The British and Irish Short Story Handbook guides readers through the development of the short story and the unique critical issues involved in discussions of short fiction. It includes a wide-ranging analysis of non-canonical and non-realist writers as well as the major authors and their works, providing a comprehensive and much-needed appraisal of this area.
The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales
The entire book, with its unconventional page arrangement and eclectic, frenetic mix of text and picures, is a spoof on the art of book design and the art of the fairy tale. The individual tales, such as The Really Ugly Duckling and Little Red Running Shorts, can be extracted for telling aloud, with great success. Another masterpiece from the team that created The True Story of the Three Little Pigs!
Interactive software to help teach reading and writing skills
With a lively narration of Roderick Hunt's stories and the animation and sound effects of Alex Brychta's page-by-page illustrations these are an absolute must for every classroom. Each word of the story can be highlighted as it is spoken, to consolidate the link between spoken and written text.
Why is there an 'h' in ghost? William Caxton, inventor of the printing press and his Flemish employees are to blame: without a dictionary or style guide to hand in fifteenth century Bruges, the typesetters simply spelled it the way it sounded to their foreign ears, and it stuck.
With a lively narration of Roderick Hunt's stories and the animation and sound effects of Alex Brychta's page-by-page illustrations these are an absolute must for every classroom. Each word of the story can be highlighted as it is spoken, to consolidate the link between spoken and written text.
