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Posted on 2 December, 201425 October, 2024 by Hawthorn Staff

Book Reviews in Juno: Findus, Food and Fun and Making Peg Dolls & More

as featured in Juno Magazine

The lovely Juno Magazine and Saffia Farr have reviewed two of our titles in their current issue (38): lucky us! Of Margaret Bloom’s Making Peg Dolls & More Saffia says, “This is an attractive hardback…

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Category: Book Reviews
Tags: Findus Food and Fun, Making Peg Dolls & More
Posted on 25 November, 201425 October, 2024 by Hawthorn Staff

Book Review: Making Peg Dolls & More

Making Peg Dolls Paperback

Here is an extract from a review of Margaret Bloom’s Making Peg Dolls & More, which appeared on Zoe Toft’s delightful blog, Playing by the Book. A Very Satisfying Craft Book for Families Like many…

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Category: Book Reviews
Tags: Making Peg Dolls, Making Peg Dolls & More
Posted on 24 November, 201425 October, 2024 by Hawthorn Staff

Book Review: Findus, Food and Fun

Findus, Food and Fun

Lulu Burt reviewed Findus, Food and Fun. Here is an extract from the review; thank you Lulu!

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Category: Book Reviews
Tags: Findus and Pettson, Findus Food and Fun
Posted on 19 November, 201425 October, 2024 by Hawthorn Staff

The Power of Fairy Tales

BBC Radio Solent - Fairytales and your children

Listen to child psychologist and Hawthorn author Sally Goddard Blythe talk about fairy tales with BBC Radio Solent’s Katie Martin. She was also on the Night Owls show in Newcastle, Teeside and Cumbria recently to…

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Category: Blog
Tag: Sally Goddard-Blythe
Posted on 17 November, 201428 October, 2024 by Hawthorn Staff

Hawthorn Press Winter Mini Extra

Peg doll winter king

Mark A Coleman (CC BY-SA 2.0) As some of you may know, Hawthorn Press has a quarterly e-newsletter that goes out to subscribers. The next one is due near the end of December, but a…

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Category: News
Posted on 10 November, 201425 October, 2024 by Hawthorn Staff

Making Peg Dolls & More advert

Making Peg Dolls & More by Margaret Bloom

Making Peg Dolls & More is now available to buy, and we are rather enamoured of this lovely little trailer made by the author. Check it out:

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Category: News
Tag: Making Peg Dolls & More
Posted on 3 November, 201425 October, 2024 by Hawthorn Staff

Making Woodland Crafts has arrived!

Making Woodland Crafts by Patrick Harrison

Making Woodland Crafts has arrived, and is now available for sale! We have our own lovely copies here at Hawthorn Press, and they are currently cosying together on my desk. Fresh off the press Hazel…

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Category: Blog
Tag: Making Woodland Crafts
Posted on 27 October, 201425 October, 2024 by Hawthorn Staff

Book Review: 147 Traditional Stories for Primary School Children to Retell

147 Traditional Stories for Primary School Children to Retell

This is an extract from a review Adam Guillain due to appear in Facts & Fiction Magazine, which can be bought here… 147 Traditional Stories for Primary School Children to Retell by Chris Smith I love this…

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Category: Book Reviews
Tags: 147 Traditional Stories, Storytelling Schools
Posted on 27 October, 201425 October, 2024 by Hawthorn Staff

Book Review: The Storytelling School Handbook For Teachers

The Storytelling School Handbook for Teachers

This is an extract from a review due to appear in Facts & Fiction Magazine.

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Category: Book Reviews
Tag: Storytelling Schools
Posted on 13 October, 201425 October, 2024 by Hawthorn Staff

Advance Copies: Findus, Food and Fun

Front cover of a Year with Findus

These lovely books turned up in the post this morning!

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Category: Blog
Tags: Findus and Pettson, Findus Food and Fun
Posted on 7 October, 201425 October, 2024 by Hawthorn Staff

Book Review: The Storytelling School Handbook for Teachers and 147 Traditional Stories for Primary School Children to Retell

The Storytelling School Handbook for Teachers

By Janet Dowling in the School Librarian journal.

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Category: Book Reviews
Tags: 147 Traditional Stories, storytelling, Storytelling Schools
Posted on 6 October, 201425 October, 2024 by Hawthorn Staff

Thursday 16th October, Campaign for Education.

Early Years Education

Richard House, of the “Too Much, Too Soon” campaign, will be speaking at this exciting event, discussing the future of education and the direction in which it is heading. This is certain to be a…

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Category: News
Tags: early learning, seasonal crafts
Posted on 30 September, 201428 October, 2024 by Hawthorn Staff

Storytelling for a Greener World at the Scottish International Storytelling Festival

Scottish International Storytelling Festival

If you are in Edinburgh on Sunday 26 October, be sure to head to the Royal Botanical Garden for a wonderful afternoon of story walks and performances. And don’t let the wind and the rain…

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Category: Events
Tag: Storytelling for a Greener World
Posted on 30 September, 201425 October, 2024 by Hawthorn Staff

Zimbabwe Reads book donation

Books for Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe Reads is an initiative supporting the reading culture in Zimbabwe, and we recently donated some books to them. It was absolutely lovely to get an email, complete with pictures, letting us know that our…

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Category: News
Posted on 22 September, 201427 October, 2024 by Hawthorn Staff

A mixed start for the new childcare minister

cover of Too Much, Too Soon?

We recently shared an open letter from Richard House, editor of Too Much, Too Soon?, to the new childcare minister Sam Gyimah. Here, we share an extract from a robust comment piece by Richard House detailing his first impressions.…

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Category: News
Posted on 16 September, 201428 October, 2024 by Hawthorn Staff

Advance Copies: Making Peg Dolls and More

Making Peg Dolls and More by Margaret Bloom

We at Hawthorn Press are very excited to have just received our advance copies of Making Peg Dolls and More!

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Category: News
Tag: Making Peg Dolls & More
Posted on 5 September, 201427 October, 2024 by Hawthorn Staff

Open Letter from Richard House to Early Years Minister

This open letter, penned by Richard House to Sam Gyimah, caught our attention this week, not least because Richard House is one of our authors. Here is the letter in full: Dear Sam Gyimah. Starting…

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Category: News
Posted on 4 September, 201427 October, 2024 by Hawthorn Staff

Book Review: The Storytelling Schools Handbook for Teachers, 147 Traditional Stories for Primary School Children to Retell

The Storytelling School Handbook for Teachers

Reviewed by Martine Horvath in Early Years Educator, vol 16

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Category: Book Reviews
Tag: storytelling

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