A fantastic blend of classic and new verse from Scotland - the ideal accompaniment to any Burns Night celebrations!

'In SCOTTISH POEMS John Rice takes us on an exhilarating whistle-stop tour, the poets of his choice a refreshing and stimulating mix of the familiar and the unexpected. The vitality and diversity of their voices (English, Scots and Gaelic, from the Borders to Shetland and the Western Isles) reflect that of the land they live in, and whet the appetite for more.'

Stewart Conn, poet and playwright.


My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here;

My heart's in the Highlands, a-chasing the deer;

A-chasing the wild-deer and following the roe,

My heart's in the Highlands, wherever I go.

Robert Burns

A beautiful collection of poems from a master wordsmith.

This stupendous new collection from Roger Stevens contains: laughs (including chuckles, guffaws and grins); sad moments (some); thrills (many); rhymes; haikus; rude words; adjectives (assorted); made-up words (including Wham-wig); nonsense and a fat penguin called Pete.


Farewell, Pete


I had a little dionsaur

Nothing would it eat

But a chocolate cupcake

And my best mate, Pete

Beatrix Potter loved rhymes and riddles and made two collections of them, as well as using them in her famous Tales. This volume brings together all Beatrix Potter's nursery rhymes, accompanied by her delightful illustrations.
Book: Deluxe/gift edition | 250 x 270mm | 80 pages 3-5 years

'This is the one for young poets' Carousel

This is a lively and full colour, illustrated dictionary included more than 6000 carefully selected rhyming words to inspire primary children to write their own poems. It also includes more than 50 commissioned poems, rhymes and couplets, and over 70 amusing and eye-catching illustrations to offer visual inspiration.
It will support both the writing and spelling objectives of the National Literacy Strategy at KS2 and will also appeal to parents keen to help their children extend their vocabulary and develop their writing skills.
Written by Pie Corbett, poetry advisor to the National Literacy Scheme.
Never let —
Your braces dangle —
When you’re standing —
By a mangle!

There are 22 specially selected white themed masks within this kit for children to decorate with various media e.g. paints, crayons, pastels, pens, or collage materials. Finished masks can be used alongside nursery rhymes, role-play, story telling, or singing songs.

Contents includes:
Contents also include items to make a furry spider to go with the rhymes 'Little Miss Muffet' and 'Insey Winsey Spider'.

Get singing - have great fun singing along with your child and the CD, as you follow the words on the page together.

Listen to the 60-minute CD that contains all fifty rhymes from the book. Beautifully illustrated with a sprinkle of magic so you can enjoy all your favourite rhymes from Little Miss Muffet, Hickory Dickory Dock to Ring Around the Rosy and Old Mother Hubbard.

Great for sharing at any time of day.

Features & Benefits
Young pupils will love seeing these 11 familiar nursery rhymes brought to life through narration, singing, animation and music.
This special edition resource features a new Learn Mode which focuses on the text and a Teacher’s Tool which has been specifically designed for use with an interactive whiteboard. In Sing Mode the click and explore feature on the large images allows pupils to display names of characters and objects and listen to speech. There are also new visual and text based activities for each rhyme. Inclusion and support features, including switch access, make this program accessible to a wide range of pupils.



Contents
11 fully animated and narrated rhymes
Teacher's Tool to facilitate group and whole-class teaching
Three modes of use
Perfect for whiteboards
Suitable for non and beginner readers

Features & Benefits
This collection of 12, delightfully amusing and decidedly wacky poems are brought to life through narration, animation and music in this brand new V2 resource.
The program features several motivating modes of use: Try It! focuses on interaction with the text and includes a set of specially designed teacher’s tools to support your whiteboard teaching; Read It! has a ‘click and explore’ feature allowing pupils to find jokes and trigger audio hidden in the main images, whilst Use It! includes new text-focused activities for each rhyme. Inclusion and support features, including switch access, make this program accessible to a wide range of pupils.



Contents
12 zany rhymes
Fully narrated, highlighting text
Music and animations for each rhyme
Picture Hotspots to activate hidden howlers and speech
Teacher’s Toolkit to facilitate group teaching
Switch or space bar access plus other inclusion

teach your children important lessons about alliteration, rhyme and rhythm in this exciting treasury of children's verse. Containing 26 original rhymes-one for each letter of the alphabet-this beautifully illustrated book takes young children on a poetic adventure.

