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May 1, 2002/in Useful Organisations /by Richard Hill
This article is featured in BfK 134 May 2002
This article is in the Useful Organisations Category

Useful Organisations No.21

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The Thimble Press
Lockwood
Station Road
Woodchester
Stroud
Glos.
GL5 5EQ
Tel: 01453 755566
Fax: 01453 878599

Email: thimblepress@onetel.net.uk

The Thimble Press concentrates on experience-based writing by exceptional readers. It has been publishing articles (in the journal Signal, three per year), booklets and books about children’s books since 1970. The Signal Bookguide by Jill Bennett, Learning to Read with Picture Books (1979), is still in print, as is Picture Books 9-13 by Elaine Moss, who first formulated the idea in Signal in 1978. In Not a Perfect Offering Liz Waterland, author of Read with Me, tells a story of what starting school feels like to a four-year-old. Margaret Meek’s How Texts Teach What Readers Learn is the classic text about the interrelation of literacy and literature; Jane Doonan’s Looking at Pictures in Picture Books developed from her Signal articles on the ‘active contemplation’ of work by contemporary artists. Other influential books from the Thimble Press include Tell Me: Children, Reading & Talk by Aidan Chambers and Signs of Childness in Children’s Books by Peter Hollindale.

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