The Tunnel: engage kids in reading with Anthony Browne

My mum read my first blog post. “It’s great!” she said yesterday when I popped over for lunch. (She’s my biggest fan – that’s her job.) “You know, I really love that photo of the kids in the tunnel.” (She means the header above). “Yeah, me too,” I agreed, sensing the not-so-stealthy approach of a ‘but’. “But,”…

Raising Explorers

“My babe so beautiful! it thrills my heart With tender gladness, thus to look at thee, And think that thou shall learn far other lore, And in far other scenes! … thou, my babe! shalt wander like a breeze By lakes and sandy shores, beneath the crags Of ancient mountain, and beneath the clouds…” – “Frost…