So after deciding we would take recommendations from peoples and countries we have just rewritten our list. Apologies for any offence caused by us separating out a “people” from a “nation”. Trusting we have done it sensitively enough to resonate with the general view 😉 We have also renamed countries and territories etc to their…
The children and I have been talking again and are thinking that we will also consider a “people” as one of the 180 books we are looking for. Coming from a country with 11 official languages (I know…) we really do understand how many different groups of people can share the same country. If the…
The children and I were chatting about our project again and decided yes we would also like to include books just for the illustrator. There is something amazing about reading a book which turns out to be just as good as a visit to the local art gallery. So please if you know of an…
The children (Anna, turning 6 in Sept and Tom, turning 10 in January) got back from their extended weekend celebrating Father’s Day and we discussed what I had uncovered while they were away. We agreed that we will try to read books by native authors who preferably are still residing in their home country. We…
