Read an extract from Jane Evans’ new children’s book Cyril Squirrel Finds Out About Love
Cyril Squirrel asks lots of questions, but there’s one thing that really puzzles Cyril… “What is love? Can I find it? Keep it? Do I…
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New toys and expensive parties aren’t the best way to show a child love – Jane Evans
In this article, Jane Evans reflects upon her new book Cyril Squirrel Finds Out About Love to discuss how we can help children aged 2-6 learn about the…
Creative, Successful, Dyslexic book launch
The launch of Margaret Rooke’s Creative, Successful, Dyslexic in paperback at Newham bookshop last Thursday was a celebration of the determination, creativity and outlook that…
Read Brian Conley’s story from Creative, Successful, Dyslexic – out now in paperback
Entertainer, actor and singer Brian Conley reveals the difficulties that dyslexia presented him with at school growing up, and how he channelled his dyslexia to work…
An interview with Lisa Carne about home education and her new book ‘Natural Curiosity’
We spoke to Lisa Carne about her experience of moving her two children from mainstream schooling to home education, and learning through the lens of nature…
Pooky Knightsmith: Three good reasons to write bad poetry
You don’t need to be a poet to write poetry, and you don’t need to write ‘good’ poetry to get a lot out of it. …
Read an extract from Lisa Carne’s “Natural Curiosity: Educating and Nurturing Our Children at Home”
Natural Curiosity is a warm and contemplative insight into one family’s experience of moving from mainstream schooling to home education, and learning through the lens of…
Read an extract from Shelly Newstead’s ‘The Busker’s Guide to Risk, Second Edition’
Welcome to the second edition of The Busker’s Guide to Risk – and for those of you who are used to these little books by now, I’m…
Download a therapeutic resource from Pooky Knightsmith’s new book ‘Using Poetry to Promote Talking and Healing’
There are five poems in this extract from Pooky Knightsmith’s new book Using Poetry to Promote Talking and Healing. Each poem, written by Pooky, is…
Read an exclusive extract from Alison Thompson’s ‘The Boy from Hell’
For Alison, life with her son Daniel sometimes seemed like an endless torrent of disobedience, backchat, rudeness, name-calling and aggression. Upon starting school, where his…