There’s been a good variety of books completed this month including graphic novels, historical fiction, essays, memoirs, biographies, contemporary fiction, revolutionary pamphlets and plenty of […]
It is not a New Year’s resolution but I intend to write one blog post a month about what I’ve been reading. Usually I write […]
#Orwell lived at 10a Mortimer Crescent NW6, with his wife Eileen and son Richard, until his flat was destroyed by a V-1 flying bomb. Luckily, he wasn’t home and the manuscript of Animal Farm was recovered from the rubble (only to be rejected by TS Eliot who worked for Faber). pic.twitter.com/Hqri…
There have been many posts about our school’s nurturing democracy program over the last few years at my blog, including this one about our plan to hold formal elections conducted by […]
How many adults, especially teachers and parents, discuss their own reading or passion for literature with children? How much reading for professional or personal pleasure do adults actually do? How […]
The purpose of this book is to fill in some of the gaps of this historical amnesia, by giving an account of where basic political institutions came from in societies […]
After posting about my reading in 2012 I asked my eldest daughter, who is in 3rd class and 9 years of age, what she read this year. She did not […]
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#Autumn #TropicofCancer #review and my #reading in August
I want to show you our world as it is now: the door, the floor, the water tap and the sink, the garden chair close […]