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Posted on 15 November, 201628 October, 2024 by Hawthorn Staff

Review: Form Drawing and Colouring

Form Drawing and Colouring with pencils

This review was written for the SWSF newsletter by Kevin Avison, and we’d like to thank him for letting us reproduce it here. Once a diversion for children with few claims to be serious or…

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Category: Book Reviews
Tags: Angela Lord, form drawing, Form Drawing and Colouring
Posted on 14 November, 201621 October, 2024 by Hawthorn Staff

Review: All Year Round; a Calendar of Celebration

This wonderful review of All Year Round recently appeared on the blog adventureswithmonster, and as ever we are very grateful for the enthusiasm! This week we received another lovely package from our friends at Hawthorn…

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Category: Book Reviews
Tags: All Year Round, seasonal crafts
Posted on 7 November, 201621 October, 2024 by Hawthorn Staff

Review: Form Drawing and Colouring

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This wonderful review appeared on the blog adventureswithmonster on the 5th November. This new title is a refreshingly different take on the ‘adult colouring book’ and mindfulness theme. Form drawing is a very important part of the…

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Category: Book Reviews
Tags: Angela Lord, Form Drawing and Colouring, mindfulness
Posted on 25 October, 201621 October, 2024 by Hawthorn Staff

Review: History Through Stories

This review originally appeared in Facts & Fiction Magazine, issue 99, and has been reproduced with permission. For more information about Facts & Fiction, visit the website here.  History Through Stories: Teaching Primary History with…

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Category: Book Reviews
Tags: Adam Guillain, Chris Smith, History Through Stories, Nanette Noonan, primary education, storytelling, Storytelling Schools
Posted on 11 October, 201621 October, 2024 by Hawthorn Staff

Review: Form Drawing and Colouring: For Fun, Healing and Wellbeing

Form Drawing and Colouring

This review appeared in the wonderful New View magazine, 4th Quarter Autumn 2016, and was written by Trevor Dance. This is an edited extract. To find out more about New View, visit their (new and…

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Category: Book Reviews
Tags: Angela Lord, Form Drawing and Colouring
Posted on 19 September, 20167 November, 2024 by Hawthorn Staff

Review: Sing Me the Creation

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Paul Matthews’ (I quote) ‘source book for poets and teachers, and for all who wish to develop the life of the imagination’ is a classic which I’ve lived with since it first came out it…

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Category: Book Reviews
Tags: Jay Ramsay, Paul Matthews, Sing Me The Creation
Posted on 5 September, 201622 October, 2024 by Hawthorn Staff

Review: Making Woodland Crafts by Patrick Harrison

front cover of Making Woodland Crafts

This review by Philip Davies appeared in issue 119 of Montessori International over the summer

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Category: Book Reviews
Tags: Forest Schools, Making Woodland Crafts, Patrick Harrison
Posted on 1 September, 201622 October, 2024 by Hawthorn Staff

Review: Creative Form Drawing with Children workbooks 1 and 2

Forms drawn by Angela Lord

This wonderful review appears in issue 45 of Juno Magazine

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Category: Book Reviews
Tags: Angela Lord, Creative Form Drawing with Children, Steiner Education, Waldorf education
Posted on 30 August, 201628 October, 2024 by Hawthorn Staff

Review: Adam Curle: Radical Peacemaker by Tom Woodhouse and John Paul Lederach

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From the wonderful Nimue Brown, this review of Adam Curle: Radical Peacemaker.

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Tag: Adam Curle: Radical Peacemaker
Posted on 27 July, 201621 October, 2024 by Hawthorn Staff

Book review: History Through Stories

We were offered the opportunity to review the latest title in the Storytelling Schools Series which we have been following and reviewing since the first book in the series was published. This one is published…

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Category: Book Reviews
Tag: History Through Stories
Posted on 16 June, 201628 October, 2024 by Hawthorn Staff

Book Review: Deep Time

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We were delighted to find out that Deep Time has been recently written about on the fantastic Gods & Radicals website. We have below published a small extract of the article, and encourage you to read…

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Category: Book Reviews
Tags: Anthony Nanson, Deep Time
Posted on 9 May, 201622 October, 2024 by Hawthorn Staff

Review: Findus goes Fishing

cover of Findus Goes Fishing; Sven Nordqvist; 9781907359729

My my, this book has barely been out nine days, and already we are on our third review of it! This one is from the Bookwitch, which is the name of both a wonderful website…

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Category: Book Reviews
Tags: Findus and Pettson, Findus Goes Fishing, Sven Nordqvist
Posted on 4 May, 201622 October, 2024 by Hawthorn Staff

Review: Findus Goes Fishing

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The lovely Adventureswithmonster blog has reviewed Findus Goes Fishing, and we thought we would share it with you all. ‘Oh, what a day. I don’t feel like doing anything.’ …..  It’s a grey Autumn day…

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Category: Book Reviews
Tags: Findus and Pettson, Findus Goes Fishing, Sven Nordqvist
Posted on 3 May, 201622 October, 2024 by Hawthorn Staff

Review: Science through Stories

cover of Science Through Stories

This review of Science Through Stories appeared in issue 10, Winter 2015/2016 of Journal of Emergent Science, and was written by Amy Strange. Many thanks to this fantastic journal! ‘Talk for writing’ has widely accepted…

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Category: Book Reviews
Tags: Chris Smith, Jules Pottle, Science Through Stories
Posted on 20 April, 201624 October, 2024 by Hawthorn Staff

Review: Findus Goes Fishing

cover of Findus Goes Fishing; Sven Nordqvist; 9781907359729

Findus goes Fishing by Sven Nordqvist, translated by Nathan Large, is a book for anyone who’s ever got out of bed the wrong side and felt like nothing at all could improve their day, and…

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Category: Book Reviews
Tags: autumn, Findus and Pettson, Findus Goes Fishing, Sven Nordqvist
Posted on 19 April, 201624 October, 2024 by Hawthorn Staff

Review: Science Through Stories

front cover of Science Through Stories

This wonderful review appeared in the fantastic Montessori International Spring 2016 edition. Many thanks to them. Science Through Stories: Teaching Primary Science with Storytelling by Chris Smith and Jules Pottle – Reviewed by Sue Briggs…

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Category: Book Reviews
Tags: Chris Smith, Jules Pottle, Science Through Stories, Storytelling Schools
Posted on 31 March, 201619 May, 2025 by Hawthorn Staff

Review: Creative Form Drawing with Children Workbook 1

cover of Creative Form Drawing with Children aged 6-10 years

This wonderful review of Creative From Drawing with Children aged 6-10: Workbook 1 was written by @thePNDmonster and published on her blog. What is Form Drawing? For those who are unfamiliar with the concept, form…

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Category: Book Reviews
Tags: Angela Lord, Creative Form Drawing with Children, home education, homeschooling
Posted on 30 March, 201624 October, 2024 by Hawthorn Staff

Review: Sing Me the Creation 2nd edition

Front cover of Sing Me the Creation

This review is from the current issue of New View Quarterly Magazine (2nd Quarter Spring 2016), and was written by Andie Lewenstein. For more information about New View, please see the foot of the page. Many…

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Category: Book Reviews
Tags: Paul Matthews, Sing Me The Creation

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