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Baxter and Rory see the world differently. Rory often wants to race ahead, while Baxter likes to stop and experience the world around him. This book explores how Baxter and Rory journey to the playground with Mum, and Rory learns to see things from Baxter’s view.
Seeing things through Baxter’s eyes means Rory can learn to slow down and appreciate the amazing things around. Baxter has his sensory needs, but he sees and feels things others can, too, if they take the time. The following week, when it’s park visiting time again, it’s evident that Rory has learned that by slowing down, you can see exciting and wonderful things.
As well as celebrating neurodiversity, this engaging, earnest story gently encourages everyone to slow down and take time to see the beauty of the natural world. A book to share and discuss in EYFS and KS1 classrooms as well as with family members.
With heartfelt storytelling and stunning illustrations by Murphy’s Sketches, this book shows that if you slow down, you will see some wonderful things.
‘There is a Season’ is the first children’s book from Kerri Cunningham, also known as Murphy’s Sketches.
This is a wonderful collection of poems to guide you through each season of the year, which is essential for every classroom. It takes you on a journey from April showers in spring to the frosty mornings of winter and everything wonderful in between. There are beautiful poems to be shared as the seasons change, during assemblies or just to enjoy with your class to share a love of poetry.
Celebrating all that nature has to show us and the little things that we can enjoy together throughout the year, it encourages readers to get outside and look for and talk about signs of spring, summer, autumn and winter – also linked to the seasonal change topic in the science National Curriculum.
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