![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() These skills empower children, and go a long way in keeping them safe from abuse - ensuring they grow up as assertive and confident teenagers and adults. Parents, caregivers, and educators have a duty of care to protect children by teaching them Body Safety skills. Approximately 20% of girls, and 8% of boys will experience sexual abuse before their 18th birthday (Pereda, et al, 2009). Children will be empowered to say in a strong and clear voice, "This is my body! What I say goes!" Through age-appropriate illustrations and engaging text this book, written by the author of 'No Means No!' and 'Some Secrets Should Never Be Kept', will teach children the following crucial and empowering skills in personal body safety: - identifying safe and unsafe feelings - recognizing early warning signs - developing a safety network - using the correct names for private parts - understanding the difference safe and unsafe touch - understanding the difference between secrets and surprises - respecting body boundaries. "The crucial skills taught in this book will help children to protect their bodies from inappropriate touch. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Now I wish I still had it, because if Clarke is good enough to make the weird world of Piranesi feel real to me, I trust her enough to try it again. ![]() I gave up on Clarke’s earlier novel Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell – not just gave up, but gave it up, donating it to the book sale after a couple of failed attempts to get into it. By training and inclination I am (more or less) a realist the two genres I always have the least success with reading are fantasy and science fiction. Piranesi is a strange, wondrous, mysterious novel, the kind of book that makes me marvel that someone ever had the idea to write it, much less carried it out so that a reader like me could be moved and transported by it. I note with precision the doors I must pass through, the rights and lefts that I must take, the statues on the walls that I must pass. I imagine I am walking the path from the vestibule to the hall. When this world becomes too much for me, when I grow tired of the noise and the dirt and the people, I close my eyes and I name a particular vestibule to myself then I name a hall. ![]() In my mind are all the halls, the endless procession of them, the intricate pathways. In my mind are all the tides, their seasons, their ebbs and their flows. ![]() ![]() To pass the time, he decides to try and solve one of history's most famous puzzles: did Richard II really kill the Princes in the Tower? Peter Gilmore stars as Alan Grant. The Daughter of Time: in hospital with a broken leg, Inspector Grant is bored. Can solicitor Robert Blair prove the women's innocence? An abridged reading by Edward Petherbridge. The Franchise Affair: a 15-year-old schoolgirl accuses Marion Sharpe and her mother of kidnapping and beating her. Julia Foster stars as Miss Pym, with Joan Sims as Henrietta. Miss Pym Disposes: invited by her friend Henrietta to lecture at a physical education college, expert psychologist Miss Lucy Pym little suspects that among the healthy young women is someone with a mind sick enough to commit murder. ![]() A full-cast dramatisation of this iconic story is included here, along with adaptations of four of her other much-loved mystery novels.Ī Shilling for Candles: an independent-minded chief constable's daughter meets a suspected killer in this re-imagining of Josephine Tey's 1936 comedy thriller featuring Inspector Grant, starring Giles Fagan and Tilly Gaunt. The most famous of these, The Daughter of Time, was acclaimed the greatest crime novel of all time by the Crime Writers' Association. Scottish novelist and playwright Josephine Tey was one of the greatest Golden-Age crime writers and the author of eight mysteries, including six featuring Scotland Yard inspector Alan Grant. ![]() Dramatisations and readings of five of Josephine Tey's classic mystery novels. ![]() |