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Holiday Boredom Buster (Paperback)
Guy Campbell, Ellen Bailey; Illustrated by Paul Moran, Andy Rowland, Emily Twomey, …
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Suitable for holidays and rainy days, the Holiday Boredom Buster
will fill your days with endless fun. This book is packed with
pictures to colour, doodles to complete and puzzles to solve -
including mazes, spot-the-differences, search-and-finds,
dot-to-dots and tricky brainteasers. So pop your pens and this book
in your backpack wherever you go to fill your holiday with fun.
Other titles in the series: 9781780555676 Are We Nearly There Yet?
9781780556055 The Backpack Activity Book 9781780556062 Amazing Pen
& Paper Games
Explore the ingenious and funny behaviours found in the animal
kingdom. To survive in the animal kingdom, creatures big and small
have developed clever and sometimes surprising ways to stay alive.
Find out how tarantulas shoot arrow-like hairs from their bum when
threatened or how the pearlfish hides inside a sea cucumber's bum
to escape predators. When it comes to survival, anything goes!
Written expert author Dr Ashley Ward, associate professor of Animal
Behaviour at the University of Sydney, Australia, this humorous
four-book series explores a wide range of animal behaviours from
survival skills and animal communication to how animals learn and
adapt to live in the most extreme environments. The Zany Brainy
Animals series combines funny and fascinating facts about the
animal kingdom and include behind the scenes stories in the 'Tales
from the lab' panels about how scientists discover and study the
featured animal behaviours. The amusing text covers key science
topics such as adaptations, evolution and habitats. This series
isn't just a catalogue of fascinating animal facts. By including
the process in which we've found them out this series aims to
inspire readers to pursue careers in the field. Perfect for reader
6+.
Explore the ingenious and funny behaviours found in the animal
kingdom. To survive in the animal kingdom, creatures big and small
have to learn the tips and tricks that will help them survive, find
the best food or just get along with one another. Find out how
meerkat parents teach their babies how to hunt scorpions and how a
clever blue tit figured how to break into milk bottles and taught
all his friends too. Discover how scientists figured out what great
memories chimpanzees have. Written expert author Dr Ashley Ward,
associate professor of Animal Behaviour at the University of
Sydney, Australia, this humorous four-book series explores a wide
range of animal behaviours from survival skills and animal
communication to how animals learn and adapt to live in the most
extreme environments. The Zany Brainy Animals series combines funny
and fascinating facts about the animal kingdom and include behind
the scenes stories in the 'Tales from the lab' panels about how
scientists discover and study the featured animal behaviours. The
amusing text covers key science topics such as adaptations,
evolution and habitats. This series isn't just a catalogue of
fascinating animal facts. By including the process in which we've
found them out this series aims to inspire readers to pursue
careers in the field. Perfect for reader 6+.
Suzi sloth is going on holiday and taking all her friends with her. Sloths are more adventurous than you may think and they plan to travel far and wide - to the busy streets of Delhi, the canals of Amsterdam and even the beaches of Sydney. Pack your passport and get ready for a globetrotting adventure to find Suzi's pals in their new urban jungles.
Test your spotting skills with this exciting search-and-find title. Each colourful page is filled with fun illustrations, hard-to-find sloths and extra bonus items to search for. With ten different sloths, each with a unique, quirky personality, the hunt for the whole gang is an enjoyable and engaging journey.
Collins Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds features exciting
fiction and non-fiction decodable readers to enthuse and inspire
children. They are fully aligned to Letters and Sounds Phases 1-6
and contain notes in the back. The Handbooks provide support in
demonstration and modelling, monitoring comprehension and expanding
vocabulary. Splish and Quack have had enough. Their pond is far too
small to have any fun. They hatch a plan and turn the old tiny pond
into a fun water park! Yellow/Band 3 offers varied sentence
structure and natural language. The focus sounds in this book are:
Adjacent consonants with short vowel phonemes Pages 14 and 15 allow
children to re-visit the content of the book, supporting
comprehension skills, vocabulary development and recall. Reading
notes within the book provide practical support for reading Big Cat
Phonics for Letters and Sounds with children, including a list of
all the sounds and words that the book will cover.
Mum, Dad and Gary Lizard enjoy all of life's moments and new
experiences. From the first day of school to a new bike, the Lizard
family is always busy making new memories.
Big Cat Phonics for Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised has
been developed in collaboration with Wandle Learning Trust and
Little Sutton Primary School. It comprises classroom resources to
support the SSP programme and a range of phonic readers. The 7+
books are designed for children aged 7+ who need more practice to
acquire phonics skills. Get a birds eye view of a bustling town as
you follow a curious barn owl as it soars above the action. There's
so much to see!
Build your child's reading confidence at home with books at the
right level Flash Harriet has a problem. The ostrich eggs at a
nearby farm are being stolen. Without them her father can't do his
famous musical performance, and the farm will have to be sold.
Who's stealing the eggs, and why do they want them? Ruby/Band 14
books give increasing opportunities for children to develop their
skills of inference and deduction. Text type: A mystery story
Curriculum links: Citizenship This book has been quizzed for
Accelerated Reader.
Book Band: Purple (Ideal for ages 6+) A heart-warming family story,
ideal for children practising their reading at home or in school.
Little Bear lives with Daddy Bear at weekends, and usually they
play games like Monster Chase and Daddy-is-a-Big-Climbing-Frame.
