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5 Young Adult Reading Recommendations from Ginger & Pickles
1. Long Way Down: The Graphic Novel by Jason Reynolds, illus. by Danica Novgorodoff (2020) 12+ According to Will, when you lose someone...
Sep 28, 20212 min read
Meadows Dental Practice
For expertise in the management of children's dental health meet Kathryn Harley. Kathryn Harley graduated from Guy’s Hospital Dental...
Sep 22, 20211 min read
Building a new normal for your family
It’s an unfortunate fact. Sometimes couples make the decision to separate and it’s rarely an easy decision. However, if you are married...
Sep 21, 20213 min read
Book Review: The Guinea Pig Gardener and the Great Escape
The Guinea Pig Gardener and the Great Escape (5+) by Caroline Pankhurst Illus. Maude Smith, Jelly Bean Books 2021 Being a lover of most...
Aug 27, 20211 min read
Children’s Book Recommendations – August 2021
5 Interactive Books for Babies and Toddlers This month’s recommendations use a range of interactive devices, including scanimation,...
Aug 2, 20212 min read
Book Review: Under Grandma’s Table
by Emma O’Connor Under Grandma’s Table (2+) by Emma O’Connor, Illus. Rachael Gray, The Book Reality Experience, 42pp; £12.99 If you buy...
Aug 2, 20212 min read
Praise The Effort Not The Outcome
Believe it or not…we are now only a few weeks away from the beginning of the next school year! And what a year it has been…a year we...
Jul 30, 20213 min read
Summer Reading Recommendations from Ginger and Pickles Bookshop
Image above: Ginger and Pickles Children's Bookshop, 51 St Stephen St, Stockbridge, Edinburgh EH3 5AH Younger Readers The Iron Man by Ted...
Jun 28, 20215 min read
A later start to formal schooling?
New 12-Minute Documentary. Award-winning filmmaker, Saskia Anley-McCallum, specialises in directing films about education. In her most...
Jun 25, 20211 min read
Children’s Book Recommendations - June 2021
In memory of Eric Carle (June 1929 – May 2021) Do you know the difference between a chrysalis and a cocoon? When he wrote The Very Hungry...
May 31, 20212 min read
Book Review: The Guinea Pig Gardeners by Caroline Pankhurst
The Guinea Pig Gardeners (5+) by Caroline Pankhurst Illus. Maude Smith, Jelly Bean Books 2020 Relatively few of us grow our own food. So...
May 17, 20212 min read
How Useful are Nursery Care Inspectorate Reports?
Putting Care Inspectorate reports in context Dr Irene Pollock, Edinburgh Montessori Arts School and University of Glasgow Early learning...
May 3, 20213 min read
Children’s Book Recommendations - May 2021
5 Classics To Treasure My parents first introduced (most of) these stories to me when I was about 3. Then I ‘read and reread’ the...
Apr 29, 20212 min read
April Book Recommendations
7 Fairy Tales with a Twist Traditional fairy tales are not currently in vogue. And this is perhaps unsurprising, for the world they...
Mar 29, 20212 min read
Book Recommendations from 0 - 10 years
Here are six titles guaranteed to transport, enrich and entertain you and your child. We have scoured online bookshop listings, reader...
Mar 1, 20212 min read
Rebuilding a career after children
Returning to the workplace can be challenging for any mother, but after eight years as a stay-at-home mum, Alicia Cowley decided the time...
Feb 8, 20212 min read
Choosing an independenteducation for your child
WE ASK ALISON HERBERT, DEPUTY DIRECTOR AT THE SCOTTISH COUNCIL OF INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS, ABOUT NURSERIES AT INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS. As a...
Jan 14, 20212 min read
Why be a chorister at St Mary’s Music School?
Does your child enjoy singing? Are they due to start P4 or P5 next year? Being a chorister at St Mary’s is a highly rewarding experience....
Jan 14, 20212 min read
Maths and Literacy Resources for Structured Home-learning
The following series cover all ages and levels. So when ordering books, you will need to source the right level for your child. If in...
Jan 6, 20211 min read
Advice From Alison: Primary Tutor
Alison is one of Edinburgh’s most successful tutors. She has a BA in Psychology and a masters in the Anthropology of Children and Child...
Jan 6, 20212 min read
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