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These are the things I know about imagination, trust, and the worlds people build when you stop correcting them, at eight or at eighty.

Thoughts and Evidence

The Shadow of Zuff: Gabriel's Biggest Adventure Yet

The Shadow of Zuff: Gabriel's Biggest Adventure Yetby: Kate

Book two in The Adventures of Gabriel series arrives. Bigger, bolder, and more confident than the first.

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The Shadow of Zuff: Gabriel's Biggest Adventure Yet

The Story That Shows Children Who They Are

The Story That Shows Children Who They Areby: Kate

Gabriel was ten when he was separated from his mother. What saved him and what it proves about the power of a child's own story.

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The Story That Shows Children Who They Are

A Thank You to Graeme at the Waterstones Children's Tent

A Thank You to Graeme at the Waterstones Children's Tentby: Kate

The moment a bookseller at Cheltenham pointed Gabriel towards exactly the right book at exactly the right time.

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A Thank You to Graeme at the Waterstones Children's Tent

BOOK KATE TO SPEAK

Build a world together, and trust follows.

Your people are being asked to trust each other across distance, across generations and through constant change. Most have never been shown how.

Kate Markland has. For a time she had one hour a week with her son Gabriel, on a FaceTime call. They spent it building a world. She asked one question, wrote down everything he said and corrected nothing. That world became three books and a method tested in nine UK schools.

In her keynote, Create the World You Want, Kate shows your audience how trust is really built, and gives them a method they can use the same evening.

For leadership, education and family audiences.

Even the kids who don’t like writing didn’t want to leave.
Tom Hirst Head of English, Dixons Manningham Primary
Even the kids who don’t like writing didn’t want to leave.
Tom Hirst Head of English, Dixons Manningham Primary

STORYQUEST

StoryQuest gives children the freedom to imagine, speak and be heard without being corrected, guided or rushed. It begins with a story. But what families create together is something much bigger: connection.

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