The Great Big Book of Families introduces children to the fact that not all families look the same. Featuring funny artwork and wonderfully accessible text this book celebrates each family in its own unique and wonderful way. What is a family? Once, it was said to be a father, mother, boy, girl, cat and dog living in a house with a garden. But as times have changed, families have changed too, and now there are almost as many kinds of families as colours of the rainbow. From a mum and dad or single parent to two mums or two dads, from a mixed-race family to children with different mums and dads, to families with a disabled member. This is a fresh, optimistic look through children's eyes at today's wide variety of family life: from homes, food, ways of celebrating, schools and holidays to getting around, jobs and housework, from extended families, languages and hobbies to pets and family trees. The Great Big Book of Families is a brilliant introduction for children to all family types great and small.

The Great Big Book of Life a glorious, diverse celebration of human life, from birth to death, by Mary Hoffman and Ros Asquith. Featuring funny artwork and wonderfully sensitive and accessible text this book is a must have for children everywhere to learning everything they need to know about the story of life. The sixth title in the Great Big Book series explores every stage of human life. From birth to starting nursery, being a teenager to becoming an adult, from work to relationships, homes and jobs, to aging illness and death. This universal but challenging topic is dealt with Mary Hoffman and Ros Asquith's trademark sensitivity and humour and inclusivity. This is the perfect introduction for children to the huge topic of life and is sure to answer many of the question they have.

This book explores the various types of families with great skill and sensitivity, looking at everything from holidays and pets to school and family trees. The highly entertaining text and illustrations explore family life with warmth, wit and sensitivity, challenging preconceptions and inviting discussion.

The Great Big Book of Feelings allows children to explore how they're feeling in a safe and judgement free environment. Featuring funny artwork and wonderfully sensitive and accessible text this book celebrates each emotion for what it is and encourages children to discuss how they're feeling instead of bottling it all up. How are you feeling today? Happy? Sad? Excited? Scared? We all experience lots of different emotions. Sometimes we can feel angry or silly, and sometimes we might feel jealous or upset. There are even times when we might feel lonely or worried. However you feel, sharing and talking about your feelings will make you feel better. This fresh, optimistic look at all the feelings we experience explores feelings in family life, at school and everywhere with warmth, wit and sensitivity. Featuring lots of different children in various situations, brief text captions and questions and plenty of humour, this is the go to book to learn about feelings.

"Shiver me timbers," said the Captain. "It's a baby!" When the crew of pirate ship Ramshackle find a tiny baby adrift on the high seas, they are a bit flummoxed. Even more so, when they discover it's a baby girl. The adventures that follow in this rollicking tale are full of laughter and surprises, as the pirates sew nappies, make baby clothes out of pirate shirts and even a toy squid out of pirate gloves for the new arrival. The pirates won't give up their baby - not even to the women pirates who pass close by. And when a huge sea monster appears, it's baby Isla who saves the day, to become a true Pirate Baby.

The Great Big Brain Book introduces children to what the human brain is all about. Each spread features humorous, bright and engaging artwork, accompanied by accessible yet informative text on the human brain. Get ready to uncover everything you ever wanted to know about the human brain. Your brain is absolutely amazing! They are responsible for absolutely every single thing we do. Every time we breathe, or walk or talk or eat, it's all because of our brilliant brains! When we feel happy or sad, when we drop something, when we run or draw - none of this would be possible without our fantastic brains. Find out how our brains work, how they control the rest of the body and how they change over time. From how they create our memories, to how they help us learn new things and what happens to them when we are asleep, great ready to uncover lots of fascinating facts about the brain. And don't forget to look out for the friendly cat on every page, helping us learn all about our wonderful brains!

Babies, Babies Everywhere! Sleeping, crying, laughing, looking, gurgling, eating, crawling...and at last toddling! Follow five families and their babies from birth to around 12 months, with all the excitements, challenges and joys of that first year with a new baby in the world. With lots to look at and point to, this delightful celebration of babies, from the team who created The Great Big Book of Families, will be loved by babies, older siblings - and grown-ups too!

