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Batty and Catty are bragging about their special abilities and
Batty s feelings get hurt. Catty feels bad and decides to make
amends by teaching Batty some new tricks while learning some new
ones herself. Written in verse, this picture book introduces social
and emotional learning (SEL) topics to upper emergent readers. With
pre-reading questions, this book is ideal for guided reading and
builds early literacy skills.
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"Life in Trinidad as described by Mr. Naipaul through the eyes of a
"street arab" in "Miguel Street" is enchanting, mysterious, varied
and richly comic. His happy-go lucky community, in what to the
stranger's eye would be a slum, abounds in eccentric characters:
indeed everyone is eccentric, and tolerant of other eccentrics." -
The ScotsmanLife in Trinidad as described through the eyes of a
street arab.
In this fantastic collection, Waterstones Children's Laureate
Joseph Coelho shows us that poems are made to read OUT LOUD! In
this wittily illustrated anthology of poems, designed to be read
aloud, twenty poems arm children with techniques for lifting poetry
off the page and performing with confidence. Perfect for confident
children and shy readers alike, this book teaches all sorts of
clever ways to performing poetry. Children will learn 20 techniques
for reading aloud by trying out 20 funny and thoughtful original
poems by the much-loved and award-winning performance poet, Joseph
Coelho. There are tongue twisters, poems to project, poems to
whisper, poems to make you laugh. There are poems to perform to a
whole class and others to whisper in somebody's ear. Richly
textured, warm and stylish illustration by Daniel Gray-Barnett
bring each page to life. "Poetry for children is dead. Really? Not
when there are young poets like Joseph Coelho" -Books for Keeps
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