What Would Happen if Bees Disappeared?
What would happen if bees disappeared? Discover why bees are so important, how pollination works, and simple ways children can help protect pollinators.
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Environmental Activists and Indigenous Tribes Honoured in Animals Eco-Fiction
Animals in the Forest: The Day Terrible Things Came is much more than a story from the animals’ point of view. It’s also “a story to save the Earth“! How does one story save the Earth, you ask? The story itself is about an increasingly concerning environmental issue – humans ‘developing’ land where wild animals live.
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Bees and Other Pollinators – New Eco-Worksheet!
The 20th of May is World Bee Day! It’s the day we acknowledge the more than 16,000 species of bees on this planet and how they, and other pollinators, provide food for humans and other animals, sustain biodiversity and help Mother Nature. In celebration of bees and all pollinators, I’ve created another set of WonderWorksheets
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Poetry Published for Erbacce-Prize Poetry Competition 2021
In addition to being long-listed in the erbacce-prize for Poetry Competition of 2020, my poems were short-listed for publication with other featured poets for the erbacce-prize for Poetry Competition of 2021. Alongside two of the special featured poets, Aaron Saint John and Kierstin Bridger, some of my poetry and that of 12 other poets was
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Plastic in our Oceans – New Eco-Worksheet!
Plastic is a wonderful, useful, clever thing we humans invented and now can’t seem to live without. From bags that hold our shopping, to plant pots, to computer keyboards, to furniture, to pens, to containers for foodstuffs… It’s everywhere. But I was saddened recently to be reminded of how most of the plastic thrown away
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Back to Basics: 5 Fun and Easy Activities You Can Do At Home With Your Kids
Home-schooling has been an exciting novelty for many children and parents. But it’s been months since schools closed and if you weren’t used to being a parent-teacher, having your children at home and racking your brain for engaging educational activities can be taxing. And now, with a few more weeks of summer holidays looming, and
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Self-Publishing: A Guide to File Prep & Uploads for Ingramspark & Amazon KDP
Many authors are ditching the long waiting times and the fierce competition typical of traditional routes to publishing their books. And since there are so many ways to become published nowadays, you don’t have to have an agent or be rejected thirteen times in order to get your book in front of customers. Jane Friedman,
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New: Interactive, Code-Cracking Novel for Middle-Graders Released
Books are wonderful. They allow you to lose yourself in another world. What if there was a book which not only transported you to another part of the universe, but in which you must crack a code along the way? The Space Hamster and the Universal Code, standalone sequel to Ilnoblet Elmer and the Alien
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May 25th is Towel Day!
Towel Day? Towel Day is a fun day celebrated annually on May 25th, when fans of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams go around all day with a towel. Why? Because a towel is listed as one of the essential and most useful items to have with you when hitchhiking around the
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New! Interactive Worksheet: ‘Trees in Numbers’
Trees are not only life-saving storers of carbon, creators of oxygen, and bringers of peace and greenery, but there are large numbers of them on Earth. Three trillion, in fact! Unfortunately humans are depleting them by 10 billion trees every year. And while planting baby trees to replace the trees we’ve chopped down is important
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