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Tag Archives: Empathy Day
2025 Read for Empathy Collection Launch
Today Empathy Lab launches the 2025 Read for Empathy collection of books for 3-16-year-olds, alongside calling for empathy and emotional skills to be prioritised. Now in its 9th year, this unique list of 70 titles for children and young people aged … Continue reading
Posted in Announcements and Awards
Tagged books, childrens_books, education, emotional-intelligence, empathy, Empathy Day, Mental Health, relationships
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Reading Matters – children’s book news
Welcome to this week’s look at what has been happening in the world of children’s books recently. What I’m reading… This week I would like to highlight books from The Emma Press, an independent publisher, specialising in poetry, short fiction … Continue reading
Reading Matters – children’s book news
Welcome to the first Reading Matters round up of the summer term. It would probably be futile to try and include everything that happened over the Easter break but I have attempted to sift through what people may have missed … Continue reading
Reading Matters – children’s book news
Welcome to this week’s round up of the latest news from the world of children’s books. Empathy Day raised the profile of children’s books and their importance this week and it was encouraging to see how much attention this initiative … Continue reading
Reading Matters – children’s book news
This week’s collection of news has been gathered in a slightly haphazard fashion due to life in general getting in the way of my organisation but I hope that I have managed to include something that is of interest or … Continue reading
Reading Matters – children’s book news
Hello and welcome to another look at what has been happening in the world of children’s books. It has been a week when I’ve struggled a little to keep up so I hope I haven’t missed anything hugely important. This … Continue reading
Empathy Lab Announce the 2021 Read For Empathy book collection
“Empathy is learnable – only 10% of our empathic ability is genetic. Scientists say that reading builds empathy, and this collection will play a direct role in helping raise an empathy-educated generation.” Miranda McKearney OBE, EmpathyLab’s founder EmpathyLab have revealed … Continue reading
Posted in Announcements and Awards
Tagged childrens_books, empathy, Empathy Day, kindness, picturebooks, resources
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Reading Matters – news from the world of children’s books
Hello and welcome to another round up of the latest news from the world of children’s books. This week has been a whirlwind of book activity including Empathy Day when we celebrated the profound effect that quality children’s literature can … Continue reading
School Libraries – empathy factories for their communities
This week we mark Empathy Day created by Empathy Lab to build children’s empathy with the aid of high quality literature. Our world today has possibly never been in greater need of empathy. The organisers of this initiative have, despite the … Continue reading
Posted in Reading
Tagged childrens_books, education, empathy, Empathy Day, Kids books, Libraries, Reading, School, school_libraries
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Can You See Me? by Libby Scott and Rebecca Westcott – Book 1 of 20 Books of Summer 2020
Sometimes fiction makes difficult subjects accessible for children, sometimes it helps young readers understand people who are different to themselves and sometimes it encourages children to speak up about their own difficulties with increased confidence. This powerful collaboration between Libby … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review
Tagged 20 Books of Summer, 20BooksofSummer, autism, childrens_books, empathy, Empathy Day, reviews
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Library Lady 