Leaky Thoughts Australian Stories in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia | Local business

Leaky Thoughts Australian Stories

Locality: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Phone: +61 7 3102 3264

Add/Update information

Reviews

Tags

• Local business

21.01.2022 What's this? The cool little snake in the pic goes by the name of Lonsdale. He is a music-lover who has a collection of ladders and uses his imagination to think what it would be like to be something else. The Lonsdale book consists of 3 separate stories illustrated in full colour and is available as a download from www.leakythoughts.com

18.01.2022 Can an 11 year-old girl be a super-hero? Of course! 'The Glider' takes on environmental vandals in this new story.

14.01.2022 Welcome to the Leaky Thoughts FB page where you will find links to recent publications written and illustrated by Brisbane author, Derek Bland. www.leakythoughts.com

14.01.2022 Parents and Teachers 'Thinking Like a Wallaby' is a problem solving guide for primary school aged children. By considering how storybook animals might work to solve various problems, this book appeals to children's imaginations - and maybe will help older folk too! Various problems are addressed in the book with ideas about how the chosen animals would use their specific skills to work out solutions. It's fun and inspiring! Available for download from www.leakythoughts.com.... Also available are wall charts for classrooms and card packs to help individual or small groups problem solving tasks. See more

11.01.2022 Greatly reduced prices on some ebooks! Limited time only

07.01.2022 Something else from my work. This 2016 publication, Imagination for Inclusion, is an edited book with chapters from a range of like-minded academics. It is not available on this site, but the ebook is currently discounted on the publisher's (Routledge) site. It includes an introduction to my theory of multiple imaginations and some great research-based work from the international group of writers, relating to all levels of education from early childhood to tertiary. https://www.routledge.com/Imagination-for-I//9781138915985

07.01.2022 Why 'Leaky Thoughts'? The name comes from a poem I wrote about 25 years ago that then grew into 'Derek Bland's Book of Leaky Thoughts' - 50 poems for kids (illustrated) - and which I am updating to publish again. So, for your undoubted enlightenment, here's the original poem: Leaky Thoughts... There’s a tiny, dark window near the top of my brain That leaks my thoughts out every now and again. I try to close it, but it won’t shut tight, So sometimes my thoughts leak out into the night. I have to keep making new thoughts in my mind So it keeps itself full with ideas of all kinds. So I have lots of dreams when I lie down in bed And they help to fill up all the space in my head. I think there may be another small hole Where some new thoughts sneak in, beyond my control. I’m not sure where they come from maybe some are yours. Perhaps they creep in through my skin, through my pores. But at least there is one thing I think that I know And that’s where the thoughts that leak out of me go. They flow down my arm and they enter my pen So people can read them again and again. Here comes one now it’s just trickling down To the paper and making the pen move around. Here is the thought it says ‘Whoopee! I’m free! It was too dark and stuffy in that brain for me!’