Bloomsbury Publishing Books for Primary School Teachers and Students
August 2012
www.bloomsbury.com/au *book details and prices are subject to change without notice
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I’m feeling series Xxxxx Contents
Key Contacts
I’m Feeling series
1
History
2
Stories from World Religions
4
Poetry & Music
6
World Sports Guides Zoo books
9 10
Fiction
15
Fiction for Reluctant readers
16
Fiction: Upper Primary
18
Picture Books
25
Teacher Resources
27
Teachers Resources: Featherstone
34
Parents & Teacher Resources: Andrew Brodie
39
Teacher Resources: Getting the Buggers to
40
Sonia Palmisano Marketing and Publicity Manager, Children’s and Young Adult Books Bloomsbury Publishing Australia sonia.palmisano@bloomsbury.com Tel: (02) 9994 8941 Kirstin Corcoran Product manager, Academic & Professional Bloomsbury Publishing Australia kirstin.corcoran@bloomsbury.com Tel: (02) 9248 0161 Sign up to receive enewsletter updates at www.bloomsbury.com/au
How to Order
A thought-provoking series that encourages children to deal with feelings, talk about their emotions, and cope with difficult situations. Each book looks at different scenarios provoked by a different set of feelings, and provides information to help them positively deal with each. Extensive research will be carried out with children and experts, with text built around their responses. In this series, difficult emotions and issues are treated seriously, sympathetically and constructively through an accessible illustrative approach.
I’m Feeling Angry
Lisa Regan
When things go wrong, it can make you feel angry. It’s ok to feel angry or hurt sometimes. Read this book with a grown up and learn how to deal with angry feelings
Sometimes your friends have things that you want. Sometimes your parents have to share their time with you and their work, or other family. Read this book with a grown up and talk about what makes you jealous
A thought-provoking picture book that encourages children to deal with feeling angry, to talk about their emotions, and cope with difficult situations.
A thought-provoking picture book that encourages children to deal with feeling jealous, to talk about their emotions, and cope with difficult situations.
November 2012 • 210 x 210mm • Hardback • 9781408171868 • AU$16.99
November 2012 • 210 x 210mm • Hardback • 9781408171851 • AU$16.99
Age Range: 4-7 years
Age Range: 4-7 years
A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: Children age 4-7, teachers and practitioners
A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: Children age 4-7, teachers and practitioners
I’m Feeling Scared
I’m Feeling Shy
Lisa Regan
United Book Distributors Ltd Customer Service/Accounts Freecall 1800 33 8836 Tel: (03) 9811 2555 Fax: (03) 9811 2403 Email orders@unitedbookdistributors.com.au Allen and Unwin Publishers Tel: (02) 8425 0100 Fax: (02) 9906 2218
I’m Feeling Jealous
Lisa Regan
Lisa Regan
A trip to the dentist can be scary. Your first day at school can be scary. It’s normal to feel scared at times. Read this book with a grown up and talk about what makes you feel scared
Life is full of new people and situations. It’s normal to feel shy at times. Read this book with a grown up and learn how to deal with feeling shy
A thought-provoking picture book that encourages children to deal with feeling scared, to talk about their emotions, and cope with scary situations.
A thought-provoking picture book that encourages children to deal with shyness, to talk about their emotions, and cope with difficult situations.
November 2012 • 210 x 210mm • Hardback • 9781408171837 • AU$16.99
November 2012 • 210 x 210mm • Hardback • 9781408171844 • AU$16.99
Age Range: 4-7 years
Age Range: 4-7 years
A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: Children age 4-7, teachers and practitioners
A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: Children age 4-7, teachers and practitioners
Lisa Regan is the author of over 200 published titles, mostly for children. She lives in Colchester, UK, with her husband and three sons.
www.bloomsbury.com/au Follow us on Twitter @BloomsburySyd Facebook.com/BloomsburyPublishingAustralia Sign up to receive enewsletter updates at www.bloomsbury.com/au
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I’m feeling series Xxxxx Contents
Key Contacts
I’m Feeling series
1
History
2
Stories from World Religions
4
Poetry & Music
6
World Sports Guides Zoo books
9 10
Fiction
15
Fiction for Reluctant readers
16
Fiction: Upper Primary
18
Picture Books
25
Teacher Resources
27
Teachers Resources: Featherstone
34
Parents & Teacher Resources: Andrew Brodie
39
Teacher Resources: Getting the Buggers to
40
Sonia Palmisano Marketing and Publicity Manager, Children’s and Young Adult Books Bloomsbury Publishing Australia sonia.palmisano@bloomsbury.com Tel: (02) 9994 8941 Kirstin Corcoran Product manager, Academic & Professional Bloomsbury Publishing Australia kirstin.corcoran@bloomsbury.com Tel: (02) 9248 0161 Sign up to receive enewsletter updates at www.bloomsbury.com/au
How to Order
A thought-provoking series that encourages children to deal with feelings, talk about their emotions, and cope with difficult situations. Each book looks at different scenarios provoked by a different set of feelings, and provides information to help them positively deal with each. Extensive research will be carried out with children and experts, with text built around their responses. In this series, difficult emotions and issues are treated seriously, sympathetically and constructively through an accessible illustrative approach.
I’m Feeling Angry
Lisa Regan
When things go wrong, it can make you feel angry. It’s ok to feel angry or hurt sometimes. Read this book with a grown up and learn how to deal with angry feelings
Sometimes your friends have things that you want. Sometimes your parents have to share their time with you and their work, or other family. Read this book with a grown up and talk about what makes you jealous
A thought-provoking picture book that encourages children to deal with feeling angry, to talk about their emotions, and cope with difficult situations.
A thought-provoking picture book that encourages children to deal with feeling jealous, to talk about their emotions, and cope with difficult situations.
November 2012 • 210 x 210mm • Hardback • 9781408171868 • AU$16.99
November 2012 • 210 x 210mm • Hardback • 9781408171851 • AU$16.99
Age Range: 4-7 years
Age Range: 4-7 years
A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: Children age 4-7, teachers and practitioners
A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: Children age 4-7, teachers and practitioners
I’m Feeling Scared
I’m Feeling Shy
Lisa Regan
United Book Distributors Ltd Customer Service/Accounts Freecall 1800 33 8836 Tel: (03) 9811 2555 Fax: (03) 9811 2403 Email orders@unitedbookdistributors.com.au Allen and Unwin Publishers Tel: (02) 8425 0100 Fax: (02) 9906 2218
I’m Feeling Jealous
Lisa Regan
Lisa Regan
A trip to the dentist can be scary. Your first day at school can be scary. It’s normal to feel scared at times. Read this book with a grown up and talk about what makes you feel scared
Life is full of new people and situations. It’s normal to feel shy at times. Read this book with a grown up and learn how to deal with feeling shy
A thought-provoking picture book that encourages children to deal with feeling scared, to talk about their emotions, and cope with scary situations.
A thought-provoking picture book that encourages children to deal with shyness, to talk about their emotions, and cope with difficult situations.
November 2012 • 210 x 210mm • Hardback • 9781408171837 • AU$16.99
November 2012 • 210 x 210mm • Hardback • 9781408171844 • AU$16.99
Age Range: 4-7 years
Age Range: 4-7 years
A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: Children age 4-7, teachers and practitioners
A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: Children age 4-7, teachers and practitioners
Lisa Regan is the author of over 200 published titles, mostly for children. She lives in Colchester, UK, with her husband and three sons.
www.bloomsbury.com/au Follow us on Twitter @BloomsburySyd Facebook.com/BloomsburyPublishingAustralia Sign up to receive enewsletter updates at www.bloomsbury.com/au
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Xxxxx History
Xxxxx History Poo! A History of the World from the Bottom Up
Sarah Albee
The Sea Monsters
The Twisted Tunnels
Victorian Tales
Victorian Tales
Throughout history, civilisation has been shaped not only by human design, but by human poo, or rather, by how humans decided to get rid of it!
From finding out how many toilets you can expect to find in the average Egyptian pyramid, to how moats around medieval castles were used as more than just a defence against enemies, Poo! is a fascinating exploration of how human waste and it’s disposal has changed the world.
Terry Deary
Terry Deary
The 1838 race to be the first steamship to cross the Atlantic. Will Brunel’s Great Western win?
Two toshers live by finding valuables in the sewers. What happens when the London Underground destroys their home?
It’s 1838, and Patrick and Grace Leary are aboard The Sirius, set to become the first ever ship to sail from Dublin to New York using only steam power. But their cousin Ben is on board Brunel’s giant steam ship the Great Western in Bristol, and he’s convinced he’ll be in New York before them.
Sarah Albee writes children’s books for many age groups and under a number of pseudonyms. She has had three of her books appear on the New York Times Bestseller list. This is her first title for A&C Black. October 2012 • 203 x 254mm • Paperback • 9781408171905 • AU$19.99
Jenny and her grandfather are toshers. They survive by finding things in the sewer - anything they can sell, and they can sell almost anything. It’s a horrible life, but they are managing. Until the building of the London Underground Railway destroys huge parts of the slums and takes away even their meagre home.Fascinating story of the human cost of the Underground.
With fires causing havoc, Brunel getting injured and one ship running out of coal, which steam driven sea monster has the power to win this dangerous race?
Age Range: 9-11 years A&C Black Childrens & Educational Commonwealth/Europe excluding Canada, open market Readership: 9+
July 2012 • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408154113 • AU$12.99
July 2012 • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408154106 • AU$12.99
Age Range: 7-9 years
Age Range: 7-9 years
A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: Children age 7-9, teachers and practitioners
A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: Children age 7-9, teachers and practitioners
The Fabulous Flyer
Terror on the Train
Victorian Tales
Victorian Tales
How They Croaked The Awful Ends of the Awfully Famous
Georgia Bragg This fascinating collection of remarkable deaths is not for the faint of heart
Over the course of history men and women have lived and died. In fact, getting sick and dying can be a big, ugly mess-especially before the modern medical care that we all enjoy today. How They Croaked relays all the gory details of how nineteen world figures gave up the ghost. Readers will be fascinated well past the final curtain, and feel lucky to live in a world with painkillers, X-rays and soap. Georgia Bragg is the author of Matisse on the Loose, a middle-grade novel. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, two children, and two cats. www.georgiabragg.com
Terry Deary
Terry Deary
The true story of Henri Giffard’s airship and how he made the world’s first powered flight in 1852
True story of the Staplehurst railway disaster. Charles Dickens, who was on board the train, fought heroically to save lives
Henri Giffard has devoted all his free time and money to making a balloon with a steam engine so it can be flown anywhere, not just drift on the wind. In 1852 he sets off for Paris with just an urchin girl to help him. Tens of thousands gather to see if his marvellous machine will work. The amazing story of the first man to achieve powered flight.
December 2012 • 177 x 254mm • Paperback • 9780802727947 • AU$14.99
Age Range: 9-11 years
The true story of the Staplehurst railway disaster, one of Victorian Britain’s worst rail accidents. A crowded train ran at full speed into a section of track that had been taken up for repair. Charles Dickens, who was on board the train, fought heroically to save lives, and found time to save the handwritten manuscript of Our
Mutual Friend.
backlist • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408154083 • AU$12.99
Bloomsbury Childrens World English Readership: From 9 to 11 years
backlist • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408154090 • AU$12.99
Hard Nuts of History Tracey Turner
Read all about history’s hardest hard nuts. Who were the most famous (and not-so-famous) ruthless, brave, fearless and intrepid men and women of all time? Could you fight in the greatest battle ever, or wow the whole world with your brain power?
Each spread reveals a different historical character and readers can learn all about what made each person a hard nut. Spreads also include special features such as quizzes, hard nut ratings, and coverage of amazing and important historical events. Tracey Turner has written many highly successful non-fiction titles for adults and young adults. The best-selling 101 Things You Need to Know (Bloomsbury) has been selected by the Government’s Education Secretary for a list of top books for teenage boys. Other titles include The Ghastly Book of Dover Castle (English Heritage), The A-Z of Ghosts, Spooks and other Haunting Horrors (Scholastic), The Who’s Who of Horrors and the Disgusting Dictionary (Hodder) and Whitaker’s World of Weird for A&C Black.
Age Range: 7-9 years
Age Range: 7-9 years
A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: Children age 7-9, teachers and practitioners
A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: Children age 7-9, teachers and practitioners
Terry Deary began his writing career with fiction for A&C Black. He is now author of over 200 fiction and non-fiction books, which have been published in 40 languages. His historical fiction for older children Tudor Terror has been praised as “a marvellous blend of fact and fiction” (School Librarian). His non-fiction has been consistently in the best-seller lists since 1994. His Horrible Histories celebrated their 15th anniversary in 2008, having sold over 25 million copies worldwide and been adapted as television series, theatre tours and museum exhibitions. Terry Deary was voted “Outstanding children’s non-fiction author of the 20th Century” by Books for Keeps magazine.
January 2013 • 132 x 233mm • Paperback • 9781408171882 • AU$14.99
Age Range: 9 to 11 years A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: From 9 to 11 years
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Xxxxx History
Xxxxx History Poo! A History of the World from the Bottom Up
Sarah Albee
The Sea Monsters
The Twisted Tunnels
Victorian Tales
Victorian Tales
Throughout history, civilisation has been shaped not only by human design, but by human poo, or rather, by how humans decided to get rid of it!
From finding out how many toilets you can expect to find in the average Egyptian pyramid, to how moats around medieval castles were used as more than just a defence against enemies, Poo! is a fascinating exploration of how human waste and it’s disposal has changed the world.
Terry Deary
Terry Deary
The 1838 race to be the first steamship to cross the Atlantic. Will Brunel’s Great Western win?
Two toshers live by finding valuables in the sewers. What happens when the London Underground destroys their home?
It’s 1838, and Patrick and Grace Leary are aboard The Sirius, set to become the first ever ship to sail from Dublin to New York using only steam power. But their cousin Ben is on board Brunel’s giant steam ship the Great Western in Bristol, and he’s convinced he’ll be in New York before them.
Sarah Albee writes children’s books for many age groups and under a number of pseudonyms. She has had three of her books appear on the New York Times Bestseller list. This is her first title for A&C Black. October 2012 • 203 x 254mm • Paperback • 9781408171905 • AU$19.99
Jenny and her grandfather are toshers. They survive by finding things in the sewer - anything they can sell, and they can sell almost anything. It’s a horrible life, but they are managing. Until the building of the London Underground Railway destroys huge parts of the slums and takes away even their meagre home.Fascinating story of the human cost of the Underground.
With fires causing havoc, Brunel getting injured and one ship running out of coal, which steam driven sea monster has the power to win this dangerous race?
Age Range: 9-11 years A&C Black Childrens & Educational Commonwealth/Europe excluding Canada, open market Readership: 9+
July 2012 • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408154113 • AU$12.99
July 2012 • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408154106 • AU$12.99
Age Range: 7-9 years
Age Range: 7-9 years
A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: Children age 7-9, teachers and practitioners
A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: Children age 7-9, teachers and practitioners
The Fabulous Flyer
Terror on the Train
Victorian Tales
Victorian Tales
How They Croaked The Awful Ends of the Awfully Famous
Georgia Bragg This fascinating collection of remarkable deaths is not for the faint of heart
Over the course of history men and women have lived and died. In fact, getting sick and dying can be a big, ugly mess-especially before the modern medical care that we all enjoy today. How They Croaked relays all the gory details of how nineteen world figures gave up the ghost. Readers will be fascinated well past the final curtain, and feel lucky to live in a world with painkillers, X-rays and soap. Georgia Bragg is the author of Matisse on the Loose, a middle-grade novel. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, two children, and two cats. www.georgiabragg.com
Terry Deary
Terry Deary
The true story of Henri Giffard’s airship and how he made the world’s first powered flight in 1852
True story of the Staplehurst railway disaster. Charles Dickens, who was on board the train, fought heroically to save lives
Henri Giffard has devoted all his free time and money to making a balloon with a steam engine so it can be flown anywhere, not just drift on the wind. In 1852 he sets off for Paris with just an urchin girl to help him. Tens of thousands gather to see if his marvellous machine will work. The amazing story of the first man to achieve powered flight.
December 2012 • 177 x 254mm • Paperback • 9780802727947 • AU$14.99
Age Range: 9-11 years
The true story of the Staplehurst railway disaster, one of Victorian Britain’s worst rail accidents. A crowded train ran at full speed into a section of track that had been taken up for repair. Charles Dickens, who was on board the train, fought heroically to save lives, and found time to save the handwritten manuscript of Our
Mutual Friend.
backlist • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408154083 • AU$12.99
Bloomsbury Childrens World English Readership: From 9 to 11 years
backlist • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408154090 • AU$12.99
Hard Nuts of History Tracey Turner
Read all about history’s hardest hard nuts. Who were the most famous (and not-so-famous) ruthless, brave, fearless and intrepid men and women of all time? Could you fight in the greatest battle ever, or wow the whole world with your brain power?
Each spread reveals a different historical character and readers can learn all about what made each person a hard nut. Spreads also include special features such as quizzes, hard nut ratings, and coverage of amazing and important historical events. Tracey Turner has written many highly successful non-fiction titles for adults and young adults. The best-selling 101 Things You Need to Know (Bloomsbury) has been selected by the Government’s Education Secretary for a list of top books for teenage boys. Other titles include The Ghastly Book of Dover Castle (English Heritage), The A-Z of Ghosts, Spooks and other Haunting Horrors (Scholastic), The Who’s Who of Horrors and the Disgusting Dictionary (Hodder) and Whitaker’s World of Weird for A&C Black.
Age Range: 7-9 years
Age Range: 7-9 years
A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: Children age 7-9, teachers and practitioners
A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: Children age 7-9, teachers and practitioners
Terry Deary began his writing career with fiction for A&C Black. He is now author of over 200 fiction and non-fiction books, which have been published in 40 languages. His historical fiction for older children Tudor Terror has been praised as “a marvellous blend of fact and fiction” (School Librarian). His non-fiction has been consistently in the best-seller lists since 1994. His Horrible Histories celebrated their 15th anniversary in 2008, having sold over 25 million copies worldwide and been adapted as television series, theatre tours and museum exhibitions. Terry Deary was voted “Outstanding children’s non-fiction author of the 20th Century” by Books for Keeps magazine.
January 2013 • 132 x 233mm • Paperback • 9781408171882 • AU$14.99
Age Range: 9 to 11 years A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: From 9 to 11 years
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Stories from World Religions White Wolves series Xxxxx
Stories Xxxxx from World Religions The Golem Gaby Halberstam
The Jewish people of Prague are under threat. So the Rabbi creates a golem - a giant clay man - to defend them. But the creature rampages out of control and the Rabbi must put a stop to it. Thrilling, evocative retelling of the classic Jewish myth Born and raised in the sleepy town of Port Elizabeth in South Africa, Gaby Halberstam’s passion for writing began at the age of five when she started penning stories for her family and friends. After studying English as an adult, she went on to become a qualified lawyer, a career choice she immediately regretted knowing that she’d be much happier as a professional writer. Now based in London with her husband and three children, Gaby has achieved her childhood dream and is a full time author. The Golem is her second publication for A&C Black.
Siddhartha and the Swan Andrew Fusek Peters
Prince Siddhartha sees a wounded swan fall from the sky with an arrow in its side. He wants to save the bird, but his cousin Devadatta, who shot the swan, claims it as his property. Who will win? A tale of the young Buddha’s compassion for all living things Andrew Fusek Peters is a high-profile children’s author. He is best known for his poetry and has been published by Walker, Hodder and Orchard. Backlist • 212 x 145mm • Hardback • 9781408139479 • AU$21.99 • October 2012 • 212 x 145mm • Paperback • 9781408139462 • AU$12.99
August 2012 • 212 x 145mm • Hardback • 9781408155783 • AU$21.99 • February 2013 • 212 x 145mm • Paperback • 9781408155776 • AU$12.99
Age Range: 5 - 7 years Age Range: 5 - 7 years
A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: 5 to 7 years, above average readers
A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: From 5 to 7 years
The Guru and the King Bali Rai
Guru Hargobind and 52 princes have been unjustly imprisoned by the cruel King. The King says he will release the Guru, but the Guru refuses to leave without the princes. The King tells him he can take as many princes as can hold onto his clothes. Can the Guru find a way to rescue all 52 princes? Lively retelling of the well-known Sikh tale Bali Rai was born in 1971 and grew up in Leicester. His debut novel, (Un)Arranged Marriage published in 2001 to fantastic reviews and has since been shortlisted for nine regional book prizes, winning The Angus, Stockport, North Lanarkshire and Leicester Book awards. The novel is now in eleven languages and Bali is firmly established as a leading voice in Teenage fiction. As a child, Bali wanted to be a footballer or to write stories. He realised he wasn’t good enough to play for Liverpool F.C. and after gaining a politics degree in London he returned to his home city and combined a variety of jobs in pubs and clubs with completing his first novel. Bali hopes his novels capture the unique ethnic mix of the UK of which he is proud to be a part.
Noah’s Ark Annie Dalton
A lone boy and his puppy join Noah and his family in their crazy scheme. Can Noah build his ship in time? Will the animals come? Will the world really end? A moving retelling with stunning illustrations
A powerful and emotive retelling of the classic tale for above-average readers, with stunning illustrations by Laura Clark and Kris Stoddart. Annie Dalton is a best-selling author whose successes include the Agent Angel and Angels Unlimited series for Random House and the Tilly Beany books for Egmont. This is her first book for A&C Black. Backlist • 212 x 145mm • Hardback • 9781408139486 • AU$21.99 • October 2012 • 212 x 145mm • Paperback • 9781408139493 • AU$12.99
August 2012 • 212 x 145mm • Hardback • 9781408155745 • AU$21.99 • February 2013 • 212 x 145mm • Paperback • 9781408155752 • AU$12.99
Age Range: 5-7 years Age Range: 5 - 7 years
Age Range: 5 - 7 years
A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: 5 to 7 years, average readers
A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: From 5 to 7 years, above average readers
Rama and Sita The Dinner of Smells Humaira Rashid
When a poor man stands enjoying the smells from a restaurant, its greedy owner charges him for the privilege! Can Nasruddin, the wise man, save him from jail? Lively retelling of a Muslim folk tale featuring the famous character Nasruddin Humaira Rashid was born in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire. From a young age she took up writing, compiling books of short stories and poems. In 2008 she won the Muslim Writers Award for the Under-16 Short Story, and the subsequent year, won the adult Unpublished Short Story category, as well as the Muslim Writers of the Year Award for her story Crash and Burn. She is currently studying Medicine at university, and continues to write in her spare time.
Malachy Doyle
Rama and Sita live happily in the forest until Sita is abducted by the demon king Ravana. Can Rama rescue her - and who is the little white monkey who offers to help?
Retelling of a tale from the Ramayana with wonderful, bright illustrations by Christopher Corr. Malachy Doyle is the best-selling and award-winning author of many books, from picture books to teen fiction, including the popular Amadans series, published by Orchard. Georgie and Who is Jesse Flood? for older readers are both published by Bloomsbury. Backlist • 212 x 145mm • Hardback • 9781408139479 • AU$21.99 • October 2012 • 212 x 145mm • Paperback • 9781408139509 • AU$12.99
August 2012 • 212 x 145mm • Hardback • 9781408155806 • AU$21.99 • February 2013 • 212 x 145mm • Paperback • 9781408156490 • AU$12.99
Age Range: 5 - 7 years Age Range: 5 - 7 years A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: 5 to 7 years, below average readers
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Stories from World Religions White Wolves series Xxxxx
Stories Xxxxx from World Religions The Golem Gaby Halberstam
The Jewish people of Prague are under threat. So the Rabbi creates a golem - a giant clay man - to defend them. But the creature rampages out of control and the Rabbi must put a stop to it. Thrilling, evocative retelling of the classic Jewish myth Born and raised in the sleepy town of Port Elizabeth in South Africa, Gaby Halberstam’s passion for writing began at the age of five when she started penning stories for her family and friends. After studying English as an adult, she went on to become a qualified lawyer, a career choice she immediately regretted knowing that she’d be much happier as a professional writer. Now based in London with her husband and three children, Gaby has achieved her childhood dream and is a full time author. The Golem is her second publication for A&C Black.
Siddhartha and the Swan Andrew Fusek Peters
Prince Siddhartha sees a wounded swan fall from the sky with an arrow in its side. He wants to save the bird, but his cousin Devadatta, who shot the swan, claims it as his property. Who will win? A tale of the young Buddha’s compassion for all living things Andrew Fusek Peters is a high-profile children’s author. He is best known for his poetry and has been published by Walker, Hodder and Orchard. Backlist • 212 x 145mm • Hardback • 9781408139479 • AU$21.99 • October 2012 • 212 x 145mm • Paperback • 9781408139462 • AU$12.99
August 2012 • 212 x 145mm • Hardback • 9781408155783 • AU$21.99 • February 2013 • 212 x 145mm • Paperback • 9781408155776 • AU$12.99
Age Range: 5 - 7 years Age Range: 5 - 7 years
A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: 5 to 7 years, above average readers
A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: From 5 to 7 years
The Guru and the King Bali Rai
Guru Hargobind and 52 princes have been unjustly imprisoned by the cruel King. The King says he will release the Guru, but the Guru refuses to leave without the princes. The King tells him he can take as many princes as can hold onto his clothes. Can the Guru find a way to rescue all 52 princes? Lively retelling of the well-known Sikh tale Bali Rai was born in 1971 and grew up in Leicester. His debut novel, (Un)Arranged Marriage published in 2001 to fantastic reviews and has since been shortlisted for nine regional book prizes, winning The Angus, Stockport, North Lanarkshire and Leicester Book awards. The novel is now in eleven languages and Bali is firmly established as a leading voice in Teenage fiction. As a child, Bali wanted to be a footballer or to write stories. He realised he wasn’t good enough to play for Liverpool F.C. and after gaining a politics degree in London he returned to his home city and combined a variety of jobs in pubs and clubs with completing his first novel. Bali hopes his novels capture the unique ethnic mix of the UK of which he is proud to be a part.
Noah’s Ark Annie Dalton
A lone boy and his puppy join Noah and his family in their crazy scheme. Can Noah build his ship in time? Will the animals come? Will the world really end? A moving retelling with stunning illustrations
A powerful and emotive retelling of the classic tale for above-average readers, with stunning illustrations by Laura Clark and Kris Stoddart. Annie Dalton is a best-selling author whose successes include the Agent Angel and Angels Unlimited series for Random House and the Tilly Beany books for Egmont. This is her first book for A&C Black. Backlist • 212 x 145mm • Hardback • 9781408139486 • AU$21.99 • October 2012 • 212 x 145mm • Paperback • 9781408139493 • AU$12.99
August 2012 • 212 x 145mm • Hardback • 9781408155745 • AU$21.99 • February 2013 • 212 x 145mm • Paperback • 9781408155752 • AU$12.99
Age Range: 5-7 years Age Range: 5 - 7 years
Age Range: 5 - 7 years
A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: 5 to 7 years, average readers
A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: From 5 to 7 years, above average readers
Rama and Sita The Dinner of Smells Humaira Rashid
When a poor man stands enjoying the smells from a restaurant, its greedy owner charges him for the privilege! Can Nasruddin, the wise man, save him from jail? Lively retelling of a Muslim folk tale featuring the famous character Nasruddin Humaira Rashid was born in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire. From a young age she took up writing, compiling books of short stories and poems. In 2008 she won the Muslim Writers Award for the Under-16 Short Story, and the subsequent year, won the adult Unpublished Short Story category, as well as the Muslim Writers of the Year Award for her story Crash and Burn. She is currently studying Medicine at university, and continues to write in her spare time.
Malachy Doyle
Rama and Sita live happily in the forest until Sita is abducted by the demon king Ravana. Can Rama rescue her - and who is the little white monkey who offers to help?
Retelling of a tale from the Ramayana with wonderful, bright illustrations by Christopher Corr. Malachy Doyle is the best-selling and award-winning author of many books, from picture books to teen fiction, including the popular Amadans series, published by Orchard. Georgie and Who is Jesse Flood? for older readers are both published by Bloomsbury. Backlist • 212 x 145mm • Hardback • 9781408139479 • AU$21.99 • October 2012 • 212 x 145mm • Paperback • 9781408139509 • AU$12.99
August 2012 • 212 x 145mm • Hardback • 9781408155806 • AU$21.99 • February 2013 • 212 x 145mm • Paperback • 9781408156490 • AU$12.99
Age Range: 5 - 7 years Age Range: 5 - 7 years A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: 5 to 7 years, below average readers
4
Primary.indd 4-5
A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: From 5 to 7 years
5
8/15/2012 4:20:45 PM
Xxxxx and Music Poetry What Rhymes With Sneeze? Roger Stevens This quirky, charming and fun book of rhyming poetry also teaches children how to write brilliant rhyming poetry themselves
Poetry and Xxxxx Music Let’s do poetry in primary schools Full of practical, fun and meaningful ways of celebrating poetry
James Carter Let’s Do Poetry in Primary School is a fun, accessible and very practical guide to give teachers the tools, the mindset and the confidence to put poetry at the heart of the classroom, and everyday learning
Like poems? Love rhymes? Then this is the book for you! Stuffed with brilliant rhyming poems written by Roger Stevens, with the help of some classic and contemporary poets from Gerard Benson to Hilaire Belloc, this book is all about celebrating the rhyme. It’s packed with fascinating facts about how different kinds of rhymes work, and there’s a bonus section full of tips and tricks on how to write brilliant rhyming poems. Age Range: 7 - 9 years A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: From 7 to 9 years
Packed with fantastic rhymes and all kinds of verse, this great collection by Roger Stevens takes the reader on a rhyming, rhythmic journey to discover just how fun messing about with rhymes can be. Roger Stevens has put together many poetry anthologies, such as The Monster That Ate the Universe (Macmillan) and Let’s Recycle Grandad, The Secret Life of Pants and the CLPE award nominated A Million Brilliant Poems for A&C Black. As well as working as an anthologist and poet, Roger runs the ‘Poetry Zone’ website for children and is a frequent visiting author in schools specialising in poetry workshops.
Age Range: 7 - 9 years
A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: Parents of children from 7 years
Whatever your own experience of music, this friendly, practical guide written in jargon-free language will help you navigate through music lessons. Elizabeth Lawrence has trained at some of the most prestigious conservatoires in Europe and the UK. She holds a Diploma in Music Education from the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover, where she studied piano with the Brazilian virtuoso Roberto Szidon and the British composer and Liszt specialist David Wilde. She received an entrance exhibition for post-graduate studies in Voice at the Royal Academy of Music. Elizabeth has taught from early years to post-graduate level in addition to her extensive experience as a consultant and artists’ manager. September 2012 • 210 x 148mm • Paperback • 9781408160688 • AU$21.99
6
Primary.indd 6-7
Topics include: Wild animals, Farm animals, Pets. Includes a free CD for full audio support.
Topics include:My house, My room, Looking after my home. Includes a free CD for full audio support.
October 2012 • 150 x 175mm • Paperback • 9781408165645 • AU$22.99
October 2012 • 150 x 175mm • Paperback • 9781408165621 • AU$22.99
Age Range: 4+ years
A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: Early years practitioners (early years settings and primary schools)
A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: Early years practitioners (early years settings and primary schools)
John Finney and Felicity Laurence A comprehensive guide to music education, ensuring a solid foundation for supporting effective learning and teaching.
MasterClass in Music Education provides vivid, topical,
Age Range: 4 - 7 years Bloomsbury Academic World All Languages Readership: Children age 4-7, teachers and practitioners
reflective and above all ‘real’ accounts from existing teacher research in the field, together with theoretical insights and a guided view of the relevant existing literature. Students embarking upon research will gain a many-faceted understanding of the possibilities open to them within action research - exploring their own practice - and also from other ways of examining the interesting and challenging issues confronting music education. At the same time, they will be able to develop insight into the intricacies of research methodology how to go about doing research - by exploring the real life case study accounts written by their peers. These in turn are supported by an overarching framework provided by the editors, John Finney and Felicity Laurence, who draw upon their own experiences as supervisors of Masters students in the field of music education to help inform and frame the debates and reflections which arise.
Musical Steps: The Sea
Cathy McCallum
Cathy McCallum
A musical journey of self discovery, containing songs and activities around the theme of ‘Ourselves’. This has been specially designed for early years practitioners without any musical experience to help introduce music to primary school students
Musical Steps: Homes has been created around the popular theme of the sea. It has been specially designed for early years practitioners without any musical experience to help introduce music to primary school students
Topics include: Fish, sailing, swimming. Includes a free CD for full audio support.
Topics include: My body, My family and friends, My feelings. Includes a free CD for full audio support.
Transforming Teaching and Learning
Helping your child to embark on a musical journey can be daunting and confusing, especially if you don’t consider yourself to be musical.
Cathy McCallum Musical Steps: Homes has been created around the familiar theme of the home. It has been specially designed for early years practitioners without any musical experience to help introduce music to primary school students
Age Range: 4+ years
MasterClass in Music Education
An essential guide packed with plenty of practical advice for parents whose children would like to start learning a musical instrument
Musical Steps: Homes
Musical Steps: Animals has been created around the popular theme of animals. It has been specially designed for early years practitioners without any musical experience to help introduce music to primary school students
Musical Steps: Ourselves
Elizabeth Lawrence
Age Range: 7 - 9 years
Cathy McCallum
January 2013 • 170 x 245mm • Paperback • 9781408163917 • AU$35.00
A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: From 7 to 9 years
Help your child succeed in music
Elizabeth Lawrence draws on her extensive experience as a musician, teacher and parent to answer questions such as: Which instrument is right for my child? Where can I find a teacher? How do I encourage my child to practise? How can I help with performance nerves? and Are exams important?
Musical Steps: Animals
The book includes games and warm-ups, ideas for cross-curricular activities, an anthology of age appropriate poems, tools for reading and performing poems, setting up a poetry-rich classroom and ultimately, shows all it takes is six or so poetic forms with which to create language-rich and expressive responses to all the topic and curricular work that you cover in the academic year.
June 2012 • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408155769 • AU$12.99
A Parent’s Survival Guide to Music Lessons
Songs and activities for ages 4+ based on popular topics. No music reading is required with this friendly, full-colour guide packed with photos and simple, step-by-step instructions on how to teach the songs and actions. Each song is accompanied by related activities that link into key areas such as Personal, social and emotional development and Communication and language. There are also plenty of child-initiated activity ideas and clear guidance for observation. A free CD is included with catchy backing tracks and sample performances to make learning the songs fun and easy so everyone will be singing along in no time!
