All the Ways to be Smart: the beautifully illustrated international bestseller that celebrates the talents of every child

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This book celebrates the myriad ways one can be smart — knowing the right thing to say, being welcoming to a shy friend, using your imagination, taking chances. This is a fantastic book that has no room for judgement: smart refers to anything, and anyone can be smart.

So as a teacher, I’ve always been super sensitive to use the word “smart” because it carries so much weight. This lovely read explains that 'Smart' isn't just science and maths skills, it's kindess, creativity and so much more.Ik had op een gegeven moment echt wel door dat slim zijn duizend dingen is, en ik vroeg me af of we echt naar duizend dingen gingen. The rhyming text describes the many different kinds of activities and personal qualities that require intelligence, thereby highlighting that there are many different kinds of smarts, while the colorful artwork depicts those activities and qualities. A needed reassurance that tests can't measure everything, and that we need all kinds of kids to create a smart and inventive world.

From the award-winning creators of The Underwater Fancy-dress Parade and Under the Love Umbrella comes this joyful ode to all the unique and wonderful qualities that make children who they are. Whether you are inquisitive, daring, caring and kind or the type of smart person who can spell really long dinosaur names, Bell's touching rhyming text quietly reinforces the value and diversity of intelligence in all its many guises and its partnership with ability, like 'finding treasures' and 'flower picking'. This book celebrates the myriad ways one can be smart--knowing the right thing to say, being welcoming to a shy friend, using your imagination, taking chances.This picture book from Australia has glowing colours that seem to leap off the page and rhyming text that children will very much enjoy chanting … The book is a jumbly rumble of busy, bright colours and kids doing fun things – along with di-nosaurs, birds and flowers and all kinds of creatures. That's not to say it didn't open an interesting conversation because we did talk about what smart means, although I don't think that was by design. Together with UK education agency Shapes for Schools, Scribble has developed an RSE resource pack for KS1/KS2 teachers, aimed at developing emotional literacy. Children will want to pore over each page, while the seamless read-out-loud rhyming pattern will ensure this is a favourite for years to come. But saying "we're all smart in our own ways" is often code for, this kid isn't great at drawing/reading/maths whatever.

A lover of words and ideas in many forms, Davina regularly travels the country, speaking to children and adults about books and writing.The reality is, for very young children all those abilities are intermingled and inextricably woven with play. stars This was disappointing, the illustrations were really nice, very interesting, a lovely style and bright colours in a retro look, but the text was just a list of things that are ways to be smart. The illustrations depict a wide array of diverse people and creatures in colourful scenes that take up the whole page. The lovely rhyming text and vibrant illustrations with splashes of neon make this a truly unique book. Rest assured, not everyone has to be smart in the same way – and sharing all the different ways we are smart makes the world better every day.