Wednesday, 15 December 2010

Hilary McKay: Charlie & the big snow

Charlie's waited for snow his whole life - but now it's arrived, his mean mum and teacher won't let him play in it! Luckily, he has a plan to keep it safe...

Tuesday, 30 November 2010

Free reading


Stephen is now allowed to read whatever he likes....

Horrid Henry Jokes
Winnie the Witch Jokes

Frau Holle
Hanna hebt ab

Monday, 8 November 2010

Mary Pope Osborne: Das magische Baumhaus 7 - Im Reich der Mammuts

Eisiger Wind schlägt Philipp und Anne entgegen, als das magische Baumhaus zum Stillstand kommt. Wo sind sie nur diesmal gelandet? Um sie herum ist nichts als Schnee, Eis und karge Felsen. Doch dann entdecken die beiden eine geheimnisvolle Höhle. Was bedeuten die seltsamen Zeichnungen an der Wand? Philip und Anne folgen der Spur, und plötzlich sind sie mitten in einem spannenden Abenteuer im Reich der Mammuts.

Sunday, 31 October 2010

Gold books


A proper bike
The litter queen
Hamid does his best
Diamonds
The blue eye
Mountain Mona
William and the dog
Animal Ancestors
Treasure Hunt

Saturday, 30 October 2010

Mary Pope Osborne: Das magische Baumhaus 6 - Gefahr am Amazonas

Ist das magische Baumhaus etwa geschrumpft? Philipp und Anne wundern sich, dass der Waldboden so weit entfernt von ihnen ist. Auch die Bäume sind plötzlich riesengroß und fremde Geräusche dringen durch die schwüle Luft. Sind die Geschwister tatsächlich im Regenwald gelandet? Auf der Flucht vor Riesen-Ameisen, Spinnen, Piranhas und Krokodilen treiben Philipp und Anne auf dem Amazonas einem neuen Geheimnis entgegen …

Tuesday, 26 October 2010

Mary Pope Osborne: Das magische Baumhaus 5 - Im Land der Samurai

Philipp und Anne können es kaum glauben: Dunkel vermummte Gestalten klettern zum magischen Baumhaus empor. Das können nur japanische Ninja-Kämpfer sein! Die Ninjas weisen den Geschwistern den Weg durch geheimnisvolle Wälder, über reißende Flüsse bis hin zu einer dunklen Höhle. Als plötzlich grimmige Krieger aus der Dämmerung auftauchen, befinden sich Philipp und Anne mitten in einem neuen Abenteuer im Land der Samurai ...

Tuesday, 19 October 2010

JK Rowling: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

A mysterious letter, delivered by the friendly giant Hagrid, wrenches Harry from his dreary, Muggle-ridden existence: "We are pleased to inform you that you have been accepted at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry". Of course, Uncle Vernon yells most unpleasantly, "I AM NOT PAYING FOR SOME CRACKPOT OLD FOOL TO TEACH HIM MAGIC TRICKS!" Soon enough, however, Harry finds himself at Hogwarts with his owl Hedwig ... and that's where the real adventure begins.

Friday, 15 October 2010

Valerie Thomas and Korky Paul: Winnie the witch

Winnie the Witch has many talents! In 'Winnie's Wheels' she magics an old wreck of a car to take herself and Wilbur on holiday and demonstrates some rather unconventional driving skills; in 'Blooming Winnie' she summons the help of the ghost of Great Aunt Winifred in order to control a class of unruly children who have come to see her garden; in 'Winnie's Tea Party' Winnie is playing hostess and showing off her culinary repertoire to her oddball relatives; and in 'Giddy-Up, Winnie!' Winnie and Wilbur head for the local race meeting on a homemade hobby horse - with hilarious results.

Sunday, 10 October 2010

Alan MacDonald and David Roberts: Dirty Bertie

Fleas! Yuck! Worms! Fetch!


Dirty Bertie - the boy with nose-pickingly disgusting habits - is back for another helping of comic chaos!

Thursday, 30 September 2010

Gold books


William and the Pied Piper
Storm Castle

Purple books


Victorian Adventure
Starboy's Surprise
Viking Adventure
Superdog
Freaky fish
Naughty puppy
The Jokers
Mog and the granny

Sunday, 26 September 2010

Valerie Thomas: Winnie the Witch

This collection contains six of Winnie and Wilbur's crazy capers. Meet them in their black house, take a hazardous ride on Winnie's broomstick, join them on a hot and sunny winter's day, find out what happens when Winnie's wand stops working, discover how much chaos a computer can cause and spend a day with them at the seaside! The stories are full of noisy antics: clattering footsteps, colliding broomsticks, clanking washing machines, whirring computers and splashing waves are just some of the wonderful additions to the narration of each story on the accompanying two CDs.