October 2012 • 150 x 175mm • Paperback • 9781408165638 • AU$22.99
October 2012 • 150 x 175mm • Paperback • 9781408165614 • AU$22.99
Age Range: 4+ years A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: Early years practitioners (early years settings and primary schools)
Age Range: 4+ years A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: Early years practitioners (early years settings and primary schools)
Cathy McCallum has a degree in music and over twenty years’ teaching experience as a primary school class teacher and a music specialist. Cathy founded Musical Steps in 2002 after her first baby was born. Musical Steps baby, toddler and preschool music classes explore a whole range of educational, fun-filled musical activities to encourage all-round development in children aged 4 months to 5 years. To find out more about Musical Steps classes, visit www.musicalsteps.co.uk.
John Finney is Senior Lecturer in Music Education at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, UK. Felicity Laurence is Lecturer in Music Education at Newcastle University, UK, where she is Director of the MA in Music and Education. February 2013 • 246 x 189mm • Paperback • 9781441130860 • AU$37.95
7
8/15/2012 4:20:47 PM
Xxxxx and Music Poetry What Rhymes With Sneeze? Roger Stevens This quirky, charming and fun book of rhyming poetry also teaches children how to write brilliant rhyming poetry themselves
Poetry and Xxxxx Music Let’s do poetry in primary schools Full of practical, fun and meaningful ways of celebrating poetry
James Carter Let’s Do Poetry in Primary School is a fun, accessible and very practical guide to give teachers the tools, the mindset and the confidence to put poetry at the heart of the classroom, and everyday learning
Like poems? Love rhymes? Then this is the book for you! Stuffed with brilliant rhyming poems written by Roger Stevens, with the help of some classic and contemporary poets from Gerard Benson to Hilaire Belloc, this book is all about celebrating the rhyme. It’s packed with fascinating facts about how different kinds of rhymes work, and there’s a bonus section full of tips and tricks on how to write brilliant rhyming poems. Age Range: 7 - 9 years A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: From 7 to 9 years
Packed with fantastic rhymes and all kinds of verse, this great collection by Roger Stevens takes the reader on a rhyming, rhythmic journey to discover just how fun messing about with rhymes can be. Roger Stevens has put together many poetry anthologies, such as The Monster That Ate the Universe (Macmillan) and Let’s Recycle Grandad, The Secret Life of Pants and the CLPE award nominated A Million Brilliant Poems for A&C Black. As well as working as an anthologist and poet, Roger runs the ‘Poetry Zone’ website for children and is a frequent visiting author in schools specialising in poetry workshops.
Age Range: 7 - 9 years
A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: Parents of children from 7 years
Whatever your own experience of music, this friendly, practical guide written in jargon-free language will help you navigate through music lessons. Elizabeth Lawrence has trained at some of the most prestigious conservatoires in Europe and the UK. She holds a Diploma in Music Education from the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover, where she studied piano with the Brazilian virtuoso Roberto Szidon and the British composer and Liszt specialist David Wilde. She received an entrance exhibition for post-graduate studies in Voice at the Royal Academy of Music. Elizabeth has taught from early years to post-graduate level in addition to her extensive experience as a consultant and artists’ manager. September 2012 • 210 x 148mm • Paperback • 9781408160688 • AU$21.99
6
Primary.indd 6-7
Topics include: Wild animals, Farm animals, Pets. Includes a free CD for full audio support.
Topics include:My house, My room, Looking after my home. Includes a free CD for full audio support.
October 2012 • 150 x 175mm • Paperback • 9781408165645 • AU$22.99
October 2012 • 150 x 175mm • Paperback • 9781408165621 • AU$22.99
Age Range: 4+ years
A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: Early years practitioners (early years settings and primary schools)
A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: Early years practitioners (early years settings and primary schools)
John Finney and Felicity Laurence A comprehensive guide to music education, ensuring a solid foundation for supporting effective learning and teaching.
MasterClass in Music Education provides vivid, topical,
Age Range: 4 - 7 years Bloomsbury Academic World All Languages Readership: Children age 4-7, teachers and practitioners
reflective and above all ‘real’ accounts from existing teacher research in the field, together with theoretical insights and a guided view of the relevant existing literature. Students embarking upon research will gain a many-faceted understanding of the possibilities open to them within action research - exploring their own practice - and also from other ways of examining the interesting and challenging issues confronting music education. At the same time, they will be able to develop insight into the intricacies of research methodology how to go about doing research - by exploring the real life case study accounts written by their peers. These in turn are supported by an overarching framework provided by the editors, John Finney and Felicity Laurence, who draw upon their own experiences as supervisors of Masters students in the field of music education to help inform and frame the debates and reflections which arise.
Musical Steps: The Sea
Cathy McCallum
Cathy McCallum
A musical journey of self discovery, containing songs and activities around the theme of ‘Ourselves’. This has been specially designed for early years practitioners without any musical experience to help introduce music to primary school students
Musical Steps: Homes has been created around the popular theme of the sea. It has been specially designed for early years practitioners without any musical experience to help introduce music to primary school students
Topics include: Fish, sailing, swimming. Includes a free CD for full audio support.
Topics include: My body, My family and friends, My feelings. Includes a free CD for full audio support.
Transforming Teaching and Learning
Helping your child to embark on a musical journey can be daunting and confusing, especially if you don’t consider yourself to be musical.
Cathy McCallum Musical Steps: Homes has been created around the familiar theme of the home. It has been specially designed for early years practitioners without any musical experience to help introduce music to primary school students
Age Range: 4+ years
MasterClass in Music Education
An essential guide packed with plenty of practical advice for parents whose children would like to start learning a musical instrument
Musical Steps: Homes
Musical Steps: Animals has been created around the popular theme of animals. It has been specially designed for early years practitioners without any musical experience to help introduce music to primary school students
Musical Steps: Ourselves
Elizabeth Lawrence
Age Range: 7 - 9 years
Cathy McCallum
January 2013 • 170 x 245mm • Paperback • 9781408163917 • AU$35.00
A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: From 7 to 9 years
Help your child succeed in music
Elizabeth Lawrence draws on her extensive experience as a musician, teacher and parent to answer questions such as: Which instrument is right for my child? Where can I find a teacher? How do I encourage my child to practise? How can I help with performance nerves? and Are exams important?
Musical Steps: Animals
The book includes games and warm-ups, ideas for cross-curricular activities, an anthology of age appropriate poems, tools for reading and performing poems, setting up a poetry-rich classroom and ultimately, shows all it takes is six or so poetic forms with which to create language-rich and expressive responses to all the topic and curricular work that you cover in the academic year.
June 2012 • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408155769 • AU$12.99
A Parent’s Survival Guide to Music Lessons
Songs and activities for ages 4+ based on popular topics. No music reading is required with this friendly, full-colour guide packed with photos and simple, step-by-step instructions on how to teach the songs and actions. Each song is accompanied by related activities that link into key areas such as Personal, social and emotional development and Communication and language. There are also plenty of child-initiated activity ideas and clear guidance for observation. A free CD is included with catchy backing tracks and sample performances to make learning the songs fun and easy so everyone will be singing along in no time!
October 2012 • 150 x 175mm • Paperback • 9781408165638 • AU$22.99
October 2012 • 150 x 175mm • Paperback • 9781408165614 • AU$22.99
Age Range: 4+ years A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: Early years practitioners (early years settings and primary schools)
Age Range: 4+ years A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: Early years practitioners (early years settings and primary schools)
Cathy McCallum has a degree in music and over twenty years’ teaching experience as a primary school class teacher and a music specialist. Cathy founded Musical Steps in 2002 after her first baby was born. Musical Steps baby, toddler and preschool music classes explore a whole range of educational, fun-filled musical activities to encourage all-round development in children aged 4 months to 5 years. To find out more about Musical Steps classes, visit www.musicalsteps.co.uk.
John Finney is Senior Lecturer in Music Education at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, UK. Felicity Laurence is Lecturer in Music Education at Newcastle University, UK, where she is Director of the MA in Music and Education. February 2013 • 246 x 189mm • Paperback • 9781441130860 • AU$37.95
7
8/15/2012 4:20:47 PM
Xxxxx and Music Poetry Shukalaka Shake
Anne Johnson and Michele Chowrimootoo
Age Range: 4-7 years A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: Early years practitioners (early years settings and primary schools)
24 brilliant new songs for fun-filled days in early years settings. Perfect for social play and learning, the songs celebrate words, sounds and melody from morning till night - getting up and out, playing and learning with friends or winding down to home time. Action-packed and engaging, the songs have a World feel and many of the melodies are drawn from traditional sources.
Actions cover: getting dressed, transport, colours, sounds, parts of the body, senses, names, play and tidying up. The melodies are simple yet catchy and words are repetitive and easy to build upon. The book also contains suggestions for integrated classroom use. The CD includes sample performances of each song to help with learning, as well as backing tracks for easy performance. Melody lines are provided at the back of the book for music readers.
World Sports Guide Poetry and Xxxxx Music Ukulele Magic
Ian Lawrence Learn how to play chords and fun, simple tunes - no previous music knowledge required! Accompany yourself or your friends. Ideal for group or individual teaching.
Ukulele Magic is an inspiring tutor for ukulele beginners
Age Range: beginners A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: primary school age
of primary school age. Basic techniques are illustrated by clear and colourful illustrations and then developed step-by-step through tuneful and entertaining pieces. No previous knowledge of music is required and all the tunes can be played in either group or individual lessons. An accompanying CD provides example performances and exciting backing tracks to make practising at home easy and fun.
Ian Lawrence is a teacher, musician and composer with longstanding experience of teaching music in primary schools. He has worked as an Advanced Skills Teacher and was for eight years the Director of the Deptford Saturday Music Centre. His Wider Opportunities ukulele classes and clubs in South London primary schools are inspiring and inclusive. He has also written and arranged music which incorporates ukuleles into other types of school bands, bringing together not just ukulele students but instrumentalists of all kinds, creating truly musical experiences which promote independent learning as well as invaluable ensemble opportunities.
Anne Johnson and Michele Chowrimootoo have been working in schools, nurseries and play centres for many years. Chowrimootoo is a storyteller, singer and composer. Johnson runs an organisation called Everyday Magic, a collective of community musicians as well as leading sessions for teachers. She regularly leads workshops in schools, theatres and libraries, using stories from around the world that incorporate song, rhythm and poetry.
October 2012 • 250 x 210mm • Book + CD • 9781408157299 • AU$22.99
Each World Sport book reveals an ideal location for learning a particular technique essential for mastering the sport, from trimming a surfboard along a wave in Windansea, California, to catching big air on a snowboard in the half-pipes of Whistler, Canada. Opening with perfect beginner locations and techniques, the complexity develops, leading readers through to expert-only locations and techniques, building an understanding of technique and equipment as they go.
Surfing
Hiking and Camping
The World’s Best Surf Breaks and Techniques
The World’s Top Hikes and Places to Camp
Paul Mason
Paul Mason
If you could travel the whole world to catch waves, where would be the best places to visit?
If you could travel the whole world to learn more about hiking, where would be the best places to visit?
This book combines two fascinating topics: factual and practical tips on surfing, as well as an insight into the best exotic places to ride the most incredible waves! December 2012 • 210 x 148mm • Paperback • 9781408140321 • AU$18.99
December 2012 • 210 x 148mm • Paperback • 9781408140369 • AU$17.99
Age Range:11+ years
Age Range:11+ years
A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: 11+
A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: 11+
Backlist • 220 x 210mm • Book + CD • 9781408146576 • AU$35.00
Terry Pratchett’s Amazing Maurice
Terry Pratchett’s Johnny & the Bomb
Help your child succeed in music
Complete Performance Pack
Age Range: 9-12 years A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: 9-12 years
Terry Pratchett & Matthew Holmes
Terry Pratchett & Matthew Holmes
Sir Terry Pratchett’s ingeniously upended tale of the Pied Piper, has a roving band of highly intelligent rats as its heroic protagonists. Matthew Holmes’ script and songs capture the plot in a captivating musical for children to perform and everyone to enjoy.
Sir Terry Pratchett’s enquiring adventure into time travel has its young teen hero, Johnny Maxwell, and his friends confronted with their own bomb-stricken street in WWII. Can they change history and avert the catastrophe? Matthew Holmes’ script and song superbly support the plot in a musical for young people to perform and everyone to enjoy.
Under the lazily, streetwise command of Maurice, a speaking cat, the rats prepare to pull their practiced scam on the town of Bad Blintz. But something’s up and our heroes are scampering straight into someone else’s scam - and it’s not nice. Perfect for upper primary school performances, there are parts small and large for rats - heroic, villainous and oppressed - for humans on the good side and the bad, and of course for a cat named Maurice. The complete performance pack with its photocopiable script and piano vocal score includes everything you need for rehearsing and presenting the final show, plus there’s full audio support on CD so you don’t need to read a note of music. Sir Terry Pratchett OBE has written over 49 books including the bestselling Discworld series. Matthew Holmes is a children’s music educator, musician and writer. January 2012 • 245 x 305mm • Book + CD • 9781408145630 • AU$69.99
Age Range: 9-12 years A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: 9-12 years
Johnny and his friends travel back in time to their own street, site of a bombing raid intended for a nearby industrial complex. ‘Collateral damage’ is not the only disturbing issue: what happens to the present if you try to save lives in the past? Serious subjects, but with Terry Pratchett there’s always the humour as well, and the musical includes a host of likeable characters. Matthew Holmes’ script skilfully carries the plot along in Terry Pratchett style and his music swings to contemporary pop and the glorious sound of the forties Big Band. The complete performance pack with its photocopiable script and piano vocal score includes everything you need for rehearsing and presenting the final show, plus there’s full audio support on CD so you don’t need to read a note of music.
Can you see yourself climbing mountains or trekking through jungles? This book combines two fascinating topics: factual and practical hiking tips, and an insight into the amazing variety of locations that can be explored on foot!
Dirt Biking
Fishing
The World’s Hottest Dirt Bike Rides and Techniques
The World’s Most Amazing Fishing Spots and Skills
Paul Mason
Paul Mason
If you could travel the whole world to learn more about motocross and dirt biking, where would be the best places to visit?
If you could travel the whole world to fish, where would be the best places to visit?
Do you want to become a great dirt bike rider? This book combines two fascinating topics: factual and practical tips on motocross, as well as an insight into the best places for training and competing!
Fishing, whether for sport or for food can be an amazing experience. This book combines two fascinating topics: factual and practical tips on different kinds of fishing, as well as an insight into diverse fishing locations worldwide.
December 2012 • 210 x 148mm • Paperback • 9781408140345 • AU$17.99
December 2012 • 210 x 148mm • Paperback • 9781408140383 • AU$17.99
Age Range:11+ years
Age Range:11+ years
A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: 11+
A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: 11+
Paul Mason is an experienced freelance writer and editor of a variety of children’s information books, with subjects including extreme sports, geography and travel. Paul is a keen sportsman and particularly enjoys surfing, mountain biking and snowboarding.
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Xxxxx and Music Poetry Shukalaka Shake
Anne Johnson and Michele Chowrimootoo
Age Range: 4-7 years A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: Early years practitioners (early years settings and primary schools)
24 brilliant new songs for fun-filled days in early years settings. Perfect for social play and learning, the songs celebrate words, sounds and melody from morning till night - getting up and out, playing and learning with friends or winding down to home time. Action-packed and engaging, the songs have a World feel and many of the melodies are drawn from traditional sources.
Actions cover: getting dressed, transport, colours, sounds, parts of the body, senses, names, play and tidying up. The melodies are simple yet catchy and words are repetitive and easy to build upon. The book also contains suggestions for integrated classroom use. The CD includes sample performances of each song to help with learning, as well as backing tracks for easy performance. Melody lines are provided at the back of the book for music readers.
World Sports Guide Poetry and Xxxxx Music Ukulele Magic
Ian Lawrence Learn how to play chords and fun, simple tunes - no previous music knowledge required! Accompany yourself or your friends. Ideal for group or individual teaching.
Ukulele Magic is an inspiring tutor for ukulele beginners
Age Range: beginners A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: primary school age
of primary school age. Basic techniques are illustrated by clear and colourful illustrations and then developed step-by-step through tuneful and entertaining pieces. No previous knowledge of music is required and all the tunes can be played in either group or individual lessons. An accompanying CD provides example performances and exciting backing tracks to make practising at home easy and fun.
Ian Lawrence is a teacher, musician and composer with longstanding experience of teaching music in primary schools. He has worked as an Advanced Skills Teacher and was for eight years the Director of the Deptford Saturday Music Centre. His Wider Opportunities ukulele classes and clubs in South London primary schools are inspiring and inclusive. He has also written and arranged music which incorporates ukuleles into other types of school bands, bringing together not just ukulele students but instrumentalists of all kinds, creating truly musical experiences which promote independent learning as well as invaluable ensemble opportunities.
Anne Johnson and Michele Chowrimootoo have been working in schools, nurseries and play centres for many years. Chowrimootoo is a storyteller, singer and composer. Johnson runs an organisation called Everyday Magic, a collective of community musicians as well as leading sessions for teachers. She regularly leads workshops in schools, theatres and libraries, using stories from around the world that incorporate song, rhythm and poetry.
October 2012 • 250 x 210mm • Book + CD • 9781408157299 • AU$22.99
Each World Sport book reveals an ideal location for learning a particular technique essential for mastering the sport, from trimming a surfboard along a wave in Windansea, California, to catching big air on a snowboard in the half-pipes of Whistler, Canada. Opening with perfect beginner locations and techniques, the complexity develops, leading readers through to expert-only locations and techniques, building an understanding of technique and equipment as they go.
Surfing
Hiking and Camping
The World’s Best Surf Breaks and Techniques
The World’s Top Hikes and Places to Camp
Paul Mason
Paul Mason
If you could travel the whole world to catch waves, where would be the best places to visit?
If you could travel the whole world to learn more about hiking, where would be the best places to visit?
This book combines two fascinating topics: factual and practical tips on surfing, as well as an insight into the best exotic places to ride the most incredible waves! December 2012 • 210 x 148mm • Paperback • 9781408140321 • AU$18.99
December 2012 • 210 x 148mm • Paperback • 9781408140369 • AU$17.99
Age Range:11+ years
Age Range:11+ years
A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: 11+
A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: 11+
Backlist • 220 x 210mm • Book + CD • 9781408146576 • AU$35.00
Terry Pratchett’s Amazing Maurice
Terry Pratchett’s Johnny & the Bomb
Help your child succeed in music
Complete Performance Pack
Age Range: 9-12 years A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: 9-12 years
Terry Pratchett & Matthew Holmes
Terry Pratchett & Matthew Holmes
Sir Terry Pratchett’s ingeniously upended tale of the Pied Piper, has a roving band of highly intelligent rats as its heroic protagonists. Matthew Holmes’ script and songs capture the plot in a captivating musical for children to perform and everyone to enjoy.
Sir Terry Pratchett’s enquiring adventure into time travel has its young teen hero, Johnny Maxwell, and his friends confronted with their own bomb-stricken street in WWII. Can they change history and avert the catastrophe? Matthew Holmes’ script and song superbly support the plot in a musical for young people to perform and everyone to enjoy.
Under the lazily, streetwise command of Maurice, a speaking cat, the rats prepare to pull their practiced scam on the town of Bad Blintz. But something’s up and our heroes are scampering straight into someone else’s scam - and it’s not nice. Perfect for upper primary school performances, there are parts small and large for rats - heroic, villainous and oppressed - for humans on the good side and the bad, and of course for a cat named Maurice. The complete performance pack with its photocopiable script and piano vocal score includes everything you need for rehearsing and presenting the final show, plus there’s full audio support on CD so you don’t need to read a note of music. Sir Terry Pratchett OBE has written over 49 books including the bestselling Discworld series. Matthew Holmes is a children’s music educator, musician and writer. January 2012 • 245 x 305mm • Book + CD • 9781408145630 • AU$69.99
Age Range: 9-12 years A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: 9-12 years
Johnny and his friends travel back in time to their own street, site of a bombing raid intended for a nearby industrial complex. ‘Collateral damage’ is not the only disturbing issue: what happens to the present if you try to save lives in the past? Serious subjects, but with Terry Pratchett there’s always the humour as well, and the musical includes a host of likeable characters. Matthew Holmes’ script skilfully carries the plot along in Terry Pratchett style and his music swings to contemporary pop and the glorious sound of the forties Big Band. The complete performance pack with its photocopiable script and piano vocal score includes everything you need for rehearsing and presenting the final show, plus there’s full audio support on CD so you don’t need to read a note of music.
Can you see yourself climbing mountains or trekking through jungles? This book combines two fascinating topics: factual and practical hiking tips, and an insight into the amazing variety of locations that can be explored on foot!
Dirt Biking
Fishing
The World’s Hottest Dirt Bike Rides and Techniques
The World’s Most Amazing Fishing Spots and Skills
Paul Mason
Paul Mason
If you could travel the whole world to learn more about motocross and dirt biking, where would be the best places to visit?
If you could travel the whole world to fish, where would be the best places to visit?
Do you want to become a great dirt bike rider? This book combines two fascinating topics: factual and practical tips on motocross, as well as an insight into the best places for training and competing!
Fishing, whether for sport or for food can be an amazing experience. This book combines two fascinating topics: factual and practical tips on different kinds of fishing, as well as an insight into diverse fishing locations worldwide.
December 2012 • 210 x 148mm • Paperback • 9781408140345 • AU$17.99
December 2012 • 210 x 148mm • Paperback • 9781408140383 • AU$17.99
Age Range:11+ years
Age Range:11+ years
A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: 11+
A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: 11+
Paul Mason is an experienced freelance writer and editor of a variety of children’s information books, with subjects including extreme sports, geography and travel. Paul is a keen sportsman and particularly enjoys surfing, mountain biking and snowboarding.
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Xxxxx Zoo Books
Zoo Xxxxx Books
The Wild Things full colour picture book series gives young readers a fun first introduction to exotic animals around the world, looking at how and where they really live and what they need to survive. Each book includes a final fact spread to explain why each animal is suited to living in its own environment in the wild, as well as how we can help to keep it there.
Emu
Lisa Regan
Hippo
August 2012 • 210 x 220mm • Paperback • 9781408156780 • AU$9.99
August 2012 • 210 x 220mm • Paperback • 9781408156803 • AU$9.99
Age Range: 5-7 years A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: From 5 years
Giraffe
Lisa Regan
Lion
Lisa Regan
What would happen if a giraffe came to stay? How would you look after it? Where would it sleep? What would it eat and how would you play with it? Wild Things! gives young readers a first introduction to exotic animals and habitats around the world, and the importance of protecting them.
What would happen if a lion came to stay? How would you look after it? Where would it sleep? What would it eat and how would you play with it? Wild Things! gives young readers a first introduction to exotic animals and habitats around the world, and the importance of protecting them.
August 2012 • 210 x 220mm • Paperback • 9781408156797 • AU$9.99
August 2012 • 210 x 220mm • Paperback • 9781408156810 • AU$9.99
Age Range: 5-7 years
Age Range: 5-7 years
A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: From 5 years
A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: From 5 years
Whatever big cats like to do, little cats like to do it too! Explore the world of lions, tigers, cheetahs and more - finding the similarities between these big cats in the wild and your pets at home.With beautiful photography from the Nature Picture Library, and fun facts about each animal, this is a delightful first look at these big cats and their smaller cousins.
Lisa Regan What would happen if a pygmy hippo came to stay? How would you look after it? Where would it sleep? What would it eat and how would you play with it? Wild Things! gives young readers a first introduction to exotic animals and habitats around the world, and the importance of protecting them.
Age Range: 5-7 years
Elizabeth Jenner Whatever big cats like to do, little cats like to do it too! A delightful first look at the world of lions, tigers, cheetahs and more finding the similarities between these big cats in the wild and your pets at home.
What would happen if an emu came to stay? How would you look after it? Where would it sleep? What would it eat and how would you play with it? Wild Things! gives young readers a first introduction to exotic animals and habitats around the world, and the importance of protecting them.
A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: From 5 years
Big Cat, Little Cat
Lisa Regan is the author of over 200 published titles, mostly for children. She lives in Colchester, UK, with her husband and three sons. Her work includes titles on space, animals and the weather, but stretches to the fantasy realms of fairies, flower princesses and fantastic creatures.
October 2012 • 250 x 250mm • Hardback • 9781408164013 • AU$14.99
Age Range: 5-7 years Bloomsbury Childrens World All Languages Readership: From 5 years
Stop! There’s a Snake in Your Suitcase!
Adam Frost The Nightingale family live on a barge near London Zoo - a very exciting place to live when an elephant is about to give birth and your mother is the zoo’s vet!
Adam Frost With a vet in the family, animal adventures are never far away for Tom and Sophie Nightingale!
With a vet in the family, animal adventures are never very far away. Tom and Sophie join their mum in a dash to Whipsnade Zoo to help an elephant deliver its calf, and another exciting adventure begins. At first the elephant calf, Dirshani, struggles to survive as it doesn’t eat well. With expert help and lots of care, the calf grows stronger, and Tom and Sophie have a new animal friend.
The Nightingale family live on a barge on the canal near London Zoo, and Mum is a vet. When Tom and Sophie find a bag of snakes dumped at the gates of the zoo, a great and exciting adventure begins. Soon they are finding out about the trade in illegal animals and learning how to care for these wonderful creatures. The snakes are carefully housed in the zoo and, just as they are about to be introduced to the many visitors to the reptile house, a desperate race begins to collect some precious antivenin. Age Range: 7-9 years Bloomsbury Childrens World All Languages Readership: From 7 years to 9 years
The first book in a new series of pacy adventure stories with two courageous children and lots and lots of fascinating animal facts. Adam Frost has been writing children’s books and poems for about seven years. In 2009, he wrote a set of poems for London Zoo’s new kids’ zone - if you visit the zone you can see his poems next to the enclosures. His favourite animal is the brownthroated sloth. These are Adam’s first books for Bloomsbury. September 2012 • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408827062 • AU$12.99
Primary.indd 10-11
Run! The Elephant Weighs a Ton!
Age Range: 7-9 years Bloomsbury Childrens World All Languages Readership: From 7 years to 9 years
During the next year the young elephant is encouraged to take its place in the herd. Tom and Sophie dream that one day Dirshani will take part in the elephant demonstration. But there are a few hurdles for them all to cross before that dream is realised in this thrilling animal adventure. Adam Frost has been writing children’s books and poems for about seven years. In 2009, he wrote a set of poems for London Zoo’s new kids’ zone - if you visit the zone you can see his poems next to the enclosures. His favourite animal is the brownthroated sloth. These are Adam’s first books for Bloomsbury. November 2012 • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408827079 • AU$12.99
8/15/2012 4:20:55 PM
Xxxxx Zoo Books
Zoo Xxxxx Books
The Wild Things full colour picture book series gives young readers a fun first introduction to exotic animals around the world, looking at how and where they really live and what they need to survive. Each book includes a final fact spread to explain why each animal is suited to living in its own environment in the wild, as well as how we can help to keep it there.
Emu
Lisa Regan
Hippo
August 2012 • 210 x 220mm • Paperback • 9781408156780 • AU$9.99
August 2012 • 210 x 220mm • Paperback • 9781408156803 • AU$9.99
Age Range: 5-7 years A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: From 5 years
Giraffe
Lisa Regan
Lion
Lisa Regan
What would happen if a giraffe came to stay? How would you look after it? Where would it sleep? What would it eat and how would you play with it? Wild Things! gives young readers a first introduction to exotic animals and habitats around the world, and the importance of protecting them.
What would happen if a lion came to stay? How would you look after it? Where would it sleep? What would it eat and how would you play with it? Wild Things! gives young readers a first introduction to exotic animals and habitats around the world, and the importance of protecting them.
August 2012 • 210 x 220mm • Paperback • 9781408156797 • AU$9.99
August 2012 • 210 x 220mm • Paperback • 9781408156810 • AU$9.99
Age Range: 5-7 years
Age Range: 5-7 years
A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: From 5 years
A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: From 5 years
Whatever big cats like to do, little cats like to do it too! Explore the world of lions, tigers, cheetahs and more - finding the similarities between these big cats in the wild and your pets at home.With beautiful photography from the Nature Picture Library, and fun facts about each animal, this is a delightful first look at these big cats and their smaller cousins.
Lisa Regan What would happen if a pygmy hippo came to stay? How would you look after it? Where would it sleep? What would it eat and how would you play with it? Wild Things! gives young readers a first introduction to exotic animals and habitats around the world, and the importance of protecting them.
Age Range: 5-7 years
Elizabeth Jenner Whatever big cats like to do, little cats like to do it too! A delightful first look at the world of lions, tigers, cheetahs and more finding the similarities between these big cats in the wild and your pets at home.
What would happen if an emu came to stay? How would you look after it? Where would it sleep? What would it eat and how would you play with it? Wild Things! gives young readers a first introduction to exotic animals and habitats around the world, and the importance of protecting them.
A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: From 5 years
Big Cat, Little Cat
Lisa Regan is the author of over 200 published titles, mostly for children. She lives in Colchester, UK, with her husband and three sons. Her work includes titles on space, animals and the weather, but stretches to the fantasy realms of fairies, flower princesses and fantastic creatures.
October 2012 • 250 x 250mm • Hardback • 9781408164013 • AU$14.99
Age Range: 5-7 years Bloomsbury Childrens World All Languages Readership: From 5 years
Stop! There’s a Snake in Your Suitcase!
Adam Frost The Nightingale family live on a barge near London Zoo - a very exciting place to live when an elephant is about to give birth and your mother is the zoo’s vet!
Adam Frost With a vet in the family, animal adventures are never far away for Tom and Sophie Nightingale!
With a vet in the family, animal adventures are never very far away. Tom and Sophie join their mum in a dash to Whipsnade Zoo to help an elephant deliver its calf, and another exciting adventure begins. At first the elephant calf, Dirshani, struggles to survive as it doesn’t eat well. With expert help and lots of care, the calf grows stronger, and Tom and Sophie have a new animal friend.
The Nightingale family live on a barge on the canal near London Zoo, and Mum is a vet. When Tom and Sophie find a bag of snakes dumped at the gates of the zoo, a great and exciting adventure begins. Soon they are finding out about the trade in illegal animals and learning how to care for these wonderful creatures. The snakes are carefully housed in the zoo and, just as they are about to be introduced to the many visitors to the reptile house, a desperate race begins to collect some precious antivenin. Age Range: 7-9 years Bloomsbury Childrens World All Languages Readership: From 7 years to 9 years
The first book in a new series of pacy adventure stories with two courageous children and lots and lots of fascinating animal facts. Adam Frost has been writing children’s books and poems for about seven years. In 2009, he wrote a set of poems for London Zoo’s new kids’ zone - if you visit the zone you can see his poems next to the enclosures. His favourite animal is the brownthroated sloth. These are Adam’s first books for Bloomsbury. September 2012 • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408827062 • AU$12.99
Primary.indd 10-11
Run! The Elephant Weighs a Ton!
Age Range: 7-9 years Bloomsbury Childrens World All Languages Readership: From 7 years to 9 years
During the next year the young elephant is encouraged to take its place in the herd. Tom and Sophie dream that one day Dirshani will take part in the elephant demonstration. But there are a few hurdles for them all to cross before that dream is realised in this thrilling animal adventure. Adam Frost has been writing children’s books and poems for about seven years. In 2009, he wrote a set of poems for London Zoo’s new kids’ zone - if you visit the zone you can see his poems next to the enclosures. His favourite animal is the brownthroated sloth. These are Adam’s first books for Bloomsbury. November 2012 • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408827079 • AU$12.99
8/15/2012 4:20:55 PM
Xxxxx Zoo Books
Zoo Xxxxx Books
Animals on the Edge takes a dramatic look at endangered animals around the world, and what is being done to help them. Each book focuses on a different species, taking the reader on a journey to learn about what is being done to help animals in danger, both in the wild and at zoos around the world. Presented in a magazine style, through accessible chunks of information, and packed full of full-colour photos and graphics, this exciting, high-interest series will appeal to reluctant and able readers alike, with key links to the geography curriculum.
Tiger
Anna Claybourne Discover everything you need to know about tigers! Tigers are amazing creatures, but they are also endangered. Become a tiger expert and discover where they live, what they eat and how different organisations are trying to help them survive
From investigating daily routines, such as how tigers hunt and what they eat, to hard-hitting facts about the causes of extinction in the wild and how conservation efforts and zoo programmes can help, this book is packed with exciting real-life tales and inside information as well as amazing photography throughout.
Gorilla
Anna Claybourne Discover everything you need to know about gorillas! Gorillas are amazing creatures, but they are also endangered. Become a gorilla expert and discover where they live, what they eat and how different organisations are trying to help them survive
From investigating daily routines, such as how gorillas live and what they eat, to hard-hitting facts about the causes of species extinction in the wild and how conservation efforts and zoo programmes can help, this book is packed with exciting real-life tales and inside information as well as amazing photography throughout. It includes feature panels with stats, facts and real-life rescue stories as well as further information on what readers can do to get involved in gorilla conservation. June 2012 • 160 x 230mm • Hardback • 9781408148259 • AU$24.99 • January 2013 • 160 x 230mm • Paperback • 9781408149591 • AU$13.99
It includes feature panels with stats, facts and real-life rescue stories as well as further information on what readers can do to get involved in tiger conservation. June 2012 • 160 x 230mm • Hardback • 9781408148242 • AU$24.99 • January 2013 • 160 x 230mm • Paperback • 9781408149577 • AU$13.99
Age Range: 5-7 years Bloomsbury Childrens World All Languages Readership: From 5 to 7 years
Age Range: 5-7 years Bloomsbury Childrens World All Languages Readership: From 5 to 7 years
Hippo
Anna Claybourne
Penguin
Anna Claybourne Discover everything you need to know about penguins! Penguins are amazing creatures, but they are also endangered. Become a penguin expert and discover where they live, what they eat and how different organisations are trying to help them survive
From investigating daily routines, such as what penguins eat, to hard-hitting facts about why certain species are endangered in the wild and how conservation efforts and zoo programmes can help, this book is packed with exciting real-life tales and inside information as well as amazing photographs of adorable penguins.
