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"Anne dropped on her knees and gazed out into the #June morning, her eyes glistening with delight. Oh, wasn’t it beautiful? Wasn’t it a lovely place? Suppose she wasn’t really going to stay here! She would imagine she was. There was scope for imagination here" #AnneOfGreenGables

We enjoyed a wonderful talk by Elizabeth Darling on Lileen Hardy and Edinburgh's free kindergarten movement at City Art Centre. A relational feminism which made urban green spaces for and with children Edinburgh Museums Edin Froebel Network

🎉And we're off! The #Empathydayfestival is in full swing 🎉 Our brilliant Children’s Laureate @Frank_CottrellBoyce and a whole host of amazing author and illustrator friends taking part in the EmpathyDayFestival. Join us - link in bio!

Your lovely leafy feedback is so much appreciated! 💚🙏Thank you for taking the time. We love how our exhibition is evoking fond childhood book memories 💚🌿 Edinburgh Museums

We are thrilled to have heard all about the rich collection of children's literature within the Museum of Childhood by our fantastic speaker Lyn Stevens! #selcie_project 🦋

Rina Teske is discussing children’s interaction with nature in schools and stories at home in her talk “From within and beyond the garden walls: Tracing the Green Thread in Scottish Nature Writing for Children, 1800-1900” #selcie_project

Lyn Stevens and Rina Teske answering questions about children’s interactions with fairytales and how fairies were depicted in children’s books at Nature Nurture Symposium #selcie_project #universityofedinburgh

Jane Whinnett catching the audience with her talk on “The Little Gardener” - discussing Froebel training and education in early kindergartens #selcie_project #universityofedinburgh

🌿 Elizabeth Darling exploring women's role in children's education in Edwardian Edinburgh during her presentation 'To be a kindergartner is the perfect development of womanliness: Reflection on women's agency as social and urban reformers in Edwardian Edinburgh'. #selcie_project

Lois Burke introducing our audience to manuscript magazines handwritten by late-Victorian girls during her talk on 'Family Connections and Care for the Natural World in Isobel Wylie Hutchison’s Childhood Writing' 📚 #selcie_project #universityofedinburgh

Ainsley McIntosh delves into the engagement with nature from an intimate embodied perspective of Elizabeth Rae Keir, Edinburgh’s own poet, in her talk on 'Written in a storm: Care, Consolation, and Elizabeth Rae Keir'. 🌹 #selcie_project #universityofedinburgh

Last Q&A of the day with Lois Burke and Ainsley McIntosh: Discussing Victorian and Edwardian female writing and nature’s influence on it. Thanks to everyone who made (and still makes) this event so fabulous! #selcie_project #universityofedinburgh

Huge huge thanks to Sarah Dunnigan 🌿 SELCIE & all those involved in organising/running & speaking at the most brilliant of symposiums this afternoon. Heading home with lots of notes, lots of thoughts, lots of projects I wish someone wld pay me to do! Loved it - v happy Ruth ❤️

Today’s Nurture through Nature SELCIE symposium ended as it began with a bountiful garden of ideas from wonderful speakers. Very grateful to Sarah Dunnigan 🌿 for organising this event and nurturing this project to fruition🍃💜

The Lamplighter RL Stevenson ..It’s time to take the window to see Leerie going by; For every night at teatime and before you take your seat, With lantern and with ladder he comes posting up the street. 📸 @ snapsbyshirin on Instagram. The Writers' Museum is open daily 10am-5pm.

Anyone else feel it is time to get out your shorts now #summer has arrived in #Edinburgh. A teddy from 1941 living their best life in Museum of Childhood. #toys #teddy #childhood.

This looks a wonderful event! #naturenurtureedinburgh 💚🌿

Join us for our varied family programme of events to accompany our exhibition 'Nurture Through Nature with Children’s Books' - A Museum of Edinburgh exhibition. Lectures, storytelling, family art and wellbeing sessions. Explore here: edinburghmuseums.org.uk/whats-on/nurtu…