Hailed as one of “the best children’s authors in the world,”Jacques’ 21 Redwall books were translated into 29 languages and sold 20 million copies worldwide. His novels — despite centering on anthropomorphic woodland critters, such as mice, otters, moles, and squirrels — told epic tales of good triumphing over evil and never spoke down to their young audiences.
https://www.consultpivotal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/cp-logo-1030x393.png00bronwynrhttps://www.consultpivotal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/cp-logo-1030x393.pngbronwynr2011-02-08 11:55:442011-02-08 11:55:44Brian Jacques, beloved children’s author of the ‘Redwall’ series, dies at age 71
If you are wanting to decorate your library, classroom or kids bedrooms and freshen it up for the new year, have a look at all the author posters on the Allen and Unwin website.
They add a splash of colour and interest to any wall and inspire chldren with new books that they might not have tried yet.
out to prove that they are the best window-cleaning
company around. This edition has some new facts
about Roald Dahl, and a great new cover featuring
Quentin Blake's illustrations.
https://www.consultpivotal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/cp-logo-1030x393.png00bronwynrhttps://www.consultpivotal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/cp-logo-1030x393.pngbronwynr2011-01-29 17:38:352011-01-29 17:38:35The Giraffe and The Pelly and Me – Fiction activities
Derrick, Samantha and Michael should be in school. Instead they find themselves in NASA's space shuttle, which Nanny Piggins manages to accidentally launch, blasting them all into outer space. This time she has gone too far!
In this thrilling fourth instalment of her adventures, Nanny Piggins wrestles with a crocodile, bungy jumps of the roof using the elastic from Mr Green's underpants, staples chicken wire over their chimney to keep out Santa, captures an apricot danish-loving jewel thief and rescues her brother, Boris, from an onslaught of professional wrestlers.
https://www.consultpivotal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/cp-logo-1030x393.png00bronwynrhttps://www.consultpivotal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/cp-logo-1030x393.pngbronwynr2011-01-18 21:00:252011-01-18 21:00:25Recently released: the latest Nanny Piggins
Fans across several generations have paid heartfelt tribute to Judy Blume in their entries in the Judy Blume Journal Contest, which Listening Library debuted January 3 on a dedicated Web site
Readers are asked to share a “Judy Blume story or memory” and to vote for their favorite journal entry posted on the site. From the five contestants receiving the most votes, Blume will select a winner, who will receive an iPod Touch, an audiobook collection, and a personal message from Blume.
https://www.consultpivotal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/cp-logo-1030x393.png00bronwynrhttps://www.consultpivotal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/cp-logo-1030x393.pngbronwynr2011-01-15 11:09:172011-01-15 11:09:17Enter now – The Judy Blume Journal Contest
Kate DiCamillo's debut novel wins a 2001 Newbery Honor and is a NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW Bestseller!
The summer Opal and her father, the preacher, move to Naomi, Florida, Opal goes into the Winn-Dixie supermarket--and comes out with a dog. A big, ugly, suffering dog with a sterling sense of humor. A dog she dubs Winn-Dixie. Because of Winn-Dixie, the preacher tells Opal ten things about her absent mother, one for each year Opal has been alive. Winn-Dixie is better at making friends than anyone Opal has ever known, and together they meet the local librarian, Miss Franny Block, who once fought off a bear with a copy of WAR AND PEACE. They meet Gloria Dump, who is nearly blind but sees with her heart, and Otis, an ex-con who sets the animals in his pet shop loose after hours, then lulls them with his guitar.
Opal spends all that sweet summer collecting stories about her new friends and thinking about her mother. But because of Winn-Dixie or perhaps because she has grown, Opal learns to let go, just a little, and that friendship--and forgiveness--can sneak up on you like a sudden summer storm.
Recalling the fiction of Harper Lee and Carson McCullers, here is a funny, poignant, and utterly genuine first novel from a major new talent.
An unforgettable first novel about coming of age one sweet summer--and learning to love what you have.
from Amazon for $5.99
or from me (for $6.05 - your choice will depend on your shipping price from Amazon probably) by clicking this button ...
