The Billy Books Collection - Minter, James

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Résumé :
Suitable for 7 to 9-year-old boys and girls, Billy and his friends are children entering young adulthood, trying to make sense of the world around them. Like all children, they are confronted by a complex, diverse, fast-changing, exciting world full of opportunities, contradictions, and dangers through which they must navigate on their way to becoming responsible adults. What underlies their journey are the values they gain through their experiences. In early childhood, children acquire their values by watching the behaviour of their parents. From around eight years old onwards, children are driven by exploration, and seeking independence; they are more outward looking. It is at this age they begin to think for themselves, and are capable of putting their own meaning to feelings, and the events and experiences they live through. They are developing their own identity. The Billy Growing Up series support an initiative championing Values-based Education, (VbE) founded by Dr Neil Hawkes. The VbE objective is to influence a child's capacity to succeed in life by encouraging them to adopt positive values that will serve them during their early lives, and sustain them throughout their adulthood. Building on the VbE objective, each Billy book uses the power of traditional storytelling to contrast negative behaviours with positive outcomes to illustrate, guide, and shape a child's understanding of the importance of values. This series of books help parents, guardians and teachers to deal with the issues that challenge children who are coming of age. Dealt with in a gentle way through storytelling, children begin to understand the challenges they face and the importance of introducing positive values into their everyday lives. Setting the issues in a meaningful context helps a child to see things from a different perspective. These books act as icebreakers, allowing easier communication between parents, or other significant adults, and children when it comes to discussing difficult subjects.

Biographie:
James is a full time fiction author. Prior, he spent 35 years in the IT industry and wrote on a wide range of non-fiction IT subjects including many hundreds of training manuals. Born 1952 in Oxfordshire, UK, James draws on his local knowledge to provide inspiration and settings for his characters and locations for his plots. He turned his attention to fiction during the summer of 2009. Writing with unbridled passion was new to him. The excitement of not knowing where a story was going but having an evolving host of characters spurred him on. Written for the inner child in all of us, The Hole Opportunity was the first product of his imagination. A Tunnel is Only a Hole on its Side, book II of the Hole Trilogy was published in 2013. Book III of the Hole Trilogy-Marmite Makes a Sandwich, Dynamite Makes a Hole, is due for release in 2017. This book, The Unexpected Consequences of Iron Overload was written specifically to raise awareness of Haemochromatosis Currently James is focused on the importance of values in child development. To this end he's written the Billy Books series for children and parents. Websites:www.jamesminter.com www.thebillybooks.co.uk E-Mail: james@jamesminter.com Amazon Author Page: amazon.com/author/jamesminter Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/james_minter Twitter: @james_minter; Facebook: www.facebook.com/author.james.minter