| Children's books can be a great tool for working in all sorts of ways in schools. This page has links through to ideas for working in schools with some of my books and I hope will prove that picture books can be a rich catalyst for learning as well as things to be enjoyed in their own right. | |
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Snow leopards are some of the most beautiful animals in the world. For lesson plans and ideas on The Snow Leopard take a look at the website of the Snow Leopard Trust. Here there are ideas for putting the snow leopard on the map, for learning about the relationship between prey and predator, and the people who live in the mountains with the leopards and much much more, as well as beautiful photographs of the leopards and their habitat. |
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Can You See a Little Bear? Here you can find a series of pages for working with the Little Bear. |
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For a series of ideas on using the text and pictures from The Seal Children as a stimulus to writing, painting, music and drama in schools click here |
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Cantre'r Gwaelod, the Welsh language version of this book, was chosen to represent Wales in the European Picture Book Collection. The collection can be seen on the EPBC web site. Designed to celebrate the many languages of Europe, this is a fantastic collection and a wonderful resource for schools, with translations of all the books and ideas for lessons worked around the images and texts. To see the books for the collection click here To see the page for Cantre'r Gwaelod click here |
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Follow the progress of Starlight, Starbright, written by James Mayhew and illustrated by Jackie Morris, from writing to publishing and into bookshops. |
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Paintings take a long time and a lot of thought. To see an example of a painting being made click here. For the same but without any commentary click here. Or click here to see the cover for The Barefoot Book of Classic Poems being painted. (Some of the paint is still wet!) |
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To see the beginnings of a gallery of work by children, inspired by workshops and stories click here. |
For Federation of Children's Books Newsletter article, "A Day in the Life" click here. And for the alternative day, when things did not go quite so well........click here. |
