Happy Families

insights into the art of parenting

Published by Network Continuum August 2008

and with an introduction by Sue Palmer, this book written by myself, Tim, Trish and Roy aims to offer a range of new skills and insights to the wealth of good advice already available on effective parenting. My chapter explores the value of and techniques for sharing stories with your children.

 

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Reissues

Stone Arch Books in the U.S. have reissued my old Comix Title The Planet Machine as Space Cops. It's now in full colour. A&C Black have also reissued my Graffix book Roy Kane TV Detective in colour also.

Click for more details -

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Jumpstart! Creativity

This is my new handbook of over fifty multisensory games and activities designed to develop children's creative and critical thinking skills. The book is divided into -

• Thinking
• Questioning
• Reasoning
• Problem Solving
• Wordplay

Published by David Fulton / Routledge: ISBN 978-0-415-43273-3

www.fultonpublishers.co.uk

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Halloween Pie

This is a small book of poetry and short stories exploring the theme of actions and consequences within the context of children's adventures set on Halloween Eve. Click the link to find out more.

Halloween Pie

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Network Continuum are publishing a new range of practical guidebooks for teachers called Pocket PAL. My contributions to the series are Boys & Writing and Emotional Intelligence.

For further details of the Pocket PAL series click here

For more details about PcketPal EI Click here

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Success in the Creative Classroom

Using past wisdom to inspire excellence

 

Just published by Network Continuum   (ISBN 1 85539 216 8), this is a collaboration between myself, Roy Leighton, Trish Lee and Tim Harding.

Roy - www.royleighton.com

Trish - www.makebelievearts.co.uk

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The third book of Double Dare Gang stories has been published by Network Educational Press. To find out more about The Passenger & Other Adventures click here

But Why?, a teaching pack for training very young children to do philososophical enquiry has been published by Network Continuum. Sara Stanley has written the manual and one of the fiction resource books. Sara teaches children from five years old the techniques of Socratic dialogue, using poems and stories as a stimulus. Find out more about her work at -

WWW.childrenthinking.co.uk

I have written three picture books to go with the pack. Here is the cover for one of them.

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Hodder Children's Books have recently published a big poetry collection called The Poetry Store, compiled by my friend the poet Paul Cookson, who has picked three of my poems for inclusion. To learn more click the red button...

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Another recently published poem is called Just Doing and can be found in Read Me First click here to find out more -

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Countdown to Creative Writing

 

This is my new book from Routledge (David Fulton). Written in a choose-your-own-adventure style, it guides children through the decision-making process as they prepare to write a story (with lots of little writing tasks on the way)

Due for publication October 2008, CCW will be followed by Countdown to Writing Poetry and Countdown to Writing Non Fiction.

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A Handbook of Creative Learning Activities

Just out from Network Continuum Education, this is a refresh of my old Imagine That. It's a user-friendly manual of practical activities suitable for KS2-4 to stimulate creative thinking, talking and writing in the classroom (ISBN 978-1-85539-363-9).

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Writing Courses and Workshops for Adults -

I offer a number of writing workshops for adults including new sessions on visualisation, 'Countdown to a Story', writing for children, overcoming writer's block and more. For my menu of sessions click here -

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Books forthcoming in 2008 -

100 Ideas for Creative Development in Preschool - published in April 08

100 Ideas for Good Practice in Preschool -published in August 08

by Wendy & Steve Bowkett

as part of Continuum's new preschool 100 Ideas range.

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The Works 6 - poetry collected by Pie Corbett and published by Macmillan (p/b @ £6.99 ISBN 978-0-330-43439-3) contains four of my poems.

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NAWG (the National Association of Writers' Groups) has published my handbook for writers - Fifty Ideas to Boost Your Writing.

Here are some other books produced by NAWG.

To find out more about the Association and its annual autumn writing Festival go to www.nawg.co.uk

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Continuum are publishing a range of practical pocketbooks full of tips on different aspects of education. My contributions to the series are outlined below. Initial sales have been good and both books are into second editions with the title 100+ Ideas for Teaching Creativity and Teaching Thinking Skills.

100 Ideas for

Teaching Creativity 

 

 

 

and

100 Ideas for Teaching Thinking Skills

(which has gone into a second edition titled 100+ Ideas for Teaching Thinking Skills)

Site updated July 11th 2008.