Tag: Empathy
Sketching in the Queen’s Back Yard
I spent a couple of days in Windsor, this week, telling stories at Cumberland Lodge, which is in the Great Park, which is basically the Queen’s back yard. Harry and Meghan drove their carriage through the park after the recent royal wedding. Cumberland Lodge is also the fictitious home of Roald Dahl’s BFG – Big…
An amazing Book for Empathy Day – 12th June
FROM THE DEEP OF THE SEA.: BEING THE DIARY OF THE LATE CHARLES EDWARD SMITH M.R.C.S., Surgeon of the Whale-ship Diana, of Hull. It was Empathy Day on Tuesday, 12th June. Empathy Day promotes the idea that reading – and reading whole books in particular – builds empathy in the reader. Empathy day is the…
Empathy Day 12th June
I’m going to be inThe New Forest on Empathy Day, this 12th of June. So will Sue Hendra, author of the wonderful Supertato, that I have enjoyed reading with children before. We will be at Netley Marsh CE Infant School, talking about and encouraging the skill of empathy with the children there, using ur books, stories…