A nature poem for every day of the year.
Category: Reading and writing with children
Each Peach Pear Plum and the comfort of mum-hugs
Book review – The Only Child by Guojing
Gorgeous illustrated, wordless children's book.
'I need another book now,' said my son, 'to read until my throat is OK.'
Moonpoop and friends: lost stories and childhood memories
I grew up with her!
On reading with your own child in school
Reading with your child in school can show you a very different reader.
Planning to read Romany and Raq with my children (wildlife and night walks)
A series of wildlife books (and radio series) written and presented by the Rev. George Bramwell Evens (1884–1943).
Reading with seven-year-olds (turn, turn, turn)
If only.
On short stories in which nothing happens (writing with children)
With short stories, is it OK if nothing happens?
After ten years of volunteering in school
I'd rather yank out my own stitches than miss a chance to read with children, but I also need to belong.
Wild storytelling with Grendalilly and Two Shoes
After days of trekking, paddling and swimming, when it was too dark to read and I was almost too tired to speak, I got the kids to flex their imaginations.