Description

Compiled by John Foster, best-selling anthologist and poet, with excellent recognition in the trade and in schools
Sales of previous editions are nearly 20,000 copies
Perfect introduction to a range of best-loved poems and favourite poets
Gorgeous inside illustrations from artists including Lindsey Gardiner, Julie Monks, and Mary McQuillan
Very appealing new cover, complementing the new cover reissue of My First Oxford Book of Animal Poems (published Sept 2005)
Divided into sections by subject
Ideal as a resource or as a gift

From seeing shapes in clouds to the colourful peacock, and from the silly old baboon to the sounds of the sea and the rhythm of the banjo dance, here is a wonderfully varied collection of first poems drawn together by best-selling anthologist John Foster. Children will love the mix of poems covering familiar surroundings and those that are more exotic or nonsensical which capture their imagination. A huge range of favourite poets is included, such as Edward Lear, Ogden Nash, Ted Hughes, Charles Causley, James Berry, Eleanor Farjeon, and Spike Milligan. Beautifully illustrated in colour throughout by a number of different artists, this book is a very useful resource and an ideal gift.

Children will love this beautifully re-illustrated collection of 28 favourite Nursery Rhymes, including Ring-a-Ring o' Roses, Row, Row, Row your Boat and Little Miss Muffet.

Every rhyme in these fun playbooks comes with a special set of actions to encourage dance, play and coordination

Every rhyme in these fun playbooks comes with a special set of actions to encourage dance, play and coordination

The perfect collection for fans of cars, trains, trams, planes, combine harvesters and rockets.

A wonderful, jolly collection of poems about all sorts of modes of transport, both real and imaginary, including cars, buses, balloons, kites, rockets, diggers and planes to name but a few. Perfect for all young transport fans.


From Sail Your Silver Boat


The sea is grey, the sky is black

The moon is paper white

Sail your lovely silver boat

Through the silver night

Sail your lovely silver boat

Through the silver night

Description
My Oxford ABC and 123 Picture Rhyme Book is a book for parents and children to enjoy together. It will provide hours of fun, and will also be an excellent preparation for letter and number work at school.


Funny alphabet and number rhymes by leading poet Roger McGough

Beautifully-drawn pictures by well-known artist Debi Gliori

Hundreds of puzzles, jokes, games and activities

Follows the National Literacy Strategy in teaching alphabet order and the sounds that letters make
Roger McGough is one of the most popular poets writing for children. He received an OBE in 1997 and the Cholmondeley Award for poetry in 1998.

Debi Gliori is a widely acclaimed children's artist. She is the author of the Mr Bear books (Watts) and No Matter What(Bloomsbury). She was shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Prize in 1997as well as winning the picture book section of the 1997 Children's Book Award for Mr Bear to the Rescue.

Readership: Age 4+ years

Create funny rhymes and practice sentence making

Silly Rhymes uses connecting card pieces to help children invent hilarious sentences and learn all about rhymes.


An exciting game for 2-4 players that has fantastic, endless rhyming opportunities
Includes simpler rhyming activites for younger children
Colour-coded cards help children recognise nouns, verbs, adjectives and full stops
Developed in association with early learning consultants

Description
Twenty fairy tales that include all the favourites
Retold by one of the greatest children's writers of our time - Geraldine McCaughrean is the only writer ever to have won the Whitbread
Children's Book Award three times
Gorgeous colour illustrations throughout by Sophy Williams
Now in a gifty paperback edition with flaps

Retold by renowned children's writer, Geraldine McCaughrean, here are all the best-loved fairy tales and more. Favourites such as Sleeping Beauty, Rumpelstiltskin, Snow White, Cinderella, Rapunzel, Hansel and Gretel, the Little Mermaid, and the Princess and the Pea are accompanied by other treasures such as the Three Gifts of the North Wind, Cap-of-Rushes, and the Tinderbox. As ever, Geraldine's writing style is original and dramatic, and she weaves magic into her world of knights, witches, frogs, and princesses. Sophy Williams' delicate and atmospheric colour illustrations throughout the collection complement the text beautifully to make this a perfect gift.


Readership: Age 6+ years

Description

Introduction explains how to get the most from the dictionary

This is an innovative, cutting-edge dictionary full of words that rhyme, rhyming families, rhyming sounds, and poems. It will help children to write their own poetry, rap, slogans, songs, rhyming stories or just to extend their writing vocabulary. It is the only rhyming dictionary aimed at children aged 5-8 compiled by a poet and trialled and tested with teachers and children

·60 original poems - wacky, cheeky, and funny - all written by the well-known children's poet John Foster

·Illustrated with bright, contemporary, and humorous artwork

·Alphabet border on each spread

·Y1 and Y2 words from NLS, suitable for all KS1 (Scottish Guidelines P1-P3), plus catch-up support for KS2 (P4-P7)

·Special attention is given to words that rhyme but are spelled differently eg. mole/goal

·Indexes list all the words in the dictionary as well as rhyming sounds as required by schools

Readership: Age 5-8 years

LEARNING ACROSS THE CURRICULUM

Language and Science

A delightful set of 12, A3, beautifully illustrated, laminated, science based poems and comprehensive teachers book.

