In episode 192 of the Your Kid’s Next Read podcast:
Kids and Critical Thinking
How can we help kids to develop their critical thinking skills? Megan and Allison look at books that help, books that spark conversations and books that demonstrate the perils of misinformation
Books we mention
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‘Darkest Night, Brightest Star’ by Barry Jonsberg
Smoke & mirrors by Barry Jonsberg
‘Big Trouble with Angry Chairs’ by Lachlan Carter. Illustrated by Douglas Holgate
‘Big Trouble with an Old Fart’ by Lachlan Carer, illustrated by Douglas Holgate
‘Song of a Blackbird’ by Maria van Lieshout
‘Inked’ by Karen Wasson and Jake A Minton
Kids and Critical Thinking
YKNR Community List
‘The Short and Curly Guide to Life’ by Matt Beard, Kyla Slaven, Simon Greiner (8+)
‘What the Fact?: Finding The Truth In All The Noise’ by Dr Seema Yasmin (12+) ‘
The Media and Me’ by Ben Boyington, Alison T Butler, Noland Higdon (13+)
‘The Sad Little Fact’ by Jonah Winter, illustrated by Pete Oswald (3+)
DK’s Children’s Book Of Philosophy (9+)
Usborne’s Philosophy for Beginners by Minna Lacey, Rachel Firth, Jordan Akpojaro (10+)
‘Attack of the Black Rectangles’ by AS King (9+)
‘The Truth Detective: How To Make Sense of A World that Doesn’t Add Up’ by Tim Harford, illustrated by Ollie Mann (10+)
‘This Book Is Banned’ by Raj Haldar, pictures by Julia Patton (4+)
Megan’s list
Early Childhood
Anemone is Not the Enemy by Anna McGregor
I’m Australian Too by Mem Fox and Ronojoy Ghosh
Lower Primary
The All New Must Have Orange 430 by Michael Speechley
Your Brilliant Brain by Philip Bunting
The Fabulous Friend Machine by Nick Bland
The Brain Forest by Sandhya Menon and Kushla Ross
It Might Be An Apple Shinsuke Yoshitake
Can I Build Another Me? by Shinsuke Yoshitake
Upper primary
The Rabbits by Shaun Tan and John Marsden
Chalk Boy by Margaret Wild & Mandy Ord
One Photo by Ross Watkins & Liz Anelli
Big Ideas for Curious Minds: An Introduction to Philosophy by The School of Life
Full article by Allison: Facebook’s Fact-Checking Changes: A Citro Explainer
Other relevant episodes
Episode 63: Why should I read?
Episode 107: Books that spark design thinking
Episode 124: Advocating for School Libraries
Episode 184: Kids and Creativity
Our books
The Mapmaker Chronicles series by A. L. Tait
The Ateban Cipher (duology) by A. L. Tait
The Maven & Reeve Mysteries by A. L. Tait
The First Summer of Callie McGee by A. L. Tait
The Beehive by Megan Daley
Teacher, Teacher (anthology), edited by Megan Daley
Raising Readers by Megan Daley
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