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Solo: Can a dog called Solo be part of the pack? by Adam Beer

July 25, 2022 By achuka Leave a Comment

ACHUKA Book of the Day 26 Jul 2022

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Debut title as author/illustrator. [Adam Beer is currently shortlisted for the 2022 Klaus Flugge Prize for his illustrations in Mammoth by Anna Kemp.]

Meet Solo the dog. This is his island – and these are his things and his humans. So when a group of other dogs turn up, Solo doesn’t like it, not one bit — and he tells them so quite firmly. He doesn’t want to share his things and he thinks they’re running out of control — although it does look quite fun.

But once the others have gone, Solo finds that he misses his new friends, and races to get them back.
Will Solo come to see that no dog is an island, and that some things are just better with friends?

Adam has worked as a storyboard artist for over 20 years in TV, animation, fine art and games having started his career in Teletubbieland. In 2018 he won the SCBWI ‘Beginning, Middle & End’ competition with his MA project ‘Monster Tea Party’ and was runner up in the Searle Award for Creativity 2019.

For children’s illustration & picturebooks I’m represented by Miles Stott Children’s Literary Agency.

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The Whale Who Wanted More by Rachel Bright ill. Jim Field

May 3, 2021 By achuka Leave a Comment

ACHUKA Book of the Day 4 May 2021

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A stunning undersea tale of friendship, community and discovery from the bestselling creators of The Lion Inside. Humphrey the whale is on a quest: to find the one perfect object that will make him feel complete. He roams far and wide, gathering endless undersea treasure as he goes. Yet, no matter how many goodies he accumulates, Humphrey still doesn’t feel content. Could it be friendship, not possessions, that will really make Humphrey’s heart sing?

A sparkling rhyming tale that encourages sharing and kindness.

See our Meet An Illustrator feature with Jim Field.
Follow him on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_jimfield/
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OU Launches ‘Book Chat’ In Partnership With Macmillan Children’s Books

October 15, 2020 By achuka Leave a Comment

The Open University (OU) is today launching Book Chat: Reading with your Child, a free resource which comprises three short films and support materials to help parents, families and carers read books conversationally and creatively to children. Working with Macmillan Children’s Books, the films use two picture books and a poetry collection to support families with reading to different ages of children.

Book Chat is the informal interaction that accompanies quality reading to and with children, developing children’s language and comprehension and nurturing a love of reading. The films model this relaxed interaction through the use of open questions, comments and prompts to initiate Book Chat and enable parents and children to share the pleasure of reading together –  a significant step for the project, as homelife becomes even more important whilst families cope with a post-pandemic world.

The films are based around three titles published on the Macmillan Children’s Books list and their Two Hoots illustrated imprint. Each is aimed at a different age of child who will be engaging with the stories or poems.

One Fox by Kate Read (5+) – a previous ACHUKA Book of the Day

A House That Once Was by Julie Fogliano and illustrated by Lane Smith (7+)

and The Same Inside: Poems about Empathy and Friendship, a collection of poems by Liz Brownlee, Matt Goodfellow and Roger Stevens (9+)

 

These new films and other resources in the OU’s Supporting Reading Reading At Home series can be found here:
https://researchrichpedagogies.org/research/supporting-rah 

For other resources in the OU’s Supporting Reading Reading At Home series can be found here:
https://researchrichpedagogies.org/research/supporting-rah

The OU’s Reading for Pleasure programme is led by Professor Teresa Cremin, who also reads on one of the films, along with Richard Charlesworth and Ben Harris, both experienced teachers and long-standing partners of The Open University’s work. The aim is to reach over a million families across the UK, through The OU, The Reading Agency, The United Kingdom Literacy Association (UKLA) and the Department for Education’s English Hubs as well as through other consumer-facing partners. 

Alyx Price, Associate Publisher at Macmillan Children’s Books, says: “We were delighted when the OU approached us to support Book Chat. We have partnered with them on other Reading for Pleasure initiatives and this new project was a perfect match for us, particularly at this important time for families and home life. Book Chat offers great support to families and carers who don’t know where to start, as well as giving new inspiration to those who already share stories regularly with their children. The selected titles are perfect for reading aloud and the films will introduce families to these great books and more, setting them up for a lifetime loving stories together”.

This new stage in the OU’s Reading for Pleasure programme is about supporting parents and carers at home. 

HEADSUP!

WEBINAR: Sharing the pleasure: the role of talk in reading  

Tuesday 20 October, 20:00 – 21:00

This OU webinar is free and open to educators, librarians, parents and others interested in supporting young people develop the reading habit. The Book Chat crew, Teresa Cremin, Ben Harris and Richard Charlesworth will be joined by the children’s author Smriti Hall (TBC) and Rumenar Atkar, a mum and primary school librarian. The session will include research and practice insights, strategies to enrich informal book talk at home and school, and book recommendations that get everyone talking.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/webinar-sharing-the-pleasure-the-role-of-talk-in-reading-tickets-122427514993

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8 iPads in the classroom | #8iPads

May 8, 2013 By achuka Leave a Comment

1. Saving work to the Documents apps and using share to iTunes to make a copy from Digital Roadtrip on Vimeo.

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Printing student’s work in Progress from iPads to a folder on your laptop.

If your students are not writing into a virtual space from their iPads, for example a blog, wiki or shared app like Evernote, you will struggle to monitor their progress. So here is an awesomely nifty way of capturing evidence of “work in progress”.

The joy of this is that all the files neatly arrive in one folder on computer. If the learners label the files as you have them named in your mark book, you will have an instant overview of who has handed work in.

via 8 iPads in the classroom | #8iPads.

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