February 1st is World Read Aloud Day. It is estimated that there are over 750 million people in the world who can not read effectively.If you want to learn more about this movement and what is being done to bring read closer to those who don’t have the advantages what we have check out www.litworld.org…. Read 
In the last little while I have presented lessons over Skype. The first was in Georgia, USA, and the second in Utah, USA. It was a delight for me to face a group of children and give a talk. I find that working out what is important and what I want to impart helps focus… Read 
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Our Giveaway has ended. The lucky winner Cathy, is from the State of Illinois, U.S.A. The books have been ordered and should be delivered to her , next week.Illinois is a midwestern state bordering Indiana in the east and the Mississippi River in the west. Nicknamed “the Prairie State,” it’s marked by farmland, forests, rolling… Read 
Our Giveaway has ended. The lucky winner Stacey, is from the State of Oklahoma, U.S.A The books have been ordered and should be delivered to her by Amazon, next week.Oklahoma is a state in the South Central region of the United States. It is the 20th-most extensive and the 28th-most populous of the fifty United… Read 
Lady Knight, Bk. 3 in the “Crystal Journal Series” for young readers (8 to 80), has been shortlisted in the 2018-19 “Chocolate Lily Book Award” Vancouver, B.C. Canada. 
Royal BC Museum EXHIBIT May 18 — Dec. 31, 2018 A marvelous opportunity is happening in our Province of British Columbia. If you are interested in the history of Egypt this is a must visit. Great timing for us, as Book 2 of the Crystal Journals Series is “Pharaoh’s Tomb” and G. Rosemary has brought… Read 
Our May Giveaway has ended. The lucky winner is from Cape Town in South Africa. The books have been ordered and should reach S.B. around the end of month. Our winner comes from one of the largest cities in South Africa. It looks as though the area has some wonderful places to visit as well… Read 
Our March Giveaway has been drawn. The lucky winner is from Pennsylvania. Books have been ordered and should arrive around 10th April. Our winner comes from a suburb of Allentown, in Upper Macungie Township, in the Lehigh Valley region of the state, and looks like the area has some wonderful places to visit as well… Read 
Recently, I was asked to speak at a library on the subject of Family Literacy. The more I thought about it the more interesting I found the subject. There is so much to say on this topic. Fortunately, my talk was video-taped and we have up-loaded the session to Youtube. Unfortunately, my time was up… Read 
G. Rosemary Ludlow grew up in Adelaide, Australia, where she taught school for many years. She loved teaching children to read and her favorite thing to do was to tell them stories. History stories, geography stories, stories about spelling, or arithmetic - it is all stories.