Introducing the clever book storage solution for children: Tidy Books Box

In collaboration with Tidy Books

Last year I came across a new children's design company called Tidy Books and instantly fell in love with their range. I've had experience of two of their products now - the Tidy Books Box and the Tidy Books Bookcase. I have previously written about the Tidy Books Bookcase and how to encourage kids to read, so here I will be mainly concentrating on reviewing the Tidy Books Box. There is also a giveaway at the end of this review - win your own Tidy Books Box!

The biggest reason why I like the Tidy Books range  is that it encourages independent reading. Books are placed with the cover facing out, rather than the spines. This makes it easier for kids to identify the books they like, flip through them and grab to books with their clumsy little hands.  And this is evident in the way my daughter uses both her book box and her bookcase - she loves picking her own books out of them and finds them very easy to use.

Our Tidy Books Box is set up in the living room downstairs, and the Tidy Books Bookcase is in my daughter's room upstairs. As we often read the bedtime story downstairs on the living room sofa, over time we started to get lots of book clutter. Now we use the box storage downstairs, and one side is for children's books, and on the other side we keep magazines and other adult books we are reading ourselves at that moment.

While the design of the Tidy Books Box is quite child-friendly, I think it looks lovely in adult spaces, like the living room. It is not overly childlike, and you can make it even less so, if you don't install the clock on the side or turn the clock away from view (it is on one side only) when needed. We haven't yet started to use the play clock to learn to tell the time, but it will be perfect for that in a year or so.

The build quality and the wood used in the box is very sturdy, so I have been happy to let my child play with it and use it by herself, even if I know toddlers can be quite rough sometimes. No damage done yet! You can move the box around using the clever handle, but to be honest, when the box is packed with books I prefer to leave it in one place as it gets very heavy.

Overall I have been really happy with my Tidy Books Box, and also with the Tidy Books Bookcase I have reviewed earlier. They look great, and function perfectly, and most importantly, my daughter loves them and finds them a joy to use. She has always been very interested in books, and she loves to go grab a book all by herself and brings it to us to read. 

Now Tidy Books are crowdfunding for new ventures and it will be exciting to see their journey into new avenues and markets in the future. I'm pretty keen to hear what other products Tidy Books have in store - apparently there is a brand new storage solution coming soon and I can't wait to see what that is all about!

You can win your own Tidy Books Box in your chosen colour below. You can enter daily with a free daily entry, and two daily tweets if you are keen :) UK entries only! 

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