Little: A Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year

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Julie Duckworth's little book, with an enormous heart, will be a source of inspiration and practical ideas for schools to be values-based communities ” a must for the 21st Century. Carol Page’s collection takes us on an exhilarating journey from the trivial to the sublime, turning the ordinary into the extraordinary and encouraging us to embrace life, love and nature with renewed passion and joy.

It’s simple: the children are our future, it’s our moral duty in schools to provide a values based curriculum. We centre attention not just on the materiality of plastics but also on their meanings and how they come to be experienced and lived with in daily life.It shows how the flourishing of mankind really can and does happen in a values led school community and can reach out beyond its own locality. Their mini cross-stitched banners and tiny urban installations touch upon issues of environmentalism, corporate greed and gender equality in a warm and humorous way – quietly encouraging people to reflect upon these subjects in their own space and time. Does this mean our next generation of children will grow up being literate and numerate greedy consumers whose lives are judged by the size of their houses and the latest model BMW on the drive?

This booklet combines prayers from the Bible with other written prayers and exercises to use, as a starting point for a relationship with God.

The purpose of this Little Book is to provide a holistic but condensed overview of the key aspects of plastics as they are produced, con- sumed and disposed of in contemporary consumer culture. Other mistletoes around the world get a mention too, but this is really a celebration of the real thing, the true mistletoe of legend. Values Education is at the heart of many of our schools in Herefordshire, and the quality of their personal development and wellbeing is a testament to this practice and to the individuals who embody it.