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The Lost Homework

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In this new addition to our ‘Travellers’ Tales’ series, Sonny devotes his weekend to helping his neighbours and fellow Travellers with a variety of tasks. He uses many skills, from calculating the amount of fuel needed for a journey, to restoring a caravan. In fact, the only thing he doesn’t do over the weekend is his homework – his workbook is missing! What will his teacher say? This new picture book by Richard O’Neill champions the idea that many skills learned at home are as important as those learned at school.

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Part of the Traveller Tales series by Richard O’Neill, this story invites warm and authentic discussions about what learning might look like for different people once they step outside the classroom.

Sonny is usually on top of his schoolwork, but a hectic family wedding weekend gets in the way. He’s busy painting the wedding cart, working out routes and helping out his neighbours. He never even notices his books going missing. Dreading the Monday morning walk to his teacher’s desk, without his homework books, Sonny is surprised to find that his weekend of hands-on learning is valued in ways he never expected.

This empathetic story from Child’s Play is a brilliant window into Traveller heritage as well as a celebration of different learning experiences and ways to be clever.

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