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It's In our house these are some of the books have been loved, read and re-read while also giving us a look through fresh eyes and others experiences, lives & challenges.

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2020-06-09

We're celebrating great for Empathy Day!

The Mega Magic Hair Swap by is a joyful and fun story about celebrating differences and loving yourself from head to toe.

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2020-06-09

It's Empathy is our ability to understand others & feel their emotions, and it's never been more important for us to have empathy for each other. One of the best ways to do this is to Which are your favourite books for empathy? Here's some of ours!

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2020-06-09

It’s and it really couldn’t be coming at a better time. I’ve always advocated the power of children’s books in developing empathy. Here are just a few of my personal favourites that I feel do just that.

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2020-06-09

Picked 4 for empathy day. Could have chosen countless others. There's empathy to be explored in every book if you look for it and draw it out with children. So often, it's as much about *how* you read something as *what* you're reading.

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2020-06-09

It’s and it seems like we need this day more than ever. Here are a couple of my favourite picture books that might be just perfect for today.

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2020-06-09

To celebrate I wanted to share these books with you, that support children's understanding of feelings and allow them to walk in other people's shoes. During these unusual times, it is important that we talk about feelings and these books are a great way to do so❤️

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2020-06-09

Happy everyone! Many thanks for sending in your questions for my chat with , which we're hoping to record this week. The 6 winners of our giveaway should now have received an email and copies of and/or will be sent out very soon!

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2020-06-09

Happy I'm sharing some of my fav books for building empathy📚2nd rec is MG fairytale adventure LAMPIE CHILDREN OF THE SEA , shortlisted for , it celebrates friendship, freedom & the right to be different

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2020-06-09

It's Empathy Day! Roksana from Hillingdon Libraries has created these literacy worksheets themed around empathy and emotions. There are easy, medium and advanced sheets for children to try. ^N

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2020-06-09

It’s We are not born with a finite amount of empathy. The more we read the more we gain. So keep reading and give children books that expand their knowledge about the world and its injustices. In light of recent events, we have never needed change more.

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2020-06-09

Offer a helping paw on ❤️

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2020-06-09

Happy everyone! Here I’m proud to big up cheeky Nell from The Invincibles by and myself! One of our best main fiction characters.

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2020-06-09

We’re so pleased to share ‘It’s a No-Money Day’ with you!
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We’d like to say a huge thank you to & we can’t wait to welcome Kate to Manchester Libraries when our doors are back open!

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2020-06-08

This is a great activity pack of brilliant empathy-boosting things to do at home by ! Tomorrow is so why not create a 'theme' for the day to really engage your children in these activities! Click the link to access resources - https://t.co/4iUUtAqKXp

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2020-06-08

Tomorrow is - the perfect day to find and start an empathy-boosting book Train your brain with stories.

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2020-06-08

It's publication day for the paperback of ! good news if you didn't get one of the hardbacks in time. Congratulations to and we are very proud this book is part of 's 2020 collection

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2020-06-05

Make sure you tune in to our Facebook page at 2pm on Monday 8 June for a fabulous reading from our guest author !

We still have our fantastic programme every day at 2pm until 9 June so keep checking in!

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2020-06-04