“We're looking at a kind of happiness recession among our children.”
The decline in parents reading and playing with their children is “catastrophic”, Children’s Laureate Frank Cottrell-Boyce tells #TimesRadio.
@FrankCottrell_B | @RosieWright99
Katherine Rundells' Radio 4 series on children's books is - of course it is - magisterial and magical.
It should have been the Reith Lectures ...
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🌊 Exciting news: lab-grown "IVF corals" have survived a marine heatwave in the Caribbean! How COOL! The scientists and conservationists behind this really are true Globe Defenders.
In a recent study, 90% of these IVF corals remained healthy after rising temperatures last sum...
Pandora and the Story Forge by Gaynor Andrews https://t.co/bTppK04jU0 Thank you so much for featuring this as one of your Debuts of the Month @lovereadingkids
I just received a lovely review from Sarra-Kate, who shared that her nephew encouraged her to read Globe Defenders: Rainforest Rescue.
If you've read the book or know someone who has please post a review on your favourite bookseller's site. The more positive reviews we get t...
@frankcottrell_b Social care, palliative care, but I also think about the poor doctors who would be asked to do this. I wouldn't want to and I hope I never ask a doctor to do this for me.
#NewIllustrationoftheDay by French illustrator Marie-Alice Harel. Fantastical image of a child reader who has become a writer, from sumptuous picturebook Pandora and the Story Forge. With rollicking, rhyming text by Gaynor Andrews. Out from Rocket Bird Books 12 Sept @books_rocket
I was lucky to see early text drafts of PANDORA and it is stunningly written - one of those books you will savour reading at bedtime. Gaynor is a lyrical mastermind!