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Jolly Phonics Readers Level 1 Complete Set (in print letters) is the first of four levels of decodable books, providing the best start for children just starting to read. At every stage the words are within the reach of children as they use their letter sound knowledge and tricky words already taught. Tricky words are shown…
Solutions For All English Home Language Grade 5 Core Reader – 9781431013029
This stunning fantasy inspired by Chinese folklore is a companion novel to Starry River of the Sky and the New York Times bestselling and National Book Award finalist When the Sea Turned to Silver In the valley of Fruitless mountain, a young girl named Minli lives in a ramshackle hut with her parents. In the evenings, her father regales her…
James and the Giant Peach – Phizzwhizzing new cover look and branding for the World’s NUMBER ONE Storyteller!James Henry Trotter lives with two ghastly hags. Aunt Sponge is enormously fat with a face that looks boiled and Aunt Spiker is bony and screeching. He’s very lonely until one day something peculiar happens. At the end…
About the book: Boy, Roald Dahl’s bestselling autobiography, is full of hilarious anecdotes about his childhood and school days. With fabulous new line drawings by Quentin Blake. “An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details. This is not an autobiography”….
About the book: George Kranky’s Grandma is a miserable grouch. George really hates that horrid old witchy woman. One Saturday morning, George is in charge of giving Grandma her medicine. So-ho! Ah-ha! Ho-hum! George knows exactly what to do. A magic medicine it will be. One that will either cure her completely… or blow off…
Counting by 7’s (Holly Goldberg Sloan) – 9781848123823
Jolly Phonics Readers Level 4 Complete Set (in print letters) is the fourth set of four levels of decodable books, providing the best start for children just starting to read. At every stage the words are within the reach of children as they use their letter sound knowledge and tricky words already taught. Tricky words are…
Jolly Phonics Readers Level 3 Complete Set (in print letters) is the third of four levels of decodable books, providing the best start for children just starting to read. At every stage the words are within the reach of children as they use their letter sound knowledge and tricky words already taught. Tricky words are shown…
The BFG is no ordinary bone-crunching giant. He is far too nice and jumbly. It’s lucky for Sophie that he is. Had she been carried off in the middle of the night by the Bloodbottler, or any of the other giants—rather than the BFG—she would have soon become breakfast. When Sophie hears that the giants…
Three young strangers to city life – Daniel, Themba and Khanyisa – are thrown together as a result of unusual circumstances. Through Daniel, who works part-time at the Showcase Theatre, Themba lands a part as a dancer in the soon-to-open show and manages to earn just enough money to enable him and his younger brother,…
Wonder – 9780141378244
8 weeks waiting period for new copies Gift and Other Stories – The Gift and other stories is a collection of short stories with a range of subjects and styles for Years 6 – 8 by some of Australia’s best children’s writers: Allan Baillie, Brian Caswell, Jackie French, Jean Chapman, Hazel Edwards, Nette Hilton,…
Breadwinner – Afghanistan: Parvana’s father is arrested and taken away by Taliban soldiers. Under Taliban law, women and girls are not allowed to leave the house on their own. Parvana, her mother, and sisters are prisoners in their own home. With no man to go out to buy food, they face starvation. So Parvana must…
Tania Brink Die tieners wat as keurders opgetree het, was mal oor hierdie “anderste”, humoristiese liefdesverhaal en het keer op keer opgemerk hoeveel insig die skrywer in tieners se (liefdes)lewe toon. Vir tieners van 12-15 jaar. “Shakespeare was miskien hierdie hengse romantiese skrywer, maar hy was ’n seksis, nes die meeste mans. Hy’t seker heeldag…
Thabo the Space Dude Log Book 3: Voyagers in Space – 9781776354702
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator – 9780141349831
George’s Marvellous Medicine Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake – 9780241558485
Giraffe and the Pelly and Me Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake – 9780241558508
The Hodgeheg Dick King-Smith – 9780141370224
The Journal: Dear Future II – 0790116839
Out the window they flew, far up into the sky, and soon the whole family was flying around and around together.Every Saturday morning the Gregg family goes off to shoot animals and birds. But the girl who lives next door hates hunting.Now it’s made her so angry that she’s PUT THE MAGIC FINGER ON THEM…
The kind of book I would have loved as a kid’ – Tom Fletcher, author of Space Band Andy and Terry live in the WORLD’S BEST treehouse! It’s got a giant catapult, a secret underground laboratory, a tank of man-eating sharks and a marshmallow machine that follows you around and shoots marshmallows into your mouth whenever…