The poems' simple structure means that they can be extended and re-written by all children who can write a few words by themselves. The teachers book contains worksheets and teachers notes for each of the poems. The notes provided give ideas for reading and writing ideas during literacy lessons as well as cross-curricular links that can be explored. Each poem has a photocopiable worksheet for children to write their own poems on.

Their large (A3) size and beautiful illustrations allows the whole class to be able to and want to see them!

An absolutely delightful resource for using across the curriculum.

Ages 5-8.

This book is a celebration of the ways in which art and writing can influence and inspire each other. In 1999-2000, Grace Nichols was the first Writer-in-Residence at the Tate. During this time she worked with children from London schools, helping them respond to art by writing poetry. She herself was inspired to write over 25 memorable and perceptive new poems, collected in this book. In addition, Paint Me a Poem contains Grace's highly personal reflections on the paintings and sculptures, as well as fascinating insights into the inspirations for the paintings, written by Colin Grigg, Head of Young People's programmes at Tate. Included towards the back of the book are many lively activities designed to inspire children to write their own poetry and to have fun with language.

A charming and colourful anthology, ideal as a gift or for use in schools.

Description
Full-colour illustrations, with lots of humour and appeal
Wonderful collection on a popular theme including many well-known poems
Ideal as a gift or reference book
Best-selling author with excellent recognition in trade and schools

This book contains over ninety animal poems for children, beautifully illustrated in colour by seven different artists. All sorts of animals feature, from pets to insects, farm animals to sea creatures and beasts in the jungle. Children will love the variety and humour in this anthology - in the poems as well as the illustrations. John Foster is a skilled anthologizer and he has put together a wonderful selection of poems by Walter de la Mare, John Keats, Spike Milligan, Hilaire Belloc, Dick King-Smith, Wendy Cope, Tony Mitton, and Ogden Nash, as well as many others. A must for every bookshelf, whether at home or at school.
Readership: Age 6+ years

Description: Bring the 27 Poems covering blend beginnings to life with this read along poetry book with CD. The narrator Richard Smith, guides the children through the first reading, building confidence and an understanding of the target phoneme. The second reading includes sound effects to support expression and verbal fluency.

Description: Bring the 11 Poems covering digraph beginnings to life with this read along poetry book with CD. The narrator Richard Smith, guides the children through the first reading, building confidence and an understanding of the target phoneme. The second reading includes sound effects to support expression and verbal fluency.

Description: Bring the 26 Poems covering consonants and vowels to life with this read along poetry book with CD. The narrator Richard Smith, guides the children through the first reading, building confidence and an understanding of the target phoneme. The second reading includes sound effects to support expression and verbal fluency.

Description
First Verses is a series of books of new and original poetry for young children, chosen by John Foster. The first four titles were very well received, and Bedtime Rhymes is one of the second batch of four more First Verses titles. In Bedtime Rhymes there are poems for when you don't want to go to bed, and for when you do. There's bath time and hair-washing too (groan) before you drift off to dream. The book is illustrated in full colour, and Carol Thompson's beautifully observed pictures create their own lively world, as well as giving help on how to `play' some of the rhymes.


Readership: Interest age: 2+

Description
First Verses is a series of books of new and original poetry for young children, chosen by John Foster. The first four titles were very well received, and Playtime Rhymes is one of the second batch of four more First Verses titles. In Playtime Rhymes there are all kinds of games to play - balls, kites, playdough, skipping ropes - and lots of action rhymes to join in with. The book is illustrated in full colour, and Carol Thompson's beautifully observed pictures create their own lively world, as well as giving help on how to 'play' some of the rhymes.

Description
This is a collection of modern poems for young children, many of them specially written for this book. In Counting Rhymes the verses progress from simply counting up to two, to counting backwards, and eventually to counting two by two

Join Mother Goose and her three little goslings, Boo, Lucy and Small, as they enjoy 88 favourite traditional nursery rhymes. 30 original short stories about Mother Goose and her playful goslings link the rhymes and give them a fresh new context that is a real joy to share. With glorious pictures from today's leading illustrator, this is a must for every family bookshelf.
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