"The face that launched a 1000 ships" is metaphoric enough to get my 6th and 7th graders all excited as we go across the stories from the...

The news of the horrors going on in Gaza at the moment had got me down. In the library I noticed that children were all picking up...

For the last library period of term, I was looking for a story that was fun, that would take the children on a flight of imagination and...

When we began planning a trip to Turkey, little did I realise just how often I would find connections to my interests and more so to my...

Tuesday's are 'twosdays' over on my @mythaunty Instagram account, when I share two books that I've shared for a particular reason. This...

”The universe has this amazing way of giving back to those who serve first.” I'm sure you are familiar with this quote about how when you...

When N, a History teacher reached out to me for resources that could support her unit on the American Civil War, I remembered that I had...

Almost a year ago, my ‘BFF’, also a Jo-Ann….with no ‘e’ at the end, a ‘Child Life Specialist’ in the US, sent me this book...

This post was written for the Bookwallis Facebook page on 16 September, 2020 I’ve been a Story educator and Library educator for many...

Picture Credit ....cover of 'Wilfred Gordon Macdonald Partridge" by Mem Fox This post is a question, so bear with me till the end and I...

When I think of FOOD, I think of ‘stretching the table’... always a place and a bowl for one more. When I think about stretching the...

“LEAVE MY BROTHERS ALONE.” These words stand out on the opening spread of Lady Tarzan! Jamuna takes a Stand, a picture book biography of...

This post was first shared on The Bookwallis Facebook page. FOOD features EVERYWHERE. Food is ubiquitous. From growing it, to harvesting...

This is part of a series of posts written on our Camino journey. Post 7 Read the previous post here Written by my sister Mary-Lou...

Our Camino Santiago post 6 Written by my sister Mary-Lou Navaratnam 3/5/2019 Read my previous post here Another two days have passed and...

Read the previous post here. It is good to have an end to journey, but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” - Ernest Hemingway...

This is a series of posts that I had written originally on Facebook on 11/5/2019 Camino Santiago post 4 Read post 3 here. People walk the...

"But those who want to talk and tell, And those who will not listeners be, Will never hear a syllable From the lips of any tree.”...

Written originally as a Facebook Post on 2/5/2019 Camino Santiago post 3 Read post 2 here So, yesterday was an easy day, as was today. We...

This is the 2nd in a series of posts that I had shared on Facebook about my experiences on the last 120 kms of the Camino Santiago that I...