All the Ways to be Smart by Davina Bell

All the Ways to be Smart by Davina BellThe international bestseller that celebrates the myriad talents that each child brings to the world. Smart is not just ticks and crosses,smart is building boats from boxes. Painting patterns, wheeling wagons,being mermaids, riding dragons From the award winning creators of The Underwater Fancy Dress Parade and Under the Love Umbrella comes this joyful ode to all the unique and wonderful qualities that make children who they are.

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Between them

can't wait to reach her distant relatives a thousand miles up the Amazon

a stroke and a cuddle with Dot cheers everyone up

followed by detailed entries on the most common shoreline inhabitants: Irish and Latin names

The post of Gold captures the trickery and mischief of leprechauns

ranging from hikes of a few hours’ duration to day-long treks and the three-day ordeal in St Patrick’s Purgatory

At once tender and lacerating

so layered - All Our Hidden Gifts feels like a book that should have always existed

Mill discusses marriage

her message about the importance of living peaceably side-by-side with nature will linger long after the last page is turned

Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2019