Values: Empathy, Friendship and Resilience (and so many more)! I only received this book today, but had eagerly anticipated it and had watched the author, James Catchpole talk about it here so knew roughly what to expect. However... it is even more powerful and emotive than I could have hoped for! This is the story of Joe who loves playing pirates at the park. However, when new children meet Joe for the first time, they cannot help but exclaim that he only has one leg, and go

Values: Resilience, Hope, Community and Compassion. Front Desk by Kelly Yang is one of the most powerful and gripping books I have ever read - not to be underestimated as a book for children, this is one for adults too. It has sky-rocketed straight into my top five books! I will definitely return to it too, as I feel it is a book you may read differently the second time. The protagonist is a girl named Mia Tang who, as the back cover says, has lots of secrets: she lives in mo