Absolutely Everything: the perfect book for non-fiction lovers with an insatiable need for facts! "Embark on an amazing journey across millennia and continents, and learn about absolutely everything including the creation of planet Earth, the age of dinosaurs, the rise of humans, the miserable medieval times, globalisation, wars, revolutions, technology – and much more! Find … Continue reading BOOK BLOG: Christopher Lloyd
Notes on a Nervous Planet: like reading a book from your clever and caring friend "The world is messing with our minds. Rates of stress and anxiety are rising. A fast, nervous planet is creating fast and nervous lives. We are more connected, yet feel more alone. And we are encouraged to worry about everything … Continue reading BOOK BLOG: Matt Haig
Hello! Today is a very exciting day. Today you get another brilliant author guest post! Today, Gary Haq, author of the brilliant 'My Dad, The Earth Warrior' is featured on my blog. Gary has a passion for engaging children in talking about and learning about the environment. As a teacher, this is REALLY important to … Continue reading BLOG TOUR: My Dad, The Earth Warrior
Women in Sport/Women in Science: brilliantly biographical celebrations of incredible women, from the past and the present The amazing people at Hachette sent me these copies of these books and I was absolutely gobsmacked. I have been ogling Women in Science on the shelves for a while in Waterstones, so when I heard Women in … Continue reading BOOKBLOG: Women in…
In the Little People, Big Dreams series, you can discover the lives of outstanding people from designers and artists to scientists. All of them went on to achieve incredible things, yet all of them began life as a little child with a dream. There are some incredible lives pictured in this series and I was … Continue reading Little People, Big Dreams
Reasons To Stay Alive: honest, important, emotive. "WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO FEEL TRULY ALIVE? Aged 24, Matt Haig's world caved in. He could see no way to go on living. This is the true story of how he came through crisis, triumphed over an illness that almost destroyed him and learned to live again. … Continue reading BOOKBLOG: Matt Haig
Hello Wednesday folks! Sorry this is late, I have had a mega stressful week, however you are in for a treat with this guest blog this week. My gorgeous friend Rachel, over-lady of #SundayYA, #SundayYAthon and 100-or-less has popped along to talk about YA books which discuss one of the most important things to a … Continue reading Mental Health in YA
Recently a conversation has emerged on Twitter about reading. It has been a MASSIVE thing. Questions have been thrown up such as is it important to teach reading? how do you teach reading? why do we need to teach reading? do you need to enjoy reading to be a good teacher of reading? There has been … Continue reading Reading: it’s good for the soul!
I've been following Bloomsbury Ed on Twitter for a while and they do an awesome thing on a Friday... they give away a prize. Good old #freebiefriday. I'm one of these people who'll RT something, because hell I'm not losing out on anything but I generally NEVER win. So I RT'd their tweet and thought … Continue reading I won a prize?
I am an absolute Book Devourer. If there was a title for the different types of readers, I would definitely be a Book Devourer. I read like it's going out of fashion. And I read for different reasons: - For pleasure: these books are books that I've bought for my own consumption. I don't need … Continue reading Booksbooksbooks
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