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• Malor Books: Awakening Young Minds and The Shy Child
• All About Me human nature series for children ages 10-14
• Hoopoe Books: Teaching-Stories^tm for children
• ISHK Children's Literacy Program

Children benefit most from discoveries about the brain and mind

Children are potentially the greatest beneficiaries of new discoveries in learning and traditional approaches to mental skills development. Insights about how our sensory selection system works, what dominates our attention and influences our perception, our susceptibility to conditioning, the importance of reading and language skills — all have tremendous implications for improving childhood education.

More and more educators are recognizing the need to provide our children with the impacts, experiences, and support they need to develop greater flexibility in their thinking, a wider range of responses to emotional stimulus, and a stronger sense of self.

ISHK projects in early education include:

• ISHK's Malor Books: Two important volumes on education and child development have been released. Awakening Young Minds is a collection of provocative essays on education by a variety of important writers of the last two centuries. The Shy Child by Philip Zimbardo and Shirley Radl is a definitive work in helping children to become effective social beings. The book includes strategies for combating shyness and encouraging independence.

• All About Me human nature series for children ages 10-14: Now in development, All About Me is a new series of books and materials designed to help middle school-age children learn about themselves. The series will focus on a range of psychological topics important to this age group: how our brains work, the nature of memory and perception, how and why stereotypes are formed, what factors most influence us to act in certain ways, how we make friends.

• ISHK's Hoopoe Books: A series of traditional Teaching-Stories^tm from Afghanistan, Central Asia, and the Middle East, collected and written for children by Idries Shah, have been published by Hoopoe Books, including several titles in bilingual editions. In addition to being a much-needed positive representation of the rich history and cultural contributions of the region, these universal tales have been shown to activate contextual thinking skills associated with the right side of the brain.

• Children's Literacy Program: Hoopoe titles have been singled out for distribution through several high-profile literacy intervention and multicultural education programs. With the renewed emphasis on the role of reading in child development, coupled with the growing crisis in education budgets, Hoopoe Books is redoubling efforts to support vital literacy intervention programs across the U.S. and Canada.

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