore convenient to have a book case that is just right for the little people in my house!
We have so many books and no space to store them that is easy for my daughter to get to a bookshelf would be great for us!
I would love to own a family organiser to try and make it less stressful getting out of the house in the mornings!.
Hi not sure what other product I would buy as so much to choose from but with 3 children who all seem to have love of books I would probably have to buy 2 more bookcases! 🙂
LOVE THE BUNK BED SHELVES TOO, MY SON JUST PUTS EVERYTHING IN HIS BED! THINGS ARE ALWAYS FALLING OUT IN THE NIGHT MAKING ME JUMP:-S
I would love the bunk bed shelves , my son recently moved into his own bed (after 5 years of wonderful co-sleeping) and got a super cool (his words) pirate mid-sleeper with a slide and everything . He is really into reading just now (thanks school) and his books are all over his bed at night and falling off causing upset.
I love the bunk bed shelves, perfect for all the little bits and pieces the children take to bed!
Their new bedroom looks amazing! Love the new bookshelf too. I like Tidy Books bunk bed buddy, it’s hard for whoevers on the top bunk to have their stuff nearby without having it in the bed!
Littlebit LOVES books and would adore one of The Tidy Books Children’s Bookcases. A white one would look ace in her room x
I would love to win the tidy books book case to store all my son’s books. If I bought any other product it would be the Tidy Books Family Organiser as I am always trying to multi purpose things to make the most of the space we have.
we’d love a Tidy Bookcase, I have 3 year old twins too and we are quiet literally drowning in books!
We would love the Tidy Books book box for the boy’s bedroom! We would put the bookcase downstairs in new house where we have no storage at all! And his book stocks are gathering momentum! Fingers crossed!
Any sort of storage is always good in our house – there is stuff everywhere! So this would be great for my son’s room!
Oh and the Forget-MeNot organiser is pretty good too – that would be on my wishlist!
I’d really like one of the family organisers. Think it would be so useful, especially as J has started school now, to put his book bag etc.
This looks fantastic. My little boy has so many books and not enough storage! I’d love to own the Forget-MeNot organiser. I am so unorganised it’s ridiculous!
The white bookcase with the letters on would be perfect for Little Owl’s room but so would the monkey wall stickers AND the alphabet in primary colours!
It would have to be the baby buddy storage. As my little ones are getting older we will soon be taking the sides off the cots, which is a fantastic milestone but also gives them full access to the changing table full of lovely lotions and potions to spill and spread all over the carpets and furniture! Unsupervised Messy play at its best haha! 🙂
the natural bookcase with the letters. absolutely gorgeous!
I think this bookcase is brilliant, I’ve been thinking about something like this for a while as my son either covers the floor trying to choose a book, or just chooses the same ones! The write one would go perfectly in his bedroom.
I would love the bunk bed shelves for T&J. Their beds are full of books and toys and need to be organised!
I love the bookcases with the letters. It would look wonderful in our sittingroom. I also love to book boxes,
I would like the alphabet tree stickers to brighten up my daughters room. Poor thing has the never had her room decorated as it is hers/the guest room!
These bookshelves are amazing, we also have books everywhere – in baskets & bags, piles on the floor. We’d love the Tidy Books Box in white because it’s be great to be able to put her favourite books of the moment in there and move them around the house or take to Grandma’s.
the Tidy books box.. my daughter loves clocks
I would like to get the wall stickers decor. It would be lovely to personalize my wee man’s room. I already have book box which I love and due to our massive collection of books the big one will be even better now! I know it’s a great product!
This would be very handy for our family
http://www.tidy-books.co.uk/catalog/product/view/id/31/s/family-organizer/category/7/?colour=White
What a lovely bedroom! I love the around the world bunk bed shelves as my children have bunk beds
bunk bed buddy is shamazing!
I’d love the family organiser
What amazing beds !! Clever Daddy! Would love to win the bookcase -and would also love a Tidy Book box as we just have SO many books!
