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Everybody worries and that’s OK. This reassuring and practical picture book combines helpful tips endorsed by clinical psychologists with fun rhyming couplets and colourful pictures to help children open up about their feelings and get anxiety under control. The perfect book to soothe worries during stressful times, which can be a great springboard into having important conversations with your child.
You’re never too young to make a big difference, as Hope Jones has learned in her fight against plastic pollution. Now she’s on a mission to save the animals, and persuade everyone she knows to turn vegetarian. But just how can Hope get Dad to give up his beloved bacon butties?
Hope Jones Saves The World was our Book of the Day on 25 May 2020
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ACHUKA Book of the Day Mon 8 Jun 2020
Why Do I Feel Like This? follows a child’s hilarious, wildly inventive train of thought as she walks home in a bad mood. Where do sad or angry feelings come from? What’s the best way to make them go away? And is there any way to stop them from coming back? This imaginative story will help young readers to think about their emotions and find creative ways to deal with bad days.
Robert Muchamore, well-known as one of the most straight-talking of children’s writers, not afraid to make derogatory comments about fellow authors, has done a Daniel Handler and offered up say-sorry money for remarks made on his Facebook page.
Although the comments (about a group of women he characterised as lesbians) were made on Facebook, the very precise sum of atonement has been calculated on the basis of his Twitter followers.
£10K sounds like a lot of money to put in the shouldn’t-have-said-that jar, but Muchamore is astute enough to know that it will buy, in addition to a modicum of forgiveness, a good amount of national publicity.
YA author Robert Muchamore is donating £10,218 to LGBT charities after making a “cheap shot” about lesbians on his public Facebook page.
Muchamore said he will split the money, which is £1 for every one of his 10,218 followers onTwitter, between four different charities.
His promise comes after he voiced insulting criticism of a group of women who were protesting about the new "Fifty Shades of Grey" film.
“I was venting because I was extremely pissed off about being shouted at and called a rapist by a group of protesters when I went to see ’50 Shades of Grey’. But since I’m not five years old I can’t use ‘they started it,’ as a defence and I therefore apologise to everyone I pissed off,” he later said on his Facebook page. “Rather than try to justify myself or drone on about what a nice guy I am and how I have lots of gay friends and write books full of positive gay role models, I thought it would be better to make an actual difference to the lives of LGBT people.”
via Muchamore donates £10k to LGBT charities | The Bookseller.