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Posted on 20 January, 202016 October, 2024 by Hawthorn Staff

A Review of Re-imagining America: Finding Hope in Difficult Times

The following review of Re-imagining America: Finding Hope in Difficult Times featured in the journal Paradigm Explorer, issue 131 (2019/3). Subtitled ‘finding hope in difficult times’, this penetrating book is both a radical diagnosis of…

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Tags: Christopher Schaefer, Re-imagining America: Finding Hope in Difficult Times
Posted on 14 January, 202017 October, 2024 by Hawthorn Staff

Review of Creative Form Drawing for the Four Temperaments

Creative Form Drawing for the Four Temperaments by Angela Lord is reviewed in the recent Winter 2019 newsletter of the Anthroposophical Society in Great Britain. This larger format volume is more detailed than the previous…

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Category: Book Reviews
Tags: Angela Lord, Creative Form Drawing with Children
Posted on 11 December, 201917 October, 2024 by Hawthorn Staff

Juno magazine reviews The Children’s Forest

Cover of The Children's Forest

This review of The Children’s Forest appears in the Winter 2019 issue of Juno Magazine. This gorgeous book is a celebration of nature. Its aim is to “foster deep, meaningful, enriching and lasting relationships with…

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Posted on 9 December, 201917 October, 2024 by Hawthorn Staff

Outside In World reviews Findus and the Christmas Tomte

Findus and the Christmas Tomte

This review of Findus and the Christmas Tomte by Sven Nordqvist appeared on the Outside In World website. Snow is falling on Pettson’s farm, and Christmas is approaching. Findus pesters Pettson, he wants to know…

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Category: Book Reviews
Tags: Christmas, Findus and Pettson
Posted on 6 November, 201917 October, 2024 by Hawthorn Staff

Bookwitch reviews Keeping up with Findus

You have to feel a little sorry for Pettson. He’s old (-ish) and wants a quiet life, but with a cat like Findus, what can you do?

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Posted on 28 October, 201917 October, 2024 by Hawthorn Staff

A review of ‘The Children’s Forest’

This review appears in GreenFinder’s October newsletter www.greenfinder.co.uk ‘A Delightful Book For All Nature LoversJon Cree, Greenfinder When I first saw a picture of the beautiful cover of ‘The Children’s Forest’ by Dawn Casey, Anna…

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Tag: The Children's Forest
Posted on 8 October, 201917 October, 2024 by Hawthorn Staff

Review of Re-Imagining America in New View

‘Written out of a deep concern for the destiny and mission of the Untited States to provide a home for humanity’s future…’David Schwartz David Schwartz, writing in New View Magazine, issue 78, has produced a…

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Category: Book Reviews
Tags: Christopher Schaefer, Re-imagining America: Finding Hope in Difficult Times
Posted on 1 October, 201917 October, 2024 by Hawthorn Staff

Praise for The Children’s Forest

Book Review by Donald Smith, Director of Scottish International Storytelling Festival. With this beautiful book – co-authored by Dawn Casey, Anna Richardson and Helen Ascoli – Hawthorn Press have scaled fresh heights in its vocation…

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Tag: The Children's Forest
Posted on 8 July, 201917 October, 2024 by Hawthorn Staff

Review of Reclaim Childhood in New View

Front cover of Reclaim Early Childhood: The philosophy, psychology and practice of early Steiner Waldorf early years education, by Sebastian and Tamara Suggate

This article was published in New View Magazine, Summer 2019, Issue 92. The issue also includes an interview with authors Tamara and Sebastian Suggate. The Suggates state that their book is “as much a defence of…

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Tag: reclaim early childhood
Posted on 30 April, 201917 October, 2024 by Hawthorn Staff

More of less

dangling feet

Childhood is not a race to accumulate all of the consumer goods and stresses of adulthood in record time.

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Category: Book Reviews
Tags: Kim John Payne, parenting, Simplicity Parenting, Steiner Education, Steiner-Waldorf, The Power of Less
Posted on 4 February, 201928 October, 2024 by Hawthorn Staff

Learning outdoors

Young people leading horses

It’s Children’s Mental Health Week (4-10 Feb) and time to start thinking about getting outdoors more.

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Category: Book Reviews
Tags: Creative Place-Based Education, early years education, environmental education, place-based education
Posted on 23 July, 201828 October, 2024 by Hawthorn Staff

Free, Equal and Mutual: New review

Cover of Free, Equal and Mutual

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.

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Posted on 28 June, 201818 October, 2024 by Hawthorn Staff

Review: Free, Equal and Mutual by Martin Large and Steve Briault

This review appeared in The Social Artist Summer 2018, and was reviewed by Dr Frances Hutchinson. Many thanks to her for this thoughtful, considered review.

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Category: Book Reviews
Tags: Free Equal and Mutual, Martin Large, social threefolding
Posted on 5 June, 201818 October, 2024 by Hawthorn Staff

Review: Free, Equal and Mutual by Martin Large and Steve Briault

A constructively critical review from John Green at Morning Star – many thanks to him for his consideration and intellectual analysis.

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Category: Book Reviews
Tags: Free Equal and Mutual, Threefold approach
Posted on 15 May, 201818 October, 2024 by Hawthorn Staff

Review: Findus Goes Fishing by Sven Nordqvist

Findus and Pettson by Remy

We just got sent this lovely review of Findus Goes Fishing, which we would like to share with you all. It includes a hand-drawn picture!

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Category: Book Reviews
Tags: Findus Goes Fishing, Sven Nordqvist
Posted on 7 March, 20186 November, 2024 by Hawthorn Staff

Review: The Natural Storyteller by Georgiana Keable

Cover of The Natural Storyteller

“Georgiana Keable has written a gift of a book that will help teachers, parents and anyone who loves good stories.”

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Category: Book Reviews
Tags: Georgiana Keable, nature tales, storytelling, The Natural Storyteller
Posted on 6 March, 201828 October, 2024 by Hawthorn Staff

Review: An A-Z Collection of Behaviour Tales by Susan Perrow

cover of AZ Behaviour Tales

This review is from Amber Greene of Roam the Gnome – many thanks to her for her thoughtful review.

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Category: Book Reviews
Tags: An A-Z Collection of Behaviour Tales, story medicine, storytelling, Susan Perrow
Posted on 1 March, 201818 October, 2024 by Hawthorn Staff

Review: No Shore Too Far by Jonathan Stedall

No Shore Too Far cover image

What a truly amazing book – anyone who does not read much is encouraged to give it a try – something new in writing!

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Category: Book Reviews
Tags: Jonathan Stedall, No Shore Too Far, poetry, spirituality

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