But today, all Daddy Bear is doing is tap-tap-tapping on his
keyboard. Waiting is so boring! Can Little Bear convince him to
play? This charming story from Dawn McNiff is perfect for Key Stage
1 (KS1) children who are learning to read by themselves. It
features fun illustrations from Andy Rowland and explores a topic
many young children will relate to. _______________ Bloomsbury
Young Readers are the perfect way to get children reading, with
book-banded stories by brilliant authors like Julia Donaldson. The
series is ideal for both home and school, with gorgeous colour
illustrations, tips for parents, and fun activity ideas. Online
guided reading and teaching notes, written by the Centre for
Literacy in Primary Education (CLPE), are available at
bloomsburyreaders.com. 'Every child needs a Bloomsbury Young
Reader.' - Julie-Ann McCulloch, Teacher
Book Band: Lime (Ideal for ages 6+) An out-of-this-world adventure
story, ideal for children practising their reading at home or in
school. On a school trip to the space museum, Reva and Bobby climb
into a real rocket named Jupiter Two. The poor rocket has never
been into space so when Reva and Bobby count down and press a big
red button, Jupiter Two bursts into life. Soon Reva and Bobby are
on their way to the moon! This extraordinary and imaginative
adventure from well-loved author Jenny McLachlan is perfect for
children who are learning to read by themselves and for Key Stage
1. It features engaging illustrations from Andy Rowland and quirky
characters young readers will find hard to resist. _______________
Bloomsbury Young Readers are the perfect way to get children
reading, with book-banded stories by brilliant authors like Julia
Donaldson. The series is ideal for both home and school, with
gorgeous colour illustrations, tips for parents, and fun activity
ideas. Online guided reading and teaching notes, written by the
Centre for Literacy in Primary Education (CLPE), are available at
bloomsburyreaders.com. 'Every child needs a Bloomsbury Young
Reader. Fun, stretching, just the right length, full of adventurous
vocabulary and punctuation.' - Julie-Ann McCulloch, Teacher
One potato is not at all happy about being eaten! He leads the
farmer's wife on a wild potato chase through the garden, hoping
she'll choose another vegetable for her dinner. Will she catch him?
Green/Band 5 books offer early readers patterned language and
varied characters Text type: A rhyming story Children can follow
the potato through the countryside in the story map on pages 22 and
23.
Mum, Dad and Gary Lizard enjoy all of life's moments and new
experiences. From the first day of school to a new bike, the Lizard
family is always busy making new memories.
Malorie Blackman's hilarious tale of shape-shifting and babysitting
antics - now in a standard paperback format for middle-grade
readers. Mike had no idea that his best friend Alex was a Gris-kwok
- someone who can turn into any animal he chooses! But Mike's
naughty little sister Molly is a Gris-kwok too. Alex and Mike are
about to take on the worst babysitting job in the world!
Read Write Inc. Phonics Book Bag Books are engaging texts to
support children with additional reading practice outside the
classroom. They have been specifically designed for children to
take home after school, in order to share their reading journey and
celebrate their achievements with parents and carers. The books are
closely matched to the existing Read Write Inc. Phonics Storybooks
to reinforce children's classroom learning of phonics at the
appropriate level, helping them to make even faster progress in
reading.
Travel through time, grab your magnifying glass and seek out
incredible facts about ancient history in this search-and-find
adventure, packed with over 200 things to spot! Spanning continents
and covering thousands of years, this fun, lively book shows how
the people of these vanished civilisations lived and how their
societies evolved. Explore the lives of ancient Greek Gods, meet
fearsome gladiators from ancient Rome and uncover the mystery of
the Aztecs. Explore civilisations including: Babylonia Carthage Qin
Dynasty Maya Mongol Empire Kingdom of Zimbabwe ... and many more,
with a dedicated two-page spread for each one, brimming with hidden
detail and bustling with action. Use the free magnifying glass to
spot more than 200 ancient world-themed items in each eye-boggling
illustration. From David Long, the author behind Pirates Magnified,
Egypt Magnified and Castles Magnified, this book will inform and
entertain even the youngest historian for hours on end.
Conor Morgan has the perfect plan: recruit a team with hearts of
larceny to pull off the greatest techno-heist in modern banking
history. The stakes: close to a trillion dollars. The target:
neXus, the world's premier credit and debit card payments system,
operated by the power of invisible money. With futurist weapons
inspired by Zulu and Mongol battle strategies, the crew crashes
neXus computer systems worldwide in a daring transcontinental
robbery. But a Delta hit team of Enforcers hunt them down as
Morgan's plan unravels. Dancing on the Brink of the World is
interwoven with elements of the mysterious. Recurrent prime numbers
and echoing supersymmetries converge in a morality tale of
friendship and trust, betrayal and vengeance. In San Francisco and
London, Morgan's team is on the run from the most sinister assassin
since Jack the Ripper, with a ransom of untraceable diamonds, a
dazzlingly erotic heroine and the ghostly messengers of ancient
Celtic gods. 'Authentic as today's dispatches from the 21st century
battleground of cyber warfare, chilling and funny and brilliantly
observed. A tour de force, infused with the carousing spirits of
dreamy Irish rebels. Gravity
This story is part of Reading Champion, a series carefully linked
to book bands to encourage independent reading skills, developed
with Dr Sue Bodman and Glen Franklin of UCL Institute of Education
(IOE) Harry the class hamster thinks the children have much more
fun than he does. When his cage door is left open one day, he takes
his chance to explore. Harry's Great Escape is a fun and cautionary
tale filled with hilarious illustrations to engage the reader. Join
Harry on his dangerous journey around the class! Reading Champion
offers independent reading books for children to practise and
reinforce their developing reading skills. Fantastic, original
stories are accompanied by engaging artwork and a reading activity.
Each book has been carefully graded so that it can be matched to a
child's reading ability, encouraging reading for pleasure.
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