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JoJo Gnome’s Book Nook – Reading recommendations for ages 3-6
JoJo Gnome Book Nook (January 2021)
Book recommendations for ages 3-6
Children love stories also teachers and parents love bringing their children the best tales they can find. I’m often asked what stories or books that I would recommend for younger children … so I have decided to have a section in JoJo Gnome’s Story Podcast called JoJo Gnome’s Book Nook.
JoJo Gnome’s Story Podcast is made for children age 3-6 to listen to in the classroom, at home, outside in the car … in fact anywhere, as stories are beautifully portable. I know that adults listen along with their wee ones so I’ve decided to have 5 minutes at the end of the podcast just for the grown ups – JoJo Gnome’s Book Nook. I will be including a range of books from new books just published, to classics that have stood the test of time. There will be stories from mainstream publishers and also small independent companies. This isn’t a literary critique, just me bringing books I’ve enjoyed to share with you with your wee ones.
In podcast #25 JoJo Gnome’s Noisy Walk the books chosen all use sound in an interesting way.
“We’re Going On A Bear Hunt” written by Michael Rosen and Illustrated by Helen Oxenbury, published by Simon & Schuster.
My Big Shouting Day written and Illustrated by Rebecca Patterson, published by Jonathan Cape.
JoJo Gnome and the Sound Machine is written and illustrated by Jo Hall, sold online site.
Tune into the first Book Nook in podcast #25 and find out why these books are creating a bit of noise and worth picking up.
Next time I’ll be looking at some books with numbers in them.
JoJo finds inspiration in Edinburgh
Edinburgh Inspiration and Christmas pudding
Sitting in the garden, on what is probably the last lovely day in summer, waiting for the paint to dry on the back of my Sound Machine Quilt just now. The front is shaping up quite nicely …so fingers crossed it all fits together. Typically I am making it up as I go along!
Spent most of last week working in Edinburgh at the Festival. I love this time of year in the capital with all the buskers and mad looking people handing out flyers. Top favourite sights were a really sad looking puppet (which seemed to follow me round the town), the very tasty food market just off Princes Street and the Man Ray exhibition at the Portrait Gallery. I didn’t know what to expect from the exhibition but found out quite a bit about this surrealist photographer and documenter of the literati and glitterati of his time. I hadn’t realised he was also a painter and surprise surprise I have a couple of postcards of his work on one of my mood boards (love those kind of coincidences). Best of all was the bus I spotted with the exhibition advertised on the side…much better than buying a tee shirt, catching the bus!
On the book front, met a couple of interesting children’s authors at the Edinburgh Book Festival this week. Adam Britten is a teacher who writes about Super Heroes and did a great talk. He really made the young folk in the audience think about the stereotypes they carry with them and challenged the whole notion of heroes. Delighted when he shared his all time hero as Stephen Hawking. Another author who caught my attention was Gareth P Jones, his latest book is called Constable & Toop and is all about Victorian ghosts. He gave a great interactive talk, which included the opportunity for the young audience to decide what direction the story was going and finished up by playing the ukulele. Both of these authors really underline the fact that when an author gets up in front of children with their work they have to really lift the work off the page and engage. It might not just be enough to write a great book!
As for my writing, the coming week will be about Christmas as I am putting finishing touches to drawings for my book, which will be out in November … working title JOJO GNOME AND THE SMELL OF CHRISTMAS. Drawing Christmas pudding is making me want to eat some. The sad thing is they will be in the shops any day now!