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Developing Secure Attachment Through Play offers a range of imaginative and engaging play-based activities, designed to help vulnerable young children forge safe attachments with their caregivers.The book focuses on key developmental stages that may have been missed due to challenging life circumstances, such as social-emotional development, object permanence and physical and sensory development. It also considers pertinent issues including trauma, separation, loss and tra...

Cooking for Competition: What The Judges are Looking for Supplement 2008 was written by Joan Graham in collaboration with Doreen Moore, both of whom have had wide experience as competitors, stewards and judges. Through the years of involvement in agricultural shows and other exhibitions, the writers found ever increasing evidence of the lack of information on presentation of show cookery. The interest shown in the idea for this book has been overwhelming. Supplement 2008 covers classes not...

With over 2,000 copies sold, Cooking for Competition is a unique book of guidelines for judges wishing to brush up on skills and exhibitors wanting to know the basics of presentation of cookery for shows and exhibitions. A way to get an inside view of judging. An excellent little book. Matt Preston in The Ages Epicure section. Cooking for Competition: What the Judges Are Looking For was written by Joan Graham in collaboration with Doreen Moore, both of whom have had wide experience as comp...

This accessible resource contains therapeutic stories and guidance for adults who are supporting young people aged 10–14 in foster, adoptive or kinship families. With a solution-focused approach, the stories are designed to address a range of social and emotional problems, covering topics such as bullying, eating disorders, trauma, parents’ health, homophobia and racism.Each story is accompanied by relevant context and theory, discussion points and creative activities that will sti...

Narrative and Dramatic Approaches to Children’s Life Story with Foster, Adoptive and Kinship Families outlines narrative and dramatic approaches to improve vulnerable family relationships. It provides a model which offers new ways for parents to practise communicating with their children and develop positive relationships.The book focuses on the Theatre of Attachment model - a highly innovative approach which draws from a strong theoretical base to demonstrate the importan...

Life story work is an approach designed to enable traumatized children to explore, question and understand the past events of their lives. It aims to secure their future by strengthening attachment with their carers and providing the opportunity to develop a healthy sense of self and a feeling of wellbeing.This new edited volume documents innovative ways in which life story work has been developed. It draws on the work of nine life story centres based around the world and provides ...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An extraordinary work from the author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Blue NightsIn November 1999, Joan Didion began seeing a psychiatrist because, as she wrote to a friend, her family had had “a rough few years.” She described the sessions in a journal she created for her husband, John Gregory Dunne.For several months, Didion recorded conversations with the psychiatrist in ...

The most beloved fairy tales of Danish author, Hans Christian Andersen, narrated by the very best of British stage and screen talent. Perfect for bedtime, the long car journey or rainy afternoons at home, let Andersen delight and enchant children (and adults) of all ages with characters that stand the test of time.The Princess and the Pea and the Steadfast Tin Soldier by Sir Roger MooreThe Little Match Girl by Ewan McGregorThe Ugly Duckling by Stephen FryThe...

The first of its kind, this book focuses on the value of inclusivity in the tap dance studio, instructing on how to bring the rhythmic world of tap dance into the lives of individuals living with disabilities or mobility issues. No longer should those with mobility challenges be denied the opportunity to enjoy the unique delight, challenge and excitement of tap dancing.Based on the author's inclusive program called Tap for All, this book is part inspirational memoir and part instru...

Internationally acclaimed author Joan Hiatt Harlow bases this riveting historical novel on real-life events. It is 1942, and 14-year-old Jill is spending the summer with her grandmother in the coastal village of Winter Haven, Maine. The U.S. is at war, and Jill hears rumors that German submarines-U-boats-are just off shore. Trying to ignore her fears, Jill notices suspicious activities in town. When she finds a carrier pigeon bearing the message Sonnabend iv, she's sure that something is w...

The Civil War has officially ended and Frances Mary Kelly’s true love, Johnny, is back from the war. But to Frances’s dismay, Johnny is hesitant to marry her.Attempting to ease her aching heart, Frances accepts an offer to go to New York City and escort a group of orphans out West to new homes. Along the way, she must deal with a flood of painful memories and a threatening stranger.Will Frances be able to complete her mission … and return home to find out what her future wil...

It’s 1861, and although Mike Kelly is far younger than the legal age of 16, he and his best friend Todd secretly join up with the Second Kansas Infantry and become army drummer boys. Mike’s dreams of glory end when he’s wounded at the bloody Battle of Wilson’s Creek and must begin a dangerous adventure behind enemy lines.