Category: School & Library Visits
World Book Day Costumes
Is World Book Day is out of control? I know some schools think so and are not going along with it anymore. Certainly parents are driven to distraction by it. The getting of costumes is now a regular joke in TV sitcoms. My attention was drawn to a post on the Birmingham Mail website about…
Learn to draw Cat and Dog – Big Cat Series
I am so thrilled to finally have copies of How to Draw Cat and Dog. I’ve been using the Cat and Dog books in reception and nurseries for some time and I’m always amazed – sometimes almost moved to tears – by the quality of the drawing the very young children draw along with me.…
Hooray for the Summer Reading Challenge!
I gather this year has been a good one for the Summer Reading Challenge, a scheme to keep children’s reading habits going over the long summer holiday. I don’t think that was ever a problem for me as a child – always happy to go to the library for another Enid Blyton – but I…