THE WAR NOTEBOOK. IDEAS FOR TALKING, DRAWING, ASKING QUESTIONS AND THINKING ABOUT WAR AND PEACE

A free downloadable 26 page notebook, developed and written by Ellen Duthie, illustrated by Andrea Antinori and designed by Alejandra Fernández.

Content: a page full of war and peace questions from kids and teens, a page where you can write your own questions with the inspiration of some spark words, a true or false section, the chance to interview real or fictional people who might have interesting things to say about war (and peace), a page to explain war in writing or drawing to an alien from a planet where there are no wars, a page to imagine how the alien from the peaceful planet might explain to us what it’s like to live there, a page full of (serious) questions about what we would do in the event of an alien invasion, a double page full of dilemmas and a last page for readers to collect the best questions they have come up with while reading, drawing and writing in the War Notebook, which they may share with Wonder Ponder for us to include them in a book based on all the questions on war and peace we receive.

At Wonder Ponder we are offering this War Notebook free of charge because we believe it is important for access not to be limited financially.

However, if you feel you would like to recognise the work involved in creating this notebook (concepto, writing, illustration, design, proofreading, translations), you have two ways of doing to.

DONATE QUESTIONS!

All Wonder Ponder would like in exchange for the free download is for you to donate to us any questions that arise from sharing the war notebook with children and teens around you. Please send them here.

DONATE FUNDS!

If you would like to donate money, please take part in our fund-raising campaign QUESTIONS AGAINST WAR.

All donations will go to the UNHCR (the UN Refugee Agency) .

Donate here.

Thank you!

Download the booklet clicking on the image above or here.

Our booklet DYING TO ASK is full of vital ideas for thinking about mortal questions!

(click on image to dowload).

This free, downloadable booklet created by Ellen Duthie and Anna Juan Cantavella with illustrations by Loreta Lion can be enjoyed on its own or before, during or after reading the book Dying to Ask: 38 Questions from Kids About Death (written by Ellen Duthie and Anna Juan Cantavella and illustrated by Andrea Antinori, English version published by Tra publishing).

Contents: 1 page full of examples of actual questions posed by children, 1 page inviting kids to write their own questions, aided by some prompt words, a section of "Would you rather" questions, a section of True or False questions, a section where kids are invited to interview a skeleton (dead for many years) and a vampire (alive for many years) and think of good questions for each of them, a section for children to imagine the perfect sendoff for a loved one, a page with questions to prompt dialogue on the meaning of life (Is your life more meaningful than a fly's life?), a section on language (idioms and expressions containing the word "death" or "dead"), one last page where children are invited to read through the booklet and choose their best mortal questions to share with us at Wonder Ponder, to contribute to our huge collection of questions about death. Feel free to download it for free.

The free downloadable resources we offer at Wonder Ponder take a very long time to create and are fairly costly to produce. It is our choice to make them available free of charge and we think it's great for them to be downloaded for free. If, however, you would like to support our work and acknowledge the use and enjoyment you get out of our resources, you can make a voluntary contribution, that will help us to continue to create free resources and undertaking other projects.

Your contribution might reflect the price you think is fair for this particular booklet, or an amount for the booklets you have downloaded and enjoyed in the past and you suspect you will download and enjoy in the future.

You can make your contribution via paypal, here (please enter “I would like to make a contribution” in the note section so that we can track donations).

Another important way of supporting our work is downloading it for free and then sharing it on social networks. Thank you, whatever you decide!

This booklet is also available in Spanish, Catalán, Basque, Italian, and Portuguese (Portugal) and Portuguese (Brazil).

SCHOOL AND LEARNING!

A free, downloadable, shareable booklet for thinking about school and learning.

CHRISTMAS WONDERPONDERING

A free, downloadable, shareable booklet for thinking about Christmas.

The free downloadable resources we offer at Wonder Ponder take a very long time to create and are fairly costly to produce.

It is our choice to make them available free of charge and we think it's great for them to be downloaded for free.

If, however, you would like to support our work and acknowledge the use and enjoyment you get out of our resources, you can make a voluntary contribution, that will help us to continue to create free resources and undertaking other projects such as our I, WONDER, SELF-INTERVIEWS UNDER LOCKDOWN project, where more than 100 people aged 5 to 18 took part and which has been read by hundreds of people.

Your contribution might reflect the price you think is fair for this particular booklet, or an amount for the booklets you have downloaded and enjoyed in the past and you suspect you will download and enjoy in the future.

You can make your contribution by clicking on the button below or via paypal, here (please enter “I would like to make a contribution” in the note section so that we can track donations).

Another important way of supporting our work is downloading it for free and then sharing it on social networks. Thank you, whatever you decide!

Christmas Wonderpondering is also available in Spanish, Catalan, Italian and Portuguese.

THE FUTURE IS WOW!

A free, downloadable, shareable booklet for looking at, reading, drawing, talking and thinking about the future

An 18-page booklet created by Ellen Duthie and Daniela Martagón.

CONTENT: This booklet offers a chance to predict the future; imagine what a 100% virtual life would be like; take a walk through a gallery of inventions of the future and design your very own inventions; look at, imagine and draw possible future evolutions of the human body; prepare your intergalactic luggage for a life on another planet: what would you take?; attend a debate among Best Future candidates: which one would you chose?; have a good think about the democracy of the future; interview a dweller of 2984; send postcards to the past and postcards to the future; curate an exhibition for a future museum of the 21st century; imagine the future in full detail, look out through a window onto the worst possible future; look out through a window onto the best possible future; and drum up the courage to take part in our “A Day in 2984” short story competition (full terms and conditions in the booklet or here).

The free downloadable resources we offer at Wonder Ponder take a very long time to create and are fairly costly to produce.

It is our choice to make them available free of charge and we think it's great for them to be downloaded for free.

If, however, you would like to support our work and acknowledge the use and enjoyment you get out of our resources, you can make a voluntary contribution, that will help us to continue to create free resources and undertaking other projects such as our I, WONDER, SELF-INTERVIEWS UNDER LOCKDOWN project, where more than 100 people aged 5 to 18 took part and which has been read by hundreds of people.

Your contribution might reflect the price you think is fair for this particular booklet, or an amount for the booklets you have downloaded and enjoyed in the past and you suspect you will download and enjoy in the future.

You can make your contribution via paypal, here (please enter “I would like to make a contribution” in the note section so that we can track donations).

WORLD PHILOSOPHY DAY!

WATCH AND WONDER!

A short film about dreaming based on the poster included in Pinch Me! by Wonder Ponder, with a Question Sheet.