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Showing posts with label Books and Stuff.... Show all posts
Showing posts with label Books and Stuff.... Show all posts
Saturday, 30 November 2024

Remembrance Day For Lost Species by Human Activity

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Today 30h November is, ‘Remembrance Day For Lost Species by Human Activity’. It a day dedicated to the species of animals that humans have h...
Thursday, 7 March 2024

World Book Day 2024, Celebrating as a Pre-Published Author with no Small Children (anymore!)

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World Book Day 2024, Celebrating as a Pre-Published Author with no Small Children (anymore!) Happy World Book Day everyone! World Book Day i...
Tuesday, 12 May 2020

One Village Spreading Cheer during Corona Virus Chaos with Stories.

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After weeks of lockdown and uncertainty and for those with younger children – home-schooling and working from home, often in a confided spa...
Friday, 21 June 2019

Pan’s Labyrinth – Novel – Review and Musings about Anticipation of Adaptations - Guillermo Del Toro - Cornelia Funke

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Many people experience excitement and a certain amount of anxiety when they hear that one of their favourite books is coming to the ...
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Friday, 15 March 2019

Power of Stories and the & Responsibilities of Storytellers

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Last week was an interesting week for me, it was a roller-coaster ride of acute sadness and unbridled joy. It kicked off with a funeral of ...
Friday, 4 September 2015

Running my first Small Creative Writing Session for Children

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So this summer has been one of firsts; first job in over a decade, my eldest child’s first days in secondary school, first submission wi...
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Friday, 26 June 2015

Celebrating Independent Bookshop Week 2015, with a blog post dedicated to my family’s favourite Indy Bookshop – Mostly Books!

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As a reader, writer, book blogger and mother I LOVE books. As a contentious buyer I LOVE independent shops, we buy our meet from a village b...
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Thursday, 27 February 2014

An Slightly Late Celebration of Tell A Fairy Tale Day (which was yesterday)…

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Usually I’d be shouting from the roof tops on Tell A Fairy Tale Day, last year I posted a video blog of me telling a self-penned fairy tale ...
Friday, 24 January 2014

Never Judge a Book by it's Movie? But Trust the Movie to Help Kid's Stretch their Reading Abilities to Read the Book!

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I'm really pleased to see the news article this week about the impact of movie adaptations of books on children reading. Using my best...
Tuesday, 8 January 2013

Goodbye 2012, the year of the Fairy Tale. Hello 2013, let the Fairy Tale Frenzy Begin…

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2012 really was the year of the Fairy Tale. As I detailed in my earlier blog posts ( click here and here ) it was destined to be fa...
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Thursday, 20 December 2012

200 Today! Happy Birthday; Hans My Hedgehog, Red Riding Hood, Bearskin all Grimm Folk!

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200 Year's old today! On the 20th December 1812 Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm First published their, ' Kinder- und Hausmärchen' /  ...
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Wednesday, 19 December 2012

Dawn Finch's Stocking Filling Suggestion for Santa...

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I'm delighted to have yet another published writer on the blog today supporting the #Book_in_Every_Stocking campaign. Today’s...
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