Discover everything you need to know about hippos! Hippos are amazing creatures, but they are also endangered. Become a hippo expert and discover where they live, what they eat and how different organisations are trying to help them survive
From investigating daily routines, such as how hippos live and what they eat, to hard-hitting facts about the causes of species extinction in the wild and how conservation efforts and zoo programmes can help, this book is packed with exciting real-life tales and inside information as well as amazing photography throughout. It includes feature panels with stats, facts and real-life rescue stories as well as further information on what readers can do to get involved in animal conservation. June 2012 • 160 x 230mm • Hardback • 9781408148266 • AU$24.99 • January 2013 • 160 x 230mm • Paperback • 9781408149614 • AU$13.99
It includes feature panels with stats, facts and real-life rescue stories as well as further information on what readers can do to get involved in penguin conservation. Age Range: 5-7 years
June 2012 • 160 x 230mm • Hardback • 9781408148228 • AU$24.99 • January 2013 • 160 x 230mm • Paperback • 9781408149607 • AU$13.99
Bloomsbury Childrens World All Languages Readership: From 5 to 7 years
Age Range: 5-7 years Bloomsbury Childrens World All Languages Readership: From 5 to 7 years
Rhino
Anna Claybourne Discover everything you need to know about rhinos! Rhinos are amazing creatures, but they are also endangered. Become a hippo expert and discover where they live, what they eat and how different organisations are trying to help them survive
Elephant
From investigating daily routines, such as what rhinos eat, to hard-hitting facts about the causes of species extinction in the wild and how conservation efforts and zoo programmes can help, this book is packed with exciting real-life tales and inside information as well as amazing photography throughout.
Discover everything you need to know about elephants! Elephants are amazing creatures, but they are also endangered. Become an elephant expert and discover where they live, what they eat and how different organisations are trying to help them survive
It includes feature panels with stats, facts and real-life rescue stories as well as further information on what readers can do to get involved in animal conservation.
From investigating daily routines, such as what elephants eat, to hard-hitting facts about why certain species are endangered in the wild and how conservation efforts and zoo programmes can help, this book is packed with exciting real-life tales and inside information as well as amazing photography of these majestic creatures.
June 2012 • 160 x 230mm • Hardback • 9781408148235 • AU$24.99 • January 2013 • 160 x 230mm • Paperback • 9781408149560 • AU$13.99
Anna Claybourne
It includes feature panels with stats, facts and real-life rescue stories as well as further information on what readers can do to get involved in elephant conservation. June 2012 • 160 x 230mm • Hardback • 9781408148273 • AU$24.99 • January 2013 • 160 x 230mm • Paperback • 9781408149584 • AU$13.99
Age Range: 5-7 years Bloomsbury Childrens World All Languages Readership: From 5 to 7 years
12
Primary.indd 12-13
Age Range: 5-7 years Bloomsbury Childrens World All Languages Readership: From 5 to 7 years
Anna Claybourne is the author of numerous books on the natural world for young readers, including 100 Most Dangerous Things on the Planet, which was shortlisted for Blue Peter Best Book With Facts 2009, Usborne Internet-Linked Encyclopedia of Planet Earth, the Survival Skills Handbook and many more.
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Xxxxx Zoo Books
Zoo Xxxxx Books
Animals on the Edge takes a dramatic look at endangered animals around the world, and what is being done to help them. Each book focuses on a different species, taking the reader on a journey to learn about what is being done to help animals in danger, both in the wild and at zoos around the world. Presented in a magazine style, through accessible chunks of information, and packed full of full-colour photos and graphics, this exciting, high-interest series will appeal to reluctant and able readers alike, with key links to the geography curriculum.
Tiger
Anna Claybourne Discover everything you need to know about tigers! Tigers are amazing creatures, but they are also endangered. Become a tiger expert and discover where they live, what they eat and how different organisations are trying to help them survive
From investigating daily routines, such as how tigers hunt and what they eat, to hard-hitting facts about the causes of extinction in the wild and how conservation efforts and zoo programmes can help, this book is packed with exciting real-life tales and inside information as well as amazing photography throughout.
Gorilla
Anna Claybourne Discover everything you need to know about gorillas! Gorillas are amazing creatures, but they are also endangered. Become a gorilla expert and discover where they live, what they eat and how different organisations are trying to help them survive
From investigating daily routines, such as how gorillas live and what they eat, to hard-hitting facts about the causes of species extinction in the wild and how conservation efforts and zoo programmes can help, this book is packed with exciting real-life tales and inside information as well as amazing photography throughout. It includes feature panels with stats, facts and real-life rescue stories as well as further information on what readers can do to get involved in gorilla conservation. June 2012 • 160 x 230mm • Hardback • 9781408148259 • AU$24.99 • January 2013 • 160 x 230mm • Paperback • 9781408149591 • AU$13.99
It includes feature panels with stats, facts and real-life rescue stories as well as further information on what readers can do to get involved in tiger conservation. June 2012 • 160 x 230mm • Hardback • 9781408148242 • AU$24.99 • January 2013 • 160 x 230mm • Paperback • 9781408149577 • AU$13.99
Age Range: 5-7 years Bloomsbury Childrens World All Languages Readership: From 5 to 7 years
Age Range: 5-7 years Bloomsbury Childrens World All Languages Readership: From 5 to 7 years
Hippo
Anna Claybourne
Penguin
Anna Claybourne Discover everything you need to know about penguins! Penguins are amazing creatures, but they are also endangered. Become a penguin expert and discover where they live, what they eat and how different organisations are trying to help them survive
From investigating daily routines, such as what penguins eat, to hard-hitting facts about why certain species are endangered in the wild and how conservation efforts and zoo programmes can help, this book is packed with exciting real-life tales and inside information as well as amazing photographs of adorable penguins.
Discover everything you need to know about hippos! Hippos are amazing creatures, but they are also endangered. Become a hippo expert and discover where they live, what they eat and how different organisations are trying to help them survive
From investigating daily routines, such as how hippos live and what they eat, to hard-hitting facts about the causes of species extinction in the wild and how conservation efforts and zoo programmes can help, this book is packed with exciting real-life tales and inside information as well as amazing photography throughout. It includes feature panels with stats, facts and real-life rescue stories as well as further information on what readers can do to get involved in animal conservation. June 2012 • 160 x 230mm • Hardback • 9781408148266 • AU$24.99 • January 2013 • 160 x 230mm • Paperback • 9781408149614 • AU$13.99
It includes feature panels with stats, facts and real-life rescue stories as well as further information on what readers can do to get involved in penguin conservation. Age Range: 5-7 years
June 2012 • 160 x 230mm • Hardback • 9781408148228 • AU$24.99 • January 2013 • 160 x 230mm • Paperback • 9781408149607 • AU$13.99
Bloomsbury Childrens World All Languages Readership: From 5 to 7 years
Age Range: 5-7 years Bloomsbury Childrens World All Languages Readership: From 5 to 7 years
Rhino
Anna Claybourne Discover everything you need to know about rhinos! Rhinos are amazing creatures, but they are also endangered. Become a hippo expert and discover where they live, what they eat and how different organisations are trying to help them survive
Elephant
From investigating daily routines, such as what rhinos eat, to hard-hitting facts about the causes of species extinction in the wild and how conservation efforts and zoo programmes can help, this book is packed with exciting real-life tales and inside information as well as amazing photography throughout.
Discover everything you need to know about elephants! Elephants are amazing creatures, but they are also endangered. Become an elephant expert and discover where they live, what they eat and how different organisations are trying to help them survive
It includes feature panels with stats, facts and real-life rescue stories as well as further information on what readers can do to get involved in animal conservation.
From investigating daily routines, such as what elephants eat, to hard-hitting facts about why certain species are endangered in the wild and how conservation efforts and zoo programmes can help, this book is packed with exciting real-life tales and inside information as well as amazing photography of these majestic creatures.
June 2012 • 160 x 230mm • Hardback • 9781408148235 • AU$24.99 • January 2013 • 160 x 230mm • Paperback • 9781408149560 • AU$13.99
Anna Claybourne
It includes feature panels with stats, facts and real-life rescue stories as well as further information on what readers can do to get involved in elephant conservation. June 2012 • 160 x 230mm • Hardback • 9781408148273 • AU$24.99 • January 2013 • 160 x 230mm • Paperback • 9781408149584 • AU$13.99
Age Range: 5-7 years Bloomsbury Childrens World All Languages Readership: From 5 to 7 years
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Primary.indd 12-13
Age Range: 5-7 years Bloomsbury Childrens World All Languages Readership: From 5 to 7 years
Anna Claybourne is the author of numerous books on the natural world for young readers, including 100 Most Dangerous Things on the Planet, which was shortlisted for Blue Peter Best Book With Facts 2009, Usborne Internet-Linked Encyclopedia of Planet Earth, the Survival Skills Handbook and many more.
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Xxxxx Zoo Books: International Rescue Series Paw Prints in the Snow
Age Range: 9-11 years Bloomsbury Childrens World All Languages Readership: From 9 years to 11 years
Fiction Xxxxx
Shadows under the Sea
STAR FIGHTERS BUMPER SPECIAL EDITION: Stealth Force
Sally Grindley
Sally Grindley
Max Chase
The first in a series of four books following the adventures of a family who travel the world helping animals on the verge of extinction. Nailbiting, exciting and based on fact, these are stories with punch! Written with the assistance and guidance of London Zoo’s conservation team. All information is accurate and the stories are full of excitement and tension
The second in a series of four books following the adventures of a family involved in animal conservation
A bumper edition STAR FIGHTERS mission! One complete story in one extra-length Wild-West-in-Space story
When Joe and Aesha’s mother is given an assignment to train young vets, the Brook family visits an important nature reserve near Lazovsky in eastern Russia. In this spectacular snow-bound landscape, Joe is thrilled by the prospect of glimpsing a rare Amur tiger in the wild. Alongside the fieldworkers, the Brooks get involved in tracking local species, such as the Asiatic black bear and the raccoon dog. However, the tigers prove elusive - until Joe’s interest in wildlife photography leads him to make an unexpected discovery that puts his very life in danger.
Age Range: 9-11 years Bloomsbury Childrens World All Languages Readership: From 9 years to 11 years
Available • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408819456 • AU$14.99
In this book, Joe, his sister Aesha and their parents travel to a remote island in the Philippines to take part in an intriguing seahorse project in a marine protected area. Joe befriends Dario, a local boy, and as they explore the island, Joe unravels the identity of the criminals who’ve been dynamite fishing and damaging the fragile coral reefs nearby.Exciting snorkelling trips, snapshots of island life and a thrilling chase scene are all featured in an exotic setting. Plenty of information is included on marine life, such as seahorses, mangrove sharks and reef fish. Shadows under the Sea is written with the assistance and guidance of London Zoo’s conservation team. All information is accurate and the stories are full of excitement and tension.Sally Grindley is the author of bestselling and award-winning fiction for young readers. Here she brings to life a story of intrigue set on a Filipino island.
It is the year 5012 and the Milky Way galaxy is under attack. After the Universal War, a war that almost brought about the destruction of every known universe, the planets in the Milky Way banded together to create the Intergalactic Force - an elite fighting team sworn to protect and defend the galaxy. Only the brightest and most promising students are accepted into the Intergalactic Force Academy, and only the very best cadets reach the highest of their ranks and become...STAR FIGHTERS! Summoned by a strange distress signal, Peri and the rest of the Phoenix’s crew head to the remote desert planet Westrenia to see if they can help. At first the main town seems devoid of life. Then the crew realise that the inhabitants are in hiding. The sheriff of Westrania has been kidnapped and a gang of outlaws is terrorising the town. It’s up to Peri to think of a way to outwit the outlaws and get the sheriff back! Max Chase is the youngest of three brothers. He was born in England but grew up in Hong Kong. He has a black belt in karate and a red belt in Wing Chun. He has been writing since he was eight years old and now earns a living as a freelance journalist. He always dreamed about being an astronaut or a cowboy. With Star Fighters, he gets to be a little of both. www.starfighterbooks.com Age Range: 7-9 years
January 2013 • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408827185 • AU$14.99
Bloomsbury Childrens World English Readership: From 7 years to 9 years
June 2012 • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408819449 • AU$14.99
Feathers in the Wind
Age Range: 9-11 years Bloomsbury Childrens World All Languages Readership: From 9 years to 11 years
Available • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408815793 • AU$12.99
Available • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408815809 • AU$12.99
Available • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408815816 • AU$12.99
Available • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408815823 • AU$12.99
Available • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408815830 • AU$12.99
September 2012 • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408827185 • AU$12.99
September 2012 • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408827154 • AU$12.99
September 2012 • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408827161 • AU$12.99
Danger in the Dust
Sally Grindley
Sally Grindley
The third in a series of four books following the adventures of a family involved in animal conservation
The last in a series of four books following the adventures of a family involved in animal conservation
Feathers in the Wind is written with the assistance and guidance of London Zoo’s conservation team. All information is accurate and the stories are full of excitement and tension
In Danger in the Dust, Joe, his sister, Aesha, and their parents go on a trip to Kenya, where they hope to see ‘the big five’ in the wild. It’s the experience of a lifetime, and it’s all leading up to a thrilling mission to release a baby black rhino bred in captivity - until their safari truck gets stuck and they find themselves in desperate need of rescue...
When the Brook family travel to India for the annual kite festival in Ahmedabad, Joe can’t wait to buy his own kite at the night-time bazaar and get involved with the locals’ celebrations. However, the festivities have a little-known darker side - the strings of fighter kites are glazed with shards of glass (so that they can cut down other kites) and these kite strings injure many birds as they become entangled in them. Joe’s mother will be working day and night at a rescue centre as she aims to save every single injured bird, particularly the endangered vultures. Can Joe and Aesha pull off a daring rescue attempt of their own on the day of the festival?
Available • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408815786 • AU$12.99
This exciting story is written with the assistance and guidance of London Zoo’s conservation team. All information is accurate. Age Range: 9-11 years
January 2013 • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408819463 • AU$14.99
Bloomsbury Childrens World All Languages Readership: From 9 years to 11 years
October 2012 • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408819470 • AU$14.99
Sally Grindley lives in Cheltenham. She has been involved with children’s books nearly all her working life, first as editor of the children’s book club Books for Children, and for almost as long as a children’s author. Sally’s novel Spilled Water won a Smarties Gold Medal, as well as other regional awards, such as the Lincolnshire Young People’s Award.
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Xxxxx Zoo Books: International Rescue Series Paw Prints in the Snow
Age Range: 9-11 years Bloomsbury Childrens World All Languages Readership: From 9 years to 11 years
Fiction Xxxxx
Shadows under the Sea
STAR FIGHTERS BUMPER SPECIAL EDITION: Stealth Force
Sally Grindley
Sally Grindley
Max Chase
The first in a series of four books following the adventures of a family who travel the world helping animals on the verge of extinction. Nailbiting, exciting and based on fact, these are stories with punch! Written with the assistance and guidance of London Zoo’s conservation team. All information is accurate and the stories are full of excitement and tension
The second in a series of four books following the adventures of a family involved in animal conservation
A bumper edition STAR FIGHTERS mission! One complete story in one extra-length Wild-West-in-Space story
When Joe and Aesha’s mother is given an assignment to train young vets, the Brook family visits an important nature reserve near Lazovsky in eastern Russia. In this spectacular snow-bound landscape, Joe is thrilled by the prospect of glimpsing a rare Amur tiger in the wild. Alongside the fieldworkers, the Brooks get involved in tracking local species, such as the Asiatic black bear and the raccoon dog. However, the tigers prove elusive - until Joe’s interest in wildlife photography leads him to make an unexpected discovery that puts his very life in danger.
Age Range: 9-11 years Bloomsbury Childrens World All Languages Readership: From 9 years to 11 years
Available • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408819456 • AU$14.99
In this book, Joe, his sister Aesha and their parents travel to a remote island in the Philippines to take part in an intriguing seahorse project in a marine protected area. Joe befriends Dario, a local boy, and as they explore the island, Joe unravels the identity of the criminals who’ve been dynamite fishing and damaging the fragile coral reefs nearby.Exciting snorkelling trips, snapshots of island life and a thrilling chase scene are all featured in an exotic setting. Plenty of information is included on marine life, such as seahorses, mangrove sharks and reef fish. Shadows under the Sea is written with the assistance and guidance of London Zoo’s conservation team. All information is accurate and the stories are full of excitement and tension.Sally Grindley is the author of bestselling and award-winning fiction for young readers. Here she brings to life a story of intrigue set on a Filipino island.
It is the year 5012 and the Milky Way galaxy is under attack. After the Universal War, a war that almost brought about the destruction of every known universe, the planets in the Milky Way banded together to create the Intergalactic Force - an elite fighting team sworn to protect and defend the galaxy. Only the brightest and most promising students are accepted into the Intergalactic Force Academy, and only the very best cadets reach the highest of their ranks and become...STAR FIGHTERS! Summoned by a strange distress signal, Peri and the rest of the Phoenix’s crew head to the remote desert planet Westrenia to see if they can help. At first the main town seems devoid of life. Then the crew realise that the inhabitants are in hiding. The sheriff of Westrania has been kidnapped and a gang of outlaws is terrorising the town. It’s up to Peri to think of a way to outwit the outlaws and get the sheriff back! Max Chase is the youngest of three brothers. He was born in England but grew up in Hong Kong. He has a black belt in karate and a red belt in Wing Chun. He has been writing since he was eight years old and now earns a living as a freelance journalist. He always dreamed about being an astronaut or a cowboy. With Star Fighters, he gets to be a little of both. www.starfighterbooks.com Age Range: 7-9 years
January 2013 • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408827185 • AU$14.99
Bloomsbury Childrens World English Readership: From 7 years to 9 years
June 2012 • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408819449 • AU$14.99
Feathers in the Wind
Age Range: 9-11 years Bloomsbury Childrens World All Languages Readership: From 9 years to 11 years
Available • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408815793 • AU$12.99
Available • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408815809 • AU$12.99
Available • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408815816 • AU$12.99
Available • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408815823 • AU$12.99
Available • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408815830 • AU$12.99
September 2012 • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408827185 • AU$12.99
September 2012 • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408827154 • AU$12.99
September 2012 • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408827161 • AU$12.99
Danger in the Dust
Sally Grindley
Sally Grindley
The third in a series of four books following the adventures of a family involved in animal conservation
The last in a series of four books following the adventures of a family involved in animal conservation
Feathers in the Wind is written with the assistance and guidance of London Zoo’s conservation team. All information is accurate and the stories are full of excitement and tension
In Danger in the Dust, Joe, his sister, Aesha, and their parents go on a trip to Kenya, where they hope to see ‘the big five’ in the wild. It’s the experience of a lifetime, and it’s all leading up to a thrilling mission to release a baby black rhino bred in captivity - until their safari truck gets stuck and they find themselves in desperate need of rescue...
When the Brook family travel to India for the annual kite festival in Ahmedabad, Joe can’t wait to buy his own kite at the night-time bazaar and get involved with the locals’ celebrations. However, the festivities have a little-known darker side - the strings of fighter kites are glazed with shards of glass (so that they can cut down other kites) and these kite strings injure many birds as they become entangled in them. Joe’s mother will be working day and night at a rescue centre as she aims to save every single injured bird, particularly the endangered vultures. Can Joe and Aesha pull off a daring rescue attempt of their own on the day of the festival?
Available • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408815786 • AU$12.99
This exciting story is written with the assistance and guidance of London Zoo’s conservation team. All information is accurate. Age Range: 9-11 years
January 2013 • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408819463 • AU$14.99
Bloomsbury Childrens World All Languages Readership: From 9 years to 11 years
October 2012 • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408819470 • AU$14.99
Sally Grindley lives in Cheltenham. She has been involved with children’s books nearly all her working life, first as editor of the children’s book club Books for Children, and for almost as long as a children’s author. Sally’s novel Spilled Water won a Smarties Gold Medal, as well as other regional awards, such as the Lincolnshire Young People’s Award.
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Fiction for Reluctant Upper Readers Primary Xxxxx
Xxxxx for Reluctant Readers Fiction
Age Range:9+ years
Age Range:9+ years
Age Range:9+ years
Age Range:10+ years
Age Range:10+ years
A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: Struggling readers 10+
A&C Black Childrens & Educational World English Readership: Struggling readers 10+
Age Range:10+ years
A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: For struggling readers 9+
A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: For struggling readers 9+
A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: For struggling readers 9+
Bug Eyed Monsters
The Gorgle
Big Shot
Attack of the Killer Frogs Hot-Shot Harry
Black Cats
Black Cats
Wired
Wired
Wired
Jean Ure
Emma Fischel
Sean Callery
Peter Clover
Rob Childs
Lou Kuenzler
Rumour says Mr Snitcher is an alien from outer space. Just a joke - or could it be true?
Finn’s terrified of the spooky old house anyway... and then he encounters the thing in the wardrobe! Funny, scary fantasy
Danny is miserable at school, and his best friend just accidentally made it even worse. Can they show everyone how good they really are at sports? Or will their risky behaviour get them both suspended?
A family’s holiday cottage seems like paradise. But something funny has leaked out of the nearby genetic research lab. When Ellie tells her parents about being attacked by a gigantic fanged frog they think she’s making it up, but soon the family’s cottage is under siege - by frogs! Classic 70-style adventure
Harry is the star of Gateway Fives, a mixed five-aside soccer team. They’ve made it through to the County tournament, but Harry’s ego soon starts to cause problems. When Harry has to choose between the team and his own image, will he do the right thing?
Aiden and his little sister Eva are home alone on Halloween. When a stranger dressed up as Death rings the doorbell, Aiden’s not fooled. He knows it’s only Uncle Tony, and lets him straight in. But it’s not Uncle Tony at all... How can Aiden and Eva cheat Death?
Highly readable, exciting books that take the struggle out of reading, the Wired and Wired Up series encourage and support reading practice by providing gripping, ageappropriate stories at a manageable length and reading level.
Aiden and his little sister Eva are home alone on Halloween. When a stranger dressed up as Death rings the doorbell, Aiden’s not fooled. He knows it’s only Uncle Tony, and lets him straight in.
Peter Clover was born in north London. He wanted to be a vet, but ended up an artist for advertising agencies before discovering his love for writing. He’s well known for his ‘Sheltie’ books about a Shetland pony.
Rob Childs is best known for his football books. For A&C Black he has already produced titles for the Colour Graffix and Black Cats lists, and Hot-Shot Harry is his first title for the Wired Up series. He has also written countless football-based titles for Random House.
Death has come for Eva, and he’s not going to leave without her, unless Aiden can win in a bet to save Eva’s life. But how can Aiden and Eva cheat Death?.
November 2012 • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408152683 • AU$14.99
November 2012 • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408142622 • AU$14.99
“Mr Snitcher is an alien! Pass it on...” Nobody knew where the rumour came from. Most of the boys think it’s a joke. But the more Joe and Andy think about it, the weirder Mr Snitcher starts to look. Is he really an alien? And how about the rest of the teachers? Laughout-loud school story with a sci-fi twist. Jean Ure had her first book published while she was at school, and has been writing ever since. She has published around 100 books and won the Lancashire Book Award and Stockton Book Award and Redbridge Children’s Book Award. She lives in Croydon with a houseful of rescue animals. June 2012 • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408152676 • AU$12.99
Wired Connect
Finn doesn’t want to move to the spooky old house in the first place. Soon the strange goings-on and mysterious noises are driving him crazy - and he’s driving his family crazy about it. Then he sees the creature that’s been hibernating in the wardrobe... It’s a Gorgle. A bit like a moth, a bit like a hornet, and a lot like a seven-foot-tall monster from your worst nightmare. It’s awake. It’s hungry. And Finn is the only one who can stop it! Emma Fischel is an experienced writer and editor, specialising in both fiction and non-fiction for children. January 2013 • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408174135 • AU$12.99
Danny’s been having a tough time at school. But now his best friend Ash has made it even worse by telling everyone about his ballroom dancing classes. Will Danny and Ash manage to show everyone how good they really are at sports? Or will their risky behaviour get them into big trouble? Wired Connect is a series of titles for struggling readers aged 9-11, published in association with Catch Up, the reading recovery charity. Sean Callery is a teacher and a children’s writer who has worked with many major publishers. He specialises in narrative non-fiction where facts are combined with stories. He also writes non-fiction (mainly history) and fiction, which includes play scripts and novels.
A family’s holiday cottage seems like paradise. But something funny has leaked out of the nearby genetic research lab. When Ellie tells her parents about being attacked by a gigantic fanged frog they think she’s making it up, but soon the family’s cottage is under siege - by frogs! Classic 70-style adventure..
A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: Struggling readers 10+
November 2012 • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408174098 • AU$14.99
Shadow Snatcher
But it’s not Uncle Tony at all...
Lou Kuenzler was raised on a remote farm on the edge of Dartmoor, before moving to Northern Ireland to study theatre. She went on to work professionally as a theatre director, university lecturer and workshop leader in communities, schools and colleges, before turning her hand to writing a few years ago. Shadow Snatcher is her second title for A&C Black. November 2012 • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408154854 • AU$14.99
Rainbow Boots
Jenny Greenteeth
A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: For struggling readers 9+
Planet Hell
Wired Connect
Chris Powling
Julia Jarman
Susan Gates
Joan Lennon
Denzil’s desperate for a pair of Rainbow Boots - so he pretends he has a customised pair on order, and soon he’s trapped in a web of lies. School comedy
A girl becomes obsessed with the local legend of water monster Jenny Greenteeth - but is it all in her mind?
Leon is supposed to be looking after his little brother Danny when he starts big school. But some kids tell Danny that there’s a wolf in the cupboard and now he won’t go back to school.
Sam Black is one of the Miners who live on Planet Hell, digging ore to power the Earth. It’s a nightmarish underground life. Going to the surface means death. Nothing can live there. And then one day, Sam finds a note from the Surface...
Wired Connect is a series of titles for struggling readers aged 9-11, published in association with Catch Up, the reading recovery charity. Chris Powling was editor of the children’s book magazine Books for Keeps from 1989-1996 when it won the Eleanor Farjeon Award for services to children’s literature, has served on numerous prize panels and is consultant to a national children’s book club. He has written more than sixty books for children including The Mustang Machine, The Phantom Carwash, The Conker As Hard As A Diamond and The Multi-Million Pound Mascot.
Wired
Nadia becomes increasingly obsessed with the local legend of Jenny Greenteeth, the monster who lurks in the pond and steals children. But is it all her imagination or is there a truth behind the stories? Nadia must find out one terrifying night, when her little brother goes missing...
Denzil is the only kid in the school without a pair of Rainbow Boots. So he pretends he’s waiting for a special handmade pair. As the lies pile up, what will Denzil do when he can’t pretend any more? School comedy.
Age Range:9+ years
The Wolf Cupboard
Wired Connect
Age Range:9+ years A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: For struggling readers 9+
Julia Jarman decided to be a writer when she was eight. Her first book was published in 1985 and many of her novels have been short-listed for prizes Julia has written for several educational series and has had a number of picture books published. She has also written a popular series featuring the Time-Travelling Cat. November 2012 • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408174104 • AU$14.99
Wired Up
So Leon persuades Danny that wolves are great and soon he has the opposite problem as Danny is desperate to find the wolf. Can Leon sort out his crazy brother without getting in trouble with Mum - or looking like an idiot in front of gorgeous Lily Mae? Extremely funny school/family comedy.
Age Range:10+ years A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: Struggling readers 10+
Susan Gates is a well established author. She won the Sheffield Book Award twice and has been shortlisted for both the Carnegie Medal and Guardian Fiction Prize. November 2012 • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408155028 • AU$14.99
Sam Black is one of the Miners who live on Planet Hell, digging ore to power the Earth. It’s a nightmarish underground life. Going to the surface means death. Nothing can live there. And then one day, Sam finds a note from the Surface, and learns that everything in his life is a lie.A thought-provoking sci-fi story. Age Range:11+ years A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: Struggling readers aged 11+
Joan Lennon was born in Canada and has lived in Germany, Australia, Yugoslavia, England and Wales. She is a full time writer. She has three children and lives in Scotland. This is her first book for A&C Black. November 2012 • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408154779 • AU$14.99
November 2012 • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408174081 • AU$14.99
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Fiction for Reluctant Upper Readers Primary Xxxxx
Xxxxx for Reluctant Readers Fiction
Age Range:9+ years
Age Range:9+ years
Age Range:9+ years
Age Range:10+ years
Age Range:10+ years
A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: Struggling readers 10+
A&C Black Childrens & Educational World English Readership: Struggling readers 10+
Age Range:10+ years
A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: For struggling readers 9+
A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: For struggling readers 9+
A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: For struggling readers 9+
Bug Eyed Monsters
The Gorgle
Big Shot
Attack of the Killer Frogs Hot-Shot Harry
Black Cats
Black Cats
Wired
Wired
Wired
Jean Ure
Emma Fischel
Sean Callery
Peter Clover
Rob Childs
Lou Kuenzler
Rumour says Mr Snitcher is an alien from outer space. Just a joke - or could it be true?
Finn’s terrified of the spooky old house anyway... and then he encounters the thing in the wardrobe! Funny, scary fantasy
Danny is miserable at school, and his best friend just accidentally made it even worse. Can they show everyone how good they really are at sports? Or will their risky behaviour get them both suspended?
A family’s holiday cottage seems like paradise. But something funny has leaked out of the nearby genetic research lab. When Ellie tells her parents about being attacked by a gigantic fanged frog they think she’s making it up, but soon the family’s cottage is under siege - by frogs! Classic 70-style adventure
Harry is the star of Gateway Fives, a mixed five-aside soccer team. They’ve made it through to the County tournament, but Harry’s ego soon starts to cause problems. When Harry has to choose between the team and his own image, will he do the right thing?
Aiden and his little sister Eva are home alone on Halloween. When a stranger dressed up as Death rings the doorbell, Aiden’s not fooled. He knows it’s only Uncle Tony, and lets him straight in. But it’s not Uncle Tony at all... How can Aiden and Eva cheat Death?
Highly readable, exciting books that take the struggle out of reading, the Wired and Wired Up series encourage and support reading practice by providing gripping, ageappropriate stories at a manageable length and reading level.
Aiden and his little sister Eva are home alone on Halloween. When a stranger dressed up as Death rings the doorbell, Aiden’s not fooled. He knows it’s only Uncle Tony, and lets him straight in.
Peter Clover was born in north London. He wanted to be a vet, but ended up an artist for advertising agencies before discovering his love for writing. He’s well known for his ‘Sheltie’ books about a Shetland pony.
Rob Childs is best known for his football books. For A&C Black he has already produced titles for the Colour Graffix and Black Cats lists, and Hot-Shot Harry is his first title for the Wired Up series. He has also written countless football-based titles for Random House.
Death has come for Eva, and he’s not going to leave without her, unless Aiden can win in a bet to save Eva’s life. But how can Aiden and Eva cheat Death?.
November 2012 • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408152683 • AU$14.99
November 2012 • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408142622 • AU$14.99
“Mr Snitcher is an alien! Pass it on...” Nobody knew where the rumour came from. Most of the boys think it’s a joke. But the more Joe and Andy think about it, the weirder Mr Snitcher starts to look. Is he really an alien? And how about the rest of the teachers? Laughout-loud school story with a sci-fi twist. Jean Ure had her first book published while she was at school, and has been writing ever since. She has published around 100 books and won the Lancashire Book Award and Stockton Book Award and Redbridge Children’s Book Award. She lives in Croydon with a houseful of rescue animals. June 2012 • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408152676 • AU$12.99
Wired Connect
Finn doesn’t want to move to the spooky old house in the first place. Soon the strange goings-on and mysterious noises are driving him crazy - and he’s driving his family crazy about it. Then he sees the creature that’s been hibernating in the wardrobe... It’s a Gorgle. A bit like a moth, a bit like a hornet, and a lot like a seven-foot-tall monster from your worst nightmare. It’s awake. It’s hungry. And Finn is the only one who can stop it! Emma Fischel is an experienced writer and editor, specialising in both fiction and non-fiction for children. January 2013 • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408174135 • AU$12.99
Danny’s been having a tough time at school. But now his best friend Ash has made it even worse by telling everyone about his ballroom dancing classes. Will Danny and Ash manage to show everyone how good they really are at sports? Or will their risky behaviour get them into big trouble? Wired Connect is a series of titles for struggling readers aged 9-11, published in association with Catch Up, the reading recovery charity. Sean Callery is a teacher and a children’s writer who has worked with many major publishers. He specialises in narrative non-fiction where facts are combined with stories. He also writes non-fiction (mainly history) and fiction, which includes play scripts and novels.
A family’s holiday cottage seems like paradise. But something funny has leaked out of the nearby genetic research lab. When Ellie tells her parents about being attacked by a gigantic fanged frog they think she’s making it up, but soon the family’s cottage is under siege - by frogs! Classic 70-style adventure..
A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: Struggling readers 10+
November 2012 • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408174098 • AU$14.99
Shadow Snatcher
But it’s not Uncle Tony at all...
Lou Kuenzler was raised on a remote farm on the edge of Dartmoor, before moving to Northern Ireland to study theatre. She went on to work professionally as a theatre director, university lecturer and workshop leader in communities, schools and colleges, before turning her hand to writing a few years ago. Shadow Snatcher is her second title for A&C Black. November 2012 • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408154854 • AU$14.99
Rainbow Boots
Jenny Greenteeth
A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: For struggling readers 9+
Planet Hell
Wired Connect
Chris Powling
Julia Jarman
Susan Gates
Joan Lennon
Denzil’s desperate for a pair of Rainbow Boots - so he pretends he has a customised pair on order, and soon he’s trapped in a web of lies. School comedy
A girl becomes obsessed with the local legend of water monster Jenny Greenteeth - but is it all in her mind?
Leon is supposed to be looking after his little brother Danny when he starts big school. But some kids tell Danny that there’s a wolf in the cupboard and now he won’t go back to school.
Sam Black is one of the Miners who live on Planet Hell, digging ore to power the Earth. It’s a nightmarish underground life. Going to the surface means death. Nothing can live there. And then one day, Sam finds a note from the Surface...
Wired Connect is a series of titles for struggling readers aged 9-11, published in association with Catch Up, the reading recovery charity. Chris Powling was editor of the children’s book magazine Books for Keeps from 1989-1996 when it won the Eleanor Farjeon Award for services to children’s literature, has served on numerous prize panels and is consultant to a national children’s book club. He has written more than sixty books for children including The Mustang Machine, The Phantom Carwash, The Conker As Hard As A Diamond and The Multi-Million Pound Mascot.
Wired
Nadia becomes increasingly obsessed with the local legend of Jenny Greenteeth, the monster who lurks in the pond and steals children. But is it all her imagination or is there a truth behind the stories? Nadia must find out one terrifying night, when her little brother goes missing...
Denzil is the only kid in the school without a pair of Rainbow Boots. So he pretends he’s waiting for a special handmade pair. As the lies pile up, what will Denzil do when he can’t pretend any more? School comedy.
