Good luck in Malaysia, bad news in New Zealand, a chicken and a jug of cider in Britain, a goat and a pumpkin in India, fun and games in a cyber café in Nigeria ... The countries change, but people's lives are always strange and wonderful in any place. Bookworms World Stories collect stories written in English from around the world. These stories are by Shahana Chaudhury, Mary McCluskey, Na…
What does it feel like to be achild? Learning how to negotiate with the unpredictable adult world, learning how to pick a path through life's traps and hazards, learning when the time has come to put away childish things. The writers of these short stories show us the world as seen from the far side of the child-adult divide, a gap that is sometimes small, and sometimes small, and sometimes an …
Smart Thinking helps primary school teachers to develop their pupils' capacities to become deep thinkers and independent learners. Supporting the creation of a thoughtful classroom that provides opportunities for pupil's negotiation, goal setting and decision making, the book encourages the teaching of reflection and metacognition, providing pupils the tools they need to be able to evaluate and…
In 2008, Sally Gardiner makes friends with Milo , a young student. When he tells Sally why he is different from other boys of his age, she does not believe him. Many years later, however, she realises that he was right. She sits down to write a letter of