We were very excited to find out that TES magazine had written a review of the Storytelling Schools Model. This article by Helen Ward appeared in TES on the 15th May. And the children all…
TES review of the Storytelling Schools model
News
Research into Storytelling Schools Model released
(A link to the full report is provided at the bottom of the article.) Storytelling Boosts Literacy Education Progress in Deprived London Borough The University of Winchester has launched Jonathan Rooke’s report into the impact of…
Deep Time and ECOZOA joint launch in Bath
Advance Copies: Making Needle Felted Animals
Arrived in this morning, our advance copies of Making Needle Felted Animals. Our office is abuzz with excitement about these lovelies. Review copies will be going out soon! A pile of lovely books. Contents page and…
Making Peg Dolls & More Blog Tour
Making Peg Dolls & More is currently one of our favourite books; it’s inventive, colourful and without a single boring moment. Being the publishers, we are of course a little bit biased. However it’s definitely got…
Storytelling Schools Video
The Storytelling Schools team have made this gorgeous video featuring children and teachers from a storytelling school. It’s wonderful to see the enthusiasm, and to hear some of the reasoning behind this innovative model. Let us…
Hawthorn Press Winter Mini Extra
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…
Making Peg Dolls & More advert
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:
Thursday 16th October, Campaign for 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…
Zimbabwe Reads book donation
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…
A mixed start for the new childcare minister
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.…
Advance Copies: Making Peg Dolls and More
We at Hawthorn Press are very excited to have just received our advance copies of Making Peg Dolls and More!
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…
Hawthorn Press authors honoured with OBEs
Liz Willis and Jenny Daisley, joint chief executives of the Springboard consultancy and authors of the bestselling Springboard Women’s Development Workbook, have both been awarded OBE’s, ‘for services to the Empowerment and Development of Women in…
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Making Peg Dolls book trailer
We are really looking forward to Margaret Bloom’s new book Making Peg Dolls & More. In the meantime, here’s a trailer Margaret made for her first Making Peg Dolls, which Hawthorn Press published last year.…
Storytelling for a Greener World: Tales, Talks and Songs
Friday 11 April 7.30pm at Stroud Subscription Rooms Moving stories of re-connecting with nature and also hard hitting talks by Jonathon Porritt of Forum for the Future and Alida Gersie, co-editor of a new Hawthorn…
Welcome to our new website!
An introduction to all that’s new at Hawthorn Press – a new website and new books for 2014, by publisher, Martin Large, Advent 2013.
