BUILDER BOARDS describes how to construct a set of notched boards children use to build their own playhouse. Included are a materials list, all the necessary measurements, and two methods of cutting the notches. BUILDER BOARDS contains engaging photographs of children's imaginative creations and a chapter describing 8th grade students constructing BUILDER BOARDS as a community service project.

Builder Boards: A playhouse children build themselves

Jack McKee

Hands-On Books

Woodshop for Kids has you everything you’ll need to know to get kids (ages 4-12) started using real tools to build real projects. Safety, tools, wood, measuring, hammering, nails and screws are discussed. Included are many tricks gleaned from Jack’s 15 plus years of helping kids build with wood. Construction details for 52 projects are given. Projects range from the very simple like wood sanding, tops or puzzles for preschoolers to the more advanced like boxes, boats, yahoo stick or rope machine for older elementary age kids. Included are many photographs of kid created projects.

Woodshop for Kids: 52 Woodworking Projects Kids can Build

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Crafts & Hobbies

Builder Boards: Detailed Construction Plans

McKee, Jack

Pleasure-in-relating

Literature & Fiction

Groves, Susan

Poetry

Obesiance to Frogs

Winckel-Mellish, Robin

Rio Abajo Rio

Fairhead, Barbara Grenfell

A generous portrait of an artist at the height of her powers of perception. In these poems, sketches and song lyrics, crafted over a lifetime, we come to share in the adventure of stepping out of what Grenfell Fairhead calls the "house of orthodoxy." What binds these pieces together is her exuberance, and the sense that we are always at the beginning. Again and again, one feels a sense of things just beyond the range of the senses, waiting for us to catch up with them. In each landscape she describes, one feels her sensibility in sympathy with it, finding a place in it. As she remembers and argues with herself, mourns and celebrates, we find ourselves accompanying her on this voyage of discovery with our own full attention.

Kin: Selected poems, song lyrics and prose sketches

One summer morning, Cape Town academic Andries Du Toit remonstrates mildly with a white man who is being rude to a black waitress in the cafeteria of his local health club. A few weeks later he finds himself sprawled on his back with a fractured cheekbone, blood pooling in the back of his throat, the target of payback from one of the city's most feared gangsters. What just happened? Following the threads that radiate out from his personal experience of violence, Du Toit traces the events and the decisions that brought him to that fateful confrontation. What ensues is a journey of discovery that forces him to confront his own place and complicity in a country still traumatised by racial violence - and to ask/explore what is required by the work of healing and repair.

A Blow to the Head: A History of Violence

Biographies & Memoirs

Toit, Andries Du

Memoirs

Jenny's compelling South African memoir chronicles her journey from childhood during World War Two to a busy freelance career as a journalist and novelist. With humour, tenderness and love for her family and country, she reflects on the many facets of her life as an author, giving fascinating insights into the writing process. Among Jenny's lasting legacies are her decades-long drive to promote reading as the essential skill for a good education, and her role as one of the co-founders of the Franschhoek Literary Festival, of which she was Director for four years.

Through a dragonfly eye: A Memoir

Hobbs, Jenny

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