Annie White

Clementine was feeling hot. ‘Time for a swim,’ said Granny and they walked down to the sea. But who was this other dog Granny brought home from the beach? And where was Clementine?

Clementine has her eye on only one thing when the Queen comes to tea - a sparkly royal necklace! When the jewel goes missing, everyone, including Clementine, searches high and low to find it. Selected as a CBCA Notable Book 2023.

It’s Christmas Day at Clementine’s house. The tree is trimmed, the gifts are all wrapped, and the family is full of excitment. But when it’s time to open the presents, something isn’t right. What has Clementine got up to?

Clementine has her eye on only one thing when the Queen comes to tea - a sparkly royal necklace! When the jewel goes missing, everyone, including Clementine!, searches high and low to find it.

Clementine runs away to escape a bath. Not a BATH! thinks Clementine. She hides under the bed, behind the curtains and even in Baby's toybox. Can her family find her in time to give her a bath?

Clementine is intent on finding someone (anyone!) to take her for a walk, but everyone is just too busy. When it is finally time to go for a walk, Clementine is nowhere to be found.

Learning Stories and Teaching Inquiry Groups is a practical text focused on how ECE practitioners can establish teacher inquiry and reflection groups and integrate the use of learning stories to strengthen their assessment, teaching practices, and knowledge of child development. Drawing on relevant research and the authors’ direct work with teachers, the book focuses on describing ways the authors have adapted the framework of the learning stories approach from New Zealand to specific US educational contexts via examples from several urban and rural ECE contexts. The book provides practical examples of novice through veteran early childhood teachers engaging and collaborating in onsite and cross-site inquiry and reflection with a focus on learning stories. This text will be useful for infant, toddler, and preschool teachers taking courses at the AA, BA, and MA levels, as well as teachers engaged in onsite professional development. This text will help early childhood educators learn to write learning stories as an observational and assessment approach to document young children’s learning experiences and to deepen teachers’ understanding of the role of narrative in linking child development knowledge with effective environmental design, high-quality curricular approaches, and socially and culturally inclusive relationship practices. The text will support early childhood educators’ professional development through easily understood instructions and case study samples of inquiry work with learning stories through community of practice. Educators will learn how linking learning stories with regular, systematic forms of teacher inquiry, documentation, and reflection promotes a new image of children as holistic learners.

Meet Annabel Dixon, the Queen Bee of her boarding, and Cora Johnson, the new girl who is as cold as ice and does whatever it takes to do what she wants. Annabel is sweet and extremely loyal to her friends. Cora is head-strong and can be selfish. Cora decides she wants Annabel's popularity, Annabel's position as lacrosse captain, and Annabel her. Cora will go to extreme measures to achieve all this. Cora and Annabel clash and are horrible to one another, but they are deeply attracted to one another. When secrets come out, Cora isn't sure if she date Annabel. They have a passionate, fragile bond, but is it enough? Can Cora change for Annabel? Or is their story meant to end tragically?