Welkom in die gesin – hoe jy ook al daar beland het! Hoe het jou gesin jou gekry? Het jy 'n ma en 'n pa, of 'n stiefma, of pleegouers, of miskien twee pappas of twee mammas? Daar is baie soorte gesinne, en hierdie boek verken almal van hulle. 'n Sensitiewe en noodsaaklike boek om die heel belangrikste element van gesinslewe vir selfs die kleinste kinders te verduidelik: dat jy baie, baie welkom is! Nog 'n uitbundige geselsboek deur die skeppers van die topverkopers Die groot boek van families en Die groot boek van gevoelens.

Welcome to the family – whichever way you came into it! Do you have a mom and a dad, a stepmom, foster parents, or maybe two moms or two dads? There are various kinds of families, and this book explores them all. A sensitive and timely book for explaining the most important aspect of family life to even the youngest children: That you're much loved and very welcome!

Watter soort familie het jy? Party mense het baie broers en susters, ooms en tannies, niggies en nefies, oumas en oupas, oumagrootjies en oupagrootjies, en ander het weer klein families. ’n Familie kan ook net twee mense wees! Hierdie boek kyk na verskillende tipes families en fokus op temas soos die huis en vakansie, skool en troeteldiere, gevoelens en stambome. Met vernuf en sensitiwiteit verken Mary Hoffman en Ros Asquith verskillende aspekte van familie-wees en stel uitdagende vrae wat gesprek uitlok.

Happy, sad, excited, bored, shy, silly ... explore a multitude of feelings with this fun-filled book! A multicultural exploration of feelings and how to talk about them: whether at school, at home or just about anywhere!

Babies, Babies Everywhere! Sleeping, crying, laughing, looking, gurgling, eating, crawling...and at last toddling! Follow five families and their babies from birth to around 12 months, with all the excitements, challenges and joys of that first year with a new baby in the world. With lots to look at and point to, this delightful celebration of babies, from the team who created The Great Big Book of Families, will be loved by babies, older siblings - and grown-ups too!

Hector the Hippo wants to play the cello more than anything else in the world. But who in the jungle will teach him? Most of the other animals laugh at the idea. Finally Hector meets a musician who can help him, a lyrebird. He practices everyday until he has a chance to play at a grand concert in front of all the other animals. Purple/ Band 8 books offer developing readers literary language, with some challenging vocabulary. Text type - A story by a significant author. A storyboard on pages 22 and 23 summarises the story in eight illustrations providing an opportunity to recap the key events. Curriculum links - Music: Exploring sounds, Classroom instruments, Combining sounds to make music; Science: Animals; ICT: Using text and tables to develop ideas. This book has been levelled for Reading Recovery. This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.

Ghostly goings-on disrupt Trixie's Save the World With a Song concert, resulting in typically hilarious chaos for everybody's bestest friend. If there is one Very Extremely true fact about Trixie, it is this - her life is NEVER straightforward. And this time the list of crazy things all happening at once is nearly a mile long! Just who or what is the Ghost of St Aubergine's Primary School and what does it want? Why does the Save the Car Factory meeting have to be on the same day as Trixie's Save the World with a Song Concert? * Where on earth has her trumpet gone and how is she going to tell her parents she's lost it? And why is that dirty old man following her everywhere? Trix and friends are determined to get to the bottom of it all, no matter what!

Trixie explores her witchy genes (inherited through seventeen generations) at a school for witches, which is Very Extremely NOT Hogwarts! Trixie can't believe her luck when she's invited to attend a half-term taster course in witchcraft and Wizardry at Conundrums Academy. But her witchy prowess and her inventiveness are tested to the full by the Very Extremely peculiar rules and punishments, and the generally strange goings-on. Trixie is also on a secret mission to find a Long Lost Family Heirloom rumoured to be somewhere in the school. And if anything goes wrong - the Evil Force will mince her! More hilarity and spellbinding fun with everybody's bestest friend!

