In Storytime Issue 32, fly away with Pegasus, outwit a rampaging robot on Mars, read the true story of a little girl in a hood and a hungry wolf, discover fire in our Aboriginal legend, help cockerel find some farmyard food, meet a fool and his clever friends, play with elephants at Alphabet Zoo, and take a dive with seahorses!
New year, new Storytime, new stories! We’re starting the year with an exciting new poetry series about animals set in a magical place called Alphabet Zoo, plus classic fairy tale The Enormous Turnip, a friendship fable, a clever duck, legendary Irish hero Finn MacCool, a woodland fairy and one of Rudyard Kipling’s brilliant Just So Stories!
Silly Pig does silly things! So, the animals aren't surprised when she goes looking for treasure. One day, she finds something sparkling in the mud. Perhaps Silly Pig is also a clever pig! Gold Stars reading books encourage and support children who are learning to read.
'What happens if I drop an ant'? 'What books are bad for you'? 'What percentage of the world's water is contained in a cow'? The Oxbridge undergraduate interviews are infamous for their unique ways of assessing candidates, and from these peculiar enquiries, professors can tell just how smart you really are. John Farndon has collected together 75 of the most intriguing questions taken from actual admission interviews and gives full answers to each, taking the reader through the fascinating histories, philosophies, sciences and arts that underlie each problem.