The Education Resources Awards (ERA) are firmly established as the premier annual event to celebrate outstanding success for the suppliers and teaching professionals of the education sector throughout the UK.

Amongst the many great entries up for nomination, we are proud to have four books/series of our own shortlisted for the Education Resources Awards in the Educational Book Award category:

The Opening Doors to Quality Writing series by Bob Cox.

The Feel Brave series by Avril McDonald.

The Art of Being Brilliant series by Chris Henley, Gary Toward, Andy Cope and Stuart Spendlow.

Making the Leap by Dr Jill Berry.


A full list of the finalists can be found here. The winners will be announced later on today, Friday 17th March 2017.

Good luck to all involved!

Click here to read the article and here to see the report.

Popular author and speaker John Tomsett has recently written This Much I Know About Mind Over Matter¦ on the subject of mental health in schools, in which he interweaves his formative and professional experience with strategies for addressing students™ issues and outlines his strategies for turning the tide of students™ mental health problems,

As we™re feeling generous, we are offering Sue Cowley's published title Road School: Learning through Exploration and Experience on ebook at a special discounted price of £1 ($1.20 in the US) for a very limited period.

On the product page simply click on the link to either Kindle or iTunes and you™ll be taken through to the site to complete your purchase.

Click here to see some sample pages from Sue's unique book. Part travel guide, part memoir, part schooling discourse, it is a tale of one family™s journey through Europe and China in search of an alternative educational experience for their children over a six-month period. Sue shares the lessons learnt from her experience of educating kids whilst travelling as a family and provides advice on putting together your own Road School curriculum.

The Collaborative Leader by L. Michael Hall and Ian McDermott has been shortlisted under the Business & Economics category.



- Packed with practical and immediate action points, this a practical guide to collaborating with others and leading collaboratively.

Feel Brave Teaching Guide by Avril McDonald has been shortlisted under the Education category.

- The perfect companion to the Feel Brave series of books, designed to help 4- to 7-year-olds explore emotional intelligence, positive psychology and some of the challenging feelings which they might experience in everyday life in an engaging, creative and non-threatening way.

The Wolf is Not Invited, also by Avril McDonald, has been shortlisted under the Picture Book category.



- One of the Feel Brave series™ ˜little stories about big feelings™, which help children deal with: confidence issues; change, loss and grief; managing anxiety and fears; and bullying.

A full list of the 2016 Foreword INDIES finalists scan be found here.



We will, of course, keep you updated if one of the above is succesful!

Three Crown House titles have been glowingly endorsed by John Dabell on the Teacher Toolkit website:

The Perfect Teacher by Jackie Beere.

"Jackie Beere talks about embedding the seven habits of highly effective teachers: self-management, reflective practice, flexibility, optimism, empathy, courage and resilience and collaboration."

How to Be an Amazing Teacher by Caroline Bentley-Davies.

"Describes really special teachers that have the ability to make time fly. These amazing souls mesmerise, engross and fascinate by effortlessly mixing together dynamic skills that she summarises as the five Es: Enthusiasm, Expertise, Empathy, Empowerment and Enterprise."

The Art Of Being A Brilliant Teacher by Gary Toward, Chris Henley and Andy Cope.

"An entertaining resource brimming over with positive psychology and 'cracking stuff' for building world class lessons."

Click here to read John's blog piece and on the above links to read more about each title.

Tait Coles™ Never Mind the Inspectors: Here™s Punk Learning has been reviewed by John Dabell on the Teacher Toolkit website.

œNever Mind the Inspectors turns your mind attic upside down and makes you think and do things differently. If you™re a teacher that says you entered the profession ˜to make a difference™ then reading this book will make you sit back and wonder how much of a difference you have actually made if you haven™t created genuine student-owned learning. It could be the catalyst of change your teaching needs and might help you develop a belligerent stance and challenge complacency.

Click here to read the review and here to order your copy.