February 2020 I was requested...rather firmly by my 'Phoenix’s', my oldest group at Redwood Montessori, to please plan a Valentine’s Day...

February 2020 It was all about love in the school library last year. Children shared some library love during the Valentine's week. Now...

So, I was ‘chopping onions’….chopping onions, I tell you!! The last few pages were blurry. I had to stop, go wash my face and come back...

As an old Irish saying goes.... "Three apples fell from the tree. One for he who tells the story, one for he who reads/listens to the...

This article first appeared on The Bookwallis, a Facebook page I write on with 2 other educators, we covered themes by 'Voicing the...

In 2019 I decided to act on a long held dream. More than 15 years ago, I had been inspired by a tiny paragraph in Ruth Sawyer's book,...

9 November, 2019 So what can I say about this evening? It all started in the first week of September, when author Aparna Jain, who...

5 September, 2020 A special day. A special post. A post for all the teachers...and I mean teachers. Many Whatsapp forwards tell me that...

February, 2018 If an illustrator signs a copy of his book for my students at school, a bias is warranted isn't it? So at the outset, let...