Lockdown Looms: Reggie's Birthday Party (One)

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Children may not want to talk much about how they are feeling but books like this can offer so much guidance and show that they are not alone with how they are feeling which is really important. This book was like therapy to me because some of the themes in the story are hope, determination, adapting to change, kindness, and these were skills and qualities that I wanted my pupils to gain, but they were also qualities I had to remind myself that I was capable of tuning into during that very difficult time for myself and my family.

According to a study done by the Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, 71% of parents said the pandemic negatively affected their child’s mental health. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Whilst we had empathy for these people, there was a small part of us thankful for the children’s birthday’s being later in the year.

Lives, as we knew it was turned upside down and new ways of living our day to day lives, were needed to be adjusted to.

There was also those who were going to celebrate birthday’s anniversaries and milestones whilst we were to be locked away from the world. Alexander says, “Children were looking at things online and not being happy with themselves because they're comparing themselves to the sort of forced reality that they're seeing online.The first book in a series, Lockdown Looms is emphatic, engaging, and an emotive experience for all. We like that one of the main messages in the book is kindness, something we have been struggling to teach our two little ones with.

The COVID-10 pandemic has been very hard on everybody and a new way of living has taken some getting used to. Banji Alexander is an exciting new author, bursting onto the scene with his debut book, 'Lockdown Looms: Reggie's Birthday Party'.Even when he wasn’t in school, he spent much of his free time reading rather than getting in trouble.

The COVID-19 pandemic has given children a window into a world they had never seen before or been exposed to. When I tweeted about the letter at the time, I extended thanks and gratitude to all the teachers across the country because this was just one thing that I had done personally. With the expectation that life in lockdown will be a thing of the past by the time we reached November, however, this was not the case. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). He says there is no greater feeling than helping someone realize they can do something they didn’t think possible, and that is what his experience has been with Banji’s Class.Alexander also talked about how he would try to incorporate the struggles his students were going through into the book. I am really looking forward to reading the rest of the Lockdown Looms series and I think every primary library/classroom needs a copy of this book to support young children with the after-effects of the COVID-19 lockdowns. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Banji Alexander, a year three teacher in London, saw his students' challenges and decided to help them cope with those intense emotions in a fictional way with his book, “Lockdown Looms: Reggie’s Birthday Party.