Three Favourite Educational Picture Books

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1. THREE CHEERS FOR WOMEN!

The book is packed with facts, quotes and jokes. Author, Marcia Williams profiles inspirational women, (from all over the world and throughout history), in a comic strip format. From writers to warriors and astronauts to activists.

The book profiles:
Cleopatra - Egyptian Queen 
Boudicca -Warrior Queen
Joan of Arc -Young Warrior
Elizabeth I -Tudor Queen
Mary Wollstonecraft - Author
Jane Austen - Novelist
Florence Nightingale - Nursing Pioneer
Marie Curie - Physicist 
Eleanor Roosevelt - Human Right Activist
Amelia Earhart - Pilot
Frida Kahlo - Painter; (see b/w image below and FIGURE 1 and FIGURE 2)
Anne Frank - Writer 
Wangari Maathai; Environmentalist
Mae C. Jemison - the first African-American woman to go into Space (see video below in which Dr. Jemison shares her personal stories of what it was like to go into space, and talks about the mentors who helped make it possible. Dr Jemison goes on to talk about Science Education) See also FIGURE 3
Cathy Freeman - Olympian
Malala Yousafzai - Children's & Women's Rights Activist

also includes a 'wall' of fame of other short bios spread across three pages including Elizabeth Fry (Gurney) an English Prison Reformer from Norwich UK


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image source: https://www.fridakahlo.org

 Frida Kahlo - Mexican Artist  image source: https://www.fridakahlo.org

FIGURE 1 : Marta Patricia Porcel. Museo Frida Kahlo

FIGURE 2 : profile of Frida Kahlo from the book "Three Cheers for Women" 'by Marcia Williams

FIGURE 3 : profile of Mae C Jemison from the book "Three Cheers for Women" 'by Marcia Williams

2. Say Hi to Hedgehogs! 

This is a nature storybook about hedgehogs suitable for children around reception class age or as an anytime read for young nature-lovers. Author and illustrator, Jane McGuinness introduces the Hedgehog; we follow this little creature through the course of one year. Learn what hedgehogs like to eat, how they hunt for their food and where they build their nests. The story is told through gentle words and charming pictures, supported by a subtext full of 'hedgehoggy' facts. At the end of the book there's advice on how to help hedgehogs survive the winter by making our homes and gardens "hedgehog-friendly"

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Below is award winning Hedgehog Close, a short film by not-for-profit organisation - The British Hedgehog Preservation Society and a diagrammatic 'how to build' a Hedgehog Home courtesy of Derbyshire Wildlife Trust

Hedgehog Home courtesy of Derbyshire Wildlife Trust

3. How Does My Home Work?

The third title in a series of process books for Key Stage 1 learning. This stylishly illustrated book explains how our homes are supplied with electricity, water and gas. The book is by Chris Butterworth and illustrated by Lucia Gaggiotti. Mechanical processes required to produce and operate the things in our homes is explained. The journey of water for example, describing how rainfall gets collected up from reservoirs and sent to factories to be treated and tested, before being piped to our homes. Butterworth also explains how electricity is made and where the gas we use in our boilers comes from. This process book succeeds in being child-centred and friendly, but also includes informative information.

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