Bücher von Liz Walker

Jordan, Anika, Ben and Katy are happy to find out that their teacher is taking them on a school trip to a nature trail. They are even more excited when they discover a prize is to be awarded for the most interesting thing found. Determined to win the prize, the four friends decide to follow an unknown path deep into an enormous forest. The path leads them to the strangest tree they have ever seen. Not only is it rainbow colored, with silver leaves, but the trunk feels soft and spongy! When some of the bark falls off, the children take it , thinking it will win them the prize from their teacher. Yet, they get more than what they bargained for when they discover that the bark has given them new, amazing super powers! Suddenly Jordan can become invisible, Anika can fly, Ben has super strength and Katy can move objects with her mind. The children are delighted! But what will they do with these new superpowers?And more importantly, will they be able to control them...? This is the first book in an exciting series that will delight all children and stir their imaginations. Readers will enjoy the fun and adventurous spirits of the characters and will be excited to follow them all on their superpower journeys.These magical stories will keep children reading to find out what happens next!

Hamish and the Shadow Secret is written to help parents, carers and teachers prepare and assist children to know what to do and how to recover from viewing explicit, harmful and inappropriate content.Kids are seeing pornography accidentally or deliberately earlier than ever before. In 2008, 14.4% of boys had viewed porn by age 12 or younger. By 2014, this had risen to 48.7%. In 2019, research indicates that 65.5% of boys have seen pornography by age 12 or younger. For girls of the same age, 8.7% had viewed it in 2014, rising to 30% in 2019. Alarmingly, clinicians are reporting cases of children aged as young as five onwards receiving therapeutic interventions.Developmentally, children have limited experiential and cognitive capacity to understand and interpret what they see. The way that children process pornography varies from child to child; however, reported feelings can range from curiosity, disgust, confusion, guilt and arousal. "I hated this, but I liked it". "I don't want to look at more, but I really want to look at more". "I think it's bad for me, but I don't really know why". Internal conflict without the knowledge of why porn is unhealthy, can quickly lead to children believing unhelpful sexual stories (scripts) about themselves and others, which are embedded in violence and inequality, shame and secrecy-unhealthy foundations for brain development and building positive relationships.Additionally, there are a growing number of children who see pornography and then act out inappropriate behaviours on other children. This provides an even greater need for all children to have comprehensive protective behaviours education that includes online safety and an awareness of how to respond to pornography.Hamish and the Shadow Secret is an educational resource for engaging children in a safe and robust conversation about the harms of pornography. Written for children aged 8-12-years, Hamish and the Shadow Secret is a valuable inclusion in every home, school and counselling setting.FURTHER INFORMATION AND RESOURCES CAN BE FOUND AT www.shadowsecret.info