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 Must haves for your family and school library. 'We Are All Born Free' has been around for a long time now but now this beautiful Amnesty book 'Dreams of Freedom' is coming out in March with many well known illustrators contributing including the lovely Oliver Jeffers. Children MUST HAVE FREEDOM TO BE A CHILD....enough said.
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  Perhaps we need to simplify developing a love of reading and think about how we respond to books in an instant first before over complicating the matter. Perhaps we wouldn't necessarily choose to answer a lot of questions first off. Perhaps we might just say... I loved/hated that bit when:
Charlie takes the wrapper off the chocolate bar so carefully (so that it's etched on my brain when opening bars of chocolate-just in case....) Plop discovers fireworks for the first time-'Dark is exciting'. You read 'The Dragonfly Pool' and find out what an Axolotl is in Pet's corner. The Dad in 'Framed' heats up the sea for his son, wading in to the water with a kettle heated from the caravan. You can do that in passing-you know if someone has engaged with a book not just by their language but through body language, by their facial expressions.In fact there's nothing better than watching expressions when you read 'that bit'. Surely that's what it's ALL ABOUT? Just witnessed it myself when we were reading that bit when: James finds himself in a tunnel which smells beautiful and realises he is inside the peach so he takes a bite out of it. Books are the places for awe and wonder first and foremost. We need to get MORE TALK about them, more debate, more 'that bit when ....' AND....read ourselves so we can join in because that's what makes it special, that shared experience which leads to very different responses. PS just looking at a picture of an axolotl gave us lots of story ideas;a spin off from 'The Dragonfly pool' perhaps, it made us smile when we looked this particular character up on Monday.   I'm looking forward to reading my copy of "I am Henry Finch". It's a very delightful book by all accounts but even more exciting is looking at the link above where the lovely illustrator Viviane Schwartz tells us How to draw a FINCH. Then we can draw many more finches to join Henry and IMAGINE AWAY.
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Sarah GallagherAvid reader, sometimes a headteacher AND founder of Story shack. A place where you can release your imagination and see where it takes you....  Archives
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