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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]

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]

Childrens Literature Lesson: Why Do We Feel Important?


Hello :) Eleanor Edwards from UK charity Give A Brick here. Welcome to the first in a series of posts based on or around quotes from children’s books. At first glance this may seem like a rather strange choice of subject matter for the blog of a 3D artist. Take into account that this particular artist has told me, more than once, that she doesn’t want children [Read More]