This beautiful HarperCollins Children’s Modern Classics edition is perfect for every bookshelf. Naledi and Tiro are frightened. Children are dying in their village and their baby sister might be next. There is only one thing left for them to do, and there is only one place left for them to go. Running away from their…
Learning to read is super easy with Tippie the elephant! Level 6 focusses on diphthongs: those vowels in which there is a noticeable sound change within the same syllable. The stories include longer sentences and paragraphs. It introduces new contextual vocabulary and has an emphasis on sight words with complex spelling. The next 10 Tippie…
Walk Two Moons – 9780330397834
An extraordinary tale of myth, magic and the power of friendship, perfect for fans of Sky Song and Cogheart. The City – mankind’s last refuge in a drowned world, where Whale Lords reign and the Inquisition keeps the peace. The Enemy – a dark power, ever seeking to take possession of a human body and cause untold chaos. The…
Joy and heartbreak combine in this bittersweet tale of a champion greyhound’s journey through life – and from owner to owner… “The sack wasn’t just drifting gently along like everything else, it was turning of its own accord. There was definitely something inside it, struggling against the side of the plastic bag, kicking at it,…
If you could see with your eyes closed, how would you use your power? That’s what Henry has to decide in “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar,”one of the seven stories in this extra-ordinary collection. In addition to imaginative and magical tales, this book also contains the true story of how Roald Dahl became a…
The epic and heart-rending jungle adventure from a master storyteller‘One of those novels that you know from the start is going to break your heart’ The TimesA surprise trip to Indonesia seems the perfect holiday for Will and his mum. That is, until the elephant he is riding along the beach, Oona, spooks and begins…
Milton is swept up in a quest for friends and excitement in Jess Redman’s thrilling middle grade novel, The Adventure is Now. Sometimes it’s hard to be Milton P. Greene. He says all the wrong things, his family is falling apart, and everyone at school avoids him because of the very embarrassing Bird Brain Incident. But…
About the book: Sensitively edited and with a connecting commentary by editor, Mirjam Pressler, the abridged edition ofThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank gives younger readers their first introduction to the extraordinary diary of an ordinary girl who has long become a household name. This abridged edition has a short prologue written by the…
Mildred D.Taylor’s much-loved classic, for readers aged 12+, Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry follows a feisty African-American girl – Cassie Logan – as she grows up in Mississippi during the Great Depression and learns the shocking realities of racism. Perfect for fans of The Help, Malorie Blackman and To Kill a Mockingbird . ‘Look out there, Cassie girl, all…
Waiting for Anya – A gripping World War II adventure from War Horse author and former Children’s Laureate, Michael Morpurgo. Jo did not stop until he’d shut the door behind him and even then his heart could not stop pounding in his ears. Jo finds out that Jewish children are being smuggled away from the…
In Nazi-occupied Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen is called upon for a selfless act of bravery to help save her best friend from a terrible fate. Winner of the Newbery Medal, newly reissued in the Essential Modern Classics range. “They plan to arrest all the Danish Jews. They plan to take them away. And we have…
Tuck Everlasting – 9781250059291
About the Author: Roald Dahl (1916-1990) was born in Wales of Norwegian parents. He spent his childhood in England and, at age eighteen, went to work for the Shell Oil Company in Africa. When World War II broke out, he joined the Royal Air Force and became a fighter pilot. At the age of twenty-six he…
Daar’s ‘n monster in die laboratorium … Jenny is baie opgewonde. Sy het sowaar die hoofrol in die skoolkonsert gekry! Maar toe sy en Bennie die middag voor die konsert by professor Fungus gaan kuier, drink sy per ongeluk ‘n vreemde mengsel … En kort voor lank het dit VREESAANJAENDE gevolge! Jenny se hele lyf…
What are stories for? Well, let the storyteller show you … the North Wind and the Sun compete to find out who is better, proving that kindness is better than anger. Can a crocodile and a monkey help solve an argument between friends? Allow children to escape into another world and discover the power of…
About the book: Matilda loves science and inventing. Her heroes are Marie Curie, Leonardo da Vinci and Thomas Edison, and one day she wants to be a famous inventor herself. So when she doesn’t win the school science fair, she’s devastated – especially as the judges didn’t believe she’d come up with her entry on…
In this classic children’s tale, Milo sets off through the tollbooth he finds in his bedroom and