Blog - Archive for 2015

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21Dec'15

Herok’s top six favourite wooden toys

As furniture manufacturers, Herok have a fascination for all things traditionally made, so appropriately for the time of year we thought we would share with you some of our favourite wooden toys.

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09Dec'15

The Importance of reading

Research shows that reading with your child is the single most important thing you can do to help your child’s education.

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23Nov'15

Herok launch our responsive website

We want our customers to enjoy using the Herok website wherever they are, so we’ve now re-developed the Herok website to feature a “responsive design” to help you view our products more easily on any device.

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10Nov'15

Herok’s top 5 pop-up books for children

Here are Herok’s top five favourite pop-up books for children that you can find in bookshops, libraries and online today.

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20Oct'15

Shared reading groups improve wellbeing for young and old

Herok have been finding out about ‘The Reader Organisation’ and how they are pioneering the idea of shared reading as a practical way of improving wellbeing.

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05Oct'15

Blue Peter Book Awards

The enormously popular and influential Blue Peter Book Awards have been recognising and celebrating the best authors, the most creative illustrators and the greatest reads for children since 2000.

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22Sep'15

Todays featured book: Electronics for dogs

It has come to my attention that amongst the Herok crew and friends of Herok, we have a large number of animal lovers, especially dog lovers. So today we have a feature on cutting-edge ‘electronics for dogs’ …is that what Grommit was reading about?

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03Sep'15

Herok focus on Picture Book Illustrators

What would a picture book be without the wonderful illustrations which bring them alive? Today we focus on some of the unsung heroes who do just that.

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20Aug'15

Herok’s Top Five DIY Book Shelf Ideas

Following the success of our article entitled ‘Herok’s Top 10 Creative Book shelf Designs’, we have selected our top five book shelf ideas that you could make yourself on a shoe string budget… Do it your shelf you might say!

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04Aug'15

Storyline Online – Have a book read for you

Nothing gives a more cosy warm feeling than having a book read to you at bedtime…
especially if the person reading it happens to be Kevin Costner! Let us tell you more about Storyline Online.

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23Jul'15

Little Free Libraries – UPDATE

In April 2014 we found out all about ‘Little Free Libraries’ – an idea from America, gaining popularity here in the UK. At the time there were just 5 of them in the UK. Herok finds out how the idea is growing one year on…

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08Jul'15

World Book Day 2016

World Book Day will be on 3rd March in 2016. Children of all ages will come together to appreciate reading, dressed as favourite authors or book characters.