Look forward to bedtime with this richly illustrated treasury of 50 bedtime stories from around the world, each the perfect length to read aloud. There's always time for a bedtime story, so snuggle up and get ready to drift off to the land of nod with this collection of magical tales that includes both well-known classics and lesser-known treasures from Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia and Oceania, North America, the Middle East and Latin America. These folktales and legends, accompanied by enchanting and dream-like illustrations, are each the perfect length for a bedtime story, and will transport children around the world as well as into fantasy lands. The Emperor's New Clothes - Denmark The Bag of Winds - Greece How Cheetah Got His Speed - South Africa The Moon Maiden - Japan The Star Hunt - New Zealand The Crow and the Daylight - North America Aladdin - Syria The Three Dreams - Guatemala Collected and retold by award-winning author Angela McAllister and beautifully illustrated by Anna Shepeta, this anthology will be treasured by story lovers both young and old. The World Full of... series is a collection of beautiful hardback story treasuries. Discover folktales from all around the world or be introduced to some of the world's best-loved writers with these stunning gift books, the perfection addition to any child's library. Also available from the series: A Year Full of Stories, A World Full of Animal Stories, A Stage Full of Shakespeare Stories, A World Full of Dickens Stories, A World Full of Spooky Stories, A Year Full of Celebrations and Festivals, A World Full of Journeys and A World Full of Nature Stories.

Dive deeper into the world of Little People, BIG DREAMS with this beautifully packaged and highly giftable keepsake treasury featuring 50 dreamers from the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy best-selling series. Learn more about each of your favourite dreamers with new in-depth stories, facts and figures in this beautifully-crafted compendium.Each story is rewritten to be appropriate for an older audience. Revisit best-loved figures from the series and some new ones, too, including Frida Kahlo, Coco Chanel, Maya Angelou, Amelia Earhart, David Attenborough, Greta Thunberg, Elton John, John Lennon, Malala Yousafzai, Mindy Kaling, and Prince. From inspiring artists and passionate climate activists to intrepid explorers and groundbreaking musicians, this collection goes further than the original series into the lives of these iconic figures, perfect for curious minds who always want to know more! Printed with gold gilded page edges and with an interior reading ribbon, this luxury keepsake treasury makes the perfect gift for holidays, birthdays, and more. Each of the beautifully written biographies is accompanied by a timeline, featuring extra information, important dates and real photos. Little People, BIG DREAMS is a bestselling series of books and educational games that explore the lives of outstanding people, from designers and artists to scientists and activists. All of them achieved incredible things, yet each began life as a child with a dream. This empowering series offers inspiring messages to children of all ages, in a range of formats. The board books are told in simple sentences, perfect for reading aloud to babies and toddlers. The hardback versions present expanded stories for beginning readers. Boxed gift sets allow you to collect a selection of the books by theme. Paper dolls, learning cards, matching games and other fun learning tools provide even more ways to make the lives of these role models accessible to children. Inspire the next generation of outstanding people who will change the world with Little People, BIG DREAMS!

The Jolly Phonics Pupil Books are write-in pupil books providing fun and engaging lesson activities for young children in their first year of learning to read and write. Jolly Phonics Pupil Book 3: * Builds and consolidates the reading and writing skills taught in Pupil Books 1 and 2. * Covers three main topics: Alternatives, Tricky Words, and Words and Sentences. * Introduces new alternative letter-sound spellings and tricky words, as well as a variety of reading comprehension activities. * Comes with step-by-step lesson plans and comprehensive support, provided in the Jolly Phonics Teacher's Book. This refreshed version of the book is the same as the previous edition in terms of core content, but is enhanced with: * A fresh new look in terms of cover and page designs. * Easier navigation in a variety of ways, including color-coding and contents. * Enhanced transparency in the structure for the corresponding content in The Phonics Handbook. * Alignment of content across the materials for consistency of teaching.

Midge is fascinated by bridges and knows a whole lot about them! She will tell you about the most famous bridges around the world, such as the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. See how she does in the bridge-building challenge at school, where she makes a bridge out of drinking straws and blocks. Will her bridge be strong enough to win the challenge? (Letter-sounds featured: /j/ -ge -dge /u/ o ) How Strong is your Bridge? is part of the Rocket Phonics systematic synthetic phonics programme from Reading Planet. Rocket Phonics ensures that every child achieves phonics success. This fully-decodable Target Practice reading book provides focused practice of a small group of letter-sounds. The book also includes useful notes and activities to support reading in school and at home as well as comprehension questions to check understanding. Reading age: 5-6/Year 1

Can Marv and Maya help Patricia the musician on a fantasy mission to find four missing animals? In order to do so, they will need to do the special chair yoga poses - the eagle, lion, cobra and downward dog. Would you like to join in with the yoga poses, too? (Letter-sounds featured: /o/ (w)a /sh/ -ssi -ci -ti) The Musicians Mission is part of the Rocket Phonics systematic synthetic phonics programme from Reading Planet. Rocket Phonics ensures that every child achieves phonics success. This fully-decodable Target Practice reading book provides focused practice of a small group of letter-sounds. The book also includes useful notes and activities to support reading in school and at home as well as comprehension questions to check understanding. Reading age: 5-6/Year 1

Spot On is spot on! The most popular course in South Africa, Spot On has everything a learner needs in one book. Spot On improves results, makes learning enjoyable, makes teaching a pleasure and is easy to use. The Spot On Teacher’s Guide comes with printable planning material, Formal Assessment Tasks, revision tests and exams.