Trixie is a fun and fiesty free-thinker who never seems to hear the word 'NO'! The first book in this hilarious and charming illustrated series is sure to have girls hooked. Trixie has a heart of gold and a love of animals so big it even includes nits! She's passionate about vegetarianism, music and Building a Better World. In this first adventure Trixie loses her precious trumpet - just days before she's supposed to be playing a solo in her school's Save the World with a Song concert! But everything starts to fall into place when she finds out her beloved dog Harpo can talk! Enter Harpo the talking, singing, doggy yap star! Will he be able to help her out of her sticky situation? With fun and quirky illustrations throughout and laughs on every page, the Trixie stories are guaranteed to entertain.

Trixie is a fun and fiesty free-thinker with a Very Extremely hilarious take on life! This charming, illustrated guide is full off funny, ingenious tips on how to deal with life's little niggles. Trixie has a heart of gold and a love of animals so big it even includes nits! She's passionate about vegetarianism, music and Building a Better World. In this handy guide Trixie's offers her very own advice, answering all those difficult questions that girls have. Like, how to cope with getting up to go to the loo when you're at a Sleepover. How not to be afraid of the dark. How to deal with embarrassing parents etc. In handy A to Z format, girls just have to think of the first letter of their problem and look up for Trixie's marvellous advice! e.g. A for adults - they mean well and are useful for buying houses and providing pocket money. With fun and quirky illustrations throughout and laughs on every page, Trixie's top tips are guaranteed to entertain.

The fourth book about Trixie Tempest, the tweenage tearaway with a heart of gold and a brain full of fireworks. in which Trixie develops her witchy side by going away to a school for witches [not Hogwarts, much to her disgust!] Following her Very Extremely successful two novels: Trixie Tempest and the Amazing Talking Dog and Trixie Tempest and the Ghost of St Aubergine's: and her even more Very Extremely successful Trixie Tempest's ABZ of Life, this is a fourth book , third novel! This time, Trixie explores the witchy side of her family as she goes off for a half-term course in witchcraft at Conundrums Academy. Disappointed that it is not Hogwarts, Trixie makes the best of it and magics up an ancient spell, learned from Grandma Tempest. The spell is to find out the truth behind the missing silver cup that Dad won yonks ago when he was at the same school. As always, Trixie is aided and abetted by BFs Chloe Caution and Dinah Dare deVille and her beloved puppy Bonzo... an excellent witch's familiar!

Trixie Tempest 's guide to living life to the full... as a tweenager. In A to Z format, this is something that's so hot, tweens won't be able to keep their hands on it! Trixie Tempest is a tiny, mouthy, mischievous, free-thinking tweenager who wants to Save the World. She's passionate about horses, vegetarianism, football and music and wants to put the world straight on a number of points. Readers will already know this tweenage tearaway through her two novels: Trixie Tempest and the Amazing Talking Dog and Trixie Tempest and the Ghost of St Aubergine. Trixie's ABZ of Life is Trixie's very own advice guide for worried tweenagers. Answering all those difficult questions that tweenagers want to know the answers to. Like, how to cope with getting up to go to the loo when you're at a Sleepover. How not to be afraid of the dark. How to deal with embarrassing parents etc. In handy A to Z format, tweenagers just have to think of the first letter of their problem and look up for Trixie's marvellous advice! A for adults - they mean well and are useful for buying houses and providing pocket money C for Creativity That school is the worst place for a tweenager to spend the most creative part of her life E for Ears The space between a tweenagers' ears is not entirely occuped with thoughts of crop tops, disco parties, toenail colourings and boy bands Sure to be as much of a success with the tweenage population, as Ros Asquith's Letty Chubb books are for teenagers.

