Parent’s Resources

Books from Wanaka Library

Parents support

‘They’re not bringing my brain out!’ : introducing the REACH model for working with exceptionally able children / Cathcart, Rosemary(1994)

Subjects:  Gifted Children – Education – New Zealand (3)  ; Special Education – Activity Programs – New Zealand

 

Bringing up your talented child / Lewis, Geoffrey  (1988)

Subjects:  Gifted Children ; Child Rearing (167)  Gifted Children – Education (3) 

 

Nurturing gifted and talented children: a parent-teacher partnership / Bevan-Brown, Jill  (2008)

Subjects:  Gifted children – Education – New Zealand (3) 

 

The drama of the gifted child : the search for the true self / Miller, Alice  (1994)

Subjects:  Adult Child Abuse Victims – Mental Health ; Adult Child Abuse Victims – Rehabilitation ; Parent And Child (73)  ; Narcissistic Injuries ; Repression (Psychology) ; Self-Help Techniques (25) 

 

Every child is a gifted child : strategies for raising young children today / Ramage, Raywyn  (1997)

Subjects:  Learning, Psychology Of (13)  Active Learning (2)  Early Childhood Education (2)  Early Childhood Education – Parent Participation (7)  ; Thought And Thinking – Study And Teaching (Early Childhood) ; Cognition In Children (3)  ; Gifted Children – Education (Preschool) ; Gifted Children – Education (3)  Parenting (116)  ; Pro-Active Learning Programme

 

Gifted : out of sight, out of mind / Kaye, Marilyn  -in order-

 

In the mind’s eye : visual thinkers, gifted people with dyslexia and other learning difficulties, computer images, and the ironies of creativity / West, Thomas G.  (1997)

Subjects:  Genius (2)  Imagery (Psychology) (3)  Creative ability (8)  Learning disabilities (5)  ; Trait intercorrelations ; Gifted persons – Case studies ; Computer graphics – Psychological aspects ; Neuropsychology

 

Keys to parenting the gifted child / Rimm, Sylvia B.  (2001)

Series:  Barron’s parenting keys (3) 

Subjects:  Gifted Children – United States ; Gifted Children – Education – United States ; Parents Of Gifted Children – United States ; Parenting – United States (9) 

 

Managing the social and emotional needs of the gifted / Schmidz, Connie C.  (1985)

Subjects:  Gifted Children – Education (3) 

 

Parents novels

The 10pm question: a novel / De Goldi, Kate (2008)

New Zealand Post Book Award Winner 2009. Twelve-year-old Frankie Parsons, talented Year 8, has a rather large, quirky family. Until now they’ve been the centre of his universe, but now Frankie’s view of his world begins to change. There’s a new arrival at school- a dredlocked girl called Sydney who becomes perplexingly fascinating to him…

 

Dreamscapes / McKinley, Tamara  (2005)

Subjects:  Opera – Australia – Fiction ; Women singers – Australia – Fiction ; Gifted children – Fiction (3) 

 

Gifted / Lalwani, Nikita, 1973  (2007)

Subjects:  Gifted girls – Fiction ; Mathematics – Fiction (5)  ; Immigrants – Wales – Fiction ; East Indians – Wales – Fiction ; Children of immigrants – Family relationships – Wales – Fiction ; Culture conflict – Fiction (5)  Cardiff (Wales) – Fiction (2) 

 

Blood ties / Hayes, Sam  (2007)

Subjects:  Mothers and daughters – Fiction (107)  Kidnapping – Fiction (60) 

Notes:  ”A stolen child. A runaway teenager. A family on the edge.” — Cover. -”January 1992. A baby girl is left alone for a moment. Long enough for a mother to dash into a shop. Long enough for a child to be taken. Thirteen years later, solicitor Robert Knight is delighted his stepdaughter has won a place at a prestigious London school for the gifted. The only puzzle is his wife Erin’s reaction. Why is she so reluctant to let Ruby go? Doesn’t she want what’s best for her daughter? As Erin grows more evasive, Robert can’t help but feel she has something to hide. And when he stumbles on mysterious letters, he discovers Erin has been lying to him. Somewhere in his wife’s past lies a secret; a secret that threatens to destroy everything…” —

