ebooks
-
Genius of Play
Celebrating the Spirit of ChildhoodChildren move like quick fire from the fantastic to the everyday, when free to express the genius of play. What is play? Why does it matter? Here is an outspoken Children’s Play Charter for parents and teachers, which celebrates the playful spirit of childhood.
-
Healing Stories for Challenging Behaviour
£19.99How the power of story can help resolve a range of common childhood behaviours and situations such as separation anxiety, bullying, sibling rivalry, nightmares and grieving.
-
In Place of the Self
How Drugs WorkRon Dunselman sheds important light on addiction, so that both individuals and professionals can make more informed choices. Drawing on extensive research with drug users and his rehabilitation work as a psychologist, he offers remarkable insights.
-
Living Literacy
The human foundations of speaking, writing and readingThis book will help teachers and parents to prepare children for the transition to literacy through conversation, story, song and play, ensuring that formal reading and writing are introduced in a relevant and living way.
-
Muddles, Puddles and Sunshine
Your activity book to help when someone has died£12.99Practical and sensitive support for bereaved children.
-
Muddles, Puddles and Sunshine (hardback)
Your activity book to help when someone has died£14.99Practical and sensitive support for bereaved children.
-
Organisations with Soul
A social path of schooling in the language of the human soulHow can we connect more deeply with others at work? And connect more wholeheartedly with our work tasks, so as to create mutual support, respect, meaning and growth?
-
Pancakes for Findus
£12.99It is Findus’ birthday, so Farmer Pettson wants to bake a big stack of pancakes for the cat who has three birthdays a year. But how can they get the eggs when the bull is in the way?
-
Peace Journalism
Peace Journalism explains how most coverage of conflict unwittingly fuels further violence, and proposes workable options to give peace a chance.
-
Raising Happy Healthy Children
Why Mothering Matters£16.99Here is a fully-updated second edition of What Children and Babies Really Need. It draws on the latest scientific research to show how the first few years determine the way children develop, body and mind, for the rest of their lives.
-
Re-Imagining America
Finding Hope in Difficult Times£5.00Re-Imagining America analyses the ‘long emergency’ that is destroying the earth and human wellbeing. It suggests a practical vision of social change and personal growth for finding hope in difficult times.
-
Reclaim Early Childhood
The Philosophy, Psychology and Practice of Steiner Waldorf Early Years Education£14.99A lively overview of the philosophical, developmental and educational foundations of Rudolf Steiner-Waldorf early years education as adaptable, creative and dynamic, informed by a profound respect for the uniqueness of each child.
-
Simplicity Parenting
Using the power of less to raise happy, secure children£16.99This is for parents who want to slow down, but who don’t know how; for families with too much stuff, too many choices and too much information. Here are four simple steps for decluttering, quieting, and soothing family dynamics so that children can thrive at school, get along with peers, and nurture well-being.
-
Sing me the Creation
Creative Writing Sourcebook£19.99Sing me the Creation is an inspirational workbook of creative writing exercises for poets and teachers, and for all who wish to develop the life of the imagination. Paul Mathews gives us permission to indulge our fantasy, and then, when that life is flowing, provides the tools to craft it into poetry and song.
-
Social Ecology
Applying Ecological Understanding to Our Lives and Our Planet£10.00Social Ecology addresses the burning question of how to apply ecological understanding to every aspect of our lives. The 27 contributors, all of whom have directly or indirectly contributed to the teaching of social ecology in Australia and beyond, share their experiences in this ‘coming of age’ anthology of keynote articles.
-
Stories to Light the Night
A Grief and Loss Collection for Children, Families and Communities£19.99Stories and words have therapeutic potential. They can strengthen us, help to reframe things, and help make meaning. This book offers story medicine for children, families and communities at times of grieving, loss and separation.
