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Editor: Mary Hoffman / Rhiannon Lassiter
Publisher: Frances Lincoln
ISBN: 0-7112-2282-7
A challenging and thought-provoking collection of new poetry and prose from some of the industry’’s most prestigious and talented authors and illustrators. Ideal for use in schools to help educate children when dealing with the topic of war, each contribution depicts a strong anti-war message and will serve as a cry for peace in these troubled times.
My contribution to this was
All royalties and publisher’s profits will go to UNICEF to directly fund the bringing of aid to child victims of the war in Iraq.
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Publisher: Bridge House
ISBN: 1-8734-7527-6
Jason Thomas is bored during a family holiday in Spain. But then things begin to happen. Why does it suddenly pour with rain when rain has never been recorded in August? Who is the strange man in the panama hat? Are the guardians of the crystals really angry?
Jason’s Crystal is a fantasy adventure story for 7-11 year olds. It is a gripping adventure which will fuel the imagination of the age group for which it is written. each chapter contains an almost complete adventure but leads the reader on to the next by means of an exciting cliff hanger. It is ideal for bed-time reading or end of the day class room reading. Or for the child to read alone.
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Publisher: Publish Britannica
ISBN: 1-4137-2186-9
Nick is dying. Barney spends much of his time keeping him company, helping him to lead an almost normal life and sharing his carefully guarded secret. The two boys often go down to the old harbour to look at the boats and take photographs.
Barney finds it hard watching his friend getting weaker and weaker. And then there are the other problems. He worries about his relationship with his first real girlfriend. He worries about his schoolwork. He is under pressure to perform well as a county swimming champion. And he needs a part-time job.
Everything seems to be working out – just – when what he has most been dreading happens. All the other things which could also go wrong do so spectacularly. Then there is a strange-shaped room, some ham and mustard sandwiches and a few conversations with a wise old sailor.
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Publisher: Willow Bank
ISBN: 1-9061-6601-4
Up until now Jayne’s parents have been too busy and have not had enough money to take her and her two brothers away on holiday. At last a stay in a fantastic holiday camp with all sorts of exciting things to do is arranged. At the last minute, because of a sudden illness in the family, her Uncle Sparky has to take the place of her Mum and Dad.
Jayne finds her brothers Toby and Michael difficult enough. Uncle Sparky is even more of a pain.
Typically, Sparky’s battered old car breaks down. As they kill time writing for the breakdown service at a fascinating craft centre, strange things begin to happen and soon they are all sucked into another world. Jayne gradually finds there is more to Toby Michael and Sparky, and even to herself, than she could have ever imagined.
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Publisher: The Red Telephone
ISBN: 978-0-955791-08-6 (paperbook) 978-1-907335-12-9 (Kindle)
The Prophecy is the first part of the Peace Child trilogy.
Kaleem Malkendy is different – and, on Terrestra, different is no way to be.
Everything about Kaleem marks him out from the rest: the blond hair and dark skin, the humble cave where he lives and the fact that he doesn’t know his father. He’s used to unwelcome attention, but even so, he’d feel better if some strange old man didn’t keep following him around.
Then the man introduces himself and begins to explain the Babel Prophecy – and everything in Kaleem’s life changes forever.
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Publisher: The Red Telephone
ISBN: 978-1-907335-10-5 (paperbook) 978-1-907335-13-6 (Kindle)
Babel is the second part of the Peace Child trilogy.
Kaleem has found his father and soon finds the love of his life, Rozia Laurence, but he is still not comfortable with his role as Peace Child. He also has to face some of the less palatable truths about his home planet: it is blighted by the existence of the Z Zone, a place where poorer people live outside of society, and by switch-off, compulsory euthanasia for a healthy but aging population, including his mentor, Razjosh.
The Babel Tower still haunts him, but it begins to make sense as he uncovers more of the truth about his past and how it is connected with the problems n the Z Zone.
Kaleem knows he can and must make a difference, but at what personal cost?