Age Range:9+ years
The Wolf Cupboard
Wired Connect
Age Range:9+ years A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: For struggling readers 9+
Julia Jarman decided to be a writer when she was eight. Her first book was published in 1985 and many of her novels have been short-listed for prizes Julia has written for several educational series and has had a number of picture books published. She has also written a popular series featuring the Time-Travelling Cat. November 2012 • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408174104 • AU$14.99
Wired Up
So Leon persuades Danny that wolves are great and soon he has the opposite problem as Danny is desperate to find the wolf. Can Leon sort out his crazy brother without getting in trouble with Mum - or looking like an idiot in front of gorgeous Lily Mae? Extremely funny school/family comedy.
Age Range:10+ years A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: Struggling readers 10+
Susan Gates is a well established author. She won the Sheffield Book Award twice and has been shortlisted for both the Carnegie Medal and Guardian Fiction Prize. November 2012 • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408155028 • AU$14.99
Sam Black is one of the Miners who live on Planet Hell, digging ore to power the Earth. It’s a nightmarish underground life. Going to the surface means death. Nothing can live there. And then one day, Sam finds a note from the Surface, and learns that everything in his life is a lie.A thought-provoking sci-fi story. Age Range:11+ years A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: Struggling readers aged 11+
Joan Lennon was born in Canada and has lived in Germany, Australia, Yugoslavia, England and Wales. She is a full time writer. She has three children and lives in Scotland. This is her first book for A&C Black. November 2012 • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408154779 • AU$14.99
November 2012 • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408174081 • AU$14.99
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Fiction: Upper Primary Xxxxx
Fiction: Upper Primary Xxxxx
Age Range: 8-12 years
Age Range: 9-11 years
Age Range: 9+ years
Bloomsbury Childrens World All Languages Readership: From 8 to 12 years
Bloomsbury Childrens Commonwealth/Europe excluding Canada, open market Readership: 9+
Bloomsbury Childrens Commonwealth/Europe excluding Canada, open market Readership: From 9 years
Fizzlebert Stump
Coraline
The Boy Who Ran Away From the Circus (and joined the library)
10th Anniversary Edition
Neil Gaiman Tenth anniversary edition of Neil Gaiman’s modern classic, brilliantly illustrated by Chris Riddell, with a new foreword by the author
There is something strange about Coraline’s new home. It’s not the mist, or the cat that always seems to be watching her, it’s the other house - the one behind the old door in the drawing room. Another mother and father with black-button eyes and papery skin. And they want her to stay with them. For ever. Neil Gaiman, author, scriptwriter and creator of graphic novels, is British and lives in the USA. His diverse catalogue of books includes the novel The Graveyard Book, winner of the Carnegie Medal 20110 and Stardust (now a major feature film). Chris Riddell is a much loved illustrator and acclaimed political cartoonist. September 2012 • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408832400 • AU$14.99 September 2012 • 198 x 129mm • Hardback • 9781408818619 • AU$29.99
A.F. Harrold A story of a boy, a book, some very bad people, some very brave deeds, and the importance of rubber teeth for lions
Fizzlebert Stump lives in a travelling circus. But although he gets to hang around with acrobats, play the fool with clowns, and put his head in a lion’s mouth, he’s the only kid there - and he’s bored. But then Fizz decides to join a library, and life suddenly gets a lot more exciting, when a simple library card application leads to him being kidnapped by a pair of crazed pensioners! Will he ever see the circus again?
When the world is ending, you’d better be ready to fight...This is a 3-D mega-budget action adventure in book form. Gone meets Independence Day - with attitude
Sam wakes to see strange vessels gathered in the skies around London. As he stares up, people stream past, walking silently towards the enormous ships which emit a persistent noise. Only Sam seems immune to the signal. Sam is absolutely alone, yet he is still alive. And the battle for earth is about to begin. www.earthfallbattle.com
A.F. Harrold writes and performs in cabarets, schools, bars and basements, He was Glastonbury Festival Website’s Poet-In-Residence in 2008. www.afharroldkids.co.uk
July 2012 • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408815663 • AU$15.99
Bloomsbury Childrens Commonwealth/UK excluding Canada, open market Readership: From 9 years
Bloomsbury Childrens Commonwealth/UK excluding Canada, open market Readership: From 9 years
Bloomsbury Childrens Commonwealth/UK excluding Canada, open market Readership: From 9 years
Magyk
Flyte
Physik
Septimus Heap Book 1
Septimus Heap Book 2
Septimus Heap Book 3
Angie Sage
Angie Sage
Angie Sage
The bestselling book, which heralded a Magykal bestselling series, relaunched with a fabulous new jacket design across the series
Book Two in the bestselling series relaunched with a fabulous new jacket design
Book Three in the bestselling series relaunched with a fabulous new jacket design
The evil necromancer DomDaniel has been disposed of, but something Darke is stirring. A Shadow pursues ExtraOrdinary Wizard Marcia Overstrand. Septimus senses something sinister is afoot, but before he can act, Jenna is snatched - taken by the most unlikely kidnapper. Septimus must rescue his sister but does not, at first, realise the power of the forces at work behind her disappearance.
When Silas Heap unseals a forgotten room in the Palace, he releases the ghost of a Queen who lived five hundred years earlier. Queen Etheldredda is as awful in death as she was in life, and she’s still up to no good. Her diabolical plan to give herself ever-lasting life requires Jenna’s compliance, Septimus’s disappearance, and the talents of her son, Marcellus Pye, a famous Alchemist and Physician.
August 2012 • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408814925 • AU$16.99
August 2012 • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408814918 • AU$16.99
A powerful necromancer plans to seize control of all things Magykal. Now with Darke Magyk he will create a world filled with Darke creatures. But the Necromancer made one mistake. A vital detail he has overlooked means there is a boy who can stop him the only problem is, the boy doesn’t know it yet. August 2012 • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408814932 • AU$16.99
Elen Caldecott
A funny, pacy and informative adventure that will also give some historical background to the slave trade
For Claire Boucher, life is all about skating on the frozen cow pond and in the annual Maple Show right before the big pancake breakfast on her family’s farm. But all that changes when Russian skating coach Andrei Grosheva offers Claire a scholarship to train with the elite in Lake Placid. Tossed into a world of mean girls on ice, where competition is everything, Claire realizes that her sweet dream come true has sharper edges than she could have imagined. Can she find the strength to stand up to the people who want to see her fail and the courage to decide which dream she wants to follow? Kate Messner is the author of The Brilliant Fall of Gianna Z. She is a teacher in New York, where she lives with her husband and two children. June 2012 • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9780802723307 • AU$14.99
Paige cannot wait to go to secondary school. Curtis is much less sure. The only thing they have in common is the first letter of their surnames – and so they are forced together on a school trip to Wickworth Manor. Curtis finds a portrait in a bedroom of a young black servant. But why is the portrait hidden? Then Paige finds an intriguing letter, written over 200 years ago by Miss Verity Burton, who used to live at the Manor, that mentions the portrait. There is a mystery begging to be unravelled! Paige and Curtis are determined to find out what happened all those years ago… Age Range: 9-11 years Bloomsbury Childrens Commonwealth/Europe, open market Readership: From 9 years to 11 years
Elen Caldecott graduated with an MA in Writing for Young People from Bath Spa University and was highly commended in the PFD Prize for Most Promising Writer for Young People. Her debut novel How Kirsty Jenkins Stole the Elephant, was longlisted for the 2010 Carnegie Award. Elen lives in Bristol, UK. August 2012 • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408820483 • AU$15.99
Age Range:9+ years
Age Range:9+ years
Age Range:9+ years
Bloomsbury Childrens Commonwealth/UK excluding Canada, open market Readership: From 9 years
Bloomsbury Childrens Commonwealth/UK excluding Canada, open market Readership: From 9 years
Bloomsbury Childrens Commonwealth/UK excluding Canada, open market Readership: From 9 years
Queste
Syren
Darke
Septimus Heap Book 4
Septimus Heap Book 5
Septimus Heap Book 6
Angie Sage
Angie Sage
Angie Sage
Book Four in the bestselling series relaunched with a fabulous new jacket design
Book Five in the bestselling series relaunched with a fabulous new jacket design
The Darkely brilliant, magical adventure - new in paperback
Septimus faces a perilous quest to find Nicko and Snorri, who have been trapped back in time. Septimus, aided by Alchemist Marcellus Pye, learns of a place where all time meets: the House of Foryx. But how does he get there?
Septimus Heap returns to the House of Foryx with Spit Fyre to pick up Jenna, Nicko, Snorri, and Beetle. But the journey home does not go well and when Septimus and his friends are caught in a storm. They are rescued by the lighthouse keeper who is disturbingly sinister, and who has an equally sinister cat.
As Wizard Apprentice Septimus Heap marks his fourteenth birthday, he chooses a dangerous mission to restore his good friend Alther from Banishment. But as he embarks on this trial, something Darke and terrible engulfs the Castle. Septimus and his friends are about to face their most perilous challenge yet...
August 2012 • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408814895 • AU$16.99
August 2012 • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408806272 • AU$16.99
August 2012 • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408814901 • AU$16.99
Primary.indd 18-19
Age Range:9+ years
The Mystery of Wickworth Manor Step onto the ice for all the fun and frigid sides of figure skating
18
Age Range:9+ years
July 2012 • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408830031 • AU$14.99
Kate Messner
Walker Childrens World All Languages Readership: From 9 years to 11 years
Mark Walden
Mark Walden’s first book, H.I.V.E., won Richard and Judy’s ‘Best Kids’ Books Ever’ 9+ category. He followed this success with a further six titles in the brilliant H.I.V.E. series and Paramount has optioned the film rights. Mark lives in Hampshire, UK.
Sugar and Ice
Age Range: 9-11 years
Earthfall
Age Range:9+ years
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Fiction: Upper Primary Xxxxx
Fiction: Upper Primary Xxxxx
Age Range: 8-12 years
Age Range: 9-11 years
Age Range: 9+ years
Bloomsbury Childrens World All Languages Readership: From 8 to 12 years
Bloomsbury Childrens Commonwealth/Europe excluding Canada, open market Readership: 9+
Bloomsbury Childrens Commonwealth/Europe excluding Canada, open market Readership: From 9 years
Fizzlebert Stump
Coraline
The Boy Who Ran Away From the Circus (and joined the library)
10th Anniversary Edition
Neil Gaiman Tenth anniversary edition of Neil Gaiman’s modern classic, brilliantly illustrated by Chris Riddell, with a new foreword by the author
There is something strange about Coraline’s new home. It’s not the mist, or the cat that always seems to be watching her, it’s the other house - the one behind the old door in the drawing room. Another mother and father with black-button eyes and papery skin. And they want her to stay with them. For ever. Neil Gaiman, author, scriptwriter and creator of graphic novels, is British and lives in the USA. His diverse catalogue of books includes the novel The Graveyard Book, winner of the Carnegie Medal 20110 and Stardust (now a major feature film). Chris Riddell is a much loved illustrator and acclaimed political cartoonist. September 2012 • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408832400 • AU$14.99 September 2012 • 198 x 129mm • Hardback • 9781408818619 • AU$29.99
A.F. Harrold A story of a boy, a book, some very bad people, some very brave deeds, and the importance of rubber teeth for lions
Fizzlebert Stump lives in a travelling circus. But although he gets to hang around with acrobats, play the fool with clowns, and put his head in a lion’s mouth, he’s the only kid there - and he’s bored. But then Fizz decides to join a library, and life suddenly gets a lot more exciting, when a simple library card application leads to him being kidnapped by a pair of crazed pensioners! Will he ever see the circus again?
When the world is ending, you’d better be ready to fight...This is a 3-D mega-budget action adventure in book form. Gone meets Independence Day - with attitude
Sam wakes to see strange vessels gathered in the skies around London. As he stares up, people stream past, walking silently towards the enormous ships which emit a persistent noise. Only Sam seems immune to the signal. Sam is absolutely alone, yet he is still alive. And the battle for earth is about to begin. www.earthfallbattle.com
A.F. Harrold writes and performs in cabarets, schools, bars and basements, He was Glastonbury Festival Website’s Poet-In-Residence in 2008. www.afharroldkids.co.uk
July 2012 • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408815663 • AU$15.99
Bloomsbury Childrens Commonwealth/UK excluding Canada, open market Readership: From 9 years
Bloomsbury Childrens Commonwealth/UK excluding Canada, open market Readership: From 9 years
Bloomsbury Childrens Commonwealth/UK excluding Canada, open market Readership: From 9 years
Magyk
Flyte
Physik
Septimus Heap Book 1
Septimus Heap Book 2
Septimus Heap Book 3
Angie Sage
Angie Sage
Angie Sage
The bestselling book, which heralded a Magykal bestselling series, relaunched with a fabulous new jacket design across the series
Book Two in the bestselling series relaunched with a fabulous new jacket design
Book Three in the bestselling series relaunched with a fabulous new jacket design
The evil necromancer DomDaniel has been disposed of, but something Darke is stirring. A Shadow pursues ExtraOrdinary Wizard Marcia Overstrand. Septimus senses something sinister is afoot, but before he can act, Jenna is snatched - taken by the most unlikely kidnapper. Septimus must rescue his sister but does not, at first, realise the power of the forces at work behind her disappearance.
When Silas Heap unseals a forgotten room in the Palace, he releases the ghost of a Queen who lived five hundred years earlier. Queen Etheldredda is as awful in death as she was in life, and she’s still up to no good. Her diabolical plan to give herself ever-lasting life requires Jenna’s compliance, Septimus’s disappearance, and the talents of her son, Marcellus Pye, a famous Alchemist and Physician.
August 2012 • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408814925 • AU$16.99
August 2012 • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408814918 • AU$16.99
A powerful necromancer plans to seize control of all things Magykal. Now with Darke Magyk he will create a world filled with Darke creatures. But the Necromancer made one mistake. A vital detail he has overlooked means there is a boy who can stop him the only problem is, the boy doesn’t know it yet. August 2012 • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408814932 • AU$16.99
Elen Caldecott
A funny, pacy and informative adventure that will also give some historical background to the slave trade
For Claire Boucher, life is all about skating on the frozen cow pond and in the annual Maple Show right before the big pancake breakfast on her family’s farm. But all that changes when Russian skating coach Andrei Grosheva offers Claire a scholarship to train with the elite in Lake Placid. Tossed into a world of mean girls on ice, where competition is everything, Claire realizes that her sweet dream come true has sharper edges than she could have imagined. Can she find the strength to stand up to the people who want to see her fail and the courage to decide which dream she wants to follow? Kate Messner is the author of The Brilliant Fall of Gianna Z. She is a teacher in New York, where she lives with her husband and two children. June 2012 • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9780802723307 • AU$14.99
Paige cannot wait to go to secondary school. Curtis is much less sure. The only thing they have in common is the first letter of their surnames – and so they are forced together on a school trip to Wickworth Manor. Curtis finds a portrait in a bedroom of a young black servant. But why is the portrait hidden? Then Paige finds an intriguing letter, written over 200 years ago by Miss Verity Burton, who used to live at the Manor, that mentions the portrait. There is a mystery begging to be unravelled! Paige and Curtis are determined to find out what happened all those years ago… Age Range: 9-11 years Bloomsbury Childrens Commonwealth/Europe, open market Readership: From 9 years to 11 years
Elen Caldecott graduated with an MA in Writing for Young People from Bath Spa University and was highly commended in the PFD Prize for Most Promising Writer for Young People. Her debut novel How Kirsty Jenkins Stole the Elephant, was longlisted for the 2010 Carnegie Award. Elen lives in Bristol, UK. August 2012 • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408820483 • AU$15.99
Age Range:9+ years
Age Range:9+ years
Age Range:9+ years
Bloomsbury Childrens Commonwealth/UK excluding Canada, open market Readership: From 9 years
Bloomsbury Childrens Commonwealth/UK excluding Canada, open market Readership: From 9 years
Bloomsbury Childrens Commonwealth/UK excluding Canada, open market Readership: From 9 years
Queste
Syren
Darke
Septimus Heap Book 4
Septimus Heap Book 5
Septimus Heap Book 6
Angie Sage
Angie Sage
Angie Sage
Book Four in the bestselling series relaunched with a fabulous new jacket design
Book Five in the bestselling series relaunched with a fabulous new jacket design
The Darkely brilliant, magical adventure - new in paperback
Septimus faces a perilous quest to find Nicko and Snorri, who have been trapped back in time. Septimus, aided by Alchemist Marcellus Pye, learns of a place where all time meets: the House of Foryx. But how does he get there?
Septimus Heap returns to the House of Foryx with Spit Fyre to pick up Jenna, Nicko, Snorri, and Beetle. But the journey home does not go well and when Septimus and his friends are caught in a storm. They are rescued by the lighthouse keeper who is disturbingly sinister, and who has an equally sinister cat.
As Wizard Apprentice Septimus Heap marks his fourteenth birthday, he chooses a dangerous mission to restore his good friend Alther from Banishment. But as he embarks on this trial, something Darke and terrible engulfs the Castle. Septimus and his friends are about to face their most perilous challenge yet...
August 2012 • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408814895 • AU$16.99
August 2012 • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408806272 • AU$16.99
August 2012 • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408814901 • AU$16.99
Primary.indd 18-19
Age Range:9+ years
The Mystery of Wickworth Manor Step onto the ice for all the fun and frigid sides of figure skating
18
Age Range:9+ years
July 2012 • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408830031 • AU$14.99
Kate Messner
Walker Childrens World All Languages Readership: From 9 years to 11 years
Mark Walden
Mark Walden’s first book, H.I.V.E., won Richard and Judy’s ‘Best Kids’ Books Ever’ 9+ category. He followed this success with a further six titles in the brilliant H.I.V.E. series and Paramount has optioned the film rights. Mark lives in Hampshire, UK.
Sugar and Ice
Age Range: 9-11 years
Earthfall
Age Range:9+ years
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Fiction: Upper Primary Xxxxx
Fiction: Upper Primary Xxxxx
Stravaganza: City of Masks
Stravaganza: City of Swords
Mary Hoffman
Mary Hoffman Travel through time and space to sixteenth-century Italy for the heart-stopping conclusion to Mary Hoffman’s thrilling, magical Stravanganza series
The first book in the acclaimed and internationally bestselling Stravaganza series
Set in Talia, a parallel world very similar to 16th-century Italy, the narrative follows Lucien, who in our world is very ill. Given a marbled notebook to use as a diary, the notebook is the unexpected means that transports Lucien to this dangerous new world; a world that thrills to the delight of political intrigue and where a life can be snuffed out with a flash of a merlino blade. The city of Bellezza (Venice in our world) is astonishingly evoked, with a filmic eye to detail, from the sensuousness of silks and velvets, to the thrill and danger of assassination attempts both and foiled and successful. The world of Talia is unforgettably and convincingly real.
Desperately unhappy, Laura has resorted to secretly self-harming. But Laura is a Stravagante, somebody who can travel in time and space. When she finds her talisman, a small silver dagger, she stravagates with it to sixteenth-century Fortezza, a town similar to Lucca in Italy, where she meets her Stravagante, who is a swordsmith. But Laura also meets the charming and attractive Ludo, and falls for him. Their love for each other is tested when Ludo lays claim to the crown of Fortezza, and Laura finds herself fighting on the side of the Stravaganti opposing him... A thrilling tale filled with battles on the field and battles of the heart, which finishes with a long-awaited wedding between two much loved characters
Available • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9780747595694 • AU$16.99
September 2012 • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408800508 • AU$16.99
Age Range: 11+ years
Age Range: 11+ years
Bloomsbury Childrens World All Languages Readership: From 11 years
Bloomsbury Childrens World All Languages Readership: From 11 years
Stravaganza: City of Stars
Stravaganza: City of Flowers
Bloomsbury Childrens World All Languages Readership: From 11 years
Stravaganza: City of Secrets
Mary Hoffman
Mary Hoffman
Mary Hoffman
The second book in the acclaimed and internationally bestselling Stravaganza series
The third title in the acclaimed and internationally bestselling Stravaganza series
The fifth title in the acclaimed and bestselling Stravaganza series
The fourth title in the acclaimed and bestselling Stravaganza series
Sequel to City of Masks, the setting is again Talia, the parallel world very similar to 16th-century Italy, but the main character in this book is Georgia - who has a love of horses. She is desperate to buy a little, dusty winged horse that has appeared in a local antique shop. This tiny, winged horse proves to be the talisman that transports Georgia right into the rivalries and the highoctane excitement of the hugely competitive Stellata horse race. Mary Hoffman proved herself a mistress of a narrative tour-de-force with City of Masks and this sequel will not disappoint. Fans will be thrilled too that favourite characters from the first book, such as Lucien and Arianna, again appear.
Sequel to City of Masks and City of Stars, the narrative moves to the Talian equivalent of the city of Florence, where beauty and danger walk - as ever - hand in hand. The focus this time is on the new Stravagante, Sky, whose talisman is an ornate and delicate blue glass bottle. Sky is propelled right into the midst of a deadly feud between the di Chimici and Nucci families, who think nothing of sliding a knife between a man’s ribs for revenge...A breathtaking and thrilling drama with a very special kind of magic, continuing the stories of Luciano, Arianna, Rodolfo, Falco and Georgia, which fans will sieze upon with glee.
Set in Classe (Ravenna in our world), the Stravagante is Isabel, a younger twin by a matter of minutes. Her talisman is a pouch of silver mosaic tiles and she stravagates to Classe, where she is met by Flavia, a successful female merchant who trades spices, silks, tapestries, and whose son is an outcast and a pirate. Isabel finds that Classe and Bellezza are under threat from attack by the fierce Gate people. What can she do to help save the city? A thrilling story packed with action, pirates and drama.
When Matt is unexpectedly transported to the Scriptorium of Padavia (real-life Padua) University, he discovers he is a Stravagante who can travel through time using his talisman, a leather-bound book. Together with Luciano, now studying at the University, and Arianna, in disguise as a boy, he must fight the dangerous di Chimici clan who are on the verge of making a terrifying breakthrough into our world. A breathtaking and thrilling novel that will delight all Stravaganza fans.
Mary Hoffman
Age Range: 11+ years
Stravaganza: City of Ships
Available • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9780747595700 • AU$16.99
Age Range: 11+ years Bloomsbury Childrens World All Languages Readership: From 11 years
Available • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9780747595717 • AU$16.99
Available • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9780747592501 • AU$16.99
Available • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9780747592532 • AU$16.99
Age Range: 11+ years Bloomsbury Childrens World All Languages Readership: From 11 years
Age Range: 11+ years Bloomsbury Childrens World All Languages Readership: From 11 years
Mary Hoffman is an acclaimed children’s writer and critic. She is the author of the bestselling picture book Amazing Grace. Her Stravaganza sequence for Bloomsbury is very popular and has its own fan forum. Mary is also the author of The Falconer’s Knot (shortlisted for the Guardian Fiction Award and winner of the French Prix Polar Jeunesse 2009), Troubadour (shortlisted for the 2009 Costa Book Award) and most recently David, a rich and epic tale based upon the creation of Michelangelo’s renowned statue of David. Mary lives with her husband in West Oxfordshire.To follow Mary’s thoughts on books and writing, go to http://bookmavenmary.blogspot.com
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Fiction: Upper Primary Xxxxx
Fiction: Upper Primary Xxxxx
Stravaganza: City of Masks
Stravaganza: City of Swords
Mary Hoffman
Mary Hoffman Travel through time and space to sixteenth-century Italy for the heart-stopping conclusion to Mary Hoffman’s thrilling, magical Stravanganza series
The first book in the acclaimed and internationally bestselling Stravaganza series
Set in Talia, a parallel world very similar to 16th-century Italy, the narrative follows Lucien, who in our world is very ill. Given a marbled notebook to use as a diary, the notebook is the unexpected means that transports Lucien to this dangerous new world; a world that thrills to the delight of political intrigue and where a life can be snuffed out with a flash of a merlino blade. The city of Bellezza (Venice in our world) is astonishingly evoked, with a filmic eye to detail, from the sensuousness of silks and velvets, to the thrill and danger of assassination attempts both and foiled and successful. The world of Talia is unforgettably and convincingly real.
Desperately unhappy, Laura has resorted to secretly self-harming. But Laura is a Stravagante, somebody who can travel in time and space. When she finds her talisman, a small silver dagger, she stravagates with it to sixteenth-century Fortezza, a town similar to Lucca in Italy, where she meets her Stravagante, who is a swordsmith. But Laura also meets the charming and attractive Ludo, and falls for him. Their love for each other is tested when Ludo lays claim to the crown of Fortezza, and Laura finds herself fighting on the side of the Stravaganti opposing him... A thrilling tale filled with battles on the field and battles of the heart, which finishes with a long-awaited wedding between two much loved characters
Available • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9780747595694 • AU$16.99
September 2012 • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408800508 • AU$16.99
Age Range: 11+ years
Age Range: 11+ years
Bloomsbury Childrens World All Languages Readership: From 11 years
Bloomsbury Childrens World All Languages Readership: From 11 years
Stravaganza: City of Stars
Stravaganza: City of Flowers
Bloomsbury Childrens World All Languages Readership: From 11 years
Stravaganza: City of Secrets
Mary Hoffman
Mary Hoffman
Mary Hoffman
The second book in the acclaimed and internationally bestselling Stravaganza series
The third title in the acclaimed and internationally bestselling Stravaganza series
The fifth title in the acclaimed and bestselling Stravaganza series
The fourth title in the acclaimed and bestselling Stravaganza series
Sequel to City of Masks, the setting is again Talia, the parallel world very similar to 16th-century Italy, but the main character in this book is Georgia - who has a love of horses. She is desperate to buy a little, dusty winged horse that has appeared in a local antique shop. This tiny, winged horse proves to be the talisman that transports Georgia right into the rivalries and the highoctane excitement of the hugely competitive Stellata horse race. Mary Hoffman proved herself a mistress of a narrative tour-de-force with City of Masks and this sequel will not disappoint. Fans will be thrilled too that favourite characters from the first book, such as Lucien and Arianna, again appear.
Sequel to City of Masks and City of Stars, the narrative moves to the Talian equivalent of the city of Florence, where beauty and danger walk - as ever - hand in hand. The focus this time is on the new Stravagante, Sky, whose talisman is an ornate and delicate blue glass bottle. Sky is propelled right into the midst of a deadly feud between the di Chimici and Nucci families, who think nothing of sliding a knife between a man’s ribs for revenge...A breathtaking and thrilling drama with a very special kind of magic, continuing the stories of Luciano, Arianna, Rodolfo, Falco and Georgia, which fans will sieze upon with glee.
Set in Classe (Ravenna in our world), the Stravagante is Isabel, a younger twin by a matter of minutes. Her talisman is a pouch of silver mosaic tiles and she stravagates to Classe, where she is met by Flavia, a successful female merchant who trades spices, silks, tapestries, and whose son is an outcast and a pirate. Isabel finds that Classe and Bellezza are under threat from attack by the fierce Gate people. What can she do to help save the city? A thrilling story packed with action, pirates and drama.
When Matt is unexpectedly transported to the Scriptorium of Padavia (real-life Padua) University, he discovers he is a Stravagante who can travel through time using his talisman, a leather-bound book. Together with Luciano, now studying at the University, and Arianna, in disguise as a boy, he must fight the dangerous di Chimici clan who are on the verge of making a terrifying breakthrough into our world. A breathtaking and thrilling novel that will delight all Stravaganza fans.
Mary Hoffman
Age Range: 11+ years
Stravaganza: City of Ships
Available • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9780747595700 • AU$16.99
Age Range: 11+ years Bloomsbury Childrens World All Languages Readership: From 11 years
Available • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9780747595717 • AU$16.99
Available • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9780747592501 • AU$16.99
Available • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9780747592532 • AU$16.99
Age Range: 11+ years Bloomsbury Childrens World All Languages Readership: From 11 years
Age Range: 11+ years Bloomsbury Childrens World All Languages Readership: From 11 years
Mary Hoffman is an acclaimed children’s writer and critic. She is the author of the bestselling picture book Amazing Grace. Her Stravaganza sequence for Bloomsbury is very popular and has its own fan forum. Mary is also the author of The Falconer’s Knot (shortlisted for the Guardian Fiction Award and winner of the French Prix Polar Jeunesse 2009), Troubadour (shortlisted for the 2009 Costa Book Award) and most recently David, a rich and epic tale based upon the creation of Michelangelo’s renowned statue of David. Mary lives with her husband in West Oxfordshire.To follow Mary’s thoughts on books and writing, go to http://bookmavenmary.blogspot.com
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Fiction: Upper Primary Xxxxx Fire Spell
Laura Amy Schlitz
Fiction: Upper Primary Xxxxx Eleven Eleven Paul Dowswell
Epic storytelling and filmic adventure combine to stunning effect in this gothic tour de force - an unforgettable modern classic in-the-making
A thrilling story of the last 24 hours before armistice. Three lives collide and three destinies are determined during one single day in this powerful and timeless novel
It begins with a girl in London, 1860. Her family is exceptionally wealthy and she is exceptionally lonely. The closest thing to friendship Clara has experienced was a brief encounter with the two ragged children who work with the puppeteer in the park. For her birthday she asks to see them perform in the drawing room, and her father, to her surprise, allows it. The puppeteer, Grisini, kidnaps Clara and uses his sinister powers to imprison her body and mind in the form of a marionette to add to his theatre. His two young assistants realise what has happened, and all three children find themselves caught up in a terrible struggle for supernatural eminence between Grisini and a dying witch of extraordinary power.
Set during the final 24 hours before the armistice at 11 a.m. on 11th November 1918, the story follows a German storm trooper, an American airman and a British Tommy. Their destinies converge during the death throes of the first ever conflict to spread across the globe. War becomes incredibly personal as nationality and geography cease to matter to each of these teenagers on the Western Front, and friendship becomes the defining aspect of their encounter. Two of them will live; one of them will die before the following morning. A former senior editor with Usborne Publishing, Paul Dowswell is now a full-time author. He has written over sixty books, including Ausländer, shortlisted for the Red House Children’s Book Award and the Booktrust Teenage Prize. Paul lives in Wolverhampton with his family.
Laura Amy Schlitz is a librarian and storyteller in Baltimore County, USA. She has worked as a costumier, actress and playwright, and her plays for young people have been produced in theatres all over the county. She has been awarded the Newbery Medal (Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village) and numerous other literary awards. She is a New York Times bestselling author.
http://www.pauldowswell.co.uk/ November 2012 • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408826232 • AU$15.99
October 2012 • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408826218 • AU$14.99
Age Range: 11+ years Age Range: 9-11 years
Bloomsbury Childrens World All Languages Readership: From 11 years
Bloomsbury Childrens Commonwealth/UK excluding Canada Readership: From 9 years
The Black Phone
The Boy Who Howled
James Lovegrove
Timothy Power
Exciting school-based mystery. Can amateur detectives Seb and Frankie track down a cyberbully?
If middle school kids are animals, Callum should have no trouble fitting in
Seb and Frankie are unlikely friends who run an amateur detective agency. When the rich and gorgeous new girl at school becomes the victim of vicious cyber-bullying, she comes to them for help. Can Seb and Frankie find out who’s responsible? An exciting mystery, with all the clues there for the reader - will you solve it first?
September 2012 • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408163337 • AU$10.99
Age Range: 8+ years Bloomsbury USA Childrens World All Languages Readership: From 8 years
A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: 8+
Timothy Power holds an art degree from the California Institute of the Arts and has worked as a prop designer for Nickelodeon and other cartoon studios. He currently lives in Los Angeles, California, where he is a substitute teacher. www.timothypower.me/blog November 2012 • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781599908526 • AU$15.99
Dan and the Dead
Gill Vickery A girl raised by dragons must retrieve their stolen Jewels of Power in order to prove herself a true DragonChild. First in the series.
As far back as he can remember, Callum has been living in the wild as the furless mascot of a wolf pack. But when his pack sends him back to live with his own kind, fitting in is quite a challenge. He doesn’t remember English well and introduces himself as “Clam.” Then when he tries to impress an Alpha boy in school by stealing his food, people seem offended! Can Callum find a way to make humans his pack? This hilarious and inventive story will have readers rooting for Callum.
James Lovegrove is a highly regarded British SF writer. His novel Escardy Gap, co-written with Pete Crowther, is a cult favourite, and was voted by readers of SFX one of the top fifty SF/Fantasy novels of all time. Days was shortlisted for the 1998 Arthur C. Clarke Award. Other titles include Untied Kingdom, Worldstorm, Provender Gleed, The Age of Ra and The Age of Zeus. Wings, a short novel for reluctant readers, was short-listed for several awards, while his fantasy series for teens, The Clouded World, written under the pseudonym Jay Amory, has been translated into 7 other languages so far. His first title for A&C Black was Warsuit 1.0, for 11+. He also reviews fiction for the Financial Times.
Age Range: 8+ years
The Emerald Quest
When the six sister-witches stole the DragonQueen’s jewels of power, they banished the dragons from their home in the land of Tulay. Before the dragons left, they took with them a human child as hostage. Tia has been raised by the dragons and considers them her family. She is appalled to learn that her own human mother is one of the sister-witches who are now the despotic rulers of Tulay. Tia decides she will prove herself to be a true DragonChild by retrieving the jewels, with the aid of her DragonBrother Finn. Age Range: 7+ years A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: From 7 years
In this first exciting adventure, Tia goes after the jewel that gives its possessor the power to control beasts. The second story, The Opal Quest, is published in March 2013. Gill Vickery has loved writing and painting since she was very small. She has been a teacher, and also a children’s librarian, which she says is the best job in the world, because you get paid to read children’s books! The Ivy Crown, Gill’s first novel, won the Kathleen Fidler Award. December 2012 • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408174128 • AU$12.99
Thomas Taylor
Dan talks to the dead - and helps solve their problems. But when he takes on the case of a teenage shoplifter, things spin out of control
Dan can see ghosts. See them, speak to them, and sometimes help them - for a price. Dan and his ghostly sidekick Simon (who took a bullet in the brain a few hundred years ago) help the unquiet dead solve their problems and move on to wherever they go. But when they take on the case of a teenage shoplifter, things start to spin out of control. Soon Dan is up against a very dangerous and very badly dressed gangster, and he’s also got to cope with a rather unusual vicar, the ghost of a Victorian stage magician who cut off his own head (don’t ask) and a spot of grave robbing. It’s all in a night’s work... Thomas Taylor studied illustration at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge. His first commissioned work was the cover illustration for a then unknown book called Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J. K. Rowling. Since then Thomas has written and illustrated many children’s picture books, and is now writing fiction for older readers for A&C Black and Chicken House. September 2012 • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408154120 • AU$12.99
Age Range: 11+ years A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: From 11 years
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Fiction: Upper Primary Xxxxx Fire Spell
Laura Amy Schlitz
Fiction: Upper Primary Xxxxx Eleven Eleven Paul Dowswell
Epic storytelling and filmic adventure combine to stunning effect in this gothic tour de force - an unforgettable modern classic in-the-making
A thrilling story of the last 24 hours before armistice. Three lives collide and three destinies are determined during one single day in this powerful and timeless novel
It begins with a girl in London, 1860. Her family is exceptionally wealthy and she is exceptionally lonely. The closest thing to friendship Clara has experienced was a brief encounter with the two ragged children who work with the puppeteer in the park. For her birthday she asks to see them perform in the drawing room, and her father, to her surprise, allows it. The puppeteer, Grisini, kidnaps Clara and uses his sinister powers to imprison her body and mind in the form of a marionette to add to his theatre. His two young assistants realise what has happened, and all three children find themselves caught up in a terrible struggle for supernatural eminence between Grisini and a dying witch of extraordinary power.
