The word Hygiene comes from the Latin word hygieina which means healthy. Hygiene is all of the things we do to protect our health through cleanliness. The current outbreak of novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) that was first reported from Wuhan, China. It has become an emergency for the world and the World Health Organisation (WHO) is working closely with global experts, governments and partners to learn more about the virus, to track the spread of the virus, and to find the best ways to prevent the spread of this outbreak. For generations, washing hands with soap and water has been considered Read more
Submissions to The Little Rebels Award for Radical Children’s Fiction are now open. The Little Rebels Award celebrates children’s books for readers age 0-12 which promote social equality and social justice. Last year’s prize went to Catherine Johnson for Freedom (Scholastic 2019). The prize is administered by booksellers Letterbox Library and Housmans Bookshop on behalf of the Alliance of Radical Booksellers. Publishers are invited to submit relevant books first published in 2019. Full submission guidelines can be found at www.littlerebelsaward.wordpress.com. The closing date for nominations is January 30th 2020. The shortlist will be announced in April 2020 with the winning Read more
Afronaut is a new publishing project from Alanna Max featuring books about and for African children, the Afronauts. Many have set to see themselves in a book, despite the millions of folktales and stories from each culture on the continent. It’s been a dream of mine to play back all the wonderful ‘nganos’, or stories from my childhood in Zimbabwe. But travelling around the continent it’s become very clear that an African childhood is very different from a European or American one. Some of these children experience or witness things that they really shouldn’t. So we knew from the very Read more
