Teach music skills with Jolly Music

Jolly Music is a five-year programme aimed at children from age 4. When complete, it will extend up to age 11. Through a repertoire of playground rhymes and songs, children learn to identify musical elements such as pulse, rhythm, pitch, loudness and speed. This learning is reinforced through physical actions, creative activities and musical games. […]

How to create brilliant drawings

Everybody draw! I’ve been making my living drawing pictures in books for over thirty years now, and for almost as long as that, on school and library visits and at book events all over the country, I’ve been encouraging everybody to draw. It’s such an important life skill, incorporating all kinds of useful thought processes […]

What Makes Me Do The Things I Do?

Decision-making can be difficult. Should I own up or tell a lie? Do I give up on something I’m finding hard or try again? Do I have to tidy my room when I just want to relax? Shall I eat the entire bag of sweets or share them? This colorful picture book cleverly addresses many […]