Polar Boy

It’s been four months since Jodie Wells-Slowgrove and I launched The Story Crowd, bringing literature festivals to primary schools. It’s a lot of fun and a lot of hard work which has left me knowing more than I ever want to know about tax, GST, business law and special superannuation provisions for arts performers. Finally…

I love maps in books. One of my treasured possessions is a beautiful leather bound volume of Lord of the Rings, given as a gift on my 18th birthday. Full of maps including a large fold out. Maps are a wonderful way to visualise a new world. I was an avid fantasy reader long before…

I often talk to upper primary school sudents about the minimalist environment of the 14th century Inuit peoples of Baffin Island who lived above the Arctic Circle. The setting for Polar Boy. So much of what we take for granted – from our lifestyle to the words and images we use to describe things –…

While I was preparing my Book Week Resources for Polar Boy I found many great site chock full of useful information and activity ideas. These sites also contain multiple links to other sites offering various resources to support individual titles or the Safari theme. Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) – activity sheets, display ideas,…

Lately I’ve been finding lots of wonderful new websites. So I thought I would share them around. The best websites are often found by pure chance (Stumble Upon is so well named!). And so it was that a casual tweet mentioning my recently completed Polar Boy Teacher’s Resource Kit led me to Mrs B’s Interactive…

Sometimes Sandy writes and then sometimes she doesn’t. Sometimes she plays around creating teaching resources to go with her books. You can download a Teacher’s Resource Kit for Polar Boy including Interactive Whiteboard activities here. The pictures here are sample screens from the Build an Igloo Quiz. A question is asked about Polar Boy (page…