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Throughout her childhood she was making up stories. Before she could write she drew them. By the time she was seven she knew she wanted to write books. Margaret Mahy was a wizard of words and a spinner of magical stories. She was New Zealand's best known author for children, wrote more than 200 books and often appeared in a purple wig or a penguin suit while she delighted audiences with vivacious readings of her stories. But who was Margaret Mahy? What was she like as a child? How did she become a writer? Where did her weird and wonderful ideas come from? Turn these pages and step into a world of the magical Margaret Mahy.
The Little Treasury is bursting with bedtime reading. Traditional tales and contemporary stories are accompanied by colorful illustrations to delight children everywhere.
This textbook provides word, sentence and text work for pupils. It contains: 30 quality texts for comprehension; 30 half-length texts for writing stimulus; and fully differentiated sentence and word work exercises to develop skills.
Includes traditional nursery rhymes and songs, and original animal and teddy bear stories and rhymes.
'Sometimes a book comes along that stops you in your tracks. It is beautiful, intelligent, accessible, deeply moving. Fantastic writing, fantstic art. A book for everyone.' David Almond A stunning poetry book celebrating the natural world, illustrated by Diana Catchpole. Out There in the Wild celebrates our place in nature. It is packed with poems about everything that lives in the the sea and rivers, on land and in the sky. You will meet eagles and skylarks, tigers and elephants, foxes, rabbits and bats, bees and butterflies and many other natural wonders. These beautiful poems written by Nicola Davies, Dom Conlon and James Carter invite you to consider how we are connected to the wild. We are all nature after all.