Posts Tagged “Bookworm Wednesday”
It’s always nice to find a new Christmas book to build on the excitement, especially when you have a SN child who hasn’t always understood what Christmas was all about. I’d seen the “Santa is coming to..” books in shops in town and wondered exactly what they’d include, would it include our village, which is […]
I enjoyed reading and dissecting historical novels during English Literacy in school, so when Mumsnet offered me the chance to read and review Harvest by Jim Crace, shortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize, I was really looking forward to it. The story is set in a rural village during an unknown time, a story […]
I’m not an extrovert, quite the opposite. The thought of going into a room full of people and *jazz-handing* whilst saying “Hi, it’s me!” would send me into a flat-spin, I just couldn’t do it. I remember doing work experience at school and reading the report at the end of it which said something like […]
It’s always nice to get the Christmas books out in the run up to Christmas, D will very happily sit and read them as part of her evening routine. These are just a few that I picked up this morning, but there are more, lurking around. Her absolute favourite Christmas book for the last couple […]
As regular readers of this blog will know, I have a couple of avid readers in T and D. I’m so pleased they love to read and get away from tablets and apps, books can just transport you into another world, a world of imagination. I saw the book above in our local bookshop and […]
One of the misconceptions about individuals with autism is that they have no imagination. Based on experiences with T and D, I’d suggest that it’s more that imagination is impaired, ie they’re unsure how to process it. D is very into her reading (as is T) and she produced this comic on Sunday, which delighted […]
Today’s Bookworm Wednesday is a poem, not a book. "If" by Rudyard Kipling was my Grandma’s favourite poem. It was a very applicable poem to her, she was a midwife in the 1940’s and gave birth to my mum in 1942 not knowing if her husband would come home from the war. Thankfully her "handsome […]
Today’s choice for Bookworm Wednesday came by chance, it was a book chosen by D’s teacher for her reading homework. I found it very interesting to read the first few chapters with her. The book is based on a true story, that of Walter Tull, an orphan sent to an East End orphanage with his […]
Regular readers of my blog may remember that I reviewed a Dirty Bertie book – http://www.autismmumma.com/dirty-bertie-dinosaur-a-book-review – several weeks ago, today’s #BookwormWednesday is by the same author but aimed at young female readers. Angela Nicely appears in the Dirty Bertie books and Bertie has the favour returned in this book. Angela is just as michevious […]
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