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Next in 'Meet the LEB team' is our Head of Being The Voice of Reason. We asked him the same questions and here are his responses: 1. Name your three favourite children's books: Three Billy Goats Gruff Snail and the Whale Swallows and Amazons 2.What are you currently reading After the Crash (not a children’s book) 3.If you were to write a book what would it be about A book about travelling around the world in a 2CV, but first I would have to do it 4.Favourite place to read By a swimming pool

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Next up in 'Meet the LEB team' is our Head of Learning to Read and Early Fiction; Felix. We asked him the same questions, but we warn you, there is a super cute moment coming up in this interview. He knows how to speak to the boss! 1. Name your three favourite books: The Day the Crayons Quit Cave Baby Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy 2. What are you currently reading (or being read) Mister Cleghorns Seal - Mummy's book with Felix A Boy and a Bear in a Boat - Daddy's book with Felix 3. Name your favourite place to read In Mummy's or Daddy's arms (!!!!how super lovely!!!) 4. If you were to write a book what would it be about A book about exploring and going on adventures. Thank you Felix (aged 6). You are a joy to read to and it is so much fun discovering new books with you.

Typecasting Children; Can Books Help to Open Our Minds and Those of Our Children? | Passage

Tea break time? Imagine we have made you a lovely warm beverage and given you this article to read which we recently wrote for Passage. We hope you enjoy it. Please feel free to let us know of other books that you feel help to banish stereotypes. http://www.passage.lu/the-reading-corner/typecasting-children-can-books-help-to-open-our-minds-and-those-of-our-children/

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Next up in our 'Meet the Team' interviews we have Nida Zubair. Nida isn't strictly part of LEB but she definetly is part of the team. Nida creates all our lovely artwork and the story of how we met is really quite charming ;) Let's just say Nida was very insistent we needed help. 1. Name your 3 favourite children’s books The Gruffalo, Roal Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and a few fairy tales in Urdu that my grandmother told me when i was a little girl :) 2. Your favourite place to read My Room and at night (so there is no disturbance) 3. What are you reading right now The Girl on the train 4. If you were to write a book what type of book would it be If i could write a book it would be about "Traveling and being an expat child in a new country" (sharing my experience about how to better settle in new communities). Thank you Nida (aged....over 20), you have been so brilliant in 2015, onto 2016 adventures and ideas.

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Before we tell you all the exciting events and activities we have lined up for 2016, we thought we tell you a bit more about the team here at LEB by asking a few short questions, about books and reading (obviously). And who better to start off than Juliet, the inspiration for LEB and Head of New Books and Ideas. Juliet answered the following questions: 1. Name your three favourite books? I have so many favourite books that I can only put down my most recent ones and they are: Eragon (The Inheritance cycle series) The Hunger games Percy Jackson 2. What are you currently reading? Eldest (The Inheritance Cycle) 3. Your favourite place to read? On a soft sofa with blankets by the fireside IN SILENCE! 4. If you were to write a book, what type of book would it be? A fantasy adventure or a real life drama Thank you Juliet (age 11) x

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Happy 2016 Bookworms. Thank you for a wonderful 2015. We had a new team member join us, an amazing Summer Reading Challenge, we all fell in love with great books, met some incredible authors and ranked as high as pizza. Looking forward to lots of fun and new books in 2016.