 

The Greenstone grail / Hemingway, Amanda  (2004)

Series:  Sangreal trilogy (2)

Subjects:  Albinos and albinism – Fiction ; Gifted children – Fiction (3)  ; Homeless women – Fiction ; Immortalism – Fiction (5)  Villages – Fiction (11)  Grail – Fiction (4)  England – Fiction (72)  Fantasy

 

Howard Hughes : aviator / Marrett, George J.  (2004) Also good for children

Main subject:  BIOGRAPHY (1664)  Hughes, Howard, 1905-1976 ; Millionaires – United States – Biography (4)  Air pilots – United States – Biography (4) 

Notes:  Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-244) and index ; “A test pilot for Howard Hughes separates fact from fiction to tell the inside story of the aviation genius who set speed records in the 1930s and went on to develop some of America’s most famous aircraft and weapons. George Marrett draws on his wealth of experiences and those of other Hughes confidants to take readers inside Hughes’s complex world – a world that has kept its secrets for nearly six decades. Both a gifted storyteller and a top-notch aviator himself, having tested forty types of military aircraft and logged eight thousand hours in the air, the author integrates stories of Hughes the ace pilot with Hughes the designer and businessman who became America’s first billionaire.” “Through revealing, humorous, and sometimes tragic stories, Marrett provides a full picture of the elusive Hughes despite his obsession with working in secrecy.”–BOOK JACKET.

 

The Rattlesnake : a voyage of discovery to the Coral Sea / Goodman, Jordan  (2005)

Subjects:  Stanley, Owen – Travel ; Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895 – Travel ; MacGillivray, William, 1796-1852 – Travel ; Rattlesnake (Frigate) ; Topographical surveying – Australia – Great Barrier Reef (Qld.) – History – 19th century ; Scientific expeditions – Australia – Great Barrier Reef (Qld.) – History – 19th century ; Scientific expeditions – Coral Sea – History – 19th century

Summary: “Australia’s spectacular Great Barrier Reef was a graveyard for shipping ; HMS Rattlesnake, an aging British warship, was commissioned in 1846 to survey this magnificent ‘Coral Sea’ and to produce the first detailed chart of the New Guinea coast ; Every reef, every shoal, every rock hazard had to be located and mapped with extreme accuracy. At stake was the preeminence of British sea power – and the ambitions of those on board.” “If all went well Stanley, the ship’s captain, could expect a top job in the Admiralty; MacGillivray, the gifted naturalist, would be the world’s expert on the fauna of Australia and the unknown New Guinea; and Huxley, the ambitious young surgeon, could abandon the dreary routine of the naval service for the excitement of the new world of science. But a series of highly dramatic events and encounters ensures that by the time the Rattlesnake finally returns to England, the glorious dreams of at least some of her crew have met with tragedy.”–BOOK JACKET.

 

 

Children books

The angel’s command : a tale from the castaways of the Flying Dutchman / Jacques, Brian  (2003)

Subjects:  Heroes, Dogs, Angels,  Pirates, Princes, Flying Dutchman

Notes: Illustrated by David Elliott. Sequel to: Castaways of the Flying Dutchman.

Ben and Ned, a boy and dog gifted with eternal youth and the ability to communicate with one another nonverbally, encounter pirates on the high seas and rescue a kidnapped prince from a band of gypsy thieves.

 

The boy who would live forever / Simons, Moya  (2003)

Series:  Aussie chomps (16)  Subjects:  Gifted boy – Juvenile fiction

 

Buzan’s book of genius : and how to unleash your own / Buzan, Tony  (1994) Also good for parents! Subjects:  Genius (2)  ; Gifted Persons – Biography

 

Matilda / Dahl, Roald, 1916-1990  (2007)

Subjects:  Schools – Fiction (172)  Humorous Stories (236)  ; Mental Suggestion – Juvenile Fiction ; Gifted Children – Juvenile Fiction (3) 

 

No regrets / Bell, Krista  (2002)

Series:  Takeaways (24) 

 Subjects:  Gifted children – Juvenile fiction (3)  Bullying – Juvenile Fiction (28)  Friendship – Juvenile Fiction