Book Review: The Dark by Lemony Snicket and Jon Klassen
Synopsis: Lazlo is afraid of the dark. It hides in the closet and behind the shower curtains and festers menacingly in the basement. “I want to show you something,” whispers
11/09/2018
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Book Review: After The Fall by Dan Santat
Synopsis: What happens to Humpty Dumpty after ‘The Great Fall’? This beautiful book explores the aftermath of Humpty Dumpty’s famous tumble, his subsequent fear of heights and the terrible impact on
11/09/2018
Writing Workshop Feedback: Trinity Road Primary School
“Ian worked with a group of children who were finding writing really difficult. He was hugely inspiring to them and used creative ways to support them and produce some excellent
11/09/2018
Articles
How Drama Helps Primary Children Understand Books and Stories
Drama is far more than just hot-seating. With the right activities, we can help children understand texts in more detail than ever before… Read the full article here!
09/09/2018
Articles
Grandad’s Island: Exploring new worlds and mobilising memory
“To read the artist’s picture is to mobilise our memories and our experience of the visible world and to test his image through tentative projections…It is not the ‘innocent eye’,
16/05/2018
An interview with Simon James Green, author of ‘Noah Can’t Even’ and ‘Noah Could Never’
Simon James Green is the author of ‘Noah Can’t Even’(Scholastic Fiction) and the upcoming ‘Noah Could Never’. Here he talks about what’s in store for Noah and his boyfriend Harry,
17/04/2018
I Am What I Am: My Reading Journey
Jon Biddle’s work on ‘Reading Rivers’ on the Research Rich Pedagogies website run by @OpenUni_RfP and AF Harrold’s moving look back at the books which have shaped his life, inspired
03/03/2018
Articles
Rainbow Hues
Rainbow Hues By Ian Eagleton First of all, let me say, I am not professing to be a writer or poet at all! However, I took some time off over
06/01/2018
The Tale of Bubbles the Missing Hamster: a celebration of diary writing
Dear Diary…. A few days before our wedding in August, I stumbled across my old diaries whilst desperately (and rather frantically) searching for my Granddad’s cuff links. In a
29/10/2017
