Tuesday, 28 December 2010
Hilary McKay: Charlie and the Tooth Fairy
Charlie has four wobbly teeth. He can hardly wait to put them under his pillow for the tooth fairy. If only there was a way to make them fall out faster...
Saturday, 25 December 2010
Jan Burchett & Sara Vogler: Gargoylz save Christmas
Santa’s elves have been struck down with the dreaded Sneez Disease on Christmas Eve. Who will help out on the busiest night of the year? Luckily Max and Ben with the help, or sometimes hindrance, of Santa’s special Gargoyle, are ready to lend a hand. But, as the boys should know by now, nothing is straightforward when a gargoyle’s on the loose, particularly on an occasion as important as Christmas!
Friday, 24 December 2010
Mary Pope Osborne: Das magische Baumhaus 2 - Der geheimnisvolle Ritter
Ein rätselhaftes Schloss taucht plötzlich aus dem dichten Nebel auf. Philipp und Anne stockt der Atem. Wo hat sie das magische Baumhaus dieses Mal hingewirbelt? Was mag sich hinter den steinernen Mauern wohl verbergen? Und wo ist der geheimnisvolle Ritter, der kurz zuvor ihren Weg gekreuzt hat? Eine abenteuerliche Suche beginnt...
Friday, 17 December 2010
Mary Pope Osborne: Das magische Baumhaus 8 - Abenteuer auf dem Mond
Der Mond scheint hell über dem magischen Baumhaus. So spät sind Philipp und Anne noch nie hier gewesen. Aber wohin sie das Baumhaus bei dieser aufregenden Reise trägt, hätten sich die beiden nicht in ihren kühnsten Träumen ausgemalt. Denn ein ganz und gar außerirdisches Abenteuer erwartet Philip und Anne: ihr erster Spaziergang auf dem Mond.
Wednesday, 15 December 2010
Hilary McKay: Charlie & the big snow
Tuesday, 30 November 2010
Free reading
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
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
Thursday, 30 September 2010
Purple books
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!
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
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.
Saturday, 31 July 2010
Sunday, 18 July 2010
Brian Moses: Walking with my Iguana
Paul Cookson, Michael Rosen, Andrew Fusek Peters, Pie Corbett, Wes Magee, and John Rice are just some of the outstanding poets that are included, and strongly represented are poets and poems from ethnic minorities whose work is more readily appreciated in performance than on the printed page eg John Agard, Valerie Bloom, Debjani Chatterjee and Adisa.
Saturday, 17 July 2010
Ben Galbraith: The three fishing brothers Gruff
Once upon a time, there lived three mean and greedy brothers called Gruff. They fish and fish until Poverty Bay is empty, and so resolve to find somewhere else to catch their fish. But watch out, Minke Whale, the Guardian of the Ocean isn't happy and the neither are the townspeople of Poverty Bay! This brilliantly conceived text is based loosely on The Three Billy Goats Gruff.
Eric Hill: Where's Spot?
Where's Spot is the ultimate, must-have Spot book: with its bold illustrations, simple, large text and plenty of flaps to lift, pull and tug as the reader tries to track down the naughty little dog. Great fun for children, and just as much fun for adults who enjoy sharing a book with their child, Where's Spot is something of a classic.
Allan Ahlberg & Raymond Briggs: A bit more Bert
Tuesday, 13 July 2010
Francesca Simon: Horrid Henry's Underpants
Four hilarious new stories, enhanced by Miranda Richardson's manic reading and really horrid music and sound effects, in which Horrid Henry hits on a brilliant way to write thank you letters, negotiates over vegetables, competes with Perfect Peter over which of them is sickest, and finds himself wearing the wrong underpants, with dreadful consequences.
Monday, 12 July 2010
Francesca Simon: Horrid Henry and The Abominable Snowman
Building a snowman brings out Henry's competitive streak; he sets up his Monstrous Makeovers business to rival Moody Margaret's Miraculous Makeovers; things go badly wrong when a famous author comes to school; and he thinks 'You'll all be sorry when I'm dead' and spends a rainy day writing his will.
Tuesday, 6 July 2010
Steve Smallman and Joelle Dreidemy: The lamb who came for dinner
Wednesday, 30 June 2010
Thursday, 24 June 2010
Rex Stone: Dinosaur Cove 3 - March of the armoured beasts
Jamie and Tom discover some fresh dinosaur footprints and decide to do some tracking. It looks as if a large herd are moving towards the river, but as the boys approach the marshy area they notice some smaller footprints going a different way. They discover a baby Ankylosaurus in the mud - it's thrashing around and has sunk up to its middle. The baby dino is well and truly stuck. The boys have to find a way of saving the little Ankylosaurus. But when its mother appears will she realize they're trying to help? Or will she come at them with her huge clubbed tail?
Tuesday, 22 June 2010
Rex Stone: Dinosaur Cove 2 - Charge of the three-horned monster
Jamie and Tom return to their secret dinosaur world and find their friend Wanna, the Wannanosaurus, waiting for them. They spot what looks like a village in the distance and set off to investigate. On the way they meet a herd of Triceratops and it seems the only way to avoid being trampled is to hitch a ride on their backs. But as they approach the 'village' the boys realize too late that what they thought were huts are in fact termite hills. With insects swarming all over them, the Triceratops charge! Can the boys hang on? Will they fall under the feet of the giant dinosaurs? And how can they get away from the huge, biting termites?
Sunday, 20 June 2010
Saturday, 19 June 2010
David McKee: Not now, Bernard
Wednesday, 16 June 2010
Out and about: Dogball
Tuesday, 15 June 2010
Out and about: The fun race
Friday, 4 June 2010
Rex Stone: Dinosaur Cove 1 - Attack of the Lizard King
When Jamie moves to Dinosaur Cove with his father he's looking forward to doing some fossil hunting on the beach. But when he and his friend, Tom, discover a forgotten cave with fossilised dinosaur footprints, it takes them to another world. The boys meet a small, friendly Wannanosaurus, who leads them further into the prehistoric landscape, past mysterious fungi and strange fruits. But when the ground starts to shudder and the Wannanosaurus runs off, the boys know they're in serious danger. The Tyrannosaurus Rex has spotted them and he's coming their way . . .
Wednesday, 2 June 2010
Alan MacDonald and David Roberts: Dirty Bertie - Mud!
Monday, 31 May 2010
Friday, 28 May 2010
Alan MacDonald and David Roberts: Dirty Bertie - Loo!
Thursday, 13 May 2010
Paul Mason: Destination Detectives - Italy
Friday, 7 May 2010
Jan Burchett, Jan Vogler, and Leighton Noyes: Gargoylz take a trip
Friday, 30 April 2010
Tuesday, 27 April 2010
Lauren Child: Charlie and Lola - Whoops! But it wasn't me
Charlie has built a fabulous prize-winning rocket and has forbidden Lola to touch it. But when Lola finds herself with nothing to do, the temptation is just too great and she goes to get the rocket ... but knocks it on the floor, destroying it. When Charlie finds out he is distraught and wants to know who is to blame. Lola vehemently denies it until she realises the only way to win back Charlie's trust and respect is to own up, apologise and really mean it.
Monday, 26 April 2010
Roger Hargreaves: Mr Topsy-Turvy
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