Set during the final 24 hours before the armistice at 11 a.m. on 11th November 1918, the story follows a German storm trooper, an American airman and a British Tommy. Their destinies converge during the death throes of the first ever conflict to spread across the globe. War becomes incredibly personal as nationality and geography cease to matter to each of these teenagers on the Western Front, and friendship becomes the defining aspect of their encounter. Two of them will live; one of them will die before the following morning. A former senior editor with Usborne Publishing, Paul Dowswell is now a full-time author. He has written over sixty books, including Ausländer, shortlisted for the Red House Children’s Book Award and the Booktrust Teenage Prize. Paul lives in Wolverhampton with his family.
Laura Amy Schlitz is a librarian and storyteller in Baltimore County, USA. She has worked as a costumier, actress and playwright, and her plays for young people have been produced in theatres all over the county. She has been awarded the Newbery Medal (Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village) and numerous other literary awards. She is a New York Times bestselling author.
http://www.pauldowswell.co.uk/ November 2012 • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408826232 • AU$15.99
October 2012 • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408826218 • AU$14.99
Age Range: 11+ years Age Range: 9-11 years
Bloomsbury Childrens World All Languages Readership: From 11 years
Bloomsbury Childrens Commonwealth/UK excluding Canada Readership: From 9 years
The Black Phone
The Boy Who Howled
James Lovegrove
Timothy Power
Exciting school-based mystery. Can amateur detectives Seb and Frankie track down a cyberbully?
If middle school kids are animals, Callum should have no trouble fitting in
Seb and Frankie are unlikely friends who run an amateur detective agency. When the rich and gorgeous new girl at school becomes the victim of vicious cyber-bullying, she comes to them for help. Can Seb and Frankie find out who’s responsible? An exciting mystery, with all the clues there for the reader - will you solve it first?
September 2012 • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408163337 • AU$10.99
Age Range: 8+ years Bloomsbury USA Childrens World All Languages Readership: From 8 years
A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: 8+
Timothy Power holds an art degree from the California Institute of the Arts and has worked as a prop designer for Nickelodeon and other cartoon studios. He currently lives in Los Angeles, California, where he is a substitute teacher. www.timothypower.me/blog November 2012 • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781599908526 • AU$15.99
Dan and the Dead
Gill Vickery A girl raised by dragons must retrieve their stolen Jewels of Power in order to prove herself a true DragonChild. First in the series.
As far back as he can remember, Callum has been living in the wild as the furless mascot of a wolf pack. But when his pack sends him back to live with his own kind, fitting in is quite a challenge. He doesn’t remember English well and introduces himself as “Clam.” Then when he tries to impress an Alpha boy in school by stealing his food, people seem offended! Can Callum find a way to make humans his pack? This hilarious and inventive story will have readers rooting for Callum.
James Lovegrove is a highly regarded British SF writer. His novel Escardy Gap, co-written with Pete Crowther, is a cult favourite, and was voted by readers of SFX one of the top fifty SF/Fantasy novels of all time. Days was shortlisted for the 1998 Arthur C. Clarke Award. Other titles include Untied Kingdom, Worldstorm, Provender Gleed, The Age of Ra and The Age of Zeus. Wings, a short novel for reluctant readers, was short-listed for several awards, while his fantasy series for teens, The Clouded World, written under the pseudonym Jay Amory, has been translated into 7 other languages so far. His first title for A&C Black was Warsuit 1.0, for 11+. He also reviews fiction for the Financial Times.
Age Range: 8+ years
The Emerald Quest
When the six sister-witches stole the DragonQueen’s jewels of power, they banished the dragons from their home in the land of Tulay. Before the dragons left, they took with them a human child as hostage. Tia has been raised by the dragons and considers them her family. She is appalled to learn that her own human mother is one of the sister-witches who are now the despotic rulers of Tulay. Tia decides she will prove herself to be a true DragonChild by retrieving the jewels, with the aid of her DragonBrother Finn. Age Range: 7+ years A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: From 7 years
In this first exciting adventure, Tia goes after the jewel that gives its possessor the power to control beasts. The second story, The Opal Quest, is published in March 2013. Gill Vickery has loved writing and painting since she was very small. She has been a teacher, and also a children’s librarian, which she says is the best job in the world, because you get paid to read children’s books! The Ivy Crown, Gill’s first novel, won the Kathleen Fidler Award. December 2012 • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408174128 • AU$12.99
Thomas Taylor
Dan talks to the dead - and helps solve their problems. But when he takes on the case of a teenage shoplifter, things spin out of control
Dan can see ghosts. See them, speak to them, and sometimes help them - for a price. Dan and his ghostly sidekick Simon (who took a bullet in the brain a few hundred years ago) help the unquiet dead solve their problems and move on to wherever they go. But when they take on the case of a teenage shoplifter, things start to spin out of control. Soon Dan is up against a very dangerous and very badly dressed gangster, and he’s also got to cope with a rather unusual vicar, the ghost of a Victorian stage magician who cut off his own head (don’t ask) and a spot of grave robbing. It’s all in a night’s work... Thomas Taylor studied illustration at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge. His first commissioned work was the cover illustration for a then unknown book called Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J. K. Rowling. Since then Thomas has written and illustrated many children’s picture books, and is now writing fiction for older readers for A&C Black and Chicken House. September 2012 • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408154120 • AU$12.99
Age Range: 11+ years A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: From 11 years
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Fiction: Xxxxx Upper Primary
Picture Xxxxx Books
Girl’s Best Friend Leslie Margolis No mystery about it-this hip new series is perfect for paperback!
Dogs are disappearing in her neighborhood, and Maggie Brooklyn Sinclair knows all about it. After all, she has a semi-secret after-school gig as a professional (okay, amateur) dog walker. Maggie may have a lot of leads, but she never suspected her crush Milo could be involved...Margolis’s fans are flocking to this stylish tween series featuring a clever and lovable new heroine. Leslie Margolis is the author of more than fifty books for young readers, including two Annabelle Stevens books: Boys Are Dogs and Girls Acting Catty. She lives with her family in Brooklyn-which is also the setting of her new series, the Maggie Brooklyn Mysteries. www. lesliemargolis.com
Age Range: 3-6 years
January 2013 • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781599906904 • AU$15.99
Age Range: 5-7 years Age Range: 5-7 years
Bloomsbury Childrens World All Languages Readership: From 3 to 6 years
Bloomsbury Childrens World All Languages Readership: From 5 years to 7 years
Bloomsbury Childrens World All Languages Readership: From 5 years to 7 years
Age Range: 8+ years
Florentine and Pig Have A Very Lovely Picnic
Bloomsbury USA Childrens World English Readership: From 8 years
Eva Katzler
Fairy Wings
Age Range: 9-11 years Bloomsbury Childrens World All Languages Readership: From 9 years to 11 years
Fairy Lies E. D. Baker
E. D. Baker
An irresistible collision of worlds as ordinary schoolgirl becomes fairy princess. From the author of The Frog Princess series
Sparks will fly when a fairy princess is kidnapped! From the author of The Frog Princess series
Tamisin Warner is a normal girl in most senses, with one major exception - she has just grown a rather beautiful set of wings. Concealing her secret at school is her number one priority, until Tamisin realises she is being stalked by strange half-animal, half-human creatures that no one else seems to notice. As the creatures become increasingly threatening, Tamisin is catapulted into another world, where she is not just any fairy but daughter of the fairy queen. Torn between her two lives, Tamisin begins a whirlwind adventure filled with fairies, dance routines and a love interest who is definitely one of the bad guys.
In this delightful sequel to Fairy Wings, the fairy princess Tamisin has been kidnapped from her home in the human world by Oberon, king of the fairies, who thinks he’s her father. When Tamisin’s boyfriend, Jak, finds out, he sets off to rescue her. In this funny and heart-warming chase through the land of fairies, goblins, sphinxes, unicorns and many more, Tamisin and Jak must look for each other, and find their way back to the human world.
E.D. Baker is the author of The Tales of the Frog Princess series, including The Frog Princess, which was in part the inspiration for Disney movie The Princess and the Frog. She lives with her family and many pets in Maryland, USA.
Age Range: 9-11 years Bloomsbury Childrens World All Languages Readership: From 9 years to 11 years
E.D. Baker is the author of The Tales of the Frog Princess series, including The Frog Princess, which was in part the inspiration for Disney movie The Princess and the Frog. She lives with her family and many pets in Maryland, USA. http://www.edbakerbooks.com/
Discover the utterly delicious and very pretty world of Florentine and Pig: fun-packed stories with extra-special crafty stuff and lip-smacking recipes - all bundled into a completely gorgeous book!
Florentine and Pig are going to celebrate a lovely sunny day by having a picnic. Florentine puts on her thinking cap and comes up with a delicious menu, including treats like apple and carrot muffins - only to realise that Pig ate the last of the apples! Pig knows what he has to do when he spots three perfect apples at the top of the tree in the garden. Pig is intrepid and Pig is brave, but how good a climber is he? Florentine and Pig is the brainchild of singer-songwriter Eva Katzler. Working with children of all ages in summer camps, Eva quickly became aware that kids had forgotten - or had never known - the simple pleasures of getting a little messy with their hands. She devised the delightful partnership of Florentine and Pig as a way of encouraging children (and adults!) to rediscover the joys of making things together.
The Snow Womble
The Scariest Thing of All
Elisabeth Beresford
Debi Gliori
The perfect way to meet the Wombles - in a gorgeously illustrated, snowy, sparkly picture book. A wombling Merry Christmas to everyone!
A gorgeous, reassuring and utterly irresistible book about learning not to be scared, from bestselling author and illustrator Debi Gliori
Snow has arrived on Wimbledon Common! The young Wombles, including Bungo, Orinoco and Tomsk, can’t wait to start sledging, making snow Wombles and generally having fun in the snow. Then one particular Womble decides to play a snowy trick on the small Wombles . . .
A very little rabbit has big fears - lots of them! The teeth of the giant wood troll, the gobbler blowing bubbles at the bottom of the pond, the horrible hisster weaving its web - Pip sees scary things wherever he looks. But one dark night in the wild wood, he hears a terrifying Raaarr and discovers the Scariest Thing of All . . .
A funny, warm picture book, perfect to curl up with on a cold Christmas night. Elisabeth Beresford first came up with the idea for the Wombles characters when walking on Wimbledon Common with her two children. She hoped that the Wombles stories would encourage children to fight pollution and to think up ways of ‘making good use of bad rubbish’. In fact, the Wombles so charmed the nation that they were chosen as the mascots for the Tidy Britain campaign. Since then they have had their own television series. Elisabeth Beresford was awarded an MBE for her services to children’s literature in 1998.
Debi Gliori lives just outside Edinburgh, Scotland, in a house with a beautiful garden and a shed in which she creates some of the nation’s very finest picture books, including the bestselling, much-translated No Matter What. Debi visits many schools, libraries and literary festivals up and down the country to promote her books. She has twice been writer in residence in the Shetland Islands. Read Debi’s blog at www. fiddleandpins.blogspot.com. October 2012 • 245 x 274mm • Paperback • 9780747599708 • AU$14.99
November 2012 • 255 x 255mm • Paperback • 9781408834244 • AU$14.99
www.florentineandpig.com July 2012 • 274 x 245mm • Paperback • 9781408824375 • AU$15.99
February 2013 • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408831922 • AU$15.99
http://www.edbakerbooks.com/ September 2012 • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408831946 • AU$15.99
Penguin and Pinecone
Dick Whittington
Salina Yoon
Clare Gifford
Meet Penguin, a brand new character whose friendship will warm your heart!
The legend of Dick Whittington, retold with beautiful new illustrations
When little Penguin finds a lost pinecone in the snow, an unlikely friendship blossoms. But Grandpa reminds Penguin that pinecones don’t belong in the cold - they need to be in the warm forest far away. Although he will miss his friend, Penguin returns Pinecone to his proper home.
The classic tale of Dick Whittington. This charming book tells the legendary story of Dick’s poor beginnings and his rise to wealth thanks to a very clever cat. It also includes the true story of Richard Whittington, a merchant philanthropist, who was Lord Mayor of London three times in the 15th century. Delightfully written and stunningly illustrated in full colour, this is a classic London story.
Penguin dreams of a reunion with his friend and when they do meet again, he’s surprised to find that Pinecone has grown bigger and taller than he ever could have imagined! Age Range: 0-5 years Bloomsbury Childrens World All Languages Readership: From 0 to 5 years
This story of a friendship that endures and grows over time, despite distance, will ring true for readers of all ages. Illustrator Salina Yoon’s spare text and bright, energetic illustrations bring this wonderful character to life, ensuring that readers will be clamouring for more Penguin stories. Salina Yoon has written and illustrated more than 100 books for children. She lives in California with her husband and two sons.
Age Range: 7-9 years A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: From 7 to 9 years
Clare Gifford is a physician and pathologist. She has worked as a hospital consultant and with the UK blood services. She is married to Alderman Richard Gifford, a candidate for election for Lord Mayor of London in 2012, and is deeply immersed in the history and culture of the ‘City that made the world’. Clare has two children and lives in Camden Town and Scotland. This is her first children’s book. December 2012 • 210 x 210mm • Hardback • 9781408187616 • AU$22.99 December 2012 • 210 x 210mm • Paperback • 9781408187623 • AU$12.99
November 2012 • 235 x 235mm • Hardback • 9781408828816 • AU$24.99 November 2012 • 235 x 235mm • Paperback • 9781408829059 • AU$14.99
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Fiction: Xxxxx Upper Primary
Picture Xxxxx Books
Girl’s Best Friend Leslie Margolis No mystery about it-this hip new series is perfect for paperback!
Dogs are disappearing in her neighborhood, and Maggie Brooklyn Sinclair knows all about it. After all, she has a semi-secret after-school gig as a professional (okay, amateur) dog walker. Maggie may have a lot of leads, but she never suspected her crush Milo could be involved...Margolis’s fans are flocking to this stylish tween series featuring a clever and lovable new heroine. Leslie Margolis is the author of more than fifty books for young readers, including two Annabelle Stevens books: Boys Are Dogs and Girls Acting Catty. She lives with her family in Brooklyn-which is also the setting of her new series, the Maggie Brooklyn Mysteries. www. lesliemargolis.com
Age Range: 3-6 years
January 2013 • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781599906904 • AU$15.99
Age Range: 5-7 years Age Range: 5-7 years
Bloomsbury Childrens World All Languages Readership: From 3 to 6 years
Bloomsbury Childrens World All Languages Readership: From 5 years to 7 years
Bloomsbury Childrens World All Languages Readership: From 5 years to 7 years
Age Range: 8+ years
Florentine and Pig Have A Very Lovely Picnic
Bloomsbury USA Childrens World English Readership: From 8 years
Eva Katzler
Fairy Wings
Age Range: 9-11 years Bloomsbury Childrens World All Languages Readership: From 9 years to 11 years
Fairy Lies E. D. Baker
E. D. Baker
An irresistible collision of worlds as ordinary schoolgirl becomes fairy princess. From the author of The Frog Princess series
Sparks will fly when a fairy princess is kidnapped! From the author of The Frog Princess series
Tamisin Warner is a normal girl in most senses, with one major exception - she has just grown a rather beautiful set of wings. Concealing her secret at school is her number one priority, until Tamisin realises she is being stalked by strange half-animal, half-human creatures that no one else seems to notice. As the creatures become increasingly threatening, Tamisin is catapulted into another world, where she is not just any fairy but daughter of the fairy queen. Torn between her two lives, Tamisin begins a whirlwind adventure filled with fairies, dance routines and a love interest who is definitely one of the bad guys.
In this delightful sequel to Fairy Wings, the fairy princess Tamisin has been kidnapped from her home in the human world by Oberon, king of the fairies, who thinks he’s her father. When Tamisin’s boyfriend, Jak, finds out, he sets off to rescue her. In this funny and heart-warming chase through the land of fairies, goblins, sphinxes, unicorns and many more, Tamisin and Jak must look for each other, and find their way back to the human world.
E.D. Baker is the author of The Tales of the Frog Princess series, including The Frog Princess, which was in part the inspiration for Disney movie The Princess and the Frog. She lives with her family and many pets in Maryland, USA.
Age Range: 9-11 years Bloomsbury Childrens World All Languages Readership: From 9 years to 11 years
E.D. Baker is the author of The Tales of the Frog Princess series, including The Frog Princess, which was in part the inspiration for Disney movie The Princess and the Frog. She lives with her family and many pets in Maryland, USA. http://www.edbakerbooks.com/
Discover the utterly delicious and very pretty world of Florentine and Pig: fun-packed stories with extra-special crafty stuff and lip-smacking recipes - all bundled into a completely gorgeous book!
Florentine and Pig are going to celebrate a lovely sunny day by having a picnic. Florentine puts on her thinking cap and comes up with a delicious menu, including treats like apple and carrot muffins - only to realise that Pig ate the last of the apples! Pig knows what he has to do when he spots three perfect apples at the top of the tree in the garden. Pig is intrepid and Pig is brave, but how good a climber is he? Florentine and Pig is the brainchild of singer-songwriter Eva Katzler. Working with children of all ages in summer camps, Eva quickly became aware that kids had forgotten - or had never known - the simple pleasures of getting a little messy with their hands. She devised the delightful partnership of Florentine and Pig as a way of encouraging children (and adults!) to rediscover the joys of making things together.
The Snow Womble
The Scariest Thing of All
Elisabeth Beresford
Debi Gliori
The perfect way to meet the Wombles - in a gorgeously illustrated, snowy, sparkly picture book. A wombling Merry Christmas to everyone!
A gorgeous, reassuring and utterly irresistible book about learning not to be scared, from bestselling author and illustrator Debi Gliori
Snow has arrived on Wimbledon Common! The young Wombles, including Bungo, Orinoco and Tomsk, can’t wait to start sledging, making snow Wombles and generally having fun in the snow. Then one particular Womble decides to play a snowy trick on the small Wombles . . .
A very little rabbit has big fears - lots of them! The teeth of the giant wood troll, the gobbler blowing bubbles at the bottom of the pond, the horrible hisster weaving its web - Pip sees scary things wherever he looks. But one dark night in the wild wood, he hears a terrifying Raaarr and discovers the Scariest Thing of All . . .
A funny, warm picture book, perfect to curl up with on a cold Christmas night. Elisabeth Beresford first came up with the idea for the Wombles characters when walking on Wimbledon Common with her two children. She hoped that the Wombles stories would encourage children to fight pollution and to think up ways of ‘making good use of bad rubbish’. In fact, the Wombles so charmed the nation that they were chosen as the mascots for the Tidy Britain campaign. Since then they have had their own television series. Elisabeth Beresford was awarded an MBE for her services to children’s literature in 1998.
Debi Gliori lives just outside Edinburgh, Scotland, in a house with a beautiful garden and a shed in which she creates some of the nation’s very finest picture books, including the bestselling, much-translated No Matter What. Debi visits many schools, libraries and literary festivals up and down the country to promote her books. She has twice been writer in residence in the Shetland Islands. Read Debi’s blog at www. fiddleandpins.blogspot.com. October 2012 • 245 x 274mm • Paperback • 9780747599708 • AU$14.99
November 2012 • 255 x 255mm • Paperback • 9781408834244 • AU$14.99
www.florentineandpig.com July 2012 • 274 x 245mm • Paperback • 9781408824375 • AU$15.99
February 2013 • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408831922 • AU$15.99
http://www.edbakerbooks.com/ September 2012 • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781408831946 • AU$15.99
Penguin and Pinecone
Dick Whittington
Salina Yoon
Clare Gifford
Meet Penguin, a brand new character whose friendship will warm your heart!
The legend of Dick Whittington, retold with beautiful new illustrations
When little Penguin finds a lost pinecone in the snow, an unlikely friendship blossoms. But Grandpa reminds Penguin that pinecones don’t belong in the cold - they need to be in the warm forest far away. Although he will miss his friend, Penguin returns Pinecone to his proper home.
The classic tale of Dick Whittington. This charming book tells the legendary story of Dick’s poor beginnings and his rise to wealth thanks to a very clever cat. It also includes the true story of Richard Whittington, a merchant philanthropist, who was Lord Mayor of London three times in the 15th century. Delightfully written and stunningly illustrated in full colour, this is a classic London story.
Penguin dreams of a reunion with his friend and when they do meet again, he’s surprised to find that Pinecone has grown bigger and taller than he ever could have imagined! Age Range: 0-5 years Bloomsbury Childrens World All Languages Readership: From 0 to 5 years
This story of a friendship that endures and grows over time, despite distance, will ring true for readers of all ages. Illustrator Salina Yoon’s spare text and bright, energetic illustrations bring this wonderful character to life, ensuring that readers will be clamouring for more Penguin stories. Salina Yoon has written and illustrated more than 100 books for children. She lives in California with her husband and two sons.
Age Range: 7-9 years A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: From 7 to 9 years
Clare Gifford is a physician and pathologist. She has worked as a hospital consultant and with the UK blood services. She is married to Alderman Richard Gifford, a candidate for election for Lord Mayor of London in 2012, and is deeply immersed in the history and culture of the ‘City that made the world’. Clare has two children and lives in Camden Town and Scotland. This is her first children’s book. December 2012 • 210 x 210mm • Hardback • 9781408187616 • AU$22.99 December 2012 • 210 x 210mm • Paperback • 9781408187623 • AU$12.99
November 2012 • 235 x 235mm • Hardback • 9781408828816 • AU$24.99 November 2012 • 235 x 235mm • Paperback • 9781408829059 • AU$14.99
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Survival at 40 Above Travel to one of the hottest places in the world, and discover the amazing animals who call the desert home. It’s time to meet the unique creatures of the Australian desert
Travel to one of the hottest places in the world, and discover the amazing animals who call the desert home. Meet the unique creatures of the Australian desert, from the sand goanna and red kangaroo, and find out just how these incredible creatures have adapted to survive in temperatures as high as 40 degrees! Packed with fantastic illustrations which beautifully depict these animals and their desert habitat, this title will captivate, amaze and inform readers. Age Range: 5-8 years A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: From 5 to 8 years
A former teacher, Debbie S. Miller has lived in the Arctic all her life. Her passion for nature inspired her to start writing nature books for young readers, which fuse gentle narrative arcs with incredible facts about the natural world. www.debbiemilleralaska.com Jon Van Zyle is a noted children’s book illustrator with an equally strong passion for the natural world. He has worked on a number of illustrated children’s titles. www.jonvanzyle.com February 2013 • 215 x 280mm • Paperback • 9781408190296 • AU$14.99
Are Trees Alive?
Survival at 40 below
Debbie S. Miller
Debbie S. Miller
Trees are like children in so many ways! They may look very different from people, but trees have roots that hold them to the ground like feet and leaves that blow in the wind like hair. Their bark even comes in different colors, just like our skin
Travel to one of the coldest places in the world and discover the amazing animals who call the Arctic home
‘Are trees alive? How do they breathe? They don’t have noses.’
Age Range: 5-7 years A&C Black Childrens & Educational Commonwealth/Europe excluding Canada, open market Readership: From 5 to 7 years
And so begins a conversation between the author and her daughter that leads to a remarkable discovery: Trees are like children in so many ways! They may look very different from people, but trees have roots that hold them to the ground like feet and leaves that blow in the wind like hair. Their bark even comes in different colors, just like our skin. From this poetic comparison of plants and humans, readers will learn how trees live and grow, and how they get their food. They will learn about the baobab trees of Africa, the banyan trees of India, and the bristlecone pines of California. They will see, through Stacey Schuett’s exquisite art, that trees come in all shapes and sizes-just like people-and provide a home to many different animals. But most of all, they will look at trees with greater respect and a bit of awe, after realizing that trees are alive too. Debbie Miller has written many acclaimed children’s books, including Arctic Lights, Arctic Nights. She lives in Fairbanks, Alaska.
The Road to Writing
Sue Cowley
Debbie S. Miller
Age Range: 5-8 years A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: From 5 to 7 years
As temperatures drop and the snow deepens, the animals that make the tundra home must ready themselves for survival. Follow the arctic ground squirrel as it begins the cycle of sleeping, supercooling, and warming that will occur at least a dozen times before spring arrives. See how the wood frog partially freezes itself in hibernation beneath layers of snow, or how the woolly bear caterpillars makes it through the winter months with a special antifreeze substance that prevents ice from forming in their bodies. Then when the temperatures finally rise and the snow begins to melt, these creatures emerge and the pulse of life returns.
A Step-by-Step Guide to Mark Making: 3-7
‘The Write Stuff’
Sue Cowley
The way that children learn to write is absolutely fascinating and, frankly, nothing short of miraculous. Because learning to write is about so much more than just being able to form the words on a page. In the space of about six years, children learn a whole language (including a subconscious understanding of its grammatical rules). They learn how we use words to communicate, and how we can ‘read’ body language as well. They develop the motor skills needed to support their bodies and to hold and manipulate a writing tool. They understand how spoken sounds match to letters on a page. And they learn how texts work - which direction the words go, the kind of structures writers use. It’s a privilege to be the author of two books about how children learn to write. I’ve relished working with children, early years practitioners and teachers on developing writing skills, and also researching the latest thinking and ideas on the subject. In The Road to Writing, you’ll learn about the acquisition of early writing skills, as I take you step by step along the road a child must take to become a writer. In Getting the Buggers to Write (page 30) you’ll learn how the journey continues further up the school, including advice on inspiring boys, and on teaching more complex forms of writing. If I had to refine my advice down to three key messages, they would be: Get Creative – With the resources you use, with the dramatic context for the writing, with the way that you present the activities to the class. Take risks, experiment, make a mess - it’s the best way to learn! Make it Real – Send your children the message that writing is a crucial, valuable and part of day to day life. Show them that writing matters, and that it is a powerful tool. Resources Matter – Whatever age you teach, resources are at the heart of effective learning. And the teacher and the space are as much a resource as any paper or writing tool. Great resources are one of the best ways to stimulate great writing.
A practical, accessible guide to developing young children’s mark making and early communication skills from bestselling education author
Age Range: 3-7 years Continuum World English Readership: Teachers of ages 3 to 7 years
Sue Cowley offers activities and practical advice to inspire practitioners to try a wide range of creative approaches to improve mark making in the early years. There are ideas for building finger strength and eye-to-hand coordination, activities to help children to understand the concept of symbols and signs, and strategies for building confidence in writing and reading. You can find your way through the book by following the signposts and you’ll find plenty of interesting diversions along the way to develop children’s key skills and motivation.
Sue Cowley is an expert on behaviour management, and on creative approaches to teaching and learning. She has written numerous bestselling education and parenting book. Sue now works internationally as a trainer and presenter, as well as volunteering in education settings in the UK to ensure that her advice and practice remains relevant to teaching today. October 2012 • 169 x 244mm • Paperback • 9781441103444 • AU$36.99
A former teacher, Debbie S. Miller has lived in the Arctic all her life. Her passion for nature inspired her to start writing nature books for young readers, which fuse gentle narrative arcs with incredible facts about the natural world. www.debbiemilleralaska. com Jon Van Zyle is a noted children’s book illustrator with an equally strong passion for the natural world. He has worked on a number of illustrated children’s titles. www.jonvanzyle.com
Creating Extra-Ordinary Teachers
Branton Shearer & Mike Fleetham A highly practical guide to understanding multiple intelligences and how they can be implemented to create inspired leaders and motivated students
Backlist • 215 x 280mm • Paperback • 9780802723611 • AU$14.99
Creating ExtraOrdinary Teachers helps teachers identify and evaluate their unique profile of leadership skills and demonstrates the strategic use and development of those gifts both in and out of the classroom. Inspired by the stories of extraordinarily effective leaders around the world, it provides a framework for understanding how even “ordinary” teachers can identify, value and maximize the potential of their unique intellectual gifts. This book is focused on developing the leadership capabilities of educators, but the ideas and strategies apply equally well to corporate trainers, management developers and even parents, who are their children’s first and most influential “teachers.”
Stacey Schuett has illustrated many popular books for children, including her own Somewhere in the World Right Now. From her studio window, she enjoys a view of her backyard, home to many oak, redwood, and fruit trees. Stacey lives in Northern California.
Available • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781855393905 • AU$29.99
September 2012 • 280 x 215mm • Hardback • 9781408173893 • AU$22.99
Age Range: Teachers Continuum World English Readership: Teachers
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Survival at 40 Above Travel to one of the hottest places in the world, and discover the amazing animals who call the desert home. It’s time to meet the unique creatures of the Australian desert
Travel to one of the hottest places in the world, and discover the amazing animals who call the desert home. Meet the unique creatures of the Australian desert, from the sand goanna and red kangaroo, and find out just how these incredible creatures have adapted to survive in temperatures as high as 40 degrees! Packed with fantastic illustrations which beautifully depict these animals and their desert habitat, this title will captivate, amaze and inform readers. Age Range: 5-8 years A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: From 5 to 8 years
A former teacher, Debbie S. Miller has lived in the Arctic all her life. Her passion for nature inspired her to start writing nature books for young readers, which fuse gentle narrative arcs with incredible facts about the natural world. www.debbiemilleralaska.com Jon Van Zyle is a noted children’s book illustrator with an equally strong passion for the natural world. He has worked on a number of illustrated children’s titles. www.jonvanzyle.com February 2013 • 215 x 280mm • Paperback • 9781408190296 • AU$14.99
Are Trees Alive?
Survival at 40 below
Debbie S. Miller
Debbie S. Miller
Trees are like children in so many ways! They may look very different from people, but trees have roots that hold them to the ground like feet and leaves that blow in the wind like hair. Their bark even comes in different colors, just like our skin
Travel to one of the coldest places in the world and discover the amazing animals who call the Arctic home
‘Are trees alive? How do they breathe? They don’t have noses.’
Age Range: 5-7 years A&C Black Childrens & Educational Commonwealth/Europe excluding Canada, open market Readership: From 5 to 7 years
And so begins a conversation between the author and her daughter that leads to a remarkable discovery: Trees are like children in so many ways! They may look very different from people, but trees have roots that hold them to the ground like feet and leaves that blow in the wind like hair. Their bark even comes in different colors, just like our skin. From this poetic comparison of plants and humans, readers will learn how trees live and grow, and how they get their food. They will learn about the baobab trees of Africa, the banyan trees of India, and the bristlecone pines of California. They will see, through Stacey Schuett’s exquisite art, that trees come in all shapes and sizes-just like people-and provide a home to many different animals. But most of all, they will look at trees with greater respect and a bit of awe, after realizing that trees are alive too. Debbie Miller has written many acclaimed children’s books, including Arctic Lights, Arctic Nights. She lives in Fairbanks, Alaska.
The Road to Writing
Sue Cowley
Debbie S. Miller
Age Range: 5-8 years A&C Black Childrens & Educational World All Languages Readership: From 5 to 7 years
As temperatures drop and the snow deepens, the animals that make the tundra home must ready themselves for survival. Follow the arctic ground squirrel as it begins the cycle of sleeping, supercooling, and warming that will occur at least a dozen times before spring arrives. See how the wood frog partially freezes itself in hibernation beneath layers of snow, or how the woolly bear caterpillars makes it through the winter months with a special antifreeze substance that prevents ice from forming in their bodies. Then when the temperatures finally rise and the snow begins to melt, these creatures emerge and the pulse of life returns.
A Step-by-Step Guide to Mark Making: 3-7
‘The Write Stuff’
Sue Cowley
The way that children learn to write is absolutely fascinating and, frankly, nothing short of miraculous. Because learning to write is about so much more than just being able to form the words on a page. In the space of about six years, children learn a whole language (including a subconscious understanding of its grammatical rules). They learn how we use words to communicate, and how we can ‘read’ body language as well. They develop the motor skills needed to support their bodies and to hold and manipulate a writing tool. They understand how spoken sounds match to letters on a page. And they learn how texts work - which direction the words go, the kind of structures writers use. It’s a privilege to be the author of two books about how children learn to write. I’ve relished working with children, early years practitioners and teachers on developing writing skills, and also researching the latest thinking and ideas on the subject. In The Road to Writing, you’ll learn about the acquisition of early writing skills, as I take you step by step along the road a child must take to become a writer. In Getting the Buggers to Write (page 30) you’ll learn how the journey continues further up the school, including advice on inspiring boys, and on teaching more complex forms of writing. If I had to refine my advice down to three key messages, they would be: Get Creative – With the resources you use, with the dramatic context for the writing, with the way that you present the activities to the class. Take risks, experiment, make a mess - it’s the best way to learn! Make it Real – Send your children the message that writing is a crucial, valuable and part of day to day life. Show them that writing matters, and that it is a powerful tool. Resources Matter – Whatever age you teach, resources are at the heart of effective learning. And the teacher and the space are as much a resource as any paper or writing tool. Great resources are one of the best ways to stimulate great writing.
A practical, accessible guide to developing young children’s mark making and early communication skills from bestselling education author
Age Range: 3-7 years Continuum World English Readership: Teachers of ages 3 to 7 years
Sue Cowley offers activities and practical advice to inspire practitioners to try a wide range of creative approaches to improve mark making in the early years. There are ideas for building finger strength and eye-to-hand coordination, activities to help children to understand the concept of symbols and signs, and strategies for building confidence in writing and reading. You can find your way through the book by following the signposts and you’ll find plenty of interesting diversions along the way to develop children’s key skills and motivation.
