This is a new and exciting book from Can of Worms Kids Press: Monkey Magic: The Curse of Mukada by Grant S. Clark.

‘A beautifully written tale of good vs evil that will inspire its readers to join the fight to save the Orangutan and help save the Earth, too!‘ National Geographic Kids

“A gripping adventure with an important message.”
– Jeremy Strong, bestselling children’s author

“A super book! Please buy it, treasure it in your library and share its message with your family. Then open up the website and text all your friends to follow the instructions so all of you can do your best to help save the orangutans and the rainforests of Borneo in which they live before it is too late.” – David Bellamy, television presenter, conservationist & writer

A portion of sales proceeds are donated to charities helping to save the Orangutan. And a special adopt-an-Orangutan offer is featured in the back of the book. For more information and to order books go here.

Mission Explore continues to receive fabulous praise from all corners of the Earth. This latest comes from the National Geographic: “Mission:Explore is bold, cool, exciting, innovative, geographic, educational…and just plain fun! I was thrilled to work with the Geography Collective to create seven special freshwater missions in celebration of Geography Awareness Week in the U.S. I am confident that these missions will help kids gain new perspectives on the fascinating geography of fresh water—in their own backyards, and across the many ponds dotting our Earth. Mission:Explore motivates children to engage in early scientific investigation and creative play in outdoor and real-world settings.  Every curious kid, budding geographer, and responsible parent should have a copy! — Sarah Jane Caban, National Geographic Education

The wonderfully inventive and incorrigibly curious crew at The Geography Collective have launched a new blog to track stories in the media about risk aversion. Our recently published book: Mission:Explore, written by The Geography Collective and illustrated by Tom Morgan-Jones is the purest antidote known to man*(kind) and beast for the cotton wool culture that our children are being enveloped in.

Do please go and take a look at their blog: http://thegeographycollective.wordpress.com/ as well as the book, and please tell your friends.

* for man please also read woman, boy, girl, child, etc. etc

It all started with The Geography Collective in 2008, and Mission:Explore is about to be released into the wild:

“For all our sakes we need more children falling off branches, getting lost in forests and getting stuck inside trees. The message is simple; it is more risky not to go into the woods. It is dangerous for not only the health of the individual but the world.

Recently the media has been wrapped up in a blanket of stories about cotton-wool kids.”

This was the beginning of a fascinating blog post on the Stanfords Bookstore website, written by Daniel Raven-Ellison of The Geography Collective. You can read the entire blog here: http://www.stanfords.co.uk/articles/blog/the-geography-collective-get-lost-kids,229,AR.html

And please pre-order your copy/ies of MIssion:Explore off these pages as well. For every two you buy a third copy WILL be donated to kids who can’t afford their own copy.

EYE BOOKS ACQUIRES WORLD RIGHTS TO
OFFICIAL BIOGRAPHY OF
MORGAN TSVANGIRAI, PRIME MINISTER OF ZIMBABWE
Morgan Richard Tsvangirai: A Villager’s Journey to Prime Minister.

Proposed Publication Date: Spring 2010.

All rights available: enquiries contact Dan Hiscocks – dan@eye-books.com Tel: UK: 0203 239 3027

At Frankfurt Book Fair contact: Jill Hughes Foreign Rights International Rights Centre Y3

Nominated for the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize Morgan Tsvangirai is the first non-lawyer recipient of

The 2009 International Bar Association human rights award
International Lifetime Achievement Award 2009 from the Spanish Foundation Cristobal Gabarron

The worldview of Zimbabwe is a country in turmoil. Despite being rich in natural resources and minerals, the country has been run down by a Dictator and wracked with massive corruption, inflation and conflict. Zimbabweans have constantly called out to the world to intervene and end the rampant racism and “black-on-black” oppression that it strangling its chance to contribute to the world and provide a fair democratic society to its people.

The view of Morgan Tsvangirai is one of hope and change. A man who despite beatings and charges of treason and a personal tragedy of losing his wife, Susan, in a car accident, has stood by his resolve and strength to run the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) and a country which can lead Africa out of political and social mire.

What made the son of a rural bricklayer, who dropped out early from high school to help his family look after his eight younger siblings, feel equipped to challenge Robert Mugabe, the liberation war icon who turned into one of the most feared dictators in history?

Through a simple and consultative leadership style, which has parallels to US President Barrack Obama, he earned the simultaneous respect of the poor, academics and the famous. His nimble-footed and smart approach to rally the nation against serious odds surprised many, propelling him into the club of young, promising African leaders with as yet unexplained capacity to navigate through a murky political terrain for public good.

Tsvangirai is neither a Mahatma Gandhi nor a Nelson Mandela but very much his own man. This book gives us the insight to Morgan Richard Tsvangirai a new force on the world stage.

About the Author
As his personal assistant, advisor and spokesperson, T. William Bango and Morgan Tsvangirai have shared alot together over the last 6 years – not least the recent infamous beatings which nearly cost both their lives at the hands of Mugabe’s Zanu militia. Prior to this, Bango’s spent 23 years in journalism which took him as an aide to Robert Mugabe, a founding editor for the banned Daily News, and a Masters in journalism from University of Cardiff, and a three-year stint as a journalism lecturer at the Institute for Advancement of Journalism. He has recently completed a sabbatical to complete an MPA from Harvard University in Cambridge, MA.

T. William Bango lives in Harare, Zimbabwe.