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Publisher: Bridge House
ISBN: 978-1-907335-03-7
100 Stories for Haiti – from concept to book in six weeks!
Proceeds go to the Red Cross Haiti Earthquake and Disaster Recovery appeals.
On the morning of January 19, days after a devastating earthquake struck near Haiti’s capital, author Greg McQueen posted a video on his blog: “Dear Twitterverse, I can’t keep watching the news about Haiti on television or trending on Twitter without doing something. I woke up this morning with the idea that together we could make a book and donate all royalties to the Haiti Earthquake Appeal.”
Within hours of Greg’s first announcement, news spread throughout microblogging website, Twitter, and story submissions began arriving. By the submission deadline a week later, the project had received over 400 submissions – whittled down to one hundred during the following week, and the full 80,000 word manuscript was published and made available through retailers within six weeks of Greg’s initial blog.
Best-selling author Nick Harkaway contributed a story and penned the book’s introduction. Tania Hershman, author of The White Road and Other Stories, and prize-winning author, Vanessa Gebbie, are also featured in the book, along with other published authors and first-timers, never published before.
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Publisher: Bridge House
ISBN: 978-1-907335-04-4
Gentle Footprints is the long awaited 2010 charity book featuring brand new story Leopard Aware by Watership Down author, Richard Adams and foreword by actress and founder of the Born Free Foundation, Virginia McKenna OBE.
£1 from the sale of every copy and a share of author royalties will be donated to The Born Free Foundation for their valuable work with animals.
This is a beautifully written collection of 19 short stories about wild animals for adults.
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Publisher: Bridge House
ISBN: 978-1-907335-07-5
This is the first Bridge House ‘unthemed’ short story collection and features the three winning stories from the first Bridge House Short Story Competition 2009 – winner Sandra Morgan, second place Sue Stern and third place Carol Croxton.
It is a wonderful lively collection by some of the newest talented writers. It would make a wonderful stocking filler for anyone that loves to read. This is a real bag of surprises like opening a box of chocolates. So come with us on this journey – laugh, cry and get carried away by this enchanting collection.
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Publisher: Bridge House
ISBN: 978-0-955791-03-1
Have you ever wondered why the ugly sisters hated Cinderella so much? Or asked yourself what drove a young woman to treat her step-children so cruelly? Or pondered what a beautiful young woman living with a lot of vertically challenged bachelors may have looked like to a concerned neighbour?
Sometimes we also feel the need to know what happened after the “happily ever after” and indeed if the after was ever happy.
Alternative Renditions challenges your normal perception of some very well known stories and gets a little further behind the scenes.
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Editor: Gill James
Publisher: Bridge House
ISBN: 978-0-955791-07-9
Holidays are for adventures and there are plenty of those in this book:
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Ones where everyday life becomes an adventure |
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Those which take place in other times and other worlds |
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Those where magic comes to our own world |
There’s a story for every day of your two-week holiday, including the day you set off and the day you come back.
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Editor: Gill James
Publisher: Bridge House
ISBN: 978-0-955791-09-3
Why does the old lady make such a big deal about inviting young couples to dinner? Why is there a uniform up in the attic? Who is the strange girl in the film?
Then there’s the printer that goes mad, the delightful house in the countryside, and the fruit machines that behave oddly at the local bingo hall.
Half the time, even though you know you’re reading a collection of ghost stories, you won’t know who are the real people and who are the ghosts. The characters in our stories don’t either.
One thing is certain: if you dare to open the pages in this volume you&rquo;ll be spooked for sure.
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Publisher: Bridge House
ISBN: 978-1-907335-08-2
Devils, demons, werewolves and other creatures of the night don’t have to be scary. In fact, at times they can be downright funny. They have heir fair share of the type of problems we humans have – pesky monthly cycles, others out to get them, a lack of what they need and a surfeit of what they don’t want. They’re not immune to recessions either.
There are plenty of moments in this little collection that make you hold your breath, make you want to lock the door and turn the lights up and make you wish you hadn’t stayed home alone.
