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PICTURE BOOKS | Daily Mail Online

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PICTURE BOOKS By Sally Morris for the Daily Mail Published: 22:13 BST, 8 October 2020 | Updated: 22:13 BST, 8 October 2020 WHAT WE’LL BUILD by Oliver Jeffers (HarperCollins £14.99, 48 pp) WHAT WE’LL BUILD by Oliver Jeffers (HarperCollins £14.99, 48 pp) Award-winning author Oliver Jeffers wrote this for his daughter, Mari, and its touching … Read more

Cambridge professor reveals how technological developments can be a threat to humanity 

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Why we’re all working MORE, and not less: Cambridge professor reveals how technological developments can be a threat to humanity Cambridge professor suggests advances in technology could be detrimental Suggests rise in Britain’s population leads to productivity being cancelled out Says famines, wars & pandemics are ‘imminent & severe correction’ of disorder By Roger Lewis … Read more

Rishi Sunak warns he WILL need to balance the books after Covid crisis

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Rishi Sunak warned of tax rises to come and lavished praise on ‘special’ Boris Johnson today as he tried to quell growing rumours of a feud over lockdown. The Chancellor hailed the PM as a ‘rare’ communicator who had ‘got the big calls right’ as he delivered his keynote speech to Tory conference. Mr Sunak again … Read more

Reading: Books with busy pictures ‘make it harder for kids to focus and understand the story’

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Children’s books with lots of really detailed pictures ‘make it harder for kids to focus and understand the story’, study shows US researchers modified half of a kids’ book to remove all its needless pictures 6–8-year-olds were given it to read while their eye movements were tracked The kids were less distracted and learnt more … Read more

Reading: Children’s books with busy pictures ‘make it harder for kids to focus and absorb knowledge’

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Children’s books with lots of really detailed pictures ‘make it harder for kids to focus and absorb knowledge’, study shows US researchers modified half of a kids’ book to remove all its needless pictures 6–8-year-olds were given it to read while their eye movements were tracked The kids were less distracted and learnt more when … Read more

WHAT BOOK would TV presenter Dermot O’Leary take to a desert island?

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WHAT BOOK would TV presenter Dermot O’Leary take to a desert island? Dermot O’Leary is currently reading Into The Raging Sea by Rachel Slade  He’d take to a desert island: The Charlie Parker books by John Connolly Toto The Ninja Cat And The Mystery Jewel Thief by Dermot O’Leary is out now By Daily Mail … Read more

Devastated dad who doodled grief away: Animator Gary Andrews illustrates the reality of bereavement

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MEMOIR Finding Joy by Gary Andrews (John Murray £16.99, 192pp) ‘Grief,’ wrote C. S. Lewis, ‘is like a long valley, a winding valley where any bend may reveal a totally new landscape.’ After his wife — poet Joy Davidman — died aged just 45 in 1960, the Chronicles Of Narnia author was compelled to document … Read more