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Mischief Mouse's collection of craft activities for preschool and early years.
Printable resources to help support play - colouring, mark making, labelling, promoting, engaging and extending..
Magical Mammoth's recipes to play with and recipes to eat ..
Stitch Squirrel provides a little tree space for some needle and thread projects  - handmade resources to support learning and development.
Activities for math - Calculator caterpillar's activity ideas to support children's numeracy, reasoning and problem solving play.
Hope Hedgehog invites visitors to take a look through some articles of interest ...
Navigator Narwhal's outdoor - in activity ideas for preschool and early years play.

Book titles for children's play, learning and development .. Storybooks for children's home, preschool and nursery.
promoting language rich and positive image filled learning environments
  
     
Multicultural list of children's preschool nursery picture books
 Multicultural picture books
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fairy tales from the UK and across the world

All about me oursleves  

 awareness of the world and conservation

 Chinese New Year book list
 The Journey by Francesca Sanna

 Only one you by Linda Kranz  in a sea of diversity

The Journey
Only one you

 Whoever you are

 A ride on mother's back

Whoever you are
A ride on mother's back


 



 Let's Dress! by Rachel Fuller
 Global babies
Homes from around the world
Let's dress
Global babies
All kind of homes
From India

 What shall I make by
Join Neeraj as he makes an assortment of chipatti dough shapes .. includes a bread dough recipe
My Mother's Sari by Sandhya Rao
 India A B C
Make Chipatti character shapes with Neeraj - explore Indian culture through cooking and modelling
My Mother's sari
India ABC



Native Americans  

When the moon is full by Penny Pollock
 Native Americans map time through the cycle of the moon, naming each with timely associations. Enjoy 12 poems and a range of information that supports cultural awareness in preschool.
  Itse Selu - Cherokee harvest festival by Daniel Pennington and Don Stewart.  Little Wolf and his family prepare to celebrate the Green Corn Festival, which honors the Cherokee's most important food crop

When the moon is full
Itse Selu harvest time



 From the Carribean  

 Beautiful bananas Elizabeth Laird and Liz Pichon
 Fruits a Caribbean counting poem Valerie Bloom and David Axtell
 Caribbean Dream by Rachel Isadora
Beautiful bananas - a fruit filled book
Fruits- Caribbean counting book
Caribbean dream
From Africa

  Little red & the hungry lion An African re-tale of the classic little red riding hood and the wolf
 Fatou fetch the water
 Anna Hibiscus song
Little Red and the very hungry lion
Fatou fetch the water
Anna Hibiscus song
 Gift of the sun
 Lila and the rain
 One Day on our planet
Gift of the sun - a multicultural African picture storybook
Lila and the secret rain
One day on our blue planet



This is the Oasis by Miriam Moss and Adrienne Kennaway
The Colour of Home by Mary Hoffman and Karin Littlewood 
Join Hassan as his world changes around him and he remembers the colours of his home.
 Mama Panya's pancakes
This is Oasis - life in the desert
The colour of home
Mama Panya's pancakes

From China Chinese New Year picture books

The magic brush by Kat Yeh and Huy Voun Lee. The tradition of storytelling   Round is a mooncake  
 Thanking the Moon: Celebrating the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival by Grace Lin
The magic brush - storytelling tradtitions fron China
Round is a mooncake
Thanking the moon
 

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