Join Susan Perrow in conversation with Alida Gersie, Ph.D. and Martin Large of Hawthorn Press
Launch event for ‘Stories to Light the Night’ by Susan Perrow on 16 March 2021
Celebrating Pancake Day with Findus
Today is Shrove Tuesday, or Pancake Day, the traditional feast day before the start of Lent. It’s also Findus’s birthday! And he loves to make pancakes on his birthday. Pancake Recipe 5 eggs600 ml/21 fl…
Learn How to Make Dolls with Author and Crafter Steffi Stern
Steffi Stern’s latest book, Making Soft Dolls: Simple Waldorf Designs to Sew and Love, has just received a lovely review in Waldorf Today.
Welcome Imbolc with song
The songs from The Children’s Forest, from the Song of the Snowdrop to the Hazel Tree Song, are now available online, great for those of us with fledgling music-reading skills. Author Anna Richardson sings.
Homeschooling discussion
On 16 January 2021 we held The Case for Homeschooling panel discussion with author Anna Dusseau. As many families home school in the latest Lockdown, this timely panel discussion shared personal experiences of home learning…
Home learning through lockdown
As 2021 begins we find ourselves back in lockdown, and looking for inspiring activities and home learning aids. Hawthorn Press has practical books that can help with home education such as educational text books, crafts,…
A Light for Little Gnome’s Lantern by Susan Perrow
After The Little Gnome Who Had To Stay Home, a story written for young children coping with lockdown, author and Therapeutic Storyteller Susan Perrow has written another story to help young children at the end…
Present and Activity Ideas for a Quiet Christmas
For many of us, Christmas will be quieter than usual this year, with fewer friends and family members around us. But there is still plenty we can do to embrace this atmospheric time of year…
Anna Dusseau interview in The Green Parent magazine
Anna Dusseau, author of The Case for Homeschooling: free range home education handbook, discusses home education and schooling in the Dec/Jan 2021 issue of The Green Parent magazine, available now. ‘Everyone is different and home…
Sven Nordqvist, author of Findus and Pettson, is honoured by the Northern Lights Book Awards
Swedish author Sven Nordqvist has won a Northern Lights Book Award 2020 for Best Book Series for his Findus and Pettson series. The Northern Lights Book Awards offer ‘A mark of distinction honouring children’s literature…
