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Teach Your Granny to Text - and Other Ways to Change the World

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BfK No. 174 - January 2009

Cover Story

This issue’s cover illustration by Helen Oxenbury is from Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes by Mem Fox (Walker, 978 1 4063 1592 9, £10.99 hbk). Helen Oxenbury writes about her illustration here. Thanks to Walker Books for their help with this January cover.

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Teach Your Granny to Text - and Other Ways to Change the World

Tanis Taylor
(Walker Books Ltd)
72pp, NON FICTION, 978-1406320718, RRP £10.00, Paperback
8-10 Junior/Middle
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Here’s a full-on approach to everything that’s wrong with our current wasteful and decadent way of life (well, that part of it the Media tell us about). In its patchwork of challenges and remedies we tackle Obesity – ‘walk your dad’, Junk Food – ‘grow something and eat it’, Apathy – ‘stand up for something’, Heat Loss – ‘layer up’, Ignorance – ‘ask why’ and so on; oh, and Non-communication – ‘teach your granny to text’… Often humorous, always to the point and bursting with street (and classroom) credibility, this happy volume interlaced with jokes, stories and puzzles is very much one for personal possession and/or family sharing. Together or alone, the reader(s) can learn that by contributing wool for garments and insulation, manure for gas and soil-improvement, and meat for local consumption, sheep can save the world. Well, hello Dolly! Great fun.

Reviewer: 
Ted Percy
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