Sue Cowley is an expert on behaviour management, and on creative approaches to teaching and learning. She has written numerous bestselling education and parenting book. Sue now works internationally as a trainer and presenter, as well as volunteering in education settings in the UK to ensure that her advice and practice remains relevant to teaching today. October 2012 • 169 x 244mm • Paperback • 9781441103444 • AU$36.99
A former teacher, Debbie S. Miller has lived in the Arctic all her life. Her passion for nature inspired her to start writing nature books for young readers, which fuse gentle narrative arcs with incredible facts about the natural world. www.debbiemilleralaska. com Jon Van Zyle is a noted children’s book illustrator with an equally strong passion for the natural world. He has worked on a number of illustrated children’s titles. www.jonvanzyle.com
Creating Extra-Ordinary Teachers
Branton Shearer & Mike Fleetham A highly practical guide to understanding multiple intelligences and how they can be implemented to create inspired leaders and motivated students
Backlist • 215 x 280mm • Paperback • 9780802723611 • AU$14.99
Creating ExtraOrdinary Teachers helps teachers identify and evaluate their unique profile of leadership skills and demonstrates the strategic use and development of those gifts both in and out of the classroom. Inspired by the stories of extraordinarily effective leaders around the world, it provides a framework for understanding how even “ordinary” teachers can identify, value and maximize the potential of their unique intellectual gifts. This book is focused on developing the leadership capabilities of educators, but the ideas and strategies apply equally well to corporate trainers, management developers and even parents, who are their children’s first and most influential “teachers.”
Stacey Schuett has illustrated many popular books for children, including her own Somewhere in the World Right Now. From her studio window, she enjoys a view of her backyard, home to many oak, redwood, and fruit trees. Stacey lives in Northern California.
Available • 198 x 129mm • Paperback • 9781855393905 • AU$29.99
September 2012 • 280 x 215mm • Hardback • 9781408173893 • AU$22.99
Age Range: Teachers Continuum World English Readership: Teachers
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Teachers Resources Xxxxx Teaching Young Children with Autism Clarissa willis
This straight forward easy to use guide explains the major characteristics associated with autism and helps teachers understand the ways children with autism relate to the world. Each chapter offers specific strategies for teachers to use, including setting up a proactive pre-school environment, managing behaviour and working with families
The 7 Keys to Success
John Murphy and Phil Beadle A structured approach to managing behaviour for anyone who refuses to accept students’ backgrounds as an excuse for underachievement
Bloomsbury Academic World All Languages Readership: Teachers
Preparing to work in a tough school can be a nervewracking experience. Will there be gangs? What if none of the students do their homework? How will you know what to do if faced with a physical threat? Phil Beadle and John Murphy have spent their school careers transforming behaviour in the most challenging and economically-deprived environments. In this book, they set out the 7 keys to successful behaviour management, through innovative approaches to teaching and learning.
Featherstone education ANZ/Europe Readership: Teachers
John Murphy is the Director of Education for Oasis Community Learning. He has been a school leader and consultant with 22 years’ experience and has successfully led six schools that have been on failing status or facing challenging circumstances. Phil Beadle is an English teacher, consultant and author with a history of transformational results achieved with children in challenging schools.
Pre-school can be an overwhelming experience for a child with autism. Autism affects how a child communicates, behaves, and relates to others. Practitioners need to know what they can do to help children with autism reach their full potential. This straightforward easy to use guide explains the major characteristics associated with autism and helps teachers understand the ways children with autism relate to the world. Each chapter offers specific strategies for teachers to use, including setting up a proactive pre-school environment, helping children learn life skills, managing behaviour, helping children with autism communicate and play, helping them to get along with others, and working with families. Teaching Young Children with Autism helps teachers connect with all children in meaningful ways, and helps children with autism learn and grow.
Developing Everyday Coping Skills in the Early Years Erica Frydenberg, Jan Deans & Kelly O’Brien
Paul Fairfield
Original edited collection taking a hermeneutical approach to pedagogy and the philosophy of education
An evidence-based book to help parents and practitioners develop children’s coping skills through arts and language-based strategies
Continuum World All Languages Readership: Teachers
A book of strategies to enhance children’s learning, improve their emotional health and creativity, to help them develop resilience and increase their capacity to cooperate, respect and play with others. The authors also explain how to identify children at risk, particularly those experiencing anxiety or delay in social and emotional development, so that parents and practitioners can intervene early where difficulties exist. Practitioners and parents of children aged 3-8 will find a treasure trove of activities to build coping and selfesteem through creative play and imagination.
A well-edited collection of contributions from leading authorities in the field in Canada, USA and UK, which provides a new approach to education and pedagogy. Provocative and original, drawing together hermeneutics and philosophy of education. Paul Fairfield is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada. September 2012 • 234 x 156mm • Paperback • 9781441100702 • AU$49.99 Continuum World All Languages Readership: Teachers
Erica Frydenberg is a clinical, organisational, counselling and educational psychologist. She an Associate Professor in Psychology in the Melbourne Graduate School of Education Jan Deans is Senior Lecturer and Director of the Early Learning Centre at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Kelly O’Brien is an Educational Psychologist with experience in early childhood and early intervention, based in Australia.
For over 20 years Clarissa Willis has worked a a speech and language therapist, early interventionist and teacher of special educational needs. Her articles in the field of early childhood and special educational needs have been published both nationally and internationally.
November 2012 • 216 x 138mm • Paperback • 9781441185150 • AU$35.00
Education, Dialogue and Hermeneutics
April 2012 • 169 x 244mm • Paperback • 9781441161048 • AU$39.99
Available • 170 x 246mm • Paperback • 9781408139721 • AU$29.99
Understanding and Managing Behaviors of Children with Psychological Disorders
Inspiring Writing through Drama
Patrice Baldwin and Rob John
Continuum World All Languages Readership: Teachers
January 2013 • 210 x 148mm • Paperback • 9781441158369 • AU$39.99
Examines the relationship natural disasters have with education in different international contexts, from the USA, Australia, India, China, the UK and Japan.
Offers drama schemes teeming with opportunities for developing writing skills in students aged 7-16.
Provides teachers with primary, secondary, and tertiary interventions for managing difficult student behavior in the classroom, specific to different mental health and behavioral disorders
This book provides a clear, useful resource for educators who wish to either prevent or diminish problem behaviours in the classroom. Readers are presented with a brief description of various mental health diagnoses, including children on the autistic spectrum, with attention-deficit/ hyperactivity disorder, depression, anxiety and many others. The book then offers a set of classroom techniques designed to help educators target the associated problematic behaviours. Each chapter is written by an expert in that specific field, and strategies are provided for use with a variety of ages.
Education and Natural Disasters
This book offers a clear methodology and practical drama activities that will motivate students to write within compelling imaginary contexts. It includes interactive, high-quality drama schemes to inspire students to write for a range of purposes and audiences.
Age Range: 7+ years Bloomsbury Academic World All Languages Readership: From 7 years, teachers
Patrice Baldwin is President of the International Drama Theatre and Education Association (IDEA). She works as a Drama for Learning consultant, workshop leader and speaker. Rob John is a playwright and drama consultant who has been training teachers in drama and theatre for over twenty years. October 2012 • 297 x 210mm • Paperback • 9781441159090 • AU$49.99
Bloomsbury Academic World All Languages Readership: Teachers
What is the relationship between education and natural disasters? Can education play a role in ameliorating and mitigating them, preparing people in how to respond, and even helping to prevent them? Drawing on research carried out in a number of different countries, including Australia, China, India, Japan, the UK and the USA, the contributors consider the role of education in relation to natural disasters. The case studies expand conceptual and empirical understandings of the understudied relationship between education and natural disasters, uncover the potential and the limitations of education for mitigating, responding to, and potentially preventing, natural disasters. The contributors also consider the extent to which so-called natural disasters, such as mudslides caused by deforestation and flooding areas built on known flood plains, are linked to human behaviour and how education can impact on these. November 2012 • 234 x 156mm • Paperback • 9781441166999 • AU$49.99
Education and Internally Displaced Persons
Christine Smith Ellison and Alan Smith Explores the barriers and benefits to education that displacement may bring, as well as the specific challenges for education in the context of internal displacement.
Bloomsbury Academic World All Languages Readership: Teachers
Drawing on research from a diverse set of countries, including the the USA, Somalia, Colombia, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bosnia and Herzegovina, the contributors consider the relationship between education and internally displaced persons. Each case study brings to light a different aspect of displacement. These case studies raise fundamental questions regarding the barriers to education and some unexpected benefits for displaced children, including the role that education can play in rebuilding societies and fostering peace building. Christine Smith Ellison is a Research Associate in Education, Conflict and International Development at the UNESCO Centre, University of Ulster, UK. Alan Smith is the UNESCO Chair in Education at the University of Ulster, UK, where he is Professor of Education. November 2012 • 234 x 156mm • Paperback • 9781441196491 • AU$49.99
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Teachers Resources Xxxxx Teaching Young Children with Autism Clarissa willis
This straight forward easy to use guide explains the major characteristics associated with autism and helps teachers understand the ways children with autism relate to the world. Each chapter offers specific strategies for teachers to use, including setting up a proactive pre-school environment, managing behaviour and working with families
The 7 Keys to Success
John Murphy and Phil Beadle A structured approach to managing behaviour for anyone who refuses to accept students’ backgrounds as an excuse for underachievement
Bloomsbury Academic World All Languages Readership: Teachers
Preparing to work in a tough school can be a nervewracking experience. Will there be gangs? What if none of the students do their homework? How will you know what to do if faced with a physical threat? Phil Beadle and John Murphy have spent their school careers transforming behaviour in the most challenging and economically-deprived environments. In this book, they set out the 7 keys to successful behaviour management, through innovative approaches to teaching and learning.
Featherstone education ANZ/Europe Readership: Teachers
John Murphy is the Director of Education for Oasis Community Learning. He has been a school leader and consultant with 22 years’ experience and has successfully led six schools that have been on failing status or facing challenging circumstances. Phil Beadle is an English teacher, consultant and author with a history of transformational results achieved with children in challenging schools.
Pre-school can be an overwhelming experience for a child with autism. Autism affects how a child communicates, behaves, and relates to others. Practitioners need to know what they can do to help children with autism reach their full potential. This straightforward easy to use guide explains the major characteristics associated with autism and helps teachers understand the ways children with autism relate to the world. Each chapter offers specific strategies for teachers to use, including setting up a proactive pre-school environment, helping children learn life skills, managing behaviour, helping children with autism communicate and play, helping them to get along with others, and working with families. Teaching Young Children with Autism helps teachers connect with all children in meaningful ways, and helps children with autism learn and grow.
Developing Everyday Coping Skills in the Early Years Erica Frydenberg, Jan Deans & Kelly O’Brien
Paul Fairfield
Original edited collection taking a hermeneutical approach to pedagogy and the philosophy of education
An evidence-based book to help parents and practitioners develop children’s coping skills through arts and language-based strategies
Continuum World All Languages Readership: Teachers
A book of strategies to enhance children’s learning, improve their emotional health and creativity, to help them develop resilience and increase their capacity to cooperate, respect and play with others. The authors also explain how to identify children at risk, particularly those experiencing anxiety or delay in social and emotional development, so that parents and practitioners can intervene early where difficulties exist. Practitioners and parents of children aged 3-8 will find a treasure trove of activities to build coping and selfesteem through creative play and imagination.
A well-edited collection of contributions from leading authorities in the field in Canada, USA and UK, which provides a new approach to education and pedagogy. Provocative and original, drawing together hermeneutics and philosophy of education. Paul Fairfield is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada. September 2012 • 234 x 156mm • Paperback • 9781441100702 • AU$49.99 Continuum World All Languages Readership: Teachers
Erica Frydenberg is a clinical, organisational, counselling and educational psychologist. She an Associate Professor in Psychology in the Melbourne Graduate School of Education Jan Deans is Senior Lecturer and Director of the Early Learning Centre at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Kelly O’Brien is an Educational Psychologist with experience in early childhood and early intervention, based in Australia.
For over 20 years Clarissa Willis has worked a a speech and language therapist, early interventionist and teacher of special educational needs. Her articles in the field of early childhood and special educational needs have been published both nationally and internationally.
November 2012 • 216 x 138mm • Paperback • 9781441185150 • AU$35.00
Education, Dialogue and Hermeneutics
April 2012 • 169 x 244mm • Paperback • 9781441161048 • AU$39.99
Available • 170 x 246mm • Paperback • 9781408139721 • AU$29.99
Understanding and Managing Behaviors of Children with Psychological Disorders
Inspiring Writing through Drama
Patrice Baldwin and Rob John
Continuum World All Languages Readership: Teachers
January 2013 • 210 x 148mm • Paperback • 9781441158369 • AU$39.99
Examines the relationship natural disasters have with education in different international contexts, from the USA, Australia, India, China, the UK and Japan.
Offers drama schemes teeming with opportunities for developing writing skills in students aged 7-16.
Provides teachers with primary, secondary, and tertiary interventions for managing difficult student behavior in the classroom, specific to different mental health and behavioral disorders
This book provides a clear, useful resource for educators who wish to either prevent or diminish problem behaviours in the classroom. Readers are presented with a brief description of various mental health diagnoses, including children on the autistic spectrum, with attention-deficit/ hyperactivity disorder, depression, anxiety and many others. The book then offers a set of classroom techniques designed to help educators target the associated problematic behaviours. Each chapter is written by an expert in that specific field, and strategies are provided for use with a variety of ages.
Education and Natural Disasters
This book offers a clear methodology and practical drama activities that will motivate students to write within compelling imaginary contexts. It includes interactive, high-quality drama schemes to inspire students to write for a range of purposes and audiences.
Age Range: 7+ years Bloomsbury Academic World All Languages Readership: From 7 years, teachers
Patrice Baldwin is President of the International Drama Theatre and Education Association (IDEA). She works as a Drama for Learning consultant, workshop leader and speaker. Rob John is a playwright and drama consultant who has been training teachers in drama and theatre for over twenty years. October 2012 • 297 x 210mm • Paperback • 9781441159090 • AU$49.99
Bloomsbury Academic World All Languages Readership: Teachers
What is the relationship between education and natural disasters? Can education play a role in ameliorating and mitigating them, preparing people in how to respond, and even helping to prevent them? Drawing on research carried out in a number of different countries, including Australia, China, India, Japan, the UK and the USA, the contributors consider the role of education in relation to natural disasters. The case studies expand conceptual and empirical understandings of the understudied relationship between education and natural disasters, uncover the potential and the limitations of education for mitigating, responding to, and potentially preventing, natural disasters. The contributors also consider the extent to which so-called natural disasters, such as mudslides caused by deforestation and flooding areas built on known flood plains, are linked to human behaviour and how education can impact on these. November 2012 • 234 x 156mm • Paperback • 9781441166999 • AU$49.99
Education and Internally Displaced Persons
Christine Smith Ellison and Alan Smith Explores the barriers and benefits to education that displacement may bring, as well as the specific challenges for education in the context of internal displacement.
Bloomsbury Academic World All Languages Readership: Teachers
Drawing on research from a diverse set of countries, including the the USA, Somalia, Colombia, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bosnia and Herzegovina, the contributors consider the relationship between education and internally displaced persons. Each case study brings to light a different aspect of displacement. These case studies raise fundamental questions regarding the barriers to education and some unexpected benefits for displaced children, including the role that education can play in rebuilding societies and fostering peace building. Christine Smith Ellison is a Research Associate in Education, Conflict and International Development at the UNESCO Centre, University of Ulster, UK. Alan Smith is the UNESCO Chair in Education at the University of Ulster, UK, where he is Professor of Education. November 2012 • 234 x 156mm • Paperback • 9781441196491 • AU$49.99
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Xxxxx Teachers Resources Rethinking Children’s Play Fraser Brown and Michael Patte
A thought-provoking re-examination of children’s play drawing together insights and experiences across fields such as education, sociology, philosophy and psychology to encourage an inter-disciplinary approach
Rethinking Children’s Play examines attitudes towards, and experiences of, children’s play. Fraser Brown and Michael Patte draw on a
wide range of thought, research and practice from different fields and countries to debate, challenge and re-appraise long held beliefs, attitudes and ways of working and living with children in the play environment. Children need to play and the benefits of play are many and varied, but they are too often underestimated by parents, educators, politicians and society in general. The authors will apply a playwork perspective to the full range of settings populated by children, both formal and informal, to explore the idea that children’s learning and development derives substantially from their opportunities to engage with a rich play environment that is supportive of the play process. Thoughts are provoked through examples of research, reflections on research, activities, key points and guidance on further reading. Rethinking Children’s Play is essential for all those studying childhood at undergraduate and graduate level and of great interest to those working with children in any field.
Bloomsbury Academic World All Languages Readership: Teachers
Bloomsbury Academic World All Languages Readership: Teachers
Bloomsbury Academic World All Languages Readership: Teachers
Creative Educational Leadership Jacquie Turnbull
A guide to developing as a creative leader and to building creative capacity at a personal, institutional and community level
Creativity is now essential in a global economy, for business, and for the benefit of society. To enable young people to flourish in an uncertain future, education needs to acknowledge creativity as an essential life skill rather than restricting it to activities of a broadly artistic nature. This book helps educational leaders to identify the tensions within education systems that hinder the development of creative capacity and may influence decision-making towards pragmatic rather than creative solutions. Packed with examples of successful practice, this book challenges you to build creative capacity - within staff teams and for young people - and to develop as a creative leader yourself. Jacquie Turnbull has been a secondary teacher, an HE lecturer and a trainer specialising in improving teachers’ personal and professional effectiveness. She is currently Director of a company specialising in profiling to improve professional effectiveness. Jacquie also received an MBE in 2011 for her work in education.
Learning to Flourish A Philosophical Exploration of Liberal Education
Daniel R. DeNicola What is a liberal arts education? How does it differ from other forms of learning? What are we to make of the debates that surround it? What are its place, its value, and its prospects in the contemporary world?
These are questions that trouble students and their parents, educators, critics, and policy-makers, and philosophers of education--among others. Learning to Flourish offers a lucid, penetrating, philosophical exploration of liberal learning: a still-evolving tradition of theory and practice that has dominated and sustained intellectual life and learning in much of the globe for two millennia. This study will be of interest to anyone seeking to understand liberal arts education, as well as to educators and philosophers of education.
Michael Patte is a Distinguished Fulbright Scholar of Playwork and Associate Professor of Education at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, USA. He is a past president of The Association for the Study of Play and co-editor of the International Journal of Play. January 2013 • 234 x 156mm • Paperback • 9781441194695 • AU$39.99 Bloomsbury Academic World All Languages Readership: Teachers
The If Odyssey Peter Worley
Using Homer’s epic tales as inspiration, this book offers teachers session plans and storytelling tips to facilitate philosophical discussions with children aged 9-14
Explore with Odysseus the value of happiness, nonexistent entities, moral dilemmas, the philosophy of prophecy, and the nature of love among many other philosophical issues. This book offers stories and session plans suitable for use with children aged 8-16. Online you’ll find maps of Odysseus’ journey, The Words of Tiresias that provides clues for the children as to Odysseus’ progress and an Ancient Greek language workshop with accompanying worksheets. You can use the ‘Storykit’ section, which provides hints and tips on storytelling skills, to bring the tales of The Odyssey to life and stimulate independent, critical thinking with your class.
Daniel R. DeNicola is Professor of Philosophy at Gettysburg College. An award-winning teacher, he earned his doctorate in Philosophy of Education from Harvard University.
Peter Worley is founder and CEO of The Philosophy Foundation, a charity that specialises in philosophy schools. Tamar Levi is an author/ illustrator based in London. Angie Hobbs is Senior Fellow in the Public Understanding of Philosophy at the University of Warwick, UK.
November 2012 • 216 x 138mm • Paperback • 9781441111630 • AU$45.00
November 2012 • 234 x 156mm • Paperback • 9781441174956 • AU$36.99
Rethinking Gender and Sexuality in Childhood Emily W. Kane
Explores gender and sexuality in children’s lives, from early childhood through adolescence, bringing together key inter-disciplinary perspectives
An exploration of gender and sexuality in children’s lives, from early childhood through adolescence, bringing together key interdisciplinary perspectives. Kane looks at how childhood gender and sexuality are constructed, resisted, and refined within children’s peer cultures, within social institutions like the family, education, and media and the role the state holds in structuring children’s lives - defining their rights and opportunities through gender and sexuality-related policies and programs. Examples of research, interviews, activities, key points and guidance on further reading encourage the reader to actively engage with the material and to develop a critical relationship with the content. Rethinking Gender and Sexuality in Childhood is essential for those studying childhood at undergraduate and graduate level and of great interest to those working with children in any field. Emily W. Kane is Professor of Sociology and a member of the Program in Women and Gender Studies at Bates College, USA. January 2013 • 234 x 156mm • Paperback • 9781847060822 • AU$39.99
Bloomsbury Academic World All Languages Readership: Teachers
November 2012 • 234 x 156mm • Paperback • 9781441167743 • AU$45.00
Arts and Humanities Academics in Schools
Schooling for Social Change
The Rise and Impact of Human Rights Education in India
A critical exploration of the practical issues that are raised when Arts academics engage in primary and secondary schools outreach
Monisha Bajaj Winner of the 2012 Jackie Kirk Outstanding Book Award from the Comparative and International Education Society
A thorough exploration of the practical and pedagogical issues informed by the latest research, this book draws together a range of different perspectives informed by first hand experience. It includes international case studies from countries including the UK, USA, Canada, New Zealand and Australia. November 2012 • 234 x 156mm • Paperback • 9781441134301 • AU$45.00
Bloomsbury Academic World All Languages Readership: Teachers
Bloomsbury Academic World All Languages Readership: Teachers
This book will be of interest to all those working in international and comparative education, human rights, and South Asian development. Building on over a year of fieldwork, Monisha Bajaj examines different understandings of human rights education and provides an in-depth study of the origins and effects of the Institute of Human Rights Education, a non-governmental program that operates in over 4,000 schools in India. This enlightening book offers an instructive case study of how international mandates and grassroots activism can work together. Monisha Bajaj is Associate Professor of Education in the Department of International and Transcultural Studies at Teachers College, Columbia University. November 2012 • 216 x 138mm • Paperback • 9781441173058 • AU$49.99
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Rethinking Citizenship Kevin D. Vinson and E. Wayne Ross
Are we, as educators, preparing students to be effective citizens in a society that no longer is? Rethinking Citizenship argues that recent technological changes have fundamentally altered society
Today’s technological change means a difference in the very definition of society. What is meaningful citizenship in an age of separated connectedness or connected separation? How might mechanisms such as surveillance and spectacle help us understand contemporary society and its imperatives for citizenship and citizenship education? Vinson and Ross argue that citizenship education must be radically redefined to meet today’s challenges. Kevin D. Vinson is Senior Lecturer in the School of Education at the University of the West Indies. E. Wayne Ross is Professor of Education at the University of British Columbia, Canada. November 2012 • 216 x 138mm • Paperback • 9781441147356 • AU$29.99
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Xxxxx Teachers Resources Rethinking Children’s Play Fraser Brown and Michael Patte
A thought-provoking re-examination of children’s play drawing together insights and experiences across fields such as education, sociology, philosophy and psychology to encourage an inter-disciplinary approach
Rethinking Children’s Play examines attitudes towards, and experiences of, children’s play. Fraser Brown and Michael Patte draw on a
wide range of thought, research and practice from different fields and countries to debate, challenge and re-appraise long held beliefs, attitudes and ways of working and living with children in the play environment. Children need to play and the benefits of play are many and varied, but they are too often underestimated by parents, educators, politicians and society in general. The authors will apply a playwork perspective to the full range of settings populated by children, both formal and informal, to explore the idea that children’s learning and development derives substantially from their opportunities to engage with a rich play environment that is supportive of the play process. Thoughts are provoked through examples of research, reflections on research, activities, key points and guidance on further reading. Rethinking Children’s Play is essential for all those studying childhood at undergraduate and graduate level and of great interest to those working with children in any field.
Bloomsbury Academic World All Languages Readership: Teachers
Bloomsbury Academic World All Languages Readership: Teachers
Bloomsbury Academic World All Languages Readership: Teachers
Creative Educational Leadership Jacquie Turnbull
A guide to developing as a creative leader and to building creative capacity at a personal, institutional and community level
Creativity is now essential in a global economy, for business, and for the benefit of society. To enable young people to flourish in an uncertain future, education needs to acknowledge creativity as an essential life skill rather than restricting it to activities of a broadly artistic nature. This book helps educational leaders to identify the tensions within education systems that hinder the development of creative capacity and may influence decision-making towards pragmatic rather than creative solutions. Packed with examples of successful practice, this book challenges you to build creative capacity - within staff teams and for young people - and to develop as a creative leader yourself. Jacquie Turnbull has been a secondary teacher, an HE lecturer and a trainer specialising in improving teachers’ personal and professional effectiveness. She is currently Director of a company specialising in profiling to improve professional effectiveness. Jacquie also received an MBE in 2011 for her work in education.
Learning to Flourish A Philosophical Exploration of Liberal Education
Daniel R. DeNicola What is a liberal arts education? How does it differ from other forms of learning? What are we to make of the debates that surround it? What are its place, its value, and its prospects in the contemporary world?
These are questions that trouble students and their parents, educators, critics, and policy-makers, and philosophers of education--among others. Learning to Flourish offers a lucid, penetrating, philosophical exploration of liberal learning: a still-evolving tradition of theory and practice that has dominated and sustained intellectual life and learning in much of the globe for two millennia. This study will be of interest to anyone seeking to understand liberal arts education, as well as to educators and philosophers of education.
Michael Patte is a Distinguished Fulbright Scholar of Playwork and Associate Professor of Education at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, USA. He is a past president of The Association for the Study of Play and co-editor of the International Journal of Play. January 2013 • 234 x 156mm • Paperback • 9781441194695 • AU$39.99 Bloomsbury Academic World All Languages Readership: Teachers
The If Odyssey Peter Worley
Using Homer’s epic tales as inspiration, this book offers teachers session plans and storytelling tips to facilitate philosophical discussions with children aged 9-14
Explore with Odysseus the value of happiness, nonexistent entities, moral dilemmas, the philosophy of prophecy, and the nature of love among many other philosophical issues. This book offers stories and session plans suitable for use with children aged 8-16. Online you’ll find maps of Odysseus’ journey, The Words of Tiresias that provides clues for the children as to Odysseus’ progress and an Ancient Greek language workshop with accompanying worksheets. You can use the ‘Storykit’ section, which provides hints and tips on storytelling skills, to bring the tales of The Odyssey to life and stimulate independent, critical thinking with your class.
Daniel R. DeNicola is Professor of Philosophy at Gettysburg College. An award-winning teacher, he earned his doctorate in Philosophy of Education from Harvard University.
Peter Worley is founder and CEO of The Philosophy Foundation, a charity that specialises in philosophy schools. Tamar Levi is an author/ illustrator based in London. Angie Hobbs is Senior Fellow in the Public Understanding of Philosophy at the University of Warwick, UK.
November 2012 • 216 x 138mm • Paperback • 9781441111630 • AU$45.00
November 2012 • 234 x 156mm • Paperback • 9781441174956 • AU$36.99
Rethinking Gender and Sexuality in Childhood Emily W. Kane
Explores gender and sexuality in children’s lives, from early childhood through adolescence, bringing together key inter-disciplinary perspectives
An exploration of gender and sexuality in children’s lives, from early childhood through adolescence, bringing together key interdisciplinary perspectives. Kane looks at how childhood gender and sexuality are constructed, resisted, and refined within children’s peer cultures, within social institutions like the family, education, and media and the role the state holds in structuring children’s lives - defining their rights and opportunities through gender and sexuality-related policies and programs. Examples of research, interviews, activities, key points and guidance on further reading encourage the reader to actively engage with the material and to develop a critical relationship with the content. Rethinking Gender and Sexuality in Childhood is essential for those studying childhood at undergraduate and graduate level and of great interest to those working with children in any field. Emily W. Kane is Professor of Sociology and a member of the Program in Women and Gender Studies at Bates College, USA. January 2013 • 234 x 156mm • Paperback • 9781847060822 • AU$39.99
Bloomsbury Academic World All Languages Readership: Teachers
November 2012 • 234 x 156mm • Paperback • 9781441167743 • AU$45.00
Arts and Humanities Academics in Schools
Schooling for Social Change
The Rise and Impact of Human Rights Education in India
A critical exploration of the practical issues that are raised when Arts academics engage in primary and secondary schools outreach
Monisha Bajaj Winner of the 2012 Jackie Kirk Outstanding Book Award from the Comparative and International Education Society
A thorough exploration of the practical and pedagogical issues informed by the latest research, this book draws together a range of different perspectives informed by first hand experience. It includes international case studies from countries including the UK, USA, Canada, New Zealand and Australia. November 2012 • 234 x 156mm • Paperback • 9781441134301 • AU$45.00
Bloomsbury Academic World All Languages Readership: Teachers
Bloomsbury Academic World All Languages Readership: Teachers
This book will be of interest to all those working in international and comparative education, human rights, and South Asian development. Building on over a year of fieldwork, Monisha Bajaj examines different understandings of human rights education and provides an in-depth study of the origins and effects of the Institute of Human Rights Education, a non-governmental program that operates in over 4,000 schools in India. This enlightening book offers an instructive case study of how international mandates and grassroots activism can work together. Monisha Bajaj is Associate Professor of Education in the Department of International and Transcultural Studies at Teachers College, Columbia University. November 2012 • 216 x 138mm • Paperback • 9781441173058 • AU$49.99
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Rethinking Citizenship Kevin D. Vinson and E. Wayne Ross
Are we, as educators, preparing students to be effective citizens in a society that no longer is? Rethinking Citizenship argues that recent technological changes have fundamentally altered society
Today’s technological change means a difference in the very definition of society. What is meaningful citizenship in an age of separated connectedness or connected separation? How might mechanisms such as surveillance and spectacle help us understand contemporary society and its imperatives for citizenship and citizenship education? Vinson and Ross argue that citizenship education must be radically redefined to meet today’s challenges. Kevin D. Vinson is Senior Lecturer in the School of Education at the University of the West Indies. E. Wayne Ross is Professor of Education at the University of British Columbia, Canada. November 2012 • 216 x 138mm • Paperback • 9781441147356 • AU$29.99
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Teachers Xxxxx Resources
Teachers Resources Xxxxx Creative Partnerships in Practice
Maria Montessori
A Critical Introduction to Key Themes and Debates
Developing Creative Learners
David Parker
Marion O’Donnell
The authoritative guide to embedding creative learning in schools, written by a Director at Creativity, Culture and Education (CCE)
Bloomsbury Academic World All Languages Readership: Teachers
Bloomsbury Academic World All Languages Readership: Teachers
Developing Teacher Expertise: Exploring Key Issues in Primary Practice
Language, Culture and Identity in the Early Years
Margaret Sangster
What are the issues that education raises for you? Beyond the technical skills and knowledge aspects of education, teachers and student teachers face questions which challenge their beliefs and approaches to teaching
An accessible introduction to key educational issues, this book contains a series of short articles which encourage you to reflect on your own practice and challenge your beliefs about how and what you teach. Essential reading for those training to teach children aged between 3 and 11, as well as practicing teachers looking to develop their practice. Margaret Sangster was formerly Principal Lecturer and Programme Director of the BA (Hons) in Primary Education at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK. She worked for many years as a primary teacher, and as a mathematics advisory teacher before moving to Higher Education. January 2013 • 234 x 156mm • Paperback • 9781441179111 • AU$39.99
Bloomsbury Academic World All Languages Readership: Teachers
Tözün Issa and Alison Hatt Introduces the key themes and debates in supporting young children with different linguistic and cultural backgrounds in an inclusive way
In this engaging guide, the authors identify and disseminate good practice relating to language, culture and identity. They explore how children from a variety of cultural and linguistic backgrounds are supported through a number of pedagogical practices which are based on knowledge and understanding of the social and emotional development of young children. Topics covered include: Perspectives development
on
personal,
social
and
emotional
Maintaining home languages in early years settings Supporting communication and strategies for parental involvement
oracy
Developing
Bloomsbury Academic World All Languages Readership: Teachers
Early Childhood Studies A Social Science Perspective
Ewan Ingleby
Early Childhood Studies explores key issues in early childhood studies from a variety of social science disciplines, including psychology, sociology, social policy and education. Each chapter considers a different social science discipline, identifying, analysing and critically assessing how that particular discipline enriches early years provision and research. With user-friendly student features throughout, this is an companion for all Early Childhood Studies students.
Montessori students aged 3-18 study in a stress-free environment with no timetables, no examinations and no homework and yet they are empowered, independent and self-disciplined learners. The curriculum follows the interests of individual children and Montessori educators focus on the development of the whole child, promoting happiness and wellbeing. Australian lecturer and teacher, Marion O’Donnell, explores the key aspects of Montessori education: child development; the learning environment; the role of the teacher; the role of the learner and parental involvement. Within each key aspect, Marion considers the implications for Montessori education, the views of critics and supporters, the implications for education today. Each aspect is considered within an international context, drawing on research and practice in Europe, the USA, South America, Australia and Asia. Marion O’Donnell is a Montessori World Educational Institute (Australia) Workshop Lecturer, Examiner and Tutor. She has worked as a teacher all over the world, including in Scotland, UK, New South Wales, Australia, Ontario, Canada, and Queensland, Australia. She has also lectured at the Queensland University of Technology, Australia and been a researcher at the University of Queensland.
February 2013 • 234 x 156mm • Paperback • 9781441109224 • AU$45.00
February 2013 • 234 x 156mm • Paperback • 9781441109224 • AU$45.00
Ewan Ingleby is Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences and Law at Teesside University, UK, where he teaches on the Education MA and PhD, and the Early Childhood Studies BA. January 2013 • 234 x 156mm • Paperback • 9781441156143 • AU$39.99
Foundations of Mathematics Carole Skinner
Tözün Issa is Senior Lecturer at London Metropolitan University and taught for many years in Turkish and African Caribbean complementary schools in London. Alison Hatt was until recently Senior Lecturer at London Metropolitan University, UK. January 2013 • 234 x 156mm • Paperback • 9781441146144 • AU$39.99
Michael Tomlinson
Bloomsbury Academic World All Languages Readership: Teachers
David Parker is Director of Research, Impact and Learning at Creativity, Culture and Education (CCE). Previously, David was Head of Research at the British Film Institute where he took a particular interest in the use of moving image media in the teaching and learning of literacy.
Explores key issues in early childhood studies from a social science perspective, exploring how social science can offer explanations to many aspects of human behaviour
Essential reading for those working with young children from a diverse range of cultural and linguistic backgrounds.
