This blog will house my work and resources that I've acquired over the years. My blog started off with my previous employment when I was librarian assistant at the primary school. School Library resources This blog was previously called favonaschoollibrary.blogspot.com You can view my other blog with my photography at https://enjoyingmemories.blogspot.com/
Tuesday, 10 May 2016
Toppling
Summary: A moving and triumphant illustrated verse novel about childhood illness and support for friends. John is obsessed with dominoes. But not with playing the traditional game, he is obsessed with toppling. He spends hours setting up spirals, ramps, patterns and lines of dominoes all for that satisfying toppling beginning with a small push in the right direction, everything falls as it is meant to. When John's friend Dom falls sick and is diagnosed with cancer, it is John and his friend's worlds that fall apart. Can they face Dom and support him through this uncomfortable illness? It's hard for all at first but John and his friends find a way to comfort Dom and laugh with him again. They even find support and understanding from an unlikely source within their class, the school bully
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