About The Book With No Story (Young Philosophers Series):
The Book With No Story is filled with 52 creature profiles from some of the author’s books. But they found the stories so boring that they simply had to run away. One by one, they were caught and added to this book. The visual art profiles are accompanied by some of the creatures’ philosophical thoughts, weaving in and out of their outer worlds and inner emotional landscapes.
Children are encouraged to use the visual art profiles to write the creatures into new inside-out stories. An inside-out story lets us know what is happening on the outside of a creature, and also what the creature is experiencing on the inside. Children can also create their own creatures and write their inside-out stories using the prompts included at the end of the book.
The Book With No Story is the first book in the Young Philosophers Series dedicated to listening to and valuing children as natural philosophers.
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Author Bio:
Philosophy has been a passion of mine since a young age when the riddles of the universe first snuck into my soul and the everyday everydayness of life coming alive left me spellbound as if I could see things through a pair of kaleidoscopic spectacles.
My focus over the past twenty years of working in schools, external literacy programs and theatre has been to awaken the philosopher inside the minds of children to get them thinking about how they are thinking and wondering about why they are wondering by enchanting them with vivid stories, complex creatures, twinkling soundtracks and most importantly, questions.
I write books for parents and children. Fragments of thoughts were ripped from the pages of my own journals and became my first nine illustrated children’s books in two series: the Past Life Library and the Young Philosophers Series.
As a mum, reading my stories to my kids around the kitchen table, I found that they eagerly wanted to participate and create their own stories. So I made an additional series of books called the Blankish Journals which prompt children with the questions of eternity, to eventually collect enough of their imaginations, and with gentle guidance, lead them to write books of their own.
I then created a place for all these books, creatures and songs to live called Everything-World ~ A Theme Park of the Mind®️ where the questions of eternity are woven through each imaginary theme park ride. The rides inside Everything-World each relate to a deep concept about life. Each ride correlates with one of my fictional books connected to that specific concept and also to an accompanying Blankish Journal of the same theme, so you too can keep the memories of your mind somewhere.
And so at the kitchen table in the everydayness of your everyday, you may come to find, not only can you and your children read and write stories, but you can also read and write life through a pair of kaleidoscopic spectacles.
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Clare-Rose Trevelyan