Education, Work and Identity
Since the Creative Partnerships programme began in 2002, it has helped almost 5,000 schools, 90,000 teachers and over 1 million young people to embrace creative learning. Those involved have seen notable improvements in achievement and in measurable aspects of personal development, such as attendance. Written by a member of the senior team charged with delivering the largest schools-based creative learning intervention ever seen, this book explains how to embed the key principles underpinning the Creative Partnerships programme within your school. Drawing on the extensive archive of case studies, and the experiences of key Creative Partnerships individuals, this book offers compelling accounts of effect and impact, rooting abstract principles in everyday examples of classroom-based work.
An insightful guide to this philosophy of education, covering its origins, features and practices
Literacy on the Left
Andrew Lambirth
Explores changing patterns of education and work and the wider social and economic contexts shaping them
Draws on international government policy and literacy teaching to explore the current trends in the teaching of literacy
The book examines how social and economic changes have reshaped individuals’ educational, transitional and labour market experiences. It also explores key themes and approaches in understanding the education and labour market, and the way in which education and work institutions shape people’s orientations and identities around work.
This book considers literacy globally providing an international perspective. It critiques, from a political and ideological perspective, contemporary literacy education discourse and examines literacy teaching and government policy to explore current trends.
Bloomsbury Academic World All Languages Readership: Teachers
MasterClass in Religious Education Liam Gearon
A practical guide to developing children’s early mathematical development, written by leading early years numeracy experts
A comprehensive guide to religious education, ensuring a solid foundation for supporting effective learning and teaching
Foundations of Mathematics outlines seven strands of practice which underpin successful mathematical development in children aged 3-7. This book brims with multi-sensory ideas that will trigger children’s curiosity, such as measuring using sand mousse, hunting for buried treasure and building secret dens outdoors. It includes many practical activities with clear explanations of the reasoning behind them, and ‘Home Challenges’ to promote the engagement of families. The authors provide straightforward advice and ideas to help children transfer learning into their own childinitiated play, to build a genuine and solid foundation for mathematics.
MasterClass in Religious Education provides a comprehensive exploration of the major themes in religious education research and pedagogy, drawing on international research. The author draws together historical, theological/religious and comparative and international perspectives to explore religious education’s role in confronting controversial issues, and the implications this has for teaching, learning and research. This book incorporates discussions of current, post-9/11 debates on religion in the modern world, focusing particularly on the relationship of religion to secular, political contexts. Liam Gearon pays close attention to debates around religion in liberal democratic societies, looking at topics such as citizenship, human rights, and identity.
Carole Skinner is an independent early years consultant and founder associate of Early Education, the UK’s leading educational charity. Judith Stevens is an independent early learning consultant, trainer and author based in the UK. February 2013 • 297 x 210mm • Paperback • 9781855394360 • AU$39.99
Bloomsbury Academic World All Languages Readership: Teachers
Liam Gearon holds the University Lectureship in Religious Education in association with a Senior Research Fellowship at Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford, UK. He is also Adjunct Professor at the Australian Catholic University. February 2013 • 246 x 189mm • Paperback • 9781441154224 • AU$37.95
January 2013 • 234 x 156mm • Paperback • 9781441194138 • AU$49.99
Michael Tomlinson is a Lecturer in Lifelong and Work-related Learning in the School of Education at the University of Southampton, UK. Bloomsbury Academic World All Languages Readership: Teachers
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Teachers Xxxxx Resources
Teachers Resources Xxxxx Creative Partnerships in Practice
Maria Montessori
A Critical Introduction to Key Themes and Debates
Developing Creative Learners
David Parker
Marion O’Donnell
The authoritative guide to embedding creative learning in schools, written by a Director at Creativity, Culture and Education (CCE)
Bloomsbury Academic World All Languages Readership: Teachers
Bloomsbury Academic World All Languages Readership: Teachers
Developing Teacher Expertise: Exploring Key Issues in Primary Practice
Language, Culture and Identity in the Early Years
Margaret Sangster
What are the issues that education raises for you? Beyond the technical skills and knowledge aspects of education, teachers and student teachers face questions which challenge their beliefs and approaches to teaching
An accessible introduction to key educational issues, this book contains a series of short articles which encourage you to reflect on your own practice and challenge your beliefs about how and what you teach. Essential reading for those training to teach children aged between 3 and 11, as well as practicing teachers looking to develop their practice. Margaret Sangster was formerly Principal Lecturer and Programme Director of the BA (Hons) in Primary Education at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK. She worked for many years as a primary teacher, and as a mathematics advisory teacher before moving to Higher Education. January 2013 • 234 x 156mm • Paperback • 9781441179111 • AU$39.99
Bloomsbury Academic World All Languages Readership: Teachers
Tözün Issa and Alison Hatt Introduces the key themes and debates in supporting young children with different linguistic and cultural backgrounds in an inclusive way
In this engaging guide, the authors identify and disseminate good practice relating to language, culture and identity. They explore how children from a variety of cultural and linguistic backgrounds are supported through a number of pedagogical practices which are based on knowledge and understanding of the social and emotional development of young children. Topics covered include: Perspectives development
on
personal,
social
and
emotional
Maintaining home languages in early years settings Supporting communication and strategies for parental involvement
oracy
Developing
Bloomsbury Academic World All Languages Readership: Teachers
Early Childhood Studies A Social Science Perspective
Ewan Ingleby
Early Childhood Studies explores key issues in early childhood studies from a variety of social science disciplines, including psychology, sociology, social policy and education. Each chapter considers a different social science discipline, identifying, analysing and critically assessing how that particular discipline enriches early years provision and research. With user-friendly student features throughout, this is an companion for all Early Childhood Studies students.
Montessori students aged 3-18 study in a stress-free environment with no timetables, no examinations and no homework and yet they are empowered, independent and self-disciplined learners. The curriculum follows the interests of individual children and Montessori educators focus on the development of the whole child, promoting happiness and wellbeing. Australian lecturer and teacher, Marion O’Donnell, explores the key aspects of Montessori education: child development; the learning environment; the role of the teacher; the role of the learner and parental involvement. Within each key aspect, Marion considers the implications for Montessori education, the views of critics and supporters, the implications for education today. Each aspect is considered within an international context, drawing on research and practice in Europe, the USA, South America, Australia and Asia. Marion O’Donnell is a Montessori World Educational Institute (Australia) Workshop Lecturer, Examiner and Tutor. She has worked as a teacher all over the world, including in Scotland, UK, New South Wales, Australia, Ontario, Canada, and Queensland, Australia. She has also lectured at the Queensland University of Technology, Australia and been a researcher at the University of Queensland.
February 2013 • 234 x 156mm • Paperback • 9781441109224 • AU$45.00
February 2013 • 234 x 156mm • Paperback • 9781441109224 • AU$45.00
Ewan Ingleby is Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences and Law at Teesside University, UK, where he teaches on the Education MA and PhD, and the Early Childhood Studies BA. January 2013 • 234 x 156mm • Paperback • 9781441156143 • AU$39.99
Foundations of Mathematics Carole Skinner
Tözün Issa is Senior Lecturer at London Metropolitan University and taught for many years in Turkish and African Caribbean complementary schools in London. Alison Hatt was until recently Senior Lecturer at London Metropolitan University, UK. January 2013 • 234 x 156mm • Paperback • 9781441146144 • AU$39.99
Michael Tomlinson
Bloomsbury Academic World All Languages Readership: Teachers
David Parker is Director of Research, Impact and Learning at Creativity, Culture and Education (CCE). Previously, David was Head of Research at the British Film Institute where he took a particular interest in the use of moving image media in the teaching and learning of literacy.
Explores key issues in early childhood studies from a social science perspective, exploring how social science can offer explanations to many aspects of human behaviour
Essential reading for those working with young children from a diverse range of cultural and linguistic backgrounds.
Education, Work and Identity
Since the Creative Partnerships programme began in 2002, it has helped almost 5,000 schools, 90,000 teachers and over 1 million young people to embrace creative learning. Those involved have seen notable improvements in achievement and in measurable aspects of personal development, such as attendance. Written by a member of the senior team charged with delivering the largest schools-based creative learning intervention ever seen, this book explains how to embed the key principles underpinning the Creative Partnerships programme within your school. Drawing on the extensive archive of case studies, and the experiences of key Creative Partnerships individuals, this book offers compelling accounts of effect and impact, rooting abstract principles in everyday examples of classroom-based work.
An insightful guide to this philosophy of education, covering its origins, features and practices
Literacy on the Left
Andrew Lambirth
Explores changing patterns of education and work and the wider social and economic contexts shaping them
Draws on international government policy and literacy teaching to explore the current trends in the teaching of literacy
The book examines how social and economic changes have reshaped individuals’ educational, transitional and labour market experiences. It also explores key themes and approaches in understanding the education and labour market, and the way in which education and work institutions shape people’s orientations and identities around work.
This book considers literacy globally providing an international perspective. It critiques, from a political and ideological perspective, contemporary literacy education discourse and examines literacy teaching and government policy to explore current trends.
Bloomsbury Academic World All Languages Readership: Teachers
MasterClass in Religious Education Liam Gearon
A practical guide to developing children’s early mathematical development, written by leading early years numeracy experts
A comprehensive guide to religious education, ensuring a solid foundation for supporting effective learning and teaching
Foundations of Mathematics outlines seven strands of practice which underpin successful mathematical development in children aged 3-7. This book brims with multi-sensory ideas that will trigger children’s curiosity, such as measuring using sand mousse, hunting for buried treasure and building secret dens outdoors. It includes many practical activities with clear explanations of the reasoning behind them, and ‘Home Challenges’ to promote the engagement of families. The authors provide straightforward advice and ideas to help children transfer learning into their own childinitiated play, to build a genuine and solid foundation for mathematics.
MasterClass in Religious Education provides a comprehensive exploration of the major themes in religious education research and pedagogy, drawing on international research. The author draws together historical, theological/religious and comparative and international perspectives to explore religious education’s role in confronting controversial issues, and the implications this has for teaching, learning and research. This book incorporates discussions of current, post-9/11 debates on religion in the modern world, focusing particularly on the relationship of religion to secular, political contexts. Liam Gearon pays close attention to debates around religion in liberal democratic societies, looking at topics such as citizenship, human rights, and identity.
Carole Skinner is an independent early years consultant and founder associate of Early Education, the UK’s leading educational charity. Judith Stevens is an independent early learning consultant, trainer and author based in the UK. February 2013 • 297 x 210mm • Paperback • 9781855394360 • AU$39.99
Bloomsbury Academic World All Languages Readership: Teachers
Liam Gearon holds the University Lectureship in Religious Education in association with a Senior Research Fellowship at Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford, UK. He is also Adjunct Professor at the Australian Catholic University. February 2013 • 246 x 189mm • Paperback • 9781441154224 • AU$37.95
January 2013 • 234 x 156mm • Paperback • 9781441194138 • AU$49.99
Michael Tomlinson is a Lecturer in Lifelong and Work-related Learning in the School of Education at the University of Southampton, UK. Bloomsbury Academic World All Languages Readership: Teachers
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Teacher Resources: Featherstone Xxxxx The Little Book of Gross Motor Skills
Featherstone Education World All Languages Readership: Early Years practitioners, nursery assistants, advisers, students
Featherstone Education World All Languages Readership: Early Years practitioners, nursery assistants, advisers, students
From Vacant to Engaged
Transition in the Early Years
Putting child led learning at the heart of your planning
From principles to practice
Alistair Bryce-Clegg
Terry Gould
Based on the fundamental truth that, you can have the best provision and the best resources in the world but if you have not got the engagement of the children that you are working with then the potential for high level learning is minimum to none
This book is a well considered combination of explaining the theory behind transition across the early years and how to put this into practice - what it is, why it’s important and how to make it effective
For children to make progress in all aspects of their learning the practitioners who work with them must have a good understanding of what the child already knows and can do (assessment). They should be able to create activities that will take the children forward to the next step in their learning (planning). Finally they should measure the impact of those activities on the children’s attainment (evaluation) and then the process can start again. The one crucial element that this model lacks is ‘engagement’. Based on the fundamental truth that, you can have the best provision and the best resources in the world but if you have not got the engagement of the children that you are working with then the potential for high level learning is minimum to none. This book will show through practical examples how practitioners can move away from the more traditional model of teaching (as above) to one that maintains all of the essential elements but is driven by the most powerful learning tool of all - engagement. Alistair was head teacher of a very successful threeform entry infant school and Early Years Unit for 10 years. Alongside his headship he worked an EYFS consultant working with a diverse range of settings to help them to enhance their EYFS practice. In 2009 Alistair left headship and went into full time consultancy. He is now the proud owner of ABC Does...Ltd Alistair Bryce-Clegg’s experience and expertise has meant that he has been invited to work with individuals, settings and Local Authorities both Nationally and Internationally. He has written on the subject of EYFS for a wide variety of publications. Alistair’s work with settings is based on leading by example and not just ‘telling’. In September 2010 he set up a blog where he posts examples of the work that he does alongside activity ideas, planning formats and policies. The blog is constantly updated with new ideas and initiatives. You can find out more at: abcdoes.com July 2012 • 297 x 210mm • Paperback • 9781408163986 • AU$39.99
For children to make progress in all aspects of their learning the This book will enable early year’s leaders, managers and practitioners to identify and address issues around transitions across the early years. Through its focus on identifying the key principles which underpin the transition process, and on the cycle of transition itself, a greater understanding of essential and desirable practice will be developed which can be used to support improved practice and improved outcomes. This book is a well considered combination of explaining the theory behind transition across the early years and how to put this into practice - what it is, why it’s important and how to make it effective. Terry Gould has been a teacher representative on the Early Years Development Group at the Manchester Metropolitan University where he has contributed to conferences, seminars and workshops and a range of academic courses. He is an accredited assessor for the Early Years Professional Award and an experienced moderator for the Early Years Foundation Stage Profile. He has worked for a number of local authorities, private training providers and computer software publishing houses as a consultant, trainer and publisher. Terry has led on the writing of a wide range of early years guidance materials for practitioners and regularly writes articles on early literacy for publications. He has contributed to a range of books, magazines, journals and training videos on the Early Years and enjoys a reputation for providing quality early years training and consultancy. September 2012 • 297 x 210mm • Paperback • 9781408163962 • AU$39.99
Readership: Early Years practitioners, nursery assistants, advisers, students
Science in the Early Years Foundation Stage
Age Range: Teachers Featherstone Education World All Languages Readership: Practitioners, Childminders, Students, Early years consultants, Nursery assistants
How to make science integral to children’s learning
Kirstine Beeley
Judith Harries
Gross and fine motor skills are a prerequisite for writing and without developing these skills effectively, learning how to write can be a near impossible task. This book is aimed at all those working within Early Years settings, who wish to develop children’s motor skills
A book of stimulating drama activities inspired by popular stories. It contains thirty stories including a good balance of traditional, world and popular children’s picture books
With the expansion of technology, the demands of busy lives and the increase in stranger danger, children’s upbringing is very different today. Children are not experiencing the daily activities that help to develop core stability, balance and physical strength. As a teacher within the EYFS, Ruth noticed the increasing number of children entering her setting with physical developmental delay and has written this book to provide practitioners with some simple but effective activities to help develop gross motor skills.
The Little Book of Woodwork
Age Range: Teachers Featherstone Education World All Languages Readership: Early years practitioners, childminders, nursery staff
A book of stimulating drama activities inspired by popular stories. It contains 30 stories with a good balance of traditional, world and popular children’s picture books.Each featured story includes a selection of drama activities with warm ups, drama games, circle games, mimes, character work, drama skills, group work (pairs and small groups), improvisations, role-play areas, mini-plays, etc. Judith Harries is an experienced teacher who has been teaching music and drama in Northampton for over 20 years. She has a particular interest in the early years and works with children from as young as nine months to eleven year olds. As well as teaching, Judith edits and writes extensively for early years publications. She is the author of The Little Book of Sound Ideas, The Little Topic Book of Bears and The Little Topic Book of Colours. June 2012 • 210 x 148mm • Paperback • 9781408145616 • AU$19.99
The Little Book of Opposites
Little Books with Big Ideas
Judith Harries
Terry Gould and Linda Mort
This little book looks at pairs of opposites using activities that involve all the early learning goals.
This book provides ideas and inspiration for basic woodwork skills for children aged 3-6. Children’s physical development as well as knowledge of the world, and mathematical development will all benefit from these activities.
Kirstine Beeley is an ex-teacher with experience across a range of early years, primary and special needs settings. Now working as an independent trainer and writer, this working mum has a heart felt passion for child-centred early years and primary learning. The creator of the Empathy Dolls Approach, she now works closely with childminders and nursery and primary school staff for local authorities across the United Kingdom to promote children’s emotional development, independence, and positive mental health. June 2012 • 297 x 210mm • Paperback • 9781408155462 • AU$18.99
Ruth Ludlow
July 2012 • 210 x 148mm • Paperback • 9781408155455 • AU$21.99
This book looks at and challenge the traditional teaching views of science and aims to show how scientific exploration and thinking are at the heart of child led, child-centered EYFS provision This book looks at and challenge the traditional teaching views of science and aims to show how scientific exploration and thinking are at the heart of child led, child-centered EYFS provision. The EYFS asks that practitioners help children to become active learners who are inquisitive and have a thirst for new knowledge. This book will aim to show how scientific exploration, as an integral part of play based learning, can offer children these skills and develop their confidence to learn and independently explore the world around them. As an experienced early years trainer Kirstine’s passion is science (her teaching degree is in primary science education) and she believe that this book could help build early years practitioners confidence in offering science based learning. She hopes that this book will take away some of the ‘stuffed shirt mystery’ of science and show that it is at the heart of good early years practice!
Little Books with Big Ideas
Gross and fine motor skills are a prerequisite for writing and without developing these skills effectively, learning how to write can be a near impossible task. This book is aimed at all those working within Early Years settings, who wish to develop children’s motor skills.
Featherstone Education
Age 9-11 WorldRange: All Languages
The Little Book of Drama from stories
Little Books with Big Ideas
Age Range: Teachers Featherstone Education World All Languages Readership: Early years practitioners, childminders, nursery staff
This book provides ideas and inspiration for basic woodwork skills for children aged 3-6. Organized into 3 levels of competence: beginning - sanding, using rulers to measure wood; emerging skills - mini hand drill, hammer and nails; developing competence - screw driver, mini hacksaw, advanced - pliers, glue guns. Includes practical advice on tools and how to use them (both real and play/pretend tools), construction materials (where to source and store), safety issues, role of the adult, where to site the woodworking area in the setting, key vocabulary and decorating/painting wood. Children’s physical development as well as knowledge of the world, and mathematical development will all benefit from these activities. Terry Gould was awarded a first class honours degree for teaching children in the 3-11 age range, a diploma in education, and a master’s degree in teaching research in the early years. He has experience of working with all the age ranges within the primary. Terry has led on the writing of a wide range of early years guidance materials for practitioners and regularly writes articles on early literacy for publications.
This little book is all about opposites using activities that involve all the early learning goals. Opposites are a great way to introduce lots of simple concepts to children about the world around them. Learning about things which are opposite challenges and encourages problem-solving, creativity and imagination.
Age Range: Teachers Featherstone Education World English Readership: Early years practitioners, nursery staff, childminders
Opposites are explored through stories, games, role-play, investigations and explorations and include looking at very simple to more complex opposites from beginning/end, heavy/light, happy/sad, left/right, sink/ float, rough/smooth, lost/found, right/wrong and loud/ quiet!. Judith Harries is an experienced teacher who has been teaching music and drama in Northampton for over 20 years. She has a particular interest in the early years and works with children from as young as nine months to eleven year olds. As well as teaching, Judith edits and writes extensively for early years publications. She is the author of The Little Book of Sound Ideas, The Little Topic Book of Bears and The Little Topic Book of Colours. January 2013 • 210 x 148mm • Paperback • 9781408188163 • AU$22.99
January 2013 • 210 x 148mm • Paperback • 9781408173961 • AU$29.99
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Xxxxx Teacher Resources: Featherstone
Teacher Resources: Featherstone Xxxxx The Little Book of Gross Motor Skills
Featherstone Education World All Languages Readership: Early Years practitioners, nursery assistants, advisers, students
Featherstone Education World All Languages Readership: Early Years practitioners, nursery assistants, advisers, students
From Vacant to Engaged
Transition in the Early Years
Putting child led learning at the heart of your planning
From principles to practice
Alistair Bryce-Clegg
Terry Gould
Based on the fundamental truth that, you can have the best provision and the best resources in the world but if you have not got the engagement of the children that you are working with then the potential for high level learning is minimum to none
This book is a well considered combination of explaining the theory behind transition across the early years and how to put this into practice - what it is, why it’s important and how to make it effective
For children to make progress in all aspects of their learning the practitioners who work with them must have a good understanding of what the child already knows and can do (assessment). They should be able to create activities that will take the children forward to the next step in their learning (planning). Finally they should measure the impact of those activities on the children’s attainment (evaluation) and then the process can start again. The one crucial element that this model lacks is ‘engagement’. Based on the fundamental truth that, you can have the best provision and the best resources in the world but if you have not got the engagement of the children that you are working with then the potential for high level learning is minimum to none. This book will show through practical examples how practitioners can move away from the more traditional model of teaching (as above) to one that maintains all of the essential elements but is driven by the most powerful learning tool of all - engagement. Alistair was head teacher of a very successful threeform entry infant school and Early Years Unit for 10 years. Alongside his headship he worked an EYFS consultant working with a diverse range of settings to help them to enhance their EYFS practice. In 2009 Alistair left headship and went into full time consultancy. He is now the proud owner of ABC Does...Ltd Alistair Bryce-Clegg’s experience and expertise has meant that he has been invited to work with individuals, settings and Local Authorities both Nationally and Internationally. He has written on the subject of EYFS for a wide variety of publications. Alistair’s work with settings is based on leading by example and not just ‘telling’. In September 2010 he set up a blog where he posts examples of the work that he does alongside activity ideas, planning formats and policies. The blog is constantly updated with new ideas and initiatives. You can find out more at: abcdoes.com July 2012 • 297 x 210mm • Paperback • 9781408163986 • AU$39.99
For children to make progress in all aspects of their learning the This book will enable early year’s leaders, managers and practitioners to identify and address issues around transitions across the early years. Through its focus on identifying the key principles which underpin the transition process, and on the cycle of transition itself, a greater understanding of essential and desirable practice will be developed which can be used to support improved practice and improved outcomes. This book is a well considered combination of explaining the theory behind transition across the early years and how to put this into practice - what it is, why it’s important and how to make it effective. Terry Gould has been a teacher representative on the Early Years Development Group at the Manchester Metropolitan University where he has contributed to conferences, seminars and workshops and a range of academic courses. He is an accredited assessor for the Early Years Professional Award and an experienced moderator for the Early Years Foundation Stage Profile. He has worked for a number of local authorities, private training providers and computer software publishing houses as a consultant, trainer and publisher. Terry has led on the writing of a wide range of early years guidance materials for practitioners and regularly writes articles on early literacy for publications. He has contributed to a range of books, magazines, journals and training videos on the Early Years and enjoys a reputation for providing quality early years training and consultancy. September 2012 • 297 x 210mm • Paperback • 9781408163962 • AU$39.99
Readership: Early Years practitioners, nursery assistants, advisers, students
Science in the Early Years Foundation Stage
Age Range: Teachers Featherstone Education World All Languages Readership: Practitioners, Childminders, Students, Early years consultants, Nursery assistants
How to make science integral to children’s learning
Kirstine Beeley
Judith Harries
Gross and fine motor skills are a prerequisite for writing and without developing these skills effectively, learning how to write can be a near impossible task. This book is aimed at all those working within Early Years settings, who wish to develop children’s motor skills
A book of stimulating drama activities inspired by popular stories. It contains thirty stories including a good balance of traditional, world and popular children’s picture books
With the expansion of technology, the demands of busy lives and the increase in stranger danger, children’s upbringing is very different today. Children are not experiencing the daily activities that help to develop core stability, balance and physical strength. As a teacher within the EYFS, Ruth noticed the increasing number of children entering her setting with physical developmental delay and has written this book to provide practitioners with some simple but effective activities to help develop gross motor skills.
The Little Book of Woodwork
Age Range: Teachers Featherstone Education World All Languages Readership: Early years practitioners, childminders, nursery staff
A book of stimulating drama activities inspired by popular stories. It contains 30 stories with a good balance of traditional, world and popular children’s picture books.Each featured story includes a selection of drama activities with warm ups, drama games, circle games, mimes, character work, drama skills, group work (pairs and small groups), improvisations, role-play areas, mini-plays, etc. Judith Harries is an experienced teacher who has been teaching music and drama in Northampton for over 20 years. She has a particular interest in the early years and works with children from as young as nine months to eleven year olds. As well as teaching, Judith edits and writes extensively for early years publications. She is the author of The Little Book of Sound Ideas, The Little Topic Book of Bears and The Little Topic Book of Colours. June 2012 • 210 x 148mm • Paperback • 9781408145616 • AU$19.99
The Little Book of Opposites
Little Books with Big Ideas
Judith Harries
Terry Gould and Linda Mort
This little book looks at pairs of opposites using activities that involve all the early learning goals.
This book provides ideas and inspiration for basic woodwork skills for children aged 3-6. Children’s physical development as well as knowledge of the world, and mathematical development will all benefit from these activities.
Kirstine Beeley is an ex-teacher with experience across a range of early years, primary and special needs settings. Now working as an independent trainer and writer, this working mum has a heart felt passion for child-centred early years and primary learning. The creator of the Empathy Dolls Approach, she now works closely with childminders and nursery and primary school staff for local authorities across the United Kingdom to promote children’s emotional development, independence, and positive mental health. June 2012 • 297 x 210mm • Paperback • 9781408155462 • AU$18.99
Ruth Ludlow
July 2012 • 210 x 148mm • Paperback • 9781408155455 • AU$21.99
This book looks at and challenge the traditional teaching views of science and aims to show how scientific exploration and thinking are at the heart of child led, child-centered EYFS provision This book looks at and challenge the traditional teaching views of science and aims to show how scientific exploration and thinking are at the heart of child led, child-centered EYFS provision. The EYFS asks that practitioners help children to become active learners who are inquisitive and have a thirst for new knowledge. This book will aim to show how scientific exploration, as an integral part of play based learning, can offer children these skills and develop their confidence to learn and independently explore the world around them. As an experienced early years trainer Kirstine’s passion is science (her teaching degree is in primary science education) and she believe that this book could help build early years practitioners confidence in offering science based learning. She hopes that this book will take away some of the ‘stuffed shirt mystery’ of science and show that it is at the heart of good early years practice!
Little Books with Big Ideas
Gross and fine motor skills are a prerequisite for writing and without developing these skills effectively, learning how to write can be a near impossible task. This book is aimed at all those working within Early Years settings, who wish to develop children’s motor skills.
Featherstone Education
Age 9-11 WorldRange: All Languages
The Little Book of Drama from stories
Little Books with Big Ideas
Age Range: Teachers Featherstone Education World All Languages Readership: Early years practitioners, childminders, nursery staff
This book provides ideas and inspiration for basic woodwork skills for children aged 3-6. Organized into 3 levels of competence: beginning - sanding, using rulers to measure wood; emerging skills - mini hand drill, hammer and nails; developing competence - screw driver, mini hacksaw, advanced - pliers, glue guns. Includes practical advice on tools and how to use them (both real and play/pretend tools), construction materials (where to source and store), safety issues, role of the adult, where to site the woodworking area in the setting, key vocabulary and decorating/painting wood. Children’s physical development as well as knowledge of the world, and mathematical development will all benefit from these activities. Terry Gould was awarded a first class honours degree for teaching children in the 3-11 age range, a diploma in education, and a master’s degree in teaching research in the early years. He has experience of working with all the age ranges within the primary. Terry has led on the writing of a wide range of early years guidance materials for practitioners and regularly writes articles on early literacy for publications.
This little book is all about opposites using activities that involve all the early learning goals. Opposites are a great way to introduce lots of simple concepts to children about the world around them. Learning about things which are opposite challenges and encourages problem-solving, creativity and imagination.
Age Range: Teachers Featherstone Education World English Readership: Early years practitioners, nursery staff, childminders
Opposites are explored through stories, games, role-play, investigations and explorations and include looking at very simple to more complex opposites from beginning/end, heavy/light, happy/sad, left/right, sink/ float, rough/smooth, lost/found, right/wrong and loud/ quiet!. Judith Harries is an experienced teacher who has been teaching music and drama in Northampton for over 20 years. She has a particular interest in the early years and works with children from as young as nine months to eleven year olds. As well as teaching, Judith edits and writes extensively for early years publications. She is the author of The Little Book of Sound Ideas, The Little Topic Book of Bears and The Little Topic Book of Colours. January 2013 • 210 x 148mm • Paperback • 9781408188163 • AU$22.99
January 2013 • 210 x 148mm • Paperback • 9781408173961 • AU$29.99
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Teacher Resources: Featherstone Xxxxx
Teacher Resources: Featherstone Xxxxx 50 Fantastic things to do with a sand tray
Kirstine Beeley & Alistair Bryce-Clegg
50 Fantastic things to do with a water tray Kirstine Beeley & Alistair Bryce-Clegg
This new series of 50 Fantastic Things takes the very best ideas compiled from a variety of popular Featherstone books and turns them into a book jam packed with things you can do with toddlers and young children
The 50 Fantastic Things series is a no nonsense, ideas bank ...no frills, just 50 examples of great ideas already in practice!
Ideal for the busy teacher or parent, they offer a ‘dip in’ approach to accessing ideas that they may not have thought of. Simple inspiring ideas is just what they need to reignite their enthusiasm. Using objects and resources easily available in most homes and settings, the focus is on practical activities and purposeful play for individuals, pairs and small groups.
Each activity gives step-by-step instructions, tips and plenty of further ideas for children ready for more. They allow children to develop at their own pace, to make unhurried discoveries and allow for much repetition.
Age Range: Teachers
Age Range: Teachers
Age AgeRange: Range:9-11 Teachers
Featherstone Education World All Languages Readership: Early Years practitioners, nursery assistants, advisers, students
Featherstone Education World All Languages Readership: Early Years practitioners, nursery assistants, advisers, students
Featherstone Education World All Languages Readership: Early Years practitioners, nursery assistants, advisers, students
Get them talking - get them learning
Get them talking - get them writing
Learning and Playing Indoors
Alistair Bryce-Clegg
Alistair Bryce-Clegg
This book will show adults working with children the huge impact that quality talk experiences can have on children’s lifelong attainment. It will show how the greater the range of language and experience that a child is exposed to, early in their development, the significantly higher the potential for success in both academic and social attainment. A practical book full of real examples, ideas and activities.
An inspirational book that studies the development of mark making skills in relation to ‘talk’ and provides age appropriate activities to use with young children that will have a significant impact on their learning.
An essential guide to creating an inspiring indoor environment
Young children are fascinated by the world around them. They have high levels of natural curiosity and a compelling desire to explore and experience EVERYTHING! As children develop the skills of language and communication it is talk that helps children to make sense of those experiences by asking questions and talking about their thoughts. Talk not only plays a pivotal role in helping children to understand the world around them, it also enables them to learn how to make sense of the role that they play within in it. After all, talk is just the thoughts that you have in your head coming out of your mouth. If you haven’t got many thoughts in your head then you won’t have much to talk about. Alternatively, if you don’t have very much experience of language and talk, you will not be able to express your thoughts. Our role as practitioners is to create a wealth of learning opportunities and experiences that will fill children’s heads with thoughts and questions and then support them in acquiring the language to be able to communicate those thoughts to make sense of their world and be understood. Alistair Bryce-Clegg was head teacher of a very successful three-form entry infant school and Early Years Unit for 10 years. Alongside his headship he worked an EYFS consultant working with a diverse range of settings to help them to enhance their EYFS practice. In 2009 Alistair left headship and went into full time consultancy. He has written on the subject of EYFS for a wide variety of publications. Alistair’s work with settings is based on leading by example and not just ‘telling’. In September 2010 he set up a blog where he posts examples of the work that he does alongside activity ideas, planning formats and policies. The blog is constantly updated with new ideas and initiatives. You can find out more at: abcdoes.com
There is so much that you can do with children to get them ready to write. Mark making development in boys is statistically slower and less successful than girls. Alistair believes that this has a small part to do with physical development and more to do with appropriate understanding and the planning of engaging activities. His book will help practitioners not only to understand the development stages of becoming a mark maker but are also provide tried and tested activities and interventions to use. Using these techniques he believes they will see a significant difference in progress for boys and girls! As the content is appropriate to stage of development and not age of child it is aimed at children of all ages - from the point that they begin to make marks. An accessible theory into practice book backed up with a ‘how to’ section which contains real examples of effective initiatives based on case studies in a variety of settings. Alistair Bryce-Clegg was head teacher of a very successful three-form entry infant school and Early Years Unit for 10 years. Alongside his headship he worked an EYFS consultant working with a diverse range of settings to help them to enhance their EYFS practice. In 2009 Alistair left headship and went into full time consultancy. He is now the proud owner of ABC Does...Ltd? ?Alistair’s experience and expertise has meant that he has been invited to work with individuals, settings and Local Authorities both Nationally and Internationally. He has written on the subject of EYFS for a wide variety of publications. Alistair’s work with settings is based on leading by example and not just ‘telling’. In September 2010 he set up a blog where he posts examples of the work that he does alongside activity ideas, planning formats and policies. The blog is constantly updated with new ideas and initiatives. You can find out more at: abcdoes.com January 2013 • 297 x 210mm • Paperback • 9781408163924 • AU$17.99
Age Range: Teachers Featherstone Education World All Languages Readership: Early Years practitioners, parents, child minders
Kirstine Beeley and Alistair Bryce-Clegg are experienced primary and early years practitioners (and in Alistair’s case 10 years as a headteacher too), who are now established early years training consultants working with local authorities across the UK. This unique combination of experience both within the classroom and in the training circuit has given them both access to loads of fantastic ideas. They both see this range as a way of sharing not only the ideas which they have developed themselves over the years but a chance to pass on some of the great ideas they have picked up from others too.