Wow this looks great! Id love the pink one for my daughters room as she LOVES books! X
These are so much better than the usual bookcases! All their products look great, but for us I think the bunk bed shelves of the family organiser would work best in the boys newly decorated room-mind you I like the book boxes too! x
book case as have lots of books and not enough storage
tall bookcase
these bookcases are great
i would love the tidy books book box to put my foster childrens books in so they could see them and not be in the bookcase where you cant see them
I would love the bookcase…we have soo many books as the children love reading and they are just in piles under the beds
Great. My daughter loves books so it would be great to have somewhere to store them!
We have three boys and hundreds of books. HELP
I do like the idea the bunk bed shelves as my eldest takes her books to bed with her and sometimes found some of her stuff falls on her sister head.
This would be perfect for all the picture books we have!
I love the bookcase in blue with lowercase letters. My little boy is autistic and absolutely loves his books. I have to have them within easy reach otherwise he will not be happy at all. I really like that they make the books easy to reach for children.
bookshelf would be great as my son has books all over his room floor under bed ect this would be perfect
I love the bunk bed buddy, I keep thinking I should get one for my son …. perhaps it should go on the Christmas list!
I love the Pink Tidy Books Childrens Bookcase, it would be perfect in my daughters bedroom!
I love the Tidy book box, my childrem have the cupboard under the stairs (the Harry Potter Cupboard!) and this would fit in beautifully, i could even shut the doors whilst they are in there reading haha!
🙁 its not possible to pick just one product. Our children are massive book fans. We have books everywhere. But the book boxes look fantastic. It would mean when taking books out and about they can be kept in one place 🙂
We’d love the Forgetmenot family organiser! All the Tidy Books stuff is lovely though.
I LOVE the Tidy Books Box in neutral wood because Flynn’s books are in almost every room in the house. At least with a book box he could choose which books he’d like to carry around for the day.
I have 3 children aged 4 and under. The two oldest boys would love a tidy books book case so they can store and display all their books.
I would like the Tidy Books book box. (Try saying that after a few glasses of wine). It would go great in the bedroom.
Would have to be the forget me not family organizer in blue 🙂
the family organiser would be very useful
The book box, would be great to put books in which can’t fit on my sons book shelf
i would love the bunk bed shelves,
bookcase foe me in pink lettering
these look absoulutelf fantastic
the bunk bed shelves are great, i have five grandchildren so space is very rare in their house and this would be great.
The Natural bookcase would trasform my classroom reading corner.
I quite like the family organiser and could probably do with it as I’m notoriously un-organised. It’s definitely on my Christmas list. 😉
I love the bunk bed buddy, especially as, when we move, I plan to get my daughter a cabin bed.
Would also like to say I love your babies beds, where did you get them or were they self build? They are AMAZING!!! x
I would like The Tidy Books Children’s Bookcase – Kids book storage Blue Lowercase. My family ust threw me a book shower for our second baby, and this would be perfect!
The Tidy Books Box as it has a clock and my son loves numbers x
I too love the Bunk bed Buddy , so clever. My twin nephews ( also aged 3 and huge Thomas fans 🙂 ) are book mad and this would be perfect for their ever expanding collection. P.S the bedroom looks amazing.
WOW this would be perfect for my children. I love love love the tall standing bookcase they have so many books this would be exactly what they need…
I love The Tidy Books Childrens Bookcase in Pink it’s so original modern and fun any child would be thrilled to have one in their room
I think the Forget-MeNot organiser would make my mornings abit easier to handle 😀
I love this book case! And also totally envious of Esther and Williams bedroom! We are just about to move house and would love to win a bookcase to keep all our books in good condition!
Forgot today what one I would like to win in all the excitement!! I’d love the tall white bookcase which would match all my sons bedroom furniture!
Forgot today what one I would like to win in all the excitement!! I’d love the tall white bookcase which would match all my sons bedroom furniture! 🙂
I’d love a The Tidy Books Box – I think it would be really handy for storing our library books to keep them separate from all our other books. Plus when we first get books from the library they want them upstairs at bedtime, in the playroom for reading during the day and even in the bathroom for a quick story to act out with the bath toys. This is an easy way to transport them around the house.
Tidy Books book box would be perfect for my son’s bedroom
The other product I would want is the bed shelf for my eldest son to keep his special treasure on, safe and secure away from his baby brother.
I love the bunk bed shelves
What a beautiful way to store and display books, my little one would love this in her room, she is addicted to books!
