Pennie Brownlee: Magic Places

Put away your play dough tools and take the lids off your paint pots!

It is time to revise and rejuvenate your ability to support children’s

inner creativity. Pennie Brownlee is back presenting us with this

stunning revision of the classic: Magic Places. This revised edition

will transport you into the magical childhood wonders of discovery

and exploration. From fingerpaint to feathers, cardboard to clay,

Pennie offers parents and teachers real, hands on, practical, spiritual

and respectful guidance on developing children’s creative potential.

This book will inspire you to create environments of natural materials,

quality paints and clays, and beautifully presented and displayed

artworks and materials. Her simple suggestions on how to set up

“vibrant creative work places” for children’s own creative pleasure

are guided by knowledge of development stages so that all those

who work and play with young children might better understand the

“nature of creativity”.

Pennie takes an experience-based approach to children’s development

of art. She offers rich examples of environments, language and real

experiences that might excite the artist within and allow for “the

natural unfolding of each child’s creativity”.