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Children's Literature Lesson: Are you Sparky?

Welcome to a brand new week everyone Eleanor from Give A Brick and Writing Smiles here again with the Shades of a Dream Literary adventure. We have one last life lesson from Roald Dahl’s Danny, The Champion of the World before visiting The BFG together next week. As an aside, I know Heather is looking forward to that one. She tells me it’s a book she [Read More]

Children’s Literature Lesson: Giants and Snozzcumbers

Hello again Welcome to another Friday Shades of a Dream Literary adventure with me, Eleanor from Give A Brick. If you’ve been around these parts before, you’ll know that we finished reading Danny the Champion of the World last week. As promised elsewhere, we’re now reading The BFG (The Big Friendly Giant), a personal favourite of Heather I’m told.

Personally speaking, his rich palette of is one [Read More]

Children's Literature Lesson 3: Greed

Hello Welcome to Friday. Eleanor from Give A Brick with you again today And welcome to our penultimate literary adventure with Roald Dahl’s Danny, Champion of the World. It is a pleasure to have you here and I hope you are enjoying the little gaunt with Danny and his Dad. Did you get a copy of [Read More]

Semester Scramble: Aftermath

So what do you do when you finish a huge project that’s been sapping your time and energy for months?

If you’ve ever been a student (or worked in an environment with tight, immutable deadlines) you’ll know exactly what that’s like. You rush through everything right up until the last minute in order to finish it all on time. Sometimes you work late into the night for a few weeks ahead of the [Read More]

Childrens Literature

Welcome to another Shades of a Dream literary adventure with me, Eleanor, from Give A Brick. If you were with us last week you’ll remember that my daughter and I have been reading Roald Dahl’s Danny, Champion of the World. Since we read faster than I can write, Danny has now been usurped by The BFG but you’ll have to wait until June 11th [Editors note: date has changed due to reposting [Read More]