This 11 plus English book provides practice for fact-finding style questions. Comprehension skills are at the heart of 11 plus and Common Entrance exams and approximately 80% of questions in exams focus on fact-finding. The questions in this book are designed to test a child's ability to extract explicitly stated information from the text to answer questions. This book contains 50 exercises comprising 35 fiction passages and 15 non-fiction passages, each with six questions. For further practice on fact-finding style comprehensions, see 11+ Essentials English: Mini Comprehensions Fact-Finding Book 1, and our 11+ Essentials English Mini-Comprehensions Inferencerange

Engage Literacy is the new reading scheme from Raintree that introduces engaging and contemporary content to motivate and support early readers while providing a reliable and instructional framework. All titles are precisely levelled, with new vocabulary being introduced and reinforced throughout the levels. The Pink book band comprises 10 fiction and 10 non-fiction books at levels 1 and 2.

Teach phonics as you boost essential reading and handwriting skills with these playful, no-prep pages! Each sheet challenges children to form a fun sentence from scrambled words, then copy it with care on a line. Along the way, kids will develop fine motor skills by cutting, gluing, and coloring. Perfect for meaningful seatwork, homework, or learning centers.

Excite your children and give them a firm foundation in phonics. Part of the Bug Club family, Bug Club Phonics aims to help children learn to read by the age of six in a fun and accessible way. Following the order of Letters and Sounds, the Bug Club Phonics programme matches the National Curriculum and Early Learning Goals and ensures children read from books with the sounds they know as they are learning to read. Ideal for home learning. Stan can't catch Jack the robber. He needs to get fit and Vick will help him! Part of the Bug Club reading series used in over 3500 schools Helps your child develop reading fluency and confidence Suitable for children age 4-5 (Reception) Book band: Red A Phonics phase: 3

The only official Minecraft English book for children aged 10-11! Children embark on a Minecraft adventure in each English topic, using their skills and knowledge to complete the tasks and earn rewards. This is a write-in English practice workbook which uses the Minecraft game as a mechanism for practising the key English skills covered in Year 6. Accomplish English activities to help Minecraft characters on their missions Explore different biomes in each topic Earn emeralds as you work through the book, and choose how you spend them Go hardcore with challenging questions

Waterstones Children's Laureate Joseph Coelho presents another brilliant compendium of poetry to read out loud and make you smile! From the fantastic duo behind Poems Aloud comes twenty five original poems designed to be read aloud to project confidence, conjure happiness, make you laugh or cheer others up. Some are odes, some can be said as personal mantras or just poems full of words that you can't help but smile when you hear them. This is a book for any child who wants to build confidence reading aloud, or wants a way to channel their speech and drama confidence. It is a book to foster a love of words and the power that comes with the spoken word. It will show children how speaking a poem aloud has a certain magic, almost like reading a spell. Poems can be read aloud to an audience, muttered quietly to oneself or whispered in the ear of someone who needs to hear some cheerful words.

Bring reading to life with well-known, family favourite characters! Help your child progress at home with Bug Club and Disney decodable readers for phonics phases 1-3. Bug Club captures children's imagination, nurtures lifelong readers, and is proven to work: research shows that after 18 months, children using Bug Club were 11 months ahead of their expected reading age. Bug Club at home will complement children's school learning as they develop comprehension and fluency and provide independent reading practice with fully decodable phonics patterns. Children can engage with extra learning content, and activities at the back of each book - now with their favourite Disney characters! The books all feature our specially designed dyslexia-friendly font and are set on pastel coloured backgrounds to help reduce visual stress. Already used by 1.5 million children in over 3,300 Primary schools in the UK, Bug Club is an ideal solution to help fill in any reading gaps.

