Helen Oxenbury's brilliant board books have delighted a generation of babies. Now from the most widely loved of artists comes a reissue of a board book to help very young children explore their worlds. In I SEE, a baby watches a frog leap and gazes at the moon. Full of character and humor, this charming book forms a winsome introduction to the senses.
Helen Oxenbury's brilliant board books have delighted a generation of babies. Now from the most widely loved of artists comes a reissue of a board book to help very young children explore their worlds. In I HEAR, a baby listens to a bird sing, a dog bark, and a watch tick. Full of character and humor, this charming book forms a winsome introduction to the senses.
The War of the WorldsPenguin Readers Level 5 (2300 words) A metal object falls from the sky over the south of England, and strange creatures come out. But they are not human - they are fighting machines from Mars. When another object falls, and then another, people start to worry. Are the Martians trying to take over the Earth? The teacher's factsheets and answers are added to the end of the file.
(Re)Imagining the world: Children’s Literature’s Response to Changing Times considers how writers of fiction for children imagine ‘the world’, not one universal world, but different worlds: imaginary, strange, familiar, even monstrous worlds. The chapters in this collection discuss how fiction for children engages with some of the changes brought about by new technologies, information literacy, consumerism, migration, politics, different family structures, cosmopolitanism, new and old monsters.
