A fantastic list of 65 titles has been compiled by experts as a tool to help schools, libraries and parents to discover empathy-infused reading recommendations in the run up to Empathy Day, as EmpathyLab strives to grow an empathy-educated generation and reach one million children a year by 2026. You can download free guides to … Continue reading Nikhil and Jay: The Star Birthday by Chitra Soundar
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The Feeling Good Club: Smash Your Worries, Bella! by Kelly McKain, illustrated by Jenny Latham
Publication Date: 4 August 2022 The Blurb Bella couldn’t be feeling worse about it being Feeling Good Week at school. With her best friend Rosh having moved away she’s sad and lonely, and to top it all she has a Big Worry on her mind – the class talk. Then Bella’s partnered with Shazmin and … Continue reading The Feeling Good Club: Smash Your Worries, Bella! by Kelly McKain, illustrated by Jenny Latham
What’s In Your Heart Today? by Louise Bladen, illustrated by Angela Perrini
Publication Date: 1 June 2021 The Blurb What's in your heart today? A fun and gentle first guide to mindfulness and de-stressing, for children and adults alike. The Review What's In Your Heart Today? is a beautiful book that explores a whole range of situations that happen in every day life that could lead us … Continue reading What’s In Your Heart Today? by Louise Bladen, illustrated by Angela Perrini
Sports Legends: 50 Inspiring People To Help You Reach The Top Of Your Game by Rick Broadbent
Publication Date: 3 June 2021 The Blurb Get inspired to reach the top of your game with 50 incredible true stories of sporting legends.Award-winning journalist Rick Broadbent has interviewed some of the greatest sporting legends of our time. In this gripping collection of 50 true stories, he shares the most exciting and jaw-dropping accounts of … Continue reading Sports Legends: 50 Inspiring People To Help You Reach The Top Of Your Game by Rick Broadbent
Three Keys by Kelly Yang
Publication date: 7 January 2021 The Blurb The story of Mia and her family and friends at the Calivista Motel continues in this sequel to the award-winning novel Front Desk. Mia Tang thinks she's going to have the best year ever. She and her parents are the proud owners of the Calivista Motel, Mia gets to … Continue reading Three Keys by Kelly Yang
Fearless! How To Be Your True, Confident Self by Liam Hackett, illustrated by Mike Perry
Publication Date: 2nd January 2020 It's been a fair while since I've blogged a review, mainly because I've been struggling with my mental health. I stepped away from sharing my opinions as I had so little self-worth, I just didn't think anyone else would be interested in what I thought. When I was asked if … Continue reading Fearless! How To Be Your True, Confident Self by Liam Hackett, illustrated by Mike Perry
#ReadForEmpathy by Corrinne Averiss
It’s my stop on the #ReadForEmpathy Blog Tour, and it’s my pleasure to welcome Corrinne Averiss, author of Joy, to discuss why empathy is such an important life skill, and how we can help foster it’s development in our children. The promotion of empathy has been a huge driver for me over the last few years - … Continue reading #ReadForEmpathy by Corrinne Averiss
Boot: Small Robot, Big Adventure by Shane Hegarty, illustrated by Ben Mantle
Cover and internal illustrations by Ben Mantle When Boot wakes up in Flint’s scrapyard it has only two and a half memories, which is strange because its head and left butt-cheek should be full of them. It’s few, glitchy memories are of a girl called Beth, and it knows that she loves him. All Boot … Continue reading Boot: Small Robot, Big Adventure by Shane Hegarty, illustrated by Ben Mantle
The Truth Pixie by Matt Haig, illustrated by Chris Mould
Cover and internal illustrations by Chris Mould When Truth Pixie was small, her Great Aunt Julia cast a spell which means she can only ever tell the truth. And that’s a good thing, right? Wrong! Lonely and miserable, the Truth Fairy has upset her family and friends with her truths to the point she rarely … Continue reading The Truth Pixie by Matt Haig, illustrated by Chris Mould
Double Felix by Sally Harris, illustrated by Maria Serrano
The Blurb He skips every second step when he takes the stairs, taps door handles twice and positions objects in pairs. The problem has become so bad that Felix is on the verge of being expelled from school because the principal has had enough of trying to run the school around his very specific rules. … Continue reading Double Felix by Sally Harris, illustrated by Maria Serrano
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