The complete and comprehensive way to support your studies and assessments in 2021 and exams in 2022. Get to the heart of every poem with crystal-clear notes, focused analysis and expert summaries. Quickly demystify historical contexts and get to grips with the poems' form, language and structure. Build confidence with unique sections on comparing poems and approaching 'unseen' poems. Power up your essay-writing skills, learn how to write top-grade answers and feel fully ready and equipped to excel in any test or assessment. York Notes are the long-established experts in English Literature, and we take your success seriously. So whether you're studying the AQA Power and Conflict Anthology for GCSE at home, online or in the classroom, York Notes is your best bet for the best grades. Packed with more powerful features than any other guide, this essential AQA Power and Conflict Anthology study companion is easy to use, brimming with essential info and will quickly become your go-to buddy as you navigate your GCSE course, build your confidence, stay motivated and get ready to impress in any test, assessment or exam. To make sure you feel really ready for the unique challenges of assessment and to get the grades you know you deserve, why not use this Study Guide with the York Notes Workbook for the AQA Power and Conflict Anthology? Just search for 9781292236797. Looking for a speedier way to refresh and remember what really matters? Our unique Rapid Revision Cards are fast, fun and have all the answers. Just search now for 9781292273686.

Reinforce learning across a range of subjects with an integrated approach to Language Arts featuring cross-curricular material reflecting life in the Caribbean. - Help students develop their reading and writing skills with a wide range of activities. - Capture the reader's imagination with engaging, full-colour illustrations and accessible, clearly laid out pages. - Encourage independent learning with a variety of stimulating texts.

Dan and his family are going away. But who will look after his pet turtle? And will his pet turtle be safe?

Based on the CBBC TV series, Alphablocks is great for encouraging early readers. This pack contains 4 fiction books - 'Stop That Popcorn!', 'Is it a monster?', 'Look What We Can Do!' and 'Alphablocks Stop Helping!' Suitable for children age 4-5. Bug Club Phonics is a Department for Education-approved phonics teaching programme that gives children a strong foundation in phonics. It uses research-based teaching methods, proven to work. All books are 100% decodable to help today's little readers get started on their journey to reading success. Bug Club Phonics books are ideal for use at home and are a great way to help your child take their first steps towards 'cracking the code' which will enable them to learn to read and spell. Helpful notes on the inside front cover of each book highlight tricky words and give you ideas for before and during reading, and the inside back covers include ideas for delving deeper after reading to check understanding. The packs are matched to the phonics phases children are taught in school by term, from nursery to Year 1: Nursery (EYFS): phase 1 Reception, term 1: phase 2 Reception, term 2: phase 3 Reception, term 3: phase 4 Year 1, term 1: Phase 5 Year 1, term 2: Phase 5/6 Year 1, term 3: Phase 6

Engage Literacy is the new reading scheme from Raintree that introduces engaging and contemporary content to motivate and support early readers while providing a reliable and instructional framework. All titles are precisely levelled, with new vocabulary being introduced and reinforced throughout the levels. This is a non-fiction title in the Green book band, at level 12.

A moving, lyrical picture book about a shy child unlocking the power of their own voice through poetry, with the helping hand of an extra special teacher, written by multi-award winning poet and Waterstones Children's Laureate Joseph Coelho. From the creators of If All The World Were, winner of the 2019 Independent Book Shop Picture Book Award which has been translated into 13 languages, this beautifully illustrated, powerful and heartwarming text shows children that everyone's voice can be powerful and beautiful, however small. Allison Colpoys' gorgeous artwork spills from every page as she shows this most heartwarming of tales. Follow a child who is so shy she doesn't speak. With the encouragement on an enchanting and magical teacher, she writes a poem. But a poem is meant to be read aloud! She musters all her courage, stands at the front of the class and shows her classmates that she does have a voice. And her voice is BEAUTIFUL! The perfect way to encourage empathy in young children and show shy children how to feel brave, this beautiful story will delight readers time and time again.

Rosa Parks stood up for what was right and fair and made a big impact on black people's lives. In this book, you will learn about: Rosa's early life growing up on her grandparents' farm in Alabama, USA; how she sparked off the famous Montgomery bus boycott; and how she went on to become an inspiring spokesperson for equality and human rights in general. (Letter-sounds featured: short /oo/ u /y+oo/ u ) Rosa Parks is part of the Rocket Phonics systematic synthetic phonics programme from Reading Planet. Rocket Phonics ensures that every child achieves phonics success. This fully-decodable Target Practice reading book provides focused practice of a small group of letter-sounds. The book also includes useful notes and activities to support reading in school and at home as well as comprehension questions to check understanding. Reading age: 5-6/Year 1

Join Ruby and Jack in Fairytale Woods as they teach their friend Goldy some facts about fungi. On the way, you'll learn about how mushrooms grow, about different types of fungi and what they need to survive. You'll also learn important rules about picking mushrooms in the wild as many can be poisonous. (Letter-sounds featured: /or/ -our ore ) Fungi Facts with Ruby and Jack is part of the Rocket Phonics systematic synthetic phonics programme from Reading Planet. Rocket Phonics ensures that every child achieves phonics success. This fully-decodable Target Practice reading book provides focused practice of a small group of letter-sounds. The book also includes useful notes and activities to support reading in school and at home as well as comprehension questions to check understanding. Reading age: 5-6/Year 1