Saturday, 25 September 2010

Roald Dahl: George's Marvellous Medicine

George's grandma has some very odd views. In fact, she's not a very nice person at all. She thinks caterpillars and slugs are delicious and likes to crunch on beetles best of all. George can do nothing right in Grandma's eyes, so when its time for her medicine, he decided to give her a dose of his own special brew.

Saturday, 18 September 2010

Valerie Thomas: Winnie the Witch - Winnie at the Seaside

Winnie decides she needs a seaside break, so she and Wilbur zoom off to the coast. Winnie makes a beeline for the sea to cool down. Wilbur makes a beeline for anywhere other than the sea - he hates water, and can't bear getting wet. Winnie is having so much fun in the water that she doesn't notice her broomstick being washed out to sea. She waves her magic wand in an attempt to get the broomstick back but it doesn't really go according to plan. The mix of magic and mayhem that follows involves a surfer and a whale and, predictably, it's poor Wilbur who gets the worst of things...

Friday, 17 September 2010

Julia Jarman: Kisses are Yuk!

Jack loves getting prizes and cups of all sizes, but if there's one thing he hates... it's being kissed! And with an army of aunts and uncles, there's no getting away from it. What's a boy to do?

Wednesday, 15 September 2010

Mary Pope Osborne: Das magische Baumhaus 1 - Im Tal der Dinosaurier

Philipp und Anne trauen ihren Augen nicht, als sie im Wald ein verborgenes Baumhaus entdecken. Gespannt klettern sie die lange Strickleiter nach oben. Was für ein toller Ausblick! Doch plötzlich beginnt sich das Baumhaus zu drehen. Schneller und schneller! Dann ist alles still. Aber Philipp und Anne sind nicht mehr da, wo sie vorher waren. Sie sind im Tal der Dinosaurier ...

Monday, 6 September 2010

Valerie Thomas: Winnie the Witch - Winnie's crazy capers

This fantastic volume includes three of Winnie and Wilbur's crazy capers:

Winnie's Midnight Dragon:
It's just after midnight. Winnie has gone to bed and is snoring peacefully when Wilbur is woken by a strange noise. He goes downstairs to investigate and, to his horror, discovers a baby dragon squeezing through his cat-flap!

Happy Birthday Winnie!:
It's Winnie's birthday and she's celebrating in style with a garden party. She uses all sorts of magic to invite the guests and transform her garden into the perfect party venue. There are presents to unwrap and games to play but then things start to go wrong when Winnie toots on the magic trumpet that cousin Cuthbert has given her. All her guests disappear!

Winnie's Flying Carpet:
Winnie's sisters have given her a flying carpet but Winnie is struggling to find something nice to say about it in her thank-you letter as the carpet has been more than a little wayward. Winnie decides to give the carpet one last chance but then disaster strikes. The carpet swoops off with poor Wilbur as its unwilling passenger. Winnie tries to catch it but the carpet is too fast for her and it heads straight for a funfair where it subjects Wilbur to a string of crazy rides.

Thursday, 26 August 2010

Quentin Blake: Mister Magnolia

Mister Magnolia has only one boot. He has an old trumpet that goes rooty-toot - and two lovely sisters who play on the flute - but Mister Magnolia has only one boot. In this wittily rhyming picture book, Mister Magnolia has a full and happy life except for one serious omission - a boot. But one day, he receives a mysterious parcel, and at last Mister Magnolia can splash in the puddles with everyone else!

Wednesday, 25 August 2010

John Burningham: Avocado Baby

This story tells about the Hargraves baby, who is born into a very weak family but grows super-strong once its mother begins feeding it mashed avocado.

Tuesday, 24 August 2010

Janet & Allan Ahlberg: Funnybones

This is the first book in the FUNNYBONES series and introduces the skeletons - a big skeleton, a little skeleton and a dog skeleton. They live in a dark dark cellar of a dark dark house on a dark dark hill and so the word repetition continues through this lighthearted story for early readers. The skeletons venture out of their cellar one night to find someone to scare, but everyone is in bed so they amuse themselves by scaring each other and playing with the skeleton animals that live in the zoo.