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From the fantastic duo behind Poems Aloud and Smile Out Loud comes
another compendium of 25 original confidence-building poems to read
out loud which will show children that their voice has FANTASTIC
power. From multi-award winning poet and Waterstones Children's
Laureate Joseph Coelho comes 25 more brilliant, sparkling and truly
original poems for children, specially written to help build
confidence, develop speaking skills and help foster self-belief.
The collection contains mantras to be true to yourself, to
help you feel brave, project happiness, conjure a
smile, make you laugh or cheer others up. Some are odes, some can
be said as personal mantras or just poems that instil confidence
and help children realise the power of their voices. Reading
these poems aloud will teach children the power of a poem,
encouraging them to explore the magic of language and foster a love
of verse. This book follows on from Poems
Aloud and Smile Out Loud, the hugely succesful
books from Joseph Coehlo,illustrated in beautifully vivid
colour by Daniel Gray-Barnett. These books have
inspired thousands of young readers at home and in classrooms to
speak up and love the power of their own voice. "Poetry for
children is dead. Really? Not when there are young poets like
Joseph Coelho" —Books for Keeps "A fresh new voice in Children's
poetry" - Roger McGough
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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Saturday is Pancake Day
Bernadette Green, Daniel Gray-Barnett
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R397
R322
Discovery Miles 3 220
Save R75 (19%)
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Ships in 9 - 15 working days
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One morning Milo tossed pancakes high in the air. Lily, Lena, and
Gwendolyn jumped up and down trying to catch them. ‘Breakfast is
ready,’ called Milo. But upstairs all was quiet. Dada Henry
doesn’t feel like pancakes this morning, and Milo and the twins
aren’t sure why. They persist making more and more elaborate
concoctions, Maple Come Back for More, Little Puddings Supreme, and
Brussel Sprouts Forget Me Never, but nothing will lure Henry out of
bed. This funny and heartwarming story tells us that every now and
then, everyone needs some ‘me-time’.
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.
John R Hume is Scotland's foremost expert on industrial heritage.
John's greatest passion was - and is - industry. Over the course of
the 1960s, 70s and 80s, he took over 25,000 photographs of
late-industrial and post-industrial Scotland. His collection is a
remarkable portrait of a way of life that has now all but vanished.
His drive to act as a witness to Scotland's industrial empire, and
its steady disintegration, took him to every corner of the country.
John's photography produces an exhaustive and objective record. Yet
it also reveals remarkable and poignant glimpses of domestic life -
children playing in factory ruins, high-rises emerging on the city
skylines, working men and women dwarfed by the incredible scale of
an already crumbling industrial infrastructure. In A Life of
Industry, author Daniel Gray tells John's story, and the story of
what has been lost - and preserved.
From the fantastic duo behind Poems Aloud and Smile Out Loud comes
another compendium of 25 original confidence-building poems to read
out loud which will show children that their voice has FANTASTIC
power. From multi-award winning poet and Waterstones Children's
Laureate Joseph Coelho comes 25 more brilliant, sparkling and truly
original poems for children, specially written to help build
confidence, develop speaking skills and help foster self-belief.
The collection contains mantras to be true to yourself, to help you
feel brave, project happiness, conjure a smile, make you laugh or
cheer others up. Some are odes, some can be said as personal
mantras or just poems that instil confidence and help children
realise the power of their voices. Reading these poems aloud will
teach children the power of a poem, encouraging them to explore the
magic of language and foster a love of verse. This book follows on
from Poems Aloud and Smile Out Loud, the hugely succesful books
from Joseph Coehlo,illustrated in beautifully vivid colour by
Daniel Gray-Barnett. These books have inspired thousands of young
readers at home and in classrooms to speak up and love the power of
their own voice. "Poetry for children is dead. Really? Not when
there are young poets like Joseph Coelho" -Books for Keeps "A fresh
new voice in Children's poetry" - Roger McGough
The story of Britain’s fish and chips obsession. ‘Gray is a
master of observing and amplifying the things we love.’ The Times
A richly entertaining celebration of Britain’s national dish and
its iconic neon houses. There is a corner of every town and city in
Britain where the air is tangy with vinegar and thick with the
scent of frying. It is almost impossible not to follow this
mesmeric vapour trail, fuelling a nostalgic rush of parents across
the land declaring ‘Chippy tea!’, followed by the golden
anticipation of the chip shop queue. In this lively and relatable
book, acclaimed author Daniel Gray ponders the magic of chippies
and rejoices in the delights they have sprinkled among us over the
last 150 years. He investigates the social – and sociable –
history of fish and chips, revealing the shared truths that bind us
to this edible institution and its charismatic outlets. By
travelling to chippies across Britain, the celebrated and the
unheralded, he will show how many of the themes that shape our
country are drizzled in vinegar. Chippies have emancipated working
class women, brought equality for immigrants, amplified regional
and class differences and shaped local and national identity.
