Thursday 31 March 2011

Paul Bright: I'm not going out there!

I'm underneath the bed, Hardly poking out my head. It's a squeeze and hurts my knees, But I don't care. Can you guess, do you know, Why I whisper soft and low? Something out there is very scary. And it's coming this way.

Paul Bright: Under the bed

A fabulous book about the monsters who live under the bed. These monsters are a great variety of greedy, sleepy and just plain cowardly. By the end of the book they have all run away scared by the frightening creature IN the bed.

Wednesday 30 March 2011

Julia Donaldson: The Troll

The Troll longs for a juicy goat to eat – but he's stuck with boring old fish for supper. Bother! Meanwhile, Hank Chief and his pirate crew love fish, but without a decent recipe their slimy, soggy dinner is even worse. If only they could find their buried treasure and pay for a ship's cook . . . but it seems they’ve sailed to the wrong island. Again.

Nick Park: Wallace and Gromit in A Grand Day Out

When hare-brained inventor Wallace discovers there's no cheese in the house, he sets about building a rocket to take him and his trusty dog, Gromit, to the Moon - knowing the Moon is made of cheese.

G Andreae & R Ayto: Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs: Missing Treasure!

This time, Flinn is hot on the trail of some stolen treasure and he knows exactly who's to blame. With the help of his friends and Captain Gurgleguts, fearless Flinn tracks the rotten crew to the Lost Island. So far, so good, but Flinn and his pals hadn't reckoned on the dinosaur's secret weapon – the Giganotosaurus, T-Rex's cousin and the biggest dino the world has ever known!

Saturday 26 March 2011

G Andreae & R Ayto: Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs

Flinn is at school looking in the art cupboard for some coloured pens to finish off his dinosaur drawing when he stumbles upon Captain Stubble, a real live Pirate Captain! He tells Flinn that his ship, the Acorn, has been stolen and that he needs Flinn to help him rescue it back. Stubble makes Flinn the captain and they sail away on an old pirate ship...they finally find the Acorn but, to their horror, realise it's been stolen by PIRATE DINOSAURS!