Bücher der Reihe Young Philosophers Series

*Honorable Mention in the 2024 Purple Dragonfly Awards for Activity Books*Someone, somewhere, somehow made up a particular word to be meaningful and useful. And so to question-what are the rules around who gets to make up words and why?The Fake Dictionary challenges 8 to 12-year-olds to create a series of images of new meanings to everyday words. As the title implies, this is a very original dictionary. Using family relics, Clare-Rose created a part text and part image book to explore the meanings behind the meanings of words, hoping to open up conversations around the concept of change.The book also encourages children to make up their own new meanings to words that already exist. What parts of our brain can we plasticise to empower us to see the differences and be bold enough to make our very own changes? Want to have a go?The Fake Dictionary is part of the Young Philosophers Series dedicated to listening to and valuing children as natural philosophers. These unconventional and creative books are designed to get children's imaginations flowing.HOW TO USE THIS BOOKPick your favourite letter of the alphabet.Read the new, made-up meaning for an old word. You may want to wonder about what we can change in this world, what we cannot and who decided this and when?Draw the new meaning in and among the photos of the author's grandmother's old things on the accompanying page, as per the example for the letter A.Collect a few more words beginning with that letter, write them down and develop your own new meanings for those words. You may want to wonder more about 'change' as you write and draw. You could wonder about how you could change your mind. Or if a ghost could change their mind. Or how about, could a ghost make you change your mind? Or if a ghost could make a GHOST TRAIN in a theme park? Keep all your thoughts in a journal.

*A Red Ribbon Winner in the 2023 Wishing Shelf Book Awards*Rio and Huxley live on the Planet of Stuff where everyone loves stuff. Everyone except them. They are bored of living in their castle and swimming in their 17 swimming pools. To amuse themselves, they pull pranks on their great-great grandchildren, but when caught, their punishment is getting locked in a tower of stuff. Trying to escape the boredom, they hitch a ride on a UFO where they find the planet Earthia. It is so beautiful and so perfect, but to them, so boring. When Huxley decides to pull one of his naughtiest pranks yet, what happens next is something they never would have expected.The One Thing & Anothers is part of the Young Philosophers Series dedicated to listening to and valuing children as natural philosophers. It asks the questions, where DID humans come from? Why are we so contradictory in our nature? Why do we want to collect stuff? What does it mean to belong and can we feel like we belong in multiple places across time and space? Why are we destroying the planet we live on? Young bright minds are called on to write the next chapter in the story.HOW TO USE THIS BOOKRead the story of Huxley and Rio.Think about what you think the story is about? Keep all your thoughts in a journal.Turn to Chapter 7 which lists all the contradictions of the creatures that inhabit the 'planet of Earthia' and think about some 'contradictions' that live inside you and the people you know. How many contradictions can you think of? Keep thinking and thinking as if you were on a never-ending WONDER WHEEL in a theme park.Turn to Chapter 10 at the end of the book and write the ending of the story. What happens to who and why? Are there any more obstacles in their way and what are they? How do they overcome the obstacles? And then what happens after the end of that?Look out for the Everything-World Blankish Journal, an accompanying storytelling and philosophical activity book where Clare-Rose Trevelyan goes deeper into exploring the questions of CONTRADICTION woven through this story.