'BEWARE! The Green Hand of Doom will get you all! '

Someone is playing ghostly tricks on the staff and pupils of St Aubergine's School. But it isn't Trixie Tempest, oh no! She is far too busy Saving the Planet, being Nice to Nits and practising her solo for the Save the World with a Song Concert. So just who can it be? It can't be a real ghost, can it? Oh No-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-!

A second adventure for the tweenage tearaway with a heart of gold and a brain full of fireworks.

Trixie is a feisty, free-thinking ten and three quarters year old who knows all there is to know about being a tweenager! From the creator of the Letty Chubb the Teenage Worrier, a hugely successful series whose sales top half a million. Trixie Tempest is ten and three-quarters and goes to St Aubergine's Primary School where she's in Year 6. She's a tiny, mouthy, mischeivous, free thinker who never seems to hear the word 'NO'! In other words, a typical tweenager. She's passionate about horses, vegetarianism, football and music. She also wants to build a better world. Her best friends Dina Dare-DeVille and Chloe Caution are always keen to offer advice, as befitting their names. Trixie herself is determined to put the Adult World straight on a number of key points including school being the worst place for Tweenagers to spend their most creative years in. In Short, Trixie is feisty, funny and definitely one for all Tweenagers of between 9 and 11.

Oxford Reading Tree Story Sparks is an emotionally-engaging fiction series that will fire children's imaginations. These original stories will get children thinking, and develop and deepen their comprehension skills. The variety of authors and illustration styles broadens children's reading experience, with something to appeal to every child. This pack contains one of each of the following original stories: Plughole, The Top of the Taj Mahal, Not Ethan Again!, Aunty Cake, Astron, Looga and Barooga: The Day the Sky Went Boom!. They also contain inside cover notes, to enable parents and teachers to support children in their reading. Help with children's reading development is also available at www.oxfordowl.co.uk.

Ros Asquith, cartoonist and author of many children books, gives a masterclass on writing and illustrating your own storybook . This is an instructional book with a difference, which takes young readers step by step through the writing process from first ideas to editing to illustrating and finally compiling their very own picture book. Turquoise/ Band 7 books offer literay language and extended descriptions, with longer sentences and a wide range of unfamiliar terms. Text type - An instruction text. A flow chart on pages 22 and 23 shows the eight stages described in the book, from ideas to enjoying your story with other readers. Curriculum links - DT: Making a storybook; ICT: Writing stories; communicating information using text. This book has been levelled for Reading Recovery.

Ros Asquith, cartoonist and author of many children's books such as Trixie Tempest and Pass the Parcel), gives a masterclass on illustrating your own cartoons - with help from Trixie Tempest and others. This is an instructional book in the same style as Ros Asquith's turquoise level Collins Big Cat title, How to Make Storybooks. Ros Asquith, cartoonist and author of many children's books such as Trixie Tempest and Pass the Parcel), gives a masterclass on illustrating your own cartoons - with help from Trixie Tempest and others. This is an instructional book in the same style as Ros Asquith's turquoise level Collins Big Cat title, How to Make Storybooks. Pages 14-15 provide a summary of the instructions, to consolidate understanding of the book, and as a useful reference for children drawing their own cartoons. Purple/Band 8 books offer developing readers literary language with some challenging vocabulary. Ideas for Guided Reading in the back of the book provide practical support and stimulating activities. This book has been levelled for Reading Recovery.

Build your child's reading confidence at home with books at the right level Trixie's hilarious diary, written by acclaimed children's writer, Ros Asquith, tells of her plans to be a world famous trumpet player, horse rider and first child president of the world. She is also determined to teach animals to read! But when her beloved puppy is sick, everything changes. Sapphire/Band 16 books offer longer reads to develop children's sustained engagement with texts and are more complex syntactically. Text type: A humorous recount. A hilarious diary for her pet dog on pages 54-55 allow children to further explore the diary format, while reviewing the book from another perspective. Curriculum links: Citizenship: Animals and us. Developing our school grounds. This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.