Winner of the 2010 Guardian First Book Award: a groundbreaking reassessment of English cultural life in the thirties and forties. In the 1930s and 1940s, while the battles for modern art and modern society were being fought in Paris and Spain, it seemed to some a betrayal that John Betjeman and John Piper were in love with a provincial world of old churches and tea shops.
Every language has tongue twisters. They are fun to practice your pronunciation because they use sound sequences that are often difficult to say quickly. In this lesson, we look at four common English tongue twisters to help you improve your pronunciation. The tongue twisters include "Peter Piper", "Betty Botter", and more.
The Lost Hero: The Heroes of Olympus, Book One(Audiobook)
Jason has a problem. He doesn’t remember anything before waking up in a bus full of kids on a field trip. Apparently he has a girlfriend named Piper and a best friend named Leo. They’re all students at a boarding school for “bad kids.” What did Jason do to end up here? And where is here, exactly? Piper has a secret. Her father has been missing for three days, ever since she had that terrifying nightmare. Piper doesn’t understand her dream, or why her boyfriend suddenly doesn’t recognize her. When a freak storm hits, unleashing strange creatures and whisking her, Jason, and Leo away to someplace called Camp Half-Blood
In the small but wealthy town of Hamelin, a stranger with a wondrously magical pipe taught the rich but stupid townspeople a terrible, terrible lesson.
Seriously silly stories: Daft Jack and the Bean Stack. The Fried Piper of HamstringThis collection of seriously silly stories puts a new - and very, very funny - spin on some tales that we all know and love. With easy-to-read text and black and white illustrations that make the stories even more entertaining, Seriously Silly Stories, by the award-winning author Laurence Anholt, provide the ideal introduction to the pleasure of books for young readers.
