Reading a bedtime story is something that seems to have been lost to the winds. Yet it’s a wonderful way for parents and children to bond and connect before bedtime. Children’s nature campaigner Richard Louv writes that the saddest day of his professional life, was when he asked a young boy where his favourite place…
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good plant-based recipe books for children
Omari’s Best Bites Cookbook offers easy recipes by a young chef. This fun colourful book is sure to get young people into the kitchen (a few recipes are deep-fried so use an air-fryer, have parents supervise, or omit). Note foods to avoid giving to young children (not just nuts, but also nut butters, salty foods…
good ideas to create a fairer benefits system
Give People Money is a complete guide to the political economic idea of a Basic Income. Designed to replace nearly all benefits, it would ensure nobody would suffer in poverty, it enables people to work part-time (without losing benefits) and it could eliminate benefit fraud and debt. The present benefits system is expensive to run…
a beautiful bear of very little brain!
Tales from the Forest is a collection of seven new tales by Jane Riordan, written in the style of AA Milne and featuring beautiful humorous illustrations by Mark Burgess (inspired by EH Shepard’s original drawings). A true gift with beautiful reviews, this is a sequel done the right way! Carmen the little dog is a brand…