Age Range: Teachers Featherstone Education World All Languages Readership: Early Years practitioners, parents, child minders
anuary 2013 • 170 x 245mm • Paperback • 9781408159866 • AU$22.99
Kirstine Beeley and Alistair Bryce-Clegg are experienced primary and early years practitioners (and in Alistair’s case 10 years as a headteacher too), who are now established early years training consultants working with local authorities across the UK. This unique combination of experience both within the classroom and in the training circuit has given them both access to loads of fantastic ideas. They both see this range as a way of sharing not only the ideas which they have developed themselves over the years but a chance to pass on some of the great ideas they have picked up from others too. January 2013 • 170 x 245mm • Paperback • 9781408159835 • AU$22.99
Terry Gould, Kathy Coates-Mohammed, Judith Brierley This lively book will guide you in planning, stimulating and organising role play inside and out. Part 1 discussed why role play is important. Part 2 presents activities suitable for a range of role play situations. There are ideas for materials, equipment and locations, including advice on making the most of limited resources. Role Play is an important part of every child’s entitlement. This lively book will guide you in planning, stimulating and organising role play inside and out. Part 1 discussed why role play is important. Part 2 presents activities suitable for a range of role play situations. There are ideas for materials, equipment and locations, including advice on making the most of limited resources. Unlock your imagination and help your children to bring out what’s inside!
50 Fantastic things to do with paint
Kirstine Beeley & Alistair Bryce-Clegg Each page of 50 Fantastic Things to Do with Paint gives step-by-step instructions, tips and plenty of further ideas for children ready for more
January 2013 • 297 x 210mm • Paperback • 9781408155493 • AU$45.00
50 Fantastic things to do with squidgy stuff Kirstine Beeley & Alistair Bryce-Clegg
Packed full of inspiring activities which reinvigorate and extend traditional areas of early years provision, 50 Fantastic Things to do with Squidgy Stuff is a must have for pre-schools and early primary
This book offers practical ideas on differentiation for young children with special needs as well as tips on what to look and listen for. The experiences suggested in this book will help young children to grow and develop through a range of both planned and informal activities, many of which the reader will already be familiar with.
Age Range: Teachers Featherstone Education World All Languages Readership: Early Years practitioners, parents, child minders
Kirstine Beeley and Alistair Bryce-Clegg are experienced primary and early years practitioners (and in Alistair’s case 10 years as a headteacher too), who are now established early years training consultants working with local authorities across the UK. This unique combination of experience both within the classroom and in the training circuit has given them both access to loads of fantastic ideas. They both see this range as a way of sharing not only the ideas which they have developed themselves over the years but a chance to pass on some of the great ideas they have picked up from others too. January 2013 • 170 x 245mm • Paperback • 9781408159842 • AU$22.99
Each activity features easy to follow step-by- step instructions with additional ideas on how to extend the activities inside and outdoors. The learning possibilities are clearly identified and practitioners can see at a glance what the children will get out of the activity.
Age Range: Teachers Featherstone Education World All Languages Readership: Early Years practitioners, parents, child minders
Kirstine Beeley and Alistair Bryce-Clegg are experienced primary and early years practitioners (and in Alistair’s case 10 years as a headteacher too), who are now established early years training consultants working with local authorities across the UK. This unique combination of experience both within the classroom and in the training circuit has given them both access to loads of fantastic ideas. They both see this range as a way of sharing not only the ideas which they have developed themselves over the years but a chance to pass on some of the great ideas they have picked up from others too. January 2013 • 170 x 245mm • Paperback • 9781408159859 • AU$19.99
January 2013 • 297 x 210mm • Paperback • 9781408163931 • AU$17.99
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Teacher Resources: Featherstone Xxxxx
Teacher Resources: Featherstone Xxxxx 50 Fantastic things to do with a sand tray
Kirstine Beeley & Alistair Bryce-Clegg
50 Fantastic things to do with a water tray Kirstine Beeley & Alistair Bryce-Clegg
This new series of 50 Fantastic Things takes the very best ideas compiled from a variety of popular Featherstone books and turns them into a book jam packed with things you can do with toddlers and young children
The 50 Fantastic Things series is a no nonsense, ideas bank ...no frills, just 50 examples of great ideas already in practice!
Ideal for the busy teacher or parent, they offer a ‘dip in’ approach to accessing ideas that they may not have thought of. Simple inspiring ideas is just what they need to reignite their enthusiasm. Using objects and resources easily available in most homes and settings, the focus is on practical activities and purposeful play for individuals, pairs and small groups.
Each activity gives step-by-step instructions, tips and plenty of further ideas for children ready for more. They allow children to develop at their own pace, to make unhurried discoveries and allow for much repetition.
Age Range: Teachers
Age Range: Teachers
Age AgeRange: Range:9-11 Teachers
Featherstone Education World All Languages Readership: Early Years practitioners, nursery assistants, advisers, students
Featherstone Education World All Languages Readership: Early Years practitioners, nursery assistants, advisers, students
Featherstone Education World All Languages Readership: Early Years practitioners, nursery assistants, advisers, students
Get them talking - get them learning
Get them talking - get them writing
Learning and Playing Indoors
Alistair Bryce-Clegg
Alistair Bryce-Clegg
This book will show adults working with children the huge impact that quality talk experiences can have on children’s lifelong attainment. It will show how the greater the range of language and experience that a child is exposed to, early in their development, the significantly higher the potential for success in both academic and social attainment. A practical book full of real examples, ideas and activities.
An inspirational book that studies the development of mark making skills in relation to ‘talk’ and provides age appropriate activities to use with young children that will have a significant impact on their learning.
An essential guide to creating an inspiring indoor environment
Young children are fascinated by the world around them. They have high levels of natural curiosity and a compelling desire to explore and experience EVERYTHING! As children develop the skills of language and communication it is talk that helps children to make sense of those experiences by asking questions and talking about their thoughts. Talk not only plays a pivotal role in helping children to understand the world around them, it also enables them to learn how to make sense of the role that they play within in it. After all, talk is just the thoughts that you have in your head coming out of your mouth. If you haven’t got many thoughts in your head then you won’t have much to talk about. Alternatively, if you don’t have very much experience of language and talk, you will not be able to express your thoughts. Our role as practitioners is to create a wealth of learning opportunities and experiences that will fill children’s heads with thoughts and questions and then support them in acquiring the language to be able to communicate those thoughts to make sense of their world and be understood. Alistair Bryce-Clegg was head teacher of a very successful three-form entry infant school and Early Years Unit for 10 years. Alongside his headship he worked an EYFS consultant working with a diverse range of settings to help them to enhance their EYFS practice. In 2009 Alistair left headship and went into full time consultancy. He has written on the subject of EYFS for a wide variety of publications. Alistair’s work with settings is based on leading by example and not just ‘telling’. In September 2010 he set up a blog where he posts examples of the work that he does alongside activity ideas, planning formats and policies. The blog is constantly updated with new ideas and initiatives. You can find out more at: abcdoes.com
There is so much that you can do with children to get them ready to write. Mark making development in boys is statistically slower and less successful than girls. Alistair believes that this has a small part to do with physical development and more to do with appropriate understanding and the planning of engaging activities. His book will help practitioners not only to understand the development stages of becoming a mark maker but are also provide tried and tested activities and interventions to use. Using these techniques he believes they will see a significant difference in progress for boys and girls! As the content is appropriate to stage of development and not age of child it is aimed at children of all ages - from the point that they begin to make marks. An accessible theory into practice book backed up with a ‘how to’ section which contains real examples of effective initiatives based on case studies in a variety of settings. Alistair Bryce-Clegg was head teacher of a very successful three-form entry infant school and Early Years Unit for 10 years. Alongside his headship he worked an EYFS consultant working with a diverse range of settings to help them to enhance their EYFS practice. In 2009 Alistair left headship and went into full time consultancy. He is now the proud owner of ABC Does...Ltd? ?Alistair’s experience and expertise has meant that he has been invited to work with individuals, settings and Local Authorities both Nationally and Internationally. He has written on the subject of EYFS for a wide variety of publications. Alistair’s work with settings is based on leading by example and not just ‘telling’. In September 2010 he set up a blog where he posts examples of the work that he does alongside activity ideas, planning formats and policies. The blog is constantly updated with new ideas and initiatives. You can find out more at: abcdoes.com January 2013 • 297 x 210mm • Paperback • 9781408163924 • AU$17.99
Age Range: Teachers Featherstone Education World All Languages Readership: Early Years practitioners, parents, child minders
Kirstine Beeley and Alistair Bryce-Clegg are experienced primary and early years practitioners (and in Alistair’s case 10 years as a headteacher too), who are now established early years training consultants working with local authorities across the UK. This unique combination of experience both within the classroom and in the training circuit has given them both access to loads of fantastic ideas. They both see this range as a way of sharing not only the ideas which they have developed themselves over the years but a chance to pass on some of the great ideas they have picked up from others too.
Age Range: Teachers Featherstone Education World All Languages Readership: Early Years practitioners, parents, child minders
anuary 2013 • 170 x 245mm • Paperback • 9781408159866 • AU$22.99
Kirstine Beeley and Alistair Bryce-Clegg are experienced primary and early years practitioners (and in Alistair’s case 10 years as a headteacher too), who are now established early years training consultants working with local authorities across the UK. This unique combination of experience both within the classroom and in the training circuit has given them both access to loads of fantastic ideas. They both see this range as a way of sharing not only the ideas which they have developed themselves over the years but a chance to pass on some of the great ideas they have picked up from others too. January 2013 • 170 x 245mm • Paperback • 9781408159835 • AU$22.99
Terry Gould, Kathy Coates-Mohammed, Judith Brierley This lively book will guide you in planning, stimulating and organising role play inside and out. Part 1 discussed why role play is important. Part 2 presents activities suitable for a range of role play situations. There are ideas for materials, equipment and locations, including advice on making the most of limited resources. Role Play is an important part of every child’s entitlement. This lively book will guide you in planning, stimulating and organising role play inside and out. Part 1 discussed why role play is important. Part 2 presents activities suitable for a range of role play situations. There are ideas for materials, equipment and locations, including advice on making the most of limited resources. Unlock your imagination and help your children to bring out what’s inside!
50 Fantastic things to do with paint
Kirstine Beeley & Alistair Bryce-Clegg Each page of 50 Fantastic Things to Do with Paint gives step-by-step instructions, tips and plenty of further ideas for children ready for more
January 2013 • 297 x 210mm • Paperback • 9781408155493 • AU$45.00
50 Fantastic things to do with squidgy stuff Kirstine Beeley & Alistair Bryce-Clegg
Packed full of inspiring activities which reinvigorate and extend traditional areas of early years provision, 50 Fantastic Things to do with Squidgy Stuff is a must have for pre-schools and early primary
This book offers practical ideas on differentiation for young children with special needs as well as tips on what to look and listen for. The experiences suggested in this book will help young children to grow and develop through a range of both planned and informal activities, many of which the reader will already be familiar with.
Age Range: Teachers Featherstone Education World All Languages Readership: Early Years practitioners, parents, child minders
Kirstine Beeley and Alistair Bryce-Clegg are experienced primary and early years practitioners (and in Alistair’s case 10 years as a headteacher too), who are now established early years training consultants working with local authorities across the UK. This unique combination of experience both within the classroom and in the training circuit has given them both access to loads of fantastic ideas. They both see this range as a way of sharing not only the ideas which they have developed themselves over the years but a chance to pass on some of the great ideas they have picked up from others too. January 2013 • 170 x 245mm • Paperback • 9781408159842 • AU$22.99
Each activity features easy to follow step-by- step instructions with additional ideas on how to extend the activities inside and outdoors. The learning possibilities are clearly identified and practitioners can see at a glance what the children will get out of the activity.
Age Range: Teachers Featherstone Education World All Languages Readership: Early Years practitioners, parents, child minders
Kirstine Beeley and Alistair Bryce-Clegg are experienced primary and early years practitioners (and in Alistair’s case 10 years as a headteacher too), who are now established early years training consultants working with local authorities across the UK. This unique combination of experience both within the classroom and in the training circuit has given them both access to loads of fantastic ideas. They both see this range as a way of sharing not only the ideas which they have developed themselves over the years but a chance to pass on some of the great ideas they have picked up from others too. January 2013 • 170 x 245mm • Paperback • 9781408159859 • AU$19.99
January 2013 • 297 x 210mm • Paperback • 9781408163931 • AU$17.99
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Teacher Resources: Featherstone Xxxxx
Andrew Brodie Xxxxx
Bang up to date, this exciting series of books coming in February 2013, will help early years practitioners integrate the latest areas of learning, planning and day to day activities. Owing to the fun, practical nature of the activities it is suitable for a wide range of settings, including schools, pre-schools, childminders and nurseries.
Creative Planning in the Early Years: Castles and Dragons Lucy Peet
January 2013 • 297 x 210mm • Paperback • 9781408173930 • AU$29.99
January 2013 • 297 x 210mm • Paperback • 9781408173954 • AU$29.99
Age Range: Parents Andrew Brodie World All Languages Readership: Parents, carers, teachers
Lucy Peet
Through the seasonal theme of spring, children will be involved in playing and exploring, active learning and creating and thinking critically. Each book contains six weeks of highly detailed planning with an activity for each specific area of learning. A unique feature of the series is the differentiation - activities are pitched at expected, emerging and exceeding levels so the practitioner can meet the needs of all children.
January 2013 • 297 x 210mm • Paperback • 9781408173923 • AU$29.99
January 2013 • 297 x 210mm • Paperback • 9781408173947 • AU$29.99
Aimed at helping parents prepare their child for the huge milestone of starting ‘big school’, this practical, jargon-free guide includes lots of ideas on supporting learning in the early years as well as vital information on the process of choosing a school and then handy tips on how to make sure your child settles in.Kirstine Beeley has a unique perspective on this as she is an ex early years and primary school teacher and the mother of a five year old who has just started primary school himself. This easy to read book features practical, professional and personal experience as well as answering all those questions that parents frequently ask about the transition process.
Improving Punctuation Series
Andrew Brodie and Jan Brodie
Featherstone Education World All Languages Readership: Teachers
Age Range: Various Bloomsbury Childrens World All Languages Readership: Parents, guardians, teachers.
Molly Potter has taught for 11 years in middle schools as a class teacher and Science co-ordinator. She now works as a SRE (Sex and Relationships Education) Development Worker supporting primary schools in the development of their SRE programme and policy. She has produced a variety of PSHE related resources for use in primary classrooms. She thoroughly enjoys writing teacher materials and prides herself on being able to spice up any learning objective however boring it might appear at first! Ages 5-7 • February 2013 • 210 x 297mm • 9781408181300 • AU$35.00 Ages 7-9 • February 2013 • 210 x 297mm • 9781408181317 • AU$35.00 Ages 9-11 • February 2013 • 210 x 297mm • 9781408181966 • AU$35.00
Improving Vocabulary Series
Andrew Brodie and Jan Brodie
Photocopiable series featuring 15 punctuation targets accompanied by differentiated worksheets
Series of photocopiable books to use both as a tool for extending vocabulary and as a stimulus for speaking and listening activities
Photocopiable series featuring 15 punctuation targets, which can be displayed on the whiteboard, accompanied by three differentiated worksheet - one sheet at lower ability pupils, one aimed at the middle range and one for higher ability. Series covers all aspects of punctuation and sentence structure, ranging from the use of capital letters and full stops to the use of speech marks, quotation marks, apostrophes and bracketing commas.
Each book will feature sets of illustration cards together with matching word cards, becoming increasingly complex throughout the series. Teachers will use the cards as the focus for discussion sessions, in which they will ask the pupils to identify the illustration which best represents each word. Pupils will be encouraged to explain why they feel that word is most appropriate. Pupils will use the cards to play matching games.
Andrew Brodie has extensive experience as a writer of educational materials. He was a teacher for many year and a headteacher over a period of 12 years. He still teaches on a regular basis. Jan Brodie, consultant for the series, is a special needs coordinator in a primary school. She has experience and a range of qualifications in special needs teaching, including the teaching of dyslexic children. Ages 7-8 • August 2012 • 297 x 210mm • 9781408173985 • AU$39.99 Ages 8-9 • August 2012 • 297 x 210mm • 9781408173992 • AU$39.99 Ages 9-10 • August 2012 • 297 x 210mm • 9781408174005 • AU$39.99 Ages 10-11 • August 2012 • 297 x 210mm • 9781408174012 • AU$39.99
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Learning times tables causes a constant headache for teachers and parents but it is an essential skill for all primary aged children. Molly Potter has come up with a bank of puzzles, activities and games designed to make learning times tables more palatable! This series aims to make times tables learning fun by including a wide variety of methods tackling the same sums. By giving so many methods for learning the same tables, it also enables parents to cover them little and often as is deemed best practice.
January 2013 • 210 x 148mm • Paperback • 9781408159880 • AU$22.99
Lucy Peet is an Early Years Advanced Skills Teacher and Deputy Head Teacher and SENCo of a large successful infant school, which was the first school of any type in Nottinghamshire to attain Outstanding in two consecutive inspections without any areas for improvement! She is also a mother of two children under 5.
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Age Range: Various Andrew Brodie World All Languages Readership: Parents, guardians, teachers.
Kirstine Beeley is an ex-teacher with experience across a range of early years, primary and special needs settings. Now working as an independent trainer and writer, this working mum has a heart felt passion for child-centred early years and primary learning.
Creative Planning in the Early Years: Spring
Through the seasonal theme of autumn, children will be involved in playing and exploring, active learning and creating and thinking critically. Each book contains six weeks of highly detailed planning with an activity for each specific area of learning. A unique feature of the series is the differentiation - activities are pitched at expected, emerging and exceeding levels so the practitioner can meet the needs of all children.
Molly Potter
The perpetual problem of encouraging children to learn their tables can be a difficult one for parents (and teachers) to solve. These books aim to make times tables learning fun by including a wide variety of methods tackling the same sums
Aimed at helping parents prepare their child for the huge milestone of starting ‘big school’, this practical, jargon-free guide includes lots of ideas on supporting learning in the early years as well as vital information on the process of choosing a school and then handy tips on how to make sure your child settles in
Featherstone Education World All Languages Readership: Teachers
Lucy Peet
Brilliant Ideas for Times Tables Practice Series
Kirstine Beeley
Lucy Peet
Through the topic-based approach pirates and seaside, children will be involved in playing and exploring, active learning and creating and thinking critically. Each book contains six weeks of highly detailed planning with an activity for each specific area of learning. A unique feature of the series is the differentiation - activities are pitched at expected, emerging and exceeding levels so the practitioner can meet the needs of all children.
Creative Planning in the Early Years: Autumn
Featherstone Education World All Languages Readership: Teachers
Help your child sail through to big school!
Creative Planning in the Early Years: Pirates and Seaside
Through the topic-based approach of castles and dragons, children will be involved in playing and exploring, active learning and creating and thinking critically. Each book contains six weeks of highly detailed planning with an activity for each specific area of learning. A unique feature of the series is the differentiation - activities are pitched at expected, emerging and exceeding levels so the practitioner can meet the needs of all children.
Featherstone Education World All Languages Readership: Teachers
Parent’s Survival Guide to Starting School
Age Range: Various Andrew Brodie World All Languages Readership: Parents, guardians, teachers.
Andrew Brodie has extensive experience as a writer of educational materials. He was a teacher for many year and a headteacher over a period of 12 years. He still teaches on a regular basis. Jan Brodie, consultant for the series, is a special needs coordinator in a primary school. She has experience and a range of qualifications in special needs teaching, including the teaching of dyslexic children. Ages 5-6 • January 2013 • 297 x 210mm • 9781408174029 • AU$39.99 Ages 6-7 • January 2013 • 297 x 210mm • 9781408174036 • AU$39.99 Ages 7-8 • January 2013 • 297 x 210mm • 9781408174043 • AU$39.99 Ages 8-9 • January 2013 • 297 x 210mm • 9781408174050 • AU$39.99 Ages 9-10 • January 2013 • 297 x 210mm • 9781408174067 • AU$39.99 Ages 10-11 • January 2013 • 297 x 210mm • 9781408174074 • AU$39.99
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Teacher Resources: Featherstone Xxxxx
Andrew Brodie Xxxxx
Bang up to date, this exciting series of books coming in February 2013, will help early years practitioners integrate the latest areas of learning, planning and day to day activities. Owing to the fun, practical nature of the activities it is suitable for a wide range of settings, including schools, pre-schools, childminders and nurseries.
Creative Planning in the Early Years: Castles and Dragons Lucy Peet
January 2013 • 297 x 210mm • Paperback • 9781408173930 • AU$29.99
January 2013 • 297 x 210mm • Paperback • 9781408173954 • AU$29.99
Age Range: Parents Andrew Brodie World All Languages Readership: Parents, carers, teachers
Lucy Peet
Through the seasonal theme of spring, children will be involved in playing and exploring, active learning and creating and thinking critically. Each book contains six weeks of highly detailed planning with an activity for each specific area of learning. A unique feature of the series is the differentiation - activities are pitched at expected, emerging and exceeding levels so the practitioner can meet the needs of all children.
January 2013 • 297 x 210mm • Paperback • 9781408173923 • AU$29.99
January 2013 • 297 x 210mm • Paperback • 9781408173947 • AU$29.99
Aimed at helping parents prepare their child for the huge milestone of starting ‘big school’, this practical, jargon-free guide includes lots of ideas on supporting learning in the early years as well as vital information on the process of choosing a school and then handy tips on how to make sure your child settles in.Kirstine Beeley has a unique perspective on this as she is an ex early years and primary school teacher and the mother of a five year old who has just started primary school himself. This easy to read book features practical, professional and personal experience as well as answering all those questions that parents frequently ask about the transition process.
Improving Punctuation Series
Andrew Brodie and Jan Brodie
Featherstone Education World All Languages Readership: Teachers
Age Range: Various Bloomsbury Childrens World All Languages Readership: Parents, guardians, teachers.
Molly Potter has taught for 11 years in middle schools as a class teacher and Science co-ordinator. She now works as a SRE (Sex and Relationships Education) Development Worker supporting primary schools in the development of their SRE programme and policy. She has produced a variety of PSHE related resources for use in primary classrooms. She thoroughly enjoys writing teacher materials and prides herself on being able to spice up any learning objective however boring it might appear at first! Ages 5-7 • February 2013 • 210 x 297mm • 9781408181300 • AU$35.00 Ages 7-9 • February 2013 • 210 x 297mm • 9781408181317 • AU$35.00 Ages 9-11 • February 2013 • 210 x 297mm • 9781408181966 • AU$35.00
Improving Vocabulary Series
Andrew Brodie and Jan Brodie
Photocopiable series featuring 15 punctuation targets accompanied by differentiated worksheets
Series of photocopiable books to use both as a tool for extending vocabulary and as a stimulus for speaking and listening activities
Photocopiable series featuring 15 punctuation targets, which can be displayed on the whiteboard, accompanied by three differentiated worksheet - one sheet at lower ability pupils, one aimed at the middle range and one for higher ability. Series covers all aspects of punctuation and sentence structure, ranging from the use of capital letters and full stops to the use of speech marks, quotation marks, apostrophes and bracketing commas.
Each book will feature sets of illustration cards together with matching word cards, becoming increasingly complex throughout the series. Teachers will use the cards as the focus for discussion sessions, in which they will ask the pupils to identify the illustration which best represents each word. Pupils will be encouraged to explain why they feel that word is most appropriate. Pupils will use the cards to play matching games.
Andrew Brodie has extensive experience as a writer of educational materials. He was a teacher for many year and a headteacher over a period of 12 years. He still teaches on a regular basis. Jan Brodie, consultant for the series, is a special needs coordinator in a primary school. She has experience and a range of qualifications in special needs teaching, including the teaching of dyslexic children. Ages 7-8 • August 2012 • 297 x 210mm • 9781408173985 • AU$39.99 Ages 8-9 • August 2012 • 297 x 210mm • 9781408173992 • AU$39.99 Ages 9-10 • August 2012 • 297 x 210mm • 9781408174005 • AU$39.99 Ages 10-11 • August 2012 • 297 x 210mm • 9781408174012 • AU$39.99
Primary.indd 38-39
Learning times tables causes a constant headache for teachers and parents but it is an essential skill for all primary aged children. Molly Potter has come up with a bank of puzzles, activities and games designed to make learning times tables more palatable! This series aims to make times tables learning fun by including a wide variety of methods tackling the same sums. By giving so many methods for learning the same tables, it also enables parents to cover them little and often as is deemed best practice.
January 2013 • 210 x 148mm • Paperback • 9781408159880 • AU$22.99
Lucy Peet is an Early Years Advanced Skills Teacher and Deputy Head Teacher and SENCo of a large successful infant school, which was the first school of any type in Nottinghamshire to attain Outstanding in two consecutive inspections without any areas for improvement! She is also a mother of two children under 5.
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Age Range: Various Andrew Brodie World All Languages Readership: Parents, guardians, teachers.
Kirstine Beeley is an ex-teacher with experience across a range of early years, primary and special needs settings. Now working as an independent trainer and writer, this working mum has a heart felt passion for child-centred early years and primary learning.
Creative Planning in the Early Years: Spring
Through the seasonal theme of autumn, children will be involved in playing and exploring, active learning and creating and thinking critically. Each book contains six weeks of highly detailed planning with an activity for each specific area of learning. A unique feature of the series is the differentiation - activities are pitched at expected, emerging and exceeding levels so the practitioner can meet the needs of all children.
Molly Potter
The perpetual problem of encouraging children to learn their tables can be a difficult one for parents (and teachers) to solve. These books aim to make times tables learning fun by including a wide variety of methods tackling the same sums
Aimed at helping parents prepare their child for the huge milestone of starting ‘big school’, this practical, jargon-free guide includes lots of ideas on supporting learning in the early years as well as vital information on the process of choosing a school and then handy tips on how to make sure your child settles in
Featherstone Education World All Languages Readership: Teachers
Lucy Peet
Brilliant Ideas for Times Tables Practice Series
Kirstine Beeley
Lucy Peet
Through the topic-based approach pirates and seaside, children will be involved in playing and exploring, active learning and creating and thinking critically. Each book contains six weeks of highly detailed planning with an activity for each specific area of learning. A unique feature of the series is the differentiation - activities are pitched at expected, emerging and exceeding levels so the practitioner can meet the needs of all children.
Creative Planning in the Early Years: Autumn
Featherstone Education World All Languages Readership: Teachers
Help your child sail through to big school!
Creative Planning in the Early Years: Pirates and Seaside
Through the topic-based approach of castles and dragons, children will be involved in playing and exploring, active learning and creating and thinking critically. Each book contains six weeks of highly detailed planning with an activity for each specific area of learning. A unique feature of the series is the differentiation - activities are pitched at expected, emerging and exceeding levels so the practitioner can meet the needs of all children.
Featherstone Education World All Languages Readership: Teachers
Parent’s Survival Guide to Starting School
Age Range: Various Andrew Brodie World All Languages Readership: Parents, guardians, teachers.
Andrew Brodie has extensive experience as a writer of educational materials. He was a teacher for many year and a headteacher over a period of 12 years. He still teaches on a regular basis. Jan Brodie, consultant for the series, is a special needs coordinator in a primary school. She has experience and a range of qualifications in special needs teaching, including the teaching of dyslexic children. Ages 5-6 • January 2013 • 297 x 210mm • 9781408174029 • AU$39.99 Ages 6-7 • January 2013 • 297 x 210mm • 9781408174036 • AU$39.99 Ages 7-8 • January 2013 • 297 x 210mm • 9781408174043 • AU$39.99 Ages 8-9 • January 2013 • 297 x 210mm • 9781408174050 • AU$39.99 Ages 9-10 • January 2013 • 297 x 210mm • 9781408174067 • AU$39.99 Ages 10-11 • January 2013 • 297 x 210mm • 9781408174074 • AU$39.99
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Xxxxx the buggers to: Getting
Getting the buggers Xxxxx to:
This innovative series provides teaching practitioners with a wealth of practical advice for use in a variety of educational settings.
Also available in this series:
Age Range: 9-11
Continuum World All Languages Readership: Teachers
Continuum World All Languages Readership: Teachers
Continuum World All Languages Readership: Teachers
Getting the Buggers to Learn 2nd Edition
Getting the Buggers to Behave
Getting the Buggers to Add Up
‘If I had to choose just one book to teach best practice for learning across the curriculum, then Getting the Buggers to Learn would be a hot contender. It is also an excellent resource for any thinking skills programme ... I wish I had had access to this book when I developed a research model for students at my school ... The book is clearly structured and sequenced [and] it is easy to navigate your way round and find information quickly ... Don’t walk, run to your local bookshop and order a copy of this book immediately.’ Teacher review.
The fourth edition of this bestselling book includes new material for early years and further education (FE) practitioners, and those working in the toughest schools.
The third edition of this bestselling book for teachers of secondary mathematics has been brought right up to date and benefits from an extra teacher voice. Together, the authors show how active learning and introducing an element of surprise can bring mathematics alive.
Duncan Grey
The new edition of this an invaluable guide for teachers, contains a variety of strategies to develop students’ learning skills. Covering everything from traditional learning approaches to more innovative methods, such as how technology and the media can be used to great effect, Duncan Grey writes accessibly and entertainingly. Brimming with top tips and innovative advice, this book will prove extraordinarily helpful to teachers everywhere. This edition features fully-updated sections on assessment, teaching and learning styles and thinking skills. Available • 216 x 138mm • Paperback • 9781847061195 • AU$35.00
Sue Cowley
‘It’s been over a decade since I sat down in a small back bedroom in Somerset and wrote this book. Since then, I’ve been fortunate enough to work with literally thousands of people in the world of education. Through all these experiences, I’ve picked up loads more great ideas about how to manage behaviour. I’ve also gained an insight into what works in different settings, with different young people, and for different kinds of staff. The basic tenets of this book remain faithful to the original. What I’ve done though is adapt and develop the ideas so that they apply to more practitioners, in more diverse situations: to those working in early years and further education, as well as primary and secondary schools. And for those of you working in the most challenging schools or colleges, I’ve included a new section on coping in really difficult circumstances. I’ve also taken advantage of new developments in the world of technology. So, there’s a companion website offering you extra material, links and ideas.’ Sue Cowley
216 x 138mm • Paperback • 9780826473349 • AU$35.00
216 x 138mm • Paperback • 9780826473325 • AU$35.00
216 x 138mm • Paperback • 9780826492814 • AU$35.00
216 x 138mm • Paperback • 9780826499738 • AU$35.00
216 x 138mm • Paperback • 9781847060570 • AU$36.99
216 x 138mm • Paperback • 9781441171306 • AU$35.00
216 x 138mm • Paperback • 9780826497581 • AU$35.00
216 x 138mm • Paperback • 9780826473974 • AU$35.00
216 x 138mm • Paperback • 9780826473349 • AU$36.99
216 x 138mm • Paperback • 9780826473325 • AU$36.99
216 x 138mm • Paperback • 9780826492494 • AU$35.00
216 x 138mm • Paperback • 9781441198556 • AU$35.00
Mike Ollerton
With a firm focus on problem solving, independent exploration, thinking skills and applying maths to real-life situations, this book contains new ideas, anecdotes and strategies including brand new chapters on functional mathematics, how to make best use of assessment, and teacher and curriculum development. Brimming with useful tips and inspirational advice on every aspect of teaching, this book is essential reading for maths teachers at any stage of their career. Mike Ollerton taught for 25 years in schools and 10 years in teacher training. He is now a freelance consultant based in the UK. Available • 216 x 138mm • Paperback • 9781441122391 • AU$35.00
Available • 216 x 138mm • Paperback • 9781441173140 • AU$35.00
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Xxxxx the buggers to: Getting
Getting the buggers Xxxxx to:
This innovative series provides teaching practitioners with a wealth of practical advice for use in a variety of educational settings.
Also available in this series:
Age Range: 9-11
Continuum World All Languages Readership: Teachers
Continuum World All Languages Readership: Teachers
Continuum World All Languages Readership: Teachers
Getting the Buggers to Learn 2nd Edition
Getting the Buggers to Behave
Getting the Buggers to Add Up
‘If I had to choose just one book to teach best practice for learning across the curriculum, then Getting the Buggers to Learn would be a hot contender. It is also an excellent resource for any thinking skills programme ... I wish I had had access to this book when I developed a research model for students at my school ... The book is clearly structured and sequenced [and] it is easy to navigate your way round and find information quickly ... Don’t walk, run to your local bookshop and order a copy of this book immediately.’ Teacher review.
The fourth edition of this bestselling book includes new material for early years and further education (FE) practitioners, and those working in the toughest schools.
The third edition of this bestselling book for teachers of secondary mathematics has been brought right up to date and benefits from an extra teacher voice. Together, the authors show how active learning and introducing an element of surprise can bring mathematics alive.
Duncan Grey
The new edition of this an invaluable guide for teachers, contains a variety of strategies to develop students’ learning skills. Covering everything from traditional learning approaches to more innovative methods, such as how technology and the media can be used to great effect, Duncan Grey writes accessibly and entertainingly. Brimming with top tips and innovative advice, this book will prove extraordinarily helpful to teachers everywhere. This edition features fully-updated sections on assessment, teaching and learning styles and thinking skills. Available • 216 x 138mm • Paperback • 9781847061195 • AU$35.00
Sue Cowley
‘It’s been over a decade since I sat down in a small back bedroom in Somerset and wrote this book. Since then, I’ve been fortunate enough to work with literally thousands of people in the world of education. Through all these experiences, I’ve picked up loads more great ideas about how to manage behaviour. I’ve also gained an insight into what works in different settings, with different young people, and for different kinds of staff. The basic tenets of this book remain faithful to the original. What I’ve done though is adapt and develop the ideas so that they apply to more practitioners, in more diverse situations: to those working in early years and further education, as well as primary and secondary schools. And for those of you working in the most challenging schools or colleges, I’ve included a new section on coping in really difficult circumstances. I’ve also taken advantage of new developments in the world of technology. So, there’s a companion website offering you extra material, links and ideas.’ Sue Cowley
216 x 138mm • Paperback • 9780826473349 • AU$35.00
216 x 138mm • Paperback • 9780826473325 • AU$35.00
216 x 138mm • Paperback • 9780826492814 • AU$35.00
216 x 138mm • Paperback • 9780826499738 • AU$35.00
216 x 138mm • Paperback • 9781847060570 • AU$36.99
216 x 138mm • Paperback • 9781441171306 • AU$35.00
216 x 138mm • Paperback • 9780826497581 • AU$35.00
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Mike Ollerton
With a firm focus on problem solving, independent exploration, thinking skills and applying maths to real-life situations, this book contains new ideas, anecdotes and strategies including brand new chapters on functional mathematics, how to make best use of assessment, and teacher and curriculum development. Brimming with useful tips and inspirational advice on every aspect of teaching, this book is essential reading for maths teachers at any stage of their career. Mike Ollerton taught for 25 years in schools and 10 years in teacher training. He is now a freelance consultant based in the UK. Available • 216 x 138mm • Paperback • 9781441122391 • AU$35.00
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