January 30, 2015

A Nice Walk In The Jungle: vindication for every child who has been ignored!

January 30, 2015/ Kim Fulcher

Age guide: 2 to 8 years & grown-up
With the friendliest looking boa constrictor ever greedily gobbling children on a nature walk with their teacher (it’s pink and green instead of the usual yellow and green or brown) – this is a joyful and funny book. It’s especially funny if you could possibly be one of the people the book is inscribed to: ‘all absent-minded parents and enthusiastic teachers’.

Which I imagine covers most adults at one time or another.

This is the story of a school nature walk gone horribly wrong, then most satisfyingly redeemed.

January 29, 2015

The Terrible Wild Grey Hairy Thing: an amusing warning about being too easily alarmed

January 29, 2015/ Kim Fulcher

ages 2 to 8 years
This is a rollicking book—so much fun to read and so much fun to look at. The story is an adapted Danish folktale and the fabulous illustrations reflect that. It’s the story of Goodie, a plump and obviously happy woman, who is making sausages to store up for her family—she makes hundreds of them and has to hang them from every nook and cranny. Inevitably, funny happens!

January 23, 2015

My Wobbly Tooth Must Not Ever NEVER Fall Out : a funny look at change and perspectve

January 23, 2015/ Kim Fulcher

Age guide: 2 to 6
Clearly another Charlie and Lola book! This is one based on text from the TV program - and although purists would draw the line at those books actually written initially by Lauren Child, this is still a fun book - fun to read, fun to look at and laugh about.

Lola decides that loosing a tooth is not so bad if the tooth fairy will bring you cash that you can exchange for a farm animal. It's typical Charlie and Lola faire - cute and charming - a sweet glance into the life of a funny little girl. It's a lovely book for children who are just a little older than Lola to read - if you have already lost your first tooth you can look back on those ever so slightly anxious days and giggle about Lola's reaction - knowing that all will be well.

January 22, 2015

is reading Superman a tool for emotional learning?

January 22, 2015/ Thomas Fulcher

As a father, reader, and English teacher, I take great interest in my children’s reading. I want them to both read and learn from great books not simply as escapism, but also as tools for emotional learning.

January 21, 2015

There's A Sea In My Bedroom: a lovely book full of subtle messages

January 21, 2015/ Kim Fulcher

Like most of Margaret Wild's books, this one is overflowing with subtle messages, in this case about conquering fear and overcoming inbuilt prejudice, told in a gentle, peaceful, homey sort of way.

ages baby to 8 years

January 19, 2015

John Paul Lederach on stories and moral imagination

January 19, 2015/ Kim Fulcher

John Paul Lederach is a practitioner and educator for peace. His book The Moral Imagination: The Art and Soul of Building Peace positively glitters.

January 16, 2015

Patrick Bahls on math, poetry and metaphor

January 16, 2015/ Kim Fulcher

While math is ultimately grounded in number, modern mathematics is such a complicated creature that understanding its organic workings requires much more than the ability to count . . .

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