children

New blog post by Michael James Treacy One Day in April Thinking back to 2022… a quartet of grandchildren: Jack (nine years), Jacob (eight years), James (six years) and Sophie (four years) came for a play day. Spring sunshine was on offer, so we spent much of the time outdoors where an...

“Children, only animals live entirely in the Here and Now. Only nature knows neither memory nor history. But man - let me offer you a definition - is the storytelling animal. Wherever he goes he wants to leave behind not a chaotic wake, not an empty space, but the comforting marker-buoys and...

New blog post by Pamela Jo Christmas Eve in the Graveyard Four-year-old Hugh wanted to be a villain. This puzzled my son Jack. If they played Star Wars, it was Luke vs Darth Vader, which made a convenient pairing since neither had to battle against an imaginary adversary. Nevertheless, Jack...

Reading aloud with children is known to be the single most important activity for building the knowledge and skills they will eventually require for learning to read. Marilyn Jager Adams

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think. Margaret Mead

In which a U.S. Newberry author wins for the first time. I´m looking forward to reading this novel. The premise is quite interesting. Guardian children's fiction prize goes to Rebecca Stead