Well, she's bitingly funny, but everybody knows that. -Roger Ebert on Kelly Oxford. The beautiful - and hilarious - Kelly Oxford has been one of the most hysterical voices on the Internet since it was still a series of tubes. In 1997, she began sharing stories of her life as a young wife and mother [...]
"What is it?" - Two aliens try to guess what a lampshade is for. This title offers picture books, and a mixture of stories reflecting reality, fantasy and humour. It also has reading notes for parents/carers on the inside covers.[...]
Maximising the exciting text type of the graphic novel as the format, these historically-themed fictional stories can be used for both independent and group reading. The accompanying Teaching Notes, with cross-curricular links to QCA topics, support the teaching of comprehension and language skills,[...]
When he was a boy, he was poor and hungry. When he was a young man, he was still poor and still hungry. He learnt how to steal horses, he learnt how to fight, he learnt how to live - outside the law. Australia in the 1870s was a hard, wild place. Rich people had land, poor people didn't. So the rich[...]
TreeTops True Stories are exciting, motivating non-fiction books which will broaden your pupils' reading experience. They are part of a structured reading programme for juniors. A true recounting of the extraordinary life of Kelly, who is a working dog trained to find survivors in disaster areas, an[...]