The tall bookcase would be the perfect size to display her ever growing collection!
I love the ForgetMeNot Family organiser! 🙂
We are in dire need of some toy organizers and bookshelves, so I think the Tidy Books Kids Book Boxes would be perfect to put between my kids beds.
I like the the natural bookcase with the letters
I love the Family Organiser in Natural – http://www.tidy-books.co.uk/family-organizer-64?colour=White
Would love the standing book shelves, would be perfect for my daughters to be able store their books and choose a story each night without knocking all the books out! I also childmind so this would be ideal!
I think the bed bunk shelves are great – I could have done with these when I was a kid!
I would absolutely love a baby buddy – having a tiny changing table with no room on top for anything but a changing mat plus having a small nursery mean storage of wipes etc will be tricky when my baby arrives. All tidy books products are fabulous!
would love one of the bunk bed buddys for my eldest to keep his books safe away from tiny hands!
My little girl would love this on pink if possible and would make a fantastic Christmas present x
I love their book box in natural – I like the little extras such as the clock!
Emma x (@beachpebble)
Great for small bedrooms!
J loves books and reading, this would go fab in his room in white. I also love the Family Organisers. Maybe that could make us more organised?
I love the tidy book box as it’s great to carry up or downstairs and love clock on the end for teaching little ones the time.
Iy would be the bookcase …i read tonnes of books as a child and read several books each night to my 2 year old and she has no bookcase to put her grpwing her collection in and i love the way the books face outwards in these cases as you’ve pointed out young children need to see them this way to know what they are picking xx
lovely prize
I love the bunk bed shelves! They would be great just about anywhere though.
Having three children, I would go for another book case, we have SO many books lol.
I love the twins bedroom, amazing!! 🙂 x
@OoserzoO
A Tidy Books Box – handy for my grandchildren to carry books around with them from the living room to their bedrooms
THE BUNK BED SHELVES 🙂
I’d love the bookcase that you have – it’s super!
I would like the Tidy Books Box-Blue please. These because I zc4have five little brothers and there room has not got much storage. They like to read ‘Harry and his bucket full of dinosaurs’ and nowhere to put them safe. I would just like to help them
The other item I would love is the Forget me not Family Organiser. it is neat and perfect for keeping things in the right place when you need to dash out to school. It would be better than scrabbling around at the last minute to find everything.
Love these bookcases – would be absolutely ideal for the all the books I keep here for my two small grandchildren.
We’d love one of the big children’s bookcases as we never have enough storage for all the lovely books in our house!
the bunk bed tidy
I would love the tall standing bookcase, my sons bookcase is overflowing he could put all his favourites on here make them easier to find 🙂
What an amazing bedroom, I think it’s the best kids room I’ve ever seen. We have books all over too and I can’t bear to part with any reference books especially.
I love Tidy Books, they are a wonderful book shelves and I also like their book boxes with the play clock on the side.
Sam x
I should add that I like the Book Box as it is portable and we could use it for our monthly topic books.
Tidy books book box would be ideal for my youngest.
I love the The Tidy Books Box with the clock on the side – I think this is a great way of helping your child learn how to tell the time as well as read!
love the bunk bed shelves
I like the organisers The Tidy Books ForgetMeNot
The Forget-MeNot organiser would be so time saving as we would be more organised
The bunk bed shelves
Love the Tidy Books Box – like having your own mobile library!
I would love to get the Bunk Bed Buddy, my son leaves his books in his bed and when I check on him at night I have to gather them all together, so it would be ideal for him, by the way I love the room, it looks fab
I love the bookcase and also the pink alphabet sticker tree this would be gorgeous in daughters room x
The blue Tidy Books bunk bed buddy shelves would be perfect for my little boy – we’ve been looking for something similar for ages.
bookcases with the letters
I would love the bunk bed shelves as these would be perfect to help us keep things tidy in my sons room.
my daughter would love the Kids wall Stickers – ABC Tree Pink and it would really help her learn her letters
love the bookcase keep the books tidy
The Baby Buddy in Blue 🙂
a bunk bed buddy so my 9yr old doesnt have to climb out of bed or shout me when he takes his glasses off
I love the The Tidy Books Box, would be ideal for storing books in the lounge without overpowering the room
I love the The Tidy Books Childrens Bookcase in pink – It’s like having their books on display like at the library and it looks great!
