The Little Book of Big Stuff about the Brain: The True Story of Your Amazing Brain Independent Thinking Series Edition

Dr Andrew Curran is a practising paediatric neurologist in Liverpool who is also committed to using his extraordinary knowledge of the workings of the human brain to make a difference in the educational experience of all young people. Ian Gilbert, founder of Independent Thinking has been working to bring the best out of young people and those who work with them, focusing on areas including thinking, learning, motivation and creativity. This little book is a very readable guide to how the brain has developed, how it works and the implications this has for everyday situations as well as for more formal learning. It is amusingly illustrated and uses many instantly recognizable examples to bring these complex concepts to life. I would strongly recommend this book to anyone who is interested in knowing more about how their brain actually does what it does, or wants to explain some of these concepts to students in an entertaining and imaginative format. –Mary Mountstephen MA (SEN), Associate Editor, SEN Magazine

The true story of our amazing brain! What a delightful book, with big enough writing and pictures that offers an simple approach to a complicated subject. Our knowledge of the brain is a work in progress, an endless adventure of discovery.It will excite your interest and inspire you to learn more. Sharing your learning and your approaches to teaching with a broader knowledge will help you understand how a calm brain that is having fun will learn best. Fear, stress and worry only shut down the higher thinking and control centres of the brain with consequent results to teaching and learning. We will certainly be adding this to our A Quiet Place reading list!Without a doubt all educators should not only enjoy reading this book but also find in it essential information for the teaching and learning process. It is only when we begin to understand how that extraordinary organ the brain functions that we will we be able begin to make –Penelope Moon CEO A Quiet Place Ltd