Travel back in time to ancient Egypt in this picture book from award-winning illustrator Satoshi Kitamura, perfect to support the Key Stage 2 History curriculum.When a boy gets lost exploring a museum, he finds himself falling through time and landing in ancient Egypt! This engaging story reveals what daily life was life in ancient Egypt, how to decode hieroglyphs and even how the pyramids were built. Packed with extra information, this is the ideal introduction to...

Funny, thought-provoking and bursting with curiosity, Wise Up! Wise Down! is a lively conversation between two internationally renowned poets, illustrated by treasured artist Satoshi Kitamura.**Shortlisted for the 2025 CLiPPA - the CLPE Poetry Award, the UK's leading award for published poetry for children.**How can laughter be more powerful than a sword? Why do days have names but not weeks? And do pigeons ever get a craving for c...

A wonderful anthology of poetry by award winning poets John Agard and Grace Nichols, brought to life with beautiful illustrations by Satoshi Kitamura.Purple/Band 8 books offer developing readers literary language, with some challenging vocabulary.Text type: A poetry book.An illustration on pages 22 and 23 encourages children to recap the poems they have read in the anthology.Curriculum links: Art and Design: Portraying relationships; Music: Play ...

In these two animal stories from the Caribbean, find out in the first why Tiger wanted to get rid of all the other animals and keep the jungle for himself and what clever Anansi did about it, and in the second how shy Owl nearly lost everything because he didn't have the courage to show his face.Topaz/Band 13 books offer longer and more demanding reads for children to investigate and evaluate.Text type: Two stories from another culture.The feelings roller ...

A simple text where a visit to an art show causes a girl to imagine what the world would be like if it was wholly yellow, red or blue. Realising that the world actually consists of all the colours of the rainbow, she paints lots of multicoloured pieces of art herself.Blue/Band 4 books offer longer, repeated patterns with sequential events and integrated literary and natural language.Text type – A simple non-fiction text.A gallery story map on pages 14 and ...

In Dandelion Land, a young snail can't stop asking his friends awkward questions, such as: why are we so slow - and why can't we all have our own names? When he is finally banished from the snail community because of this, he is forced to travel the world alone. As he explores in his oh-so-slow way, the snail makes new friends and goes on a series of adventures, gaining wisdom from every new encounter. But when he finds out his friends are in danger, he decides to rush home to warn them. W...

A Cat, A Seagull, An Impossible Task...Caught up in an oil spill, a dying seagull scrambles ashore to lay her final egg and lands on a balcony, where she meets Zorba, a big black cat from the port of Hamburg. The cat promises the seagull to look after the egg, not to eat the chick once it's hatched and - most difficult of all - to teach the baby gull to fly. Will Zorba and his feline friends honour the promise and give Lucky, the adopted little seagull, the strength to discover her true na...

A wonderful new anthology of poems by winner of the Queens Medal and the Eleanor Farjeon Award, 2016Do trianglesever get into a tanglewhen their sides meet their angles?A wonderful new children's poetry collection, from a celebrated, award-winning poet.From nature and science to identity, prepare to be transported on a journey through past and present. This collection from John Agard, winner of the Queens Meda...

In a soft comfy nest in a safe warm place there snoozed a great big orange thing called the Yes. He was snug, but the Yes had a Where to go to. So he left his nest and went trundling out. But the Where was an endless place of Nos. They teemed and seethed. They picked and nipped, and snipped and snicked. The Yes yessed in all his goodness and bigness and yesness. But was he strong enough to overcome them?

This is my hand. It can do all sorts of things. Most of the time it does good things, but sometimes…Kitamura introduces us to the wonders of something as simple as your hand – it can push, it can pull. It can paint, it can pat. And when your hand has a bad habit, it can pick your nose!Award-winning author and illustrator Satoshi Kitamura unfolds a wonderful celebration of the simple hand, also starring a favourite Kitamura character, Boots the cat.

With assistance from Michele Maltseff, artist Walter T. Foster shows you how to render a variety of different horse breeds in pencil, with tips on adding touches with charcoal, crayon, and brush and ink. In this step-by-step book, he explains not only a number of drawing techniques and special effects but also his own method of developing a drawing to its fullest. You will learn about various breeds and their proportions, starting with their heads and then progressing to full bodies. And i...

With little more than a pocket knife, a branch, and a dose of concentration, this book will show you how to whittle unique keepsakes that are fun to make, will be appreciated as gifts, or can be popular items for sale. Author Chris Lubkemann, a woodcarver since age 7, is pleased to share his lifelong love of whittling with both beginners and experienced whittlers alike in Whittling Twigs & Branches. Inside, you'll find everything you need to master the basic woodworking technique ...