The Past

So I’m back online! And I’ve so much to tell you about… So yes, I was offline because I was away visiting family in the Netherlands. This is where we were for most of the time: This is the haul of books I brought back: My favourite book of all those I brought back is [...]

Lifting the flap on inventions

As National Science and Engineering Week draws to a close, I have a second inventions book to share with you: See Inside Inventions by Alex Frith, illustrated by Colin King. We are massive fans of the Usborne Flap Book series, to which this is the latest addition. They are robust (great for in classrooms, or [...]

How to foster a budding inventor

Today sees the start of National Science & Engineering Week in the UK. I’ll be celebrating it with books of course, and so the focus for the next couple of posts here on the blog is… INVENTIONS! This afternoon I’m in school doing a book+craft session based on Wouter van Reek‘s Coppernickel: The Invention. After [...]

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