Philip Pullman, Anne Fine, Michael Morpurgo and current Children's Laureate Michael Rosen are leading a rapidly growing movement of writers, illustrators, librarians, independent booksellers and others working in children's books to hit back at the publishers forthcoming age-guidance on children's books. Under the campaign slogan "No to Age Banding," the campaign is swiftly gathering signatures. […]
Philip Pullman, Anne Fine, Michael Morpurgo and current Children's Laureate Michael Rosen are leading a rapidly growing movement of writers, illustrators, librarians, independent booksellers and others working in children's books to hit back at the publishers forthcoming age-guidance on children's books. Under the campaign slogan "No to Age Banding," the campaign is […]
The British novelist, Rose Tremain, has won the prestigious Orange Prize for women's fiction for her book, The Road Home, which tells the timely tale of an eastern European immigrant. Tremain, described by the judges as "always the bridesmaid, never the bride", was presented with the £30,000 ($61,000) prize at the award ceremony at the […]
Psychology of Humor Because humor is such a powerful emotion, it is a good idea to understand (if that is possible), the psychological basis of humor. More specifically, what makes laughter and the humorous situation "work". Your assignment, from now on, is, when you hear people laugh, to ask yourself, "Why did they laugh"? This […]
The 2008 Jane Addams Children's Book Awards have been announced. The Escape of Oney Judge: Martha Washington's Slave Finds Freedom by Emily Arnold McCully (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) won in the category of Books for Younger Children, and We Are One: The Story of Bayard Rustin by Larry Dane Brimner (Boyds Mills/Calkins Creek) won in […]
One important planning consideration is what you’re going to accomplish each day. In his role as the dean of creativity for the Walt Disney Companies, Mike Vance had a strategy he called DO-DOING-DONE. The idea is to start a task in the DO column, move it to DOING quickly, and then move it to DONE […]
Compare your reading skills Compare your skills to others!This is a fun quick interactive test of your reading speed comprehension vocabulary It's FREE and only takes six minutes. Find out how your skills compare. Your results are reported at the end of the questions. This test is standardized against the results […]
Kilbaha Multimedia Publishing is offering every primary school in Australia a FREE copy of the 48 page Mathematics workbook "In the Running for the Olympics" as a resource in 2008 in the lead up to the Beijing Olympics. Teachers interested in receiving this FREE resource should send an email to chemas@chemas.com with details of their […]
You can insert an Organization Chart by clicking Insert > Diagram > Organization Chart. You will though realize that if the shapes are in incorrect order, you cannot reposition or reorder the shapes in the organization chart while AutoLayout is on. Here's one simple and neat trick to reorder the shapes. Read on ...
Why the Most Original Minds in Business Win by William C. Taylor (Author), Polly G. Labarre (Author) From the Reviews This is a business book thankfully written by people in the business of writing. The writers' lexicon and grammatical use well exceeds that ordinarily used by the "big names" in corporate America who too […]