Movie Trailer
https://www.consultpivotal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/cp-logo-1030x393.png00bronwynrhttps://www.consultpivotal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/cp-logo-1030x393.pngbronwynr2011-01-11 17:08:472011-01-11 17:08:47For Kids Book Club – Because of Winn-Dixie – discussion notes, trailer, teacher lesson plans and more
EAN:978-1932319675
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Compendium Publishing & Communications
Published in:
Published: September 2008
Share the treasured gift of laughter with your child and you ll create memories that will last a lifetime. This book is well on its way to becoming a celebrated children s classic. It makes a wonderful gift for parents, grandparents and children for almost any occasion baby showers, birthdays, Mother s Day or Father s Day. The best sound in the world is the glorious sound of your children laughing, says author Josie Bissett. Children love playfulness. They love silliness and they LOVE being tickled. Laughing together creates a bond between you and your children like no other. There is no greater gift than the gift of shared laughter and memories. A loveable monster with big puffy mitts has just flown in from Planet Tickle. His mission is to bring joy and laughter to Planet Earth. How? By tickling any child who happens to follow along in this book. Parents read aloud and do the tickling, while their children squirm and giggle with delight.
The RRP for this book is $23.95. You can buy it from Amazon for $11.53
https://www.consultpivotal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/cp-logo-1030x393.png00bronwynrhttps://www.consultpivotal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/cp-logo-1030x393.pngbronwynr2011-01-09 17:37:092011-01-09 17:37:09Tickle monster – bestseller becoming a classic
Up until that point few things perplexed Darra Pace more than the large yellow envelope from the south of France addressed to her four-year old son Michael. She, much less her son who was still in nursery school, didn't know of anyone who lived in or had recently visited France.
When she opened the envelope she was even more stunned at what she found inside. A few weeks earlier, Michael had written his favorite author a short fan letter. Inside the envelope from France was a personal page-long response. The author was the legendary children's writer and illustrator Richard Scarry. Writing directly to his fans was something Scarry did often, according to his son Huck.
https://www.consultpivotal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/cp-logo-1030x393.png00bronwynrhttps://www.consultpivotal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/cp-logo-1030x393.pngbronwynr2011-01-08 11:12:242011-01-08 11:12:24Returning to Busytown: Remembering Richard Scarry
Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a classic by most any measure—T.S. Eliot called it a masterpiece, and Ernest Hemingway pronounced it the source of "all modern American literature." Yet, for decades, it has been disappearing from grade school curricula across the country, relegated to optional reading lists, or banned outright, appearing again and again on lists of the nation's most challenged books, and all for its repeated use of a single, singularly offensive word: "nigger."
Twain himself defined a "classic" as "a book which people praise and don't read." Rather than see Twain's most important work succumb to that fate, Twain scholar Alan Gribben and NewSouth Books plan to release a version of Huckleberry Finn, in a single volume with The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, that does away with the "n" word (as well as the "in" word, "Injun") by replacing it with the word "slave."
https://www.consultpivotal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/cp-logo-1030x393.png00bronwynrhttps://www.consultpivotal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/cp-logo-1030x393.pngbronwynr2011-01-07 11:30:322011-01-07 11:30:32NewSouth ‘Huck Finn’ Eliminates the ‘N’ Word
One couldn't select a more delightful and exciting premise for a children's book than the tale of a young boy lying awake on Christmas Eve only to have Santa Claus sweep by and take him on a trip with other children to the North Pole. And one couldn't ask for a more talented artist and writer to tell the story than Chris Van Allsburg. Allsburg, a sculptor who entered the genre nonchalantly when he created a children's book as a diversion from his sculpting, won the 1986 Caldecott Medal for this book, one of several award winners he's produced. The Polar Express rings with vitality and wonder.
https://www.consultpivotal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/cp-logo-1030x393.png00bronwynrhttps://www.consultpivotal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/cp-logo-1030x393.pngbronwynr2010-12-19 13:48:302010-12-19 13:48:30Sixth book of Christmas – The Polar Express (with lesson plans)
Brian Jacques was a merchant seaman
The Giraffe and The Pelly and Me