Gray’s journey – from Dundee to Devon via South Shields,
Oldham, Bradford, Bethnal Green, the Rhondda Valley and elsewhere
– gets under the skin of today’s fish and chip nation to answer
some of the most pressing questions… Where is the ‘scraps
border’? Tea, Vimto or dandelion and burdock: which drink makes
the best accompaniment? Do fish and chips taste better when eaten
in the open air? And what do regional variations –
Wolverhampton’s orange chips, London’s wallies, Hull’s chip
spice – tell us about their locales? This mouth-watering book is
as much about who we are as what we eat.
Come Over To My House is a delightful picture book that explores
the home lives of children and parents who are Deaf or disabled.
Co-written by disability advocate Eliza Hull and bestselling author
Sally Rippin, the inclusive rhyming text authentically explores the
characters' various disabilities. A cast of friendly characters
invite friends over for a play - there's fun to be had, food to eat
and families to meet! Come over to my house. Come over and play!
I'll show you around, you can stay the whole day. We'll swing on
the swing-set and splash in the pool. Then I'll race you inside
where my bedroom is cool. Featuring a gorgeous die-cut cover,
bright illustrations and a diverse cast, this is a must-read for
all families.
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Grandma Z (Hardcover)
Daniel Gray-Barnett
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R383
R315
Discovery Miles 3 150
Save R68 (18%)
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Ships in 9 - 15 working days
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On an ordinary day, in an even more ordinary town, it was Albert's
birthday. When Grandma Z roars into town on her motorcycle, Albert
is swept up in a very extraordinary adventure. Life may never be
the same again! This glorious debut from Daniel Gray-Barnett is
filled with wonder, imagination, and a wild, magical spirit that
will thrill young and old.
This volume examines the nineteenth century not only through
episodes, institutions, sites and representations concerned with
union, concord and bonds of sympathy, but also through moments of
secession, separation, discord and disjunction. Its lens extends
from the local and regional, through to national and international
settings in Britain, Europe and the United States. The contributors
come from the fields of cultural history, literary studies,
American studies and legal history.
A joy-filled cheer of appreciation for loud, trouble-making,
outrageous kids. Katerina Cruickshanks is a wild child, a
trickster, and a ringleader. But when they wreak some serious
chaos, their friends decide their shenanigans have gone too far and
say, 'No more!' Brimming with humour and warmth, Katerina shows us
that there's no such thing as being too much; it's just a matter of
finding the friends who will love you as you are.
This volume examines the nineteenth century not only through
episodes, institutions, sites and representations concerned with
union, concord and bonds of sympathy, but also through moments of
secession, separation, discord and disjunction. Its lens extends
from the local and regional, through to national and international
settings in Britain, Europe and the United States. The contributors
come from the fields of cultural history, literary studies,
American studies and legal history.
Poems are made to read OUT LOUD! A wittily illustrated anthology of
poems, designed to be read aloud. 20 poems by the award winning a
Joseph Coelho will 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 illustrations 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
'Powerful and poignant' Henry Winter 'Empathetic and poignant ...
the game's answer to A Journal of the Plague Year' Harry Pearson
'The Durham City midfielder wore the resigned look of a man trying
to find a jar of harissa in Farmfoods. Up front for Jarrow, a
centre-forward darted around frenetically, as if chasing a kite
during a hurricane...' When football disappeared in March 2020,
writer and broadcaster Daniel Gray used its absence to reflect on
everything the game meant to him. That bred a pledge: whenever and
wherever fans were allowed to return, he would be there. The
Silence of the Stands is the result of that pledge: a joyous
travelogue documenting a precarious season, in which
behind-closed-doors matches and travel restrictions combined to
make trips to Kendal and Workington seem impossibly exotic.
Offering a poignant peek at a surreal age and a slab of social
history from the two-metre-distanced tea bar queue, this is the
moving, heartfelt and surprisingly uplifting story of a unique
season that no one wishes to repeat.
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Grandma Z (Paperback)
Daniel Gray-Barnett
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R217
R177
Discovery Miles 1 770
Save R40 (18%)
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Ships in 9 - 15 working days
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On an ordinary day, in an even more ordinary town, it was Albert’s birthday.
When Grandma Z roars into town on her motorcycle, Albert is swept up in a very extraordinary adventure. Life may never be the same again!
This glorious debut from Daniel Gray-Barnett is filled with wonder, imagination, and a wild, magical spirit that will thrill young and old.
Overpaid players. Sunday lunchtime kick-offs. Absurd ticket prices.
Non-black boots. Football's menu of ills is long. Where has the joy
gone? Why do we bother? Saturday, 3pm offers a glorious antidote.
It is here to remind you that football can still sing to your
heart. Warm, heartfelt and witty, here are fifty short essays of
prose poetry dedicated to what is good in the game. These are not
wallowing nostalgia; they are things that remain sweet and right:
seeing a ground from the train, brackets on vidiprinters, ball
hitting bar, Jimmy Armfield's voice, listening to the results in a
traffic jam, football towns and autograph-hunters. This is fan
culture at its finest, words to transport you somewhere else and
identify with, words to hide away in a pub and luxuriate in.
Saturday, 3pm is a book of love letters to football and a clarion
call, helping us find the romance in the game all over again.
Shortlisted for the History Book of the Year category of the 2009
Saltire Literary Awards The Spanish Civil War was a call to arms
for 2,300 British volunteers, of which over 500 were from Scotland.
The first book of its kind, Homage to Caledonia examines Scotland's
role in the conflict, detailing exactly why Scottish involvement
was so profound. The book moves chronologically through events and
places, firstly surveying the landscape in contemporary Scotland
before describing volunteers' journeys to Spain, and then tracing
their every involvement from arrival to homecoming (or not). There
is also an account of the non-combative role, from fundraising for
Spain and medical aid, to political manoeuvrings within the
volatile Scottish left. Using a wealth of previously-unpublished
letters sent back from the front as well as other archival items,
Daniel Gray is able to tell little known stories of courage in
conflict, and to call into question accepted versions of events
such as the 'murder' of Bob Smillie, or the heroism of 'The Scots
Scarlet Pimpernel'. Homage to Caledonia offers a very human take on
events in Spain: for every tale of abject distress in a time of
war, there is a tale of a Scottish volunteer urinating in his
general's boots, knocking back a dram with Errol Flynn or appalling
Spanish comrades with his pipe playing. For the first time, read
the fascinating story of Caledonia's role in this seminal conflict.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKS ARE MY BAG READERS AWARDS! We lead
increasingly time-poor lifestyles, bombarded 24/7 by petrifying
news bulletins, internet trolls and endless noises. Where has the
joy and relaxation gone from our daily lives? Scribbles in the
Margins offers a glorious antidote to that relentless modern-day
information churn. It is here to remind you that books and
bookshops can still sing to your heart. Warm, heartfelt and witty,
here are fifty short essays of prose poetry dedicated to the simple
joy to be found in reading and the rituals around it. These are not
wallowing nostalgia; they are things that remain pleasurable and
right, that warm our hearts and connect us to books, to reading and
to other readers: smells of books, old or new; losing an afternoon
organising bookshelves; libraries; watching a child learn to read;
reading in bed; impromptu bookmarks; visiting someone's home and
inspecting the bookshelves; stains and other reminders of where and
when you read a book. An attempt to fondly weigh up what makes a
book so much more than paper and ink - and reading so much more
than a hobby, a way of passing time or a learning process - these
declarations of love demonstrate what books and reading mean to us
as individuals, and the cherished part they play in our lives, from
the vivid greens and purples of childhood books to the dusty
comfort novels we turn to in times of adult flux. Scribbles in the
Margins is a love-letter to books and bookshops, rejoicing in the
many universal and sometimes odd little ways that reading and the
rituals around reading make us happy.
