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Why daydreaming is good for your child
By Catherine O'Dolan on 30/06/2010 11:52:37
Don't worry if your child has a tendency to drift off into the occasional reverie - it's very healthy for her!
Here's why a little daydreaming has powerful effects…■ Daydreaming occupies as much as one-third of our lives and the average thought lasts 14 seconds.■ The latest research by the University of British Colombia says that daydreaming occupies more
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Junior's Top 100 Children's Books 31-40
By Catherine O'Dolan on 20/10/2011 09:30:55
The best children's books in the world, voted by Junior readers
31. Mog The Forgetful Cat by Judith Kerr HarperCollins, £5.99If family cats are independent creatures who wander off and do their own thing, Mog is no different. Often the moggy is daydreaming her way into a series of adventures, and in this book
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Zoo Girl
By Lucy Phillips on 14/06/2011 16:19:48
Zoo Girl is highly commended in our Picture Book Of The Year category!
Elliott’s book has all the hallmarks of a classic. “Stories of feral Mowgli-esque children have always fascinated me and as a child I adored animals and daydreamed of living amongst them,” says Elliott. “I’d had the rough idea for Zoo Girl buzzing around
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Do you know someone with street smart style?
By Catherine Hudson on 10/02/2012 10:21:19
Has your child has got natural style and major fashion credentials? If so, make sure you enter them into our street style competition; part of the fabulous Junior Design Awards 2012
Mini fashionistas show us their styleCalling all fashionistas! Have you often daydreamed of seeing your child in the pages of Junior Magazine? Do you think that they could teach our fashion team a thing or two about style? Well, here is your chance
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Rebecca Elliott on creating Zoo Girl
By Helen McKay-Ferguson on 30/05/2011 19:18:08
Highly Commended in our Junior Design Awards category Picture Book Of The Year, author and illustrator Rebecca Elliott gives us the back story to her latest book, Zoo Girl
it into a solid picture book.I always try to write about what excited me as a child in the hope that children will share that same excitement. Stories of feral Mogli-esque children have always fascinated me and as a child I adored animals and daydreamed
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What should you do if you think your baby sister is an alien?
By Helen McKay-Ferguson on 30/05/2011 21:02:53
Send her off into space, of course! At least, that's according to young Alfie, the hero of Rachel Bright's My Sister Is An Alien
me smile. I think the truth is we all have selective hearing on occasion. Because I wasthe sort of child who was prone to the odd day-dream or two, there was more than one occasion when I got in trouble for not quite hearing everything in class. I
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Impressive India
By Junior on 04/08/2011 13:33:48
Ancient history, stunning architecture, aromatic cuisine, spectacular street theatre...India is a place full of delights
daydreaming, I could never think of one. The only time I did, he seemed irritated: “As I told you already…” Ooops, I must have missed that bit.For Grace and Joe, the highlights of Delhi were to be found inside the hotel. They loved the hotel’s playroom, which
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The Top 100 Children's Books
By Junior's discerning readers on 20/04/2010 14:20:18
So here they are! The best books for children of all time, voted by you.
creatures who wander off and do their own thing, Mog is no different. Often the moggy is daydreaming her way into a series of adventures, and in this book, the first ever Mog story, she forgets she can’t fly when she chases birds and forgets that she has a
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