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Editor: Gill James
Publisher: Bridge House
ISBN: 978-1-907335-02-0
Twelve Days is a collection of darker, longer stories which will give you something to think about. Elegantly crafted by some of Bridge House’s finest writers, these thought-provoking tales will occupy you during some of the darkest days after Yuletide festivities. These stories can of course be read at any time of the year but the collection is named after the twelve days of Christmas and provides one a day for this season.
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Editor: Gill James
Publisher: Bridge House
ISBN: 978-1-907335-06-8
Journeys. We all make them. Often they take us to exotic places. Sometimes they take us even further. They might take us through time. Or they might take us into a new way of life. There are times, too, when we go all over the world and back again, only to find that home is, after all, where it’s all happening.
This book contains stories about many different types of journey. We hope you will enjoy travelling into it and finding a world that suits you.
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Editor: Gill James
Publisher: Bridge House
ISBN: 978-1-907335-11-2
With a cover designed by Anthony Brown, a forword written by Michael Morpurgo and stories written by Blue Peter Award winners Alan Gibbons and Lauren St John, this collection of heart-warming stories is bound to please.
You’ll find all sorts of animals in this collection of stories – a hippo who longs for water, a chimp that proves to be tougher than a gorilla and a horse only two people can see.
There are some amazing people too – the young girl who looks after her mum, some young people who have magical powers they have to hide and a boy who finds a new way to remember his grandfather.
All of the stories are about how people are thoughtful with each other or with the animals in their care. And they’ll bring sunshine to a grey day.
£1 from the sale of each copy, plus a percentage of the author royalties, will be donated to Children’s Hospices UK.
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Publisher: Willow Bank
ISBN: 978-1-906166-02-1
Self-conscious, studious Julia is bowled over by the arrival of Peter Groves, the Greek God, known to all his friends as Ami. He’s a real catch and Julia seems to be the one reeling him in. With a little bit of help from her scatty, wannabe teenager, Auntie Vee, she even seems to be doing better than her supercool friend Kate who never has a problem attracting boys.
Then she loses her nerve.
Even so, whatever she does, she can’t get away from how much she fancies Ami. So there are fights, tears, pantomime rehearsals... then things begin to change.
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in conjunction with Year 8 students of Tile Hill Wood School and Language College
Publisher: Exposure Publishing
ISBN: 1-8468-5831-3
All of the poems, (some in other languages), short stories, articles and illustrations were created by students in Year 8 of Tile Hill Wood School and Language College. The students were also involved in editing, designing, illustrating and marketing the book. A whole democratic process took place in order to decide the theme of the anthology, what should be included and which charities we should support.
In the course of producing this anthology, the students learnt much about writing, publishing, democratic processes and business practices. Above all though, the anthology celebrates Childhood.
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by Year 5 and Year 6 students of Wilbraham Primary School
Publisher: Bridge House
ISBN: 0-9557-9102-2
This anthology was produced by students in Years 5 and 6 of Wilbraham Primary School. The students were also involved in editing, designing, illustrating and marketing the book.
They have written haikus, opposite poems, acrostic poems and short stories in celebration of Childhood.
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Publisher: Letts
These four books are aimed at primary age children. Although they are called “revision” books they could be used by any child wishing to learn French, as long as there were someone at hand to help with pronunciation.
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Publisher: Continuum
ISBN: 0-8264-0992-X
This is a user friendly manual that provides teachers with suggestions for classroom activities aimed at children aged 14-16 studying French. It features activities, teaching strategies and schemes informed by current ideas about teaching and learning and the curriculum, designed to assist busy teachers. The activities introduce different opportunities and approaches in both individual and group work; in both school and homework. They help to motivate and inspire students, and offer different methods of teaching and learning and different ways that teachers can deliver lessons. Most of these suggestions are practical, task-based and active, to stimulate students’ imagination and to motivate and inspire them in the subject. If necessary, teachers should be able to modify or adapt them to meet requirements of their own students and in many cases, some suggestions for ways of doing this is made.
Each activity is supported by photocopiable material, which is also available for download from the internet.
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