ZMKC recalls an early experience of being too creative for a 'creativity-first' school, and explains how it has influenced her career as a blogger... When I was about nine I began exchanging letters with a girl called Paula who was in the year above me at my funny little Froebel school. I don’t ... Read More...
Children
When I typed ‘retro games’ into my browser I was a little surprised at the result. The sites featured were the sort selling ‘retro video games and classic retro gaming’. Atari, Commodore, Ninetendo, Sega, Sinclair and Playstation were not exactly the names I’d anticipated. So I typed in ‘retro toys’ ... Read More...
I have in my possession a little book, subtly entitled: FOUR CONFUSING TALES each illustrated by six UP-TURNABLE PICTURES from the incredible TOPSY-TURVY world of GUSTAVE VERBEEK. It has to be seen to be believed. This Gustave Verbeck was born in 1867 in Nagasaki, the child of Dutch-American parents. Educated in Japan ... Read More...
In our occasional feature we invite guests to select the six cultural links that might sustain them if, by some mischance, they were forced to spend eternity in a succession of airport departure lounges with only an iPad or similar device for company. Today's voyager is Frank Wilson, former book review editor ... Read More...
Do you know, I am increasingly of the opinion that a very large percentage – perhaps the majority - of the best works of literature are children’s books. Each Peach Pear Plum is a work of terrible craft and ingenuity, to be examined with deep concentration and seriousness by tots. The ... Read More...
