Ella Beech, the artist who has just completed a beautiful new edition of The Night Before Christmas for the Folio Society, talks us through some of her favourites. Beautiful Science Books for 4-8 Year Olds, recommended by Our Children's Editor Read 1 A Seed Is Sleepy by Dianna Aston & ...
Alex, a UK-based history fan who previously chose books for us age 10, returns to Five Books to recommend his selection of the best history books for teenagers. The Best Philosophy Books for 8-13 Year Olds, recommended by Zara Read 1 Philosophy: A Visual Encyclopedia Read 2 Children's ...
114), who was teaching Mandarin in a UK school as well as teaching her young daughter at home. We wondered how things have developed over the past two to three years. Thank you, Kate, for this second interview! Hi Kate, it’s a while since our last interview. How has your teaching ...
led them through it, and got them to do some writing. These wonderful fourteen-year-olds did everything I asked and engaged beautifully, and when I thanked them for their attention at the endthey clapped. Truly, the proudest moment of any interview...
I can well-imagine four-year-olds being puzzled by why a Halloween costume is an issue. The Dress-Up Centre at my sons’ preschool was not particularly focused on gender stereotypes and Halloween costumes for four-year-olds are pretty much “anything goes.” My Princess Boy website My ...
‘I just feel like Rhode Island has failed’: The family of a 12-year-old girl with autism is among those in limbo because of the lack of services for those in crisis. Dividing Up the Autism Spectrum Will Not End the Way You Think. The Real Reason America Doesn’t Have Enough Truck...
The target group for the study of this two-year intervention was 82 Flemish couples with young babies, with a special emphasis on hard-to-reach families. The project 8 Child Development Research was based at local libraries, which also served as the hub for workshops and informational sessions...
It is inspired by my own transition from Taiwan back to Singapore, and is aimed at two to six year olds. The second is a bilingual Chinese-English picture book which uses the mechanics of the book itself to tell the story, aimed at six months to two year olds. And, I’m in the ...
Robyn Dalby-Stockwell is a teacher, writer and reading consultant. Born in Australia, educated in New Zealand and living in the UK she has had forty years’ experience of teaching reading across the age spectrum, from three year olds to adults, using Synthetic Phonics. During that time she ...
Kevin Alamsyah, an 11-year-old reader, searches for waste lying in the village. “When there is too much trash, our environment will become dirty and it’s not healthy. That’s why I look for trash to borrow a book,” he says.The literacy rate for above 15-year-olds in Indonesia ...