I love the tall standing bookcase. Very practical and slimline, ideal for extra storage in the spare bedroom/playroom. I love having books on display with a comfy beanbag next to it.
Love the tall bookcases
I would love to own a family organiser to try and make it less stressful getting out of the house in the mornings!.
Tidy book box!
The bunk bed shelves are a brilliant idea especially if space is limited.
I would like the family organiser so it could be put near the door so I can grab the things we need for the day (if I’m organised enough to get it ready the night before!)
the bunk bed buddy for me my daughter always has so many books on her bed its had to reach them this may encourage her to keep them tidy
Any of them to be honest we have so many books and nowhere to put them
Family organiser so that I can be a bit more organised.
http://www.tidy-books.co.uk/catalog/product/view/id/39/s/children-s-bookcase/category/3/?colour=Pink+Lowercase
I love the Tidy Books Baby Buddy in blue as it would help me tidy away all our baby bath stuff away. At the moment our bathroom shelves are cluttered in baby stuff, so it would be nice to have a devoted space for baby things.x
The Tidy Books Children’s Bookcase – Natural Lowercase
My daughter is starting to learn her alphabet so this would be ideal
I love the “The Tidy Books Box” so that when my grandchildren stay they can bring all their books from their bedroom into the living room. It would certainly make life easier for all of us.
bunk shelves, its a great storage idea x
The family organiser cos it looks very useful! x
The Tidy Book Box, my daughters books never stay confined to her bedroom so it would be a good place to keep her favourites she wants to read around the house
I would like a bunk buddy to go near my eldest’s bed, which is not actually a bunk bed but is a cabin and high-ish, and i think those shelves would be good to keep his more advanced books seperate from the younger ones so they dont get ruined!
LOVEEEEEE esther and williams new bed btw, so nice!!
The Tidy Books ForgetMeNot, I love this product!
family organiser would work well in our house as we are generally rushing around !
The bunk bed shelves would add a lot of storage.
The family organiser – I’m forever trying to improve my organisation
the the bunk bed shelves would be so handy!
the family organiser – perfect for hectic family schedules
The family organiser as i am terrible at being organised 🙂
I would love the family organiser as I so badly need to get more organised 🙂
The Tidy Books ForgetMeNot 🙂 in red as it would be useful for all the family!
Love the Kids Book Boxes – Great storage & easy to carry around from room to room
the forget me not family family organiser would be perfect for our household as were so unorganised!
The bunk bed shelves would be good for keeping all the bits and bobs organised
Kids wall Stickers – Outer Space Wall Decals The boys love the space so it would be nice in their room
The The Tidy Books ForgetMeNot – Family organiser is a lovely idea
familey organiser as we badly need it
I really like the family organiser in white, looks good and very practical! x
The Family Organiser would be great
the family tidy would be really useful
I love the Tidy Books Box because my little girl would be able to carry her favourite books around with her.
Family organiser, Would be really useful 🙂
the family organizer seems to be useful
Transportation Wall Decals
Love the tidy books Bunk bed buddy, my eldest son and eldest daughter both have the top of the bunks and its a pain for them trying to store anything, so this would be lovely! Thanks for a lovely giveaway, books are a massive part of my kiddies lives, they can transport you anywhere in any time, and you never have to be bored if you have a love of books, this bookshelf would abe such a welcome addition to my two daughters’ room! 🙂
I love the Kids Wall Stickers – Monkey Business. They’re so bright and cheery and easy to apply
A Family Organiser would definitely make life easier!
http://www.tidy-books.co.uk/kids-wall-stickers-abc-tree-primary they look so much fun
I think the book boxes look great. My little one loves carrying stuff around with her, so she’d love one of those!
oh the tall white bookcase! perfect for my 3 girls!
The Tidy Books Box as it’s portable and could be easily taken in car etc
The book boxes would be ideal for us! My DD3 loves her books and they’re always out in the living room, so to be able to put them in boxes would probably help her keep them tidy!
Tidy Books Box in Natural
Oops forgot to say why……..because it would be easy to transport little man’s books around