Effective Participatory Practice

Effective Participatory Practice (Aldine de Gruyter 1999, Japanese edition published 2005 by Yuhikaku, Tokyo) available at  https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/1lBCCyoNK5UrE2ND8UZDuFg?domain=abebooks.com

Culture and Child Protection

Culture and Child Protection (Jessica Kingsley 2006)

Lives Cut Short

Lives Cut Short (2007) is freely downloadable at:

https://www.occ.org.nz/publications/reports/lives-cut-short-child-death-by-maltreatment-marie-connolly-and-mike-doolan-published-for-the-office-of-the-childrens-commissioner-2007-/

Morals Rights and Practice

Morals Rights and Practice (Jessica Kingsley 2008)

Understanding Child and Family Welfare

Understanding Child and Family Welfare (Macmillan 2012)

Understanding Violence

Understanding Violence (Canterbury University Press 2013)

Social Work Contexts and Practice

Social Work Contexts and Practice 4th edition (Oxford University Press 2017)

Social Work from Theory to Practice

Social Work from Theory to Practice 3rd edition (Cambridge University Press2019)

Beyond the Risk Paradigm in Child Protection

Beyond the Risk Paradigm in Child Protection (Macmillan International 2017)

Strategic leadership in Social Work Education

Strategic Leadership in Social Work Education (Springer 2019) 

Service Navigation

Service Navigation (Macmillan International 2020)

Our Backyard - Ella goes to Akaroa

Ella goes to Akaroa is the first in the six-book South Island series of travel books for children. The books aim to connect kiwi kids to 'their place', building connections and attachments to some of Aotearoa's most beautiful places. This book is a destination story when Ella goes on holiday to see her grandparents in Akaroa, a beautiful place in the very heart of a volcano. Ella experiences all kinds of special things - including grandma's famous pancakes. When she gets back to Christchurch and porridge is back on the menu, she is not happy!

Our Backyard Store (2020)  https://www.ourbackyard.store/

Our Backyard - Ella goes to Punakaiki

Ella goes to Punakaiki is a story about Ella's trip across the Alps to see the famous West Coast Pancake Rocks. along the way, Ella comes across balloons, castles, and moa birds. When she sees giants at Punakaiki her mum wonders what she is thinking!

Our Backyard Store (2020) https://www.ourbackyard.store/

Our Backyard - Ella and Tai go to Rakiura Stewart Island

Our Backyard books are memory-building, placed-based stories that take children to some of our most beautiful parts of Aotearoa. This time Ella and her cousin Tai take a visit to their uncle and auntie's place on Rakiura Stewart Island, where they go on adventures to see beaches, bush and birds. They search and search for a kiwi, and then, just when they have nearly given up, they find a surprise much closer to home than they ever thought possible. 

Our Backyard Store (2021) https://www.ourbackyard.store/

Our Backyard - Ella and Tai’s BIG Trip South

The South Island Our Backyard children's books are place-based travel stories that create deeper connections to Aotearoa by engaging children with ideas of travel. This time Ella and Tai go down South on an adventure with their grandparents. They find there are lots of BIG things to see. Their grandpa plays a trick on them, but Ella and Tai have a trick of their own.

Our Backyard Store (2021) https://www.ourbackyard.store/

Our Backyard - Ella & Tai see Golden Bay

The Our Backyard children's book series connect kiwi kids to 'their place' and all the wonderful things they can do in their own backyard. In this book Ella and Tai go camping with their grandparents to Golden Bay. After they pitch their tent, grandma tells them a story of a taniwha. Little does she know they have a surprise for her - the taniwha is closer to home than she thinks!

Our Backyard Store https://www.ourbackyard.store/

Our Backyard - Ella, Tai & the train to Picton

Our six-book South Island series take Ella and Tai on a set of special adventures where they see beaches, bush, wildlife, and some of the wonderful geological features that Aotearoa is famous for. We know that developing a sense of place is important to a child's sense of belonging and identity, and through our books we want to nurture an early connection to Aotearoa. Ella, Tai & the train to Picton is the final book in the Our Backyard South Island series. This time they go on a train trip with their grandparents to Picton. They climb aboard the Coastal Pacific at the Christchurch railway station, and soon they are on their way to the Kaikōura coast. Grandma has brought a word game that keeps Ella and Tai guessing, and by the time they reach Picton they have made a very special word. 

Our Backyard Store https://www.ourbackyard.store/

Friday Film Reviews and Miniseries

Friday Film Review and Miniseries (2023)

ISBN: 978-0-473-67248-5

Dark Sky

Criminal psychologist Nellie Prayle loves solving murders. The more complicated, the better. But when a professor of astronomy is found dead at Tekapo’s Mt John Observatory during its internationally-attended 50th anniversary conference celebrations and Detective Jack Simmons calls on Nellie to help with the police investigation, she soon realises that this is not your typical murder – and nor are these your usual suspects.