This two-day course is for professionals who work individually with parents and their children.
Parenting Workshop
Pancakes with Findus
Next week it will be Mardi Gras or Shrove Tuesday, and time to use up all the eggs and sugar before Lent.
Learning outdoors
It’s Children’s Mental Health Week (4-10 Feb) and time to start thinking about getting outdoors more.
National Storytelling Week
For National Storytelling Week we are re-sharing an article for Green Parent magazine about storytelling’s potential for nurturing positive values.
Welcome to a New Year
There is much that is exciting happening at Hawthorn Press in 2019 so we are keen to get started. We have some events coming up and some new developments that we can’t reveal just yet,…
Lucia Day, 13 December
On Lucia Day they got up earlier than usual because Pettson wanted to listen to the music on the radio…
A Making Time of the Year
Making the Children’s Year is crammed full of creative things to do with your hands all year round, with lots to do during dark afternoons and rainy days indoors. We’ve picked out a taster for…
A Pilgrim’s Way – with their feet they understand their roots
Along the Pilgrims way in Oslo, year sixes from all the local schools experience for themselves the 1,000 year-old Pilgrim tradition.
What is home?
The current political climate is encouraging people to retreat into their comfort zones, to reject the foreign or unknown, so it may seem odd to be promoting an ideology that looks to the local.
Making Simple Needle Felts
After the success of Making Needle Felted Animals, Steffi Stern brings her inimitable energy and enthusiasm to her second book.
Parenting Toolkit workshop
Caroline Penney will bring her wisdom as a parent, grandma, family therapist and lifelong parent-educator to run a parenting workshop in the magical Secret Garden at Stroud’s Museum in the Park on Saturday 17th November.
Natural Storyteller catches a Moonbeam
The Natural Storyteller has been awarded a Gold Medal in the 2018 Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards! Launched in 2007, the awards are intended to bring increased recognition to exemplary children’s books and their creators, and…
New book: The Christmas Tomte
This is a new, longer Findus book for your collection in 17 chapters, translated into English by Nathan Large, with Sven Nordqvist’s engaging illustrations throughout. This seasonal chapter book is perfect for reading aloud to…
New Hawthorn Press poster wall
Hawthorn Press’s new poster wall from Ken Sprague (1927- 2004), people’s artist, and Lucy Guenot, Stroud printmaker.
Beetles are not designed to roll
Whilst individual programmes are effective in improving motor skills of school-aged children presenting with various problems, there is also a growing number of children who are entering the school system with inadequate motor and language…
When you’re behind from the start you rarely catch up
This post by Sally Goddard Blythe also appears on her website. Children arriving at school unable to speak or read properly is a scandal, minister says. This finding comes as no surprise and mirrors a general…
Free, Equal and Mutual: New review
Mervyn Hyde has written a thoughtful review of Free, Equal and Mutual: Rebalancing Society for the Common Good for the AHPB newsletter of Self & Society, the international journal for humanistic psychology.
Making Peg Dolls & More now available in paperback
This popular second book from Margaret Bloom is now out in a paperback edition (with flaps). Projects will capture your child’s imagination, from a daring dragon-riding marionette to a pretty butterfly garden mobile and a…