The postman and the primary teacher, the midwife and the musician.
Workers in shops, workers at sea. Solidarity with the Columbian
farmer and the Palestinian fireman…  Modern trade
unionists in Scotland perform roles in every imaginable location
and are drawn from all backgrounds. They campaign to win on issues
facing the colleague next to them or a comrade thousands of miles
away. ’Mon the Workers tells their stories in their own words. It
is a celebration of 125 years of the STUC, and a clarion call for
the next generation to agitate, organise and win. This book
demonstrates past achievements, explores the ideas trade unionists
have fought for and rouses the movement towards future victories.
75 trade union members, reps and officials share experiences of
union life from the anti-apartheid movement to Wick Wants Work.
Alan McCredie’s charismatic portraits of 50 other activists from
the trade union movement provide a complementary visual narrative.
This very human book pulses with the energy of Scotland’s trade
union movement, which has achieved so much and still has more to
do.
Fatigued by bloated big-game football and bored of samey big
cities, Daniel Gray went in search of small town Scotland and its
teams. At the time when the Scottish club game is drifting towards
its lowest ebb once more, Stramash singularly fails to wring its
hands and address the state of the game, preferring instead to
focus on Bobby Mann's waistline. Part travelogue, part history and
part mistakenly spilling ketchup on the face of a small child,
Stramash takes an uplifting look at the country's nether regions.
Using the excuse of a match to visit places from Dumfries to
Dingwall, Gray surveys Scotland's towns and teams in their present
state. Stramash accomplishes the feats of visiting Dumfries without
mentioning Robert Burns, being positive about Cumbernauld and
linking Elgin City to Lenin. It is a fond look at Scotland as
you've never seen it before.
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Craft Roach (Hardcover)
Rachel Burke; Illustrated by Daniel Gray-Barnett
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R307
Discovery Miles 3 070
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Craft Roach is an exuberant story about an artsy little bug who
lives life a little differently. Written by Rachel Burke
(@imakestagram) and with art from best-selling illustrator Daniel
Gray-Barnett, Craft Roach is a fun, rhyming picture book about
standing out, fitting in and having the courage to be your most
joyful self. Craft Roach makes the other bugs feel very tense and
stressed. Standing out? Being seen? They do not think it best. But
Craft Roach sees things differently, has more than just an inkling
– that crawlies wouldn’t be so feared, if all of them were
twinkling... Craft Roach is a story that will change your mind
about cockroaches, and will delight and encourage young readers to
be bold and never dim their light. For ages 3 and up.
A book about becoming independent for the first time. This stylish
book with a relatable story is a joy for children and adults alike.
The beautiful illustrations use muted tones with pops of neon
orange, mixing gentle watercolour and bold strokes' -- Book Trust
'A charming and well-crafted picture book story.' -- School Reading
List A young kangaroo called Alexander lives in his mum, Nancy's
pocket. Alexander loves his mum, but there's one thing she does
that really drives him nuts. She is always putting stuff in her
pocket. Alexander tries to keep things neat, but the more he
tidies, the more stuff she shoves in there. When he complains, his
sister calls him a baby - it's time to leave the pouch anyway. But
Alexander loves it in there - it's warm and cosy and smells of mum.
Then one day, it gets really bad. Twelve bobby pins, a tube of
toothpaste, a bottle of water, a packet of chewing gum, two bus
tickets, some keys, a toy car and a cookbook all find their way
into Nancy's pouch. And that's just for starters. Finally
Alexander's had enough. 'I can't take it any more!' he shouts. 'I'm
moving out!' So Alexander moves into the room next to his sister's.
They make it all cosy, with a furry blanket and shelves for all his
stuff. So it's just like his mum's pouch. Almost. The penultimate
spread is Alexander sleeping with all his stuff strewn around him.
The final spread is Nancy clearing out her pocket with a wink. It
was time for Alexander to go. This is a heartwarming tale about a
connection between a son and mother and a journey towards
independence, beautifully brought to life.
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