Idle Grounds Spring26 each addressing one of the

each addressing one of the six cognitive skills of the NCSBN Clinical Judgment Measurement Model

peer groups are often far more influential than parents

and learn how to make all sorts of wild creatures

Whether grazing

From frogs to mermaids

Idle Grounds Spring26 each addressing one of the'Unsettling, puckish, and brilliantly written, this novel is an absolute one off. I loved it' CLAIRE FULLER 'Magical, perplexing and funny in a wholly original way' RACHEL YODER 'Ambitious, wildly original . . . marches to its own beat' THE TIMES 'Bamford conjures, in vivid, amplified language, how children fluidly and unpredictably make sense of the world [Idle Grounds] is unsettling, sharply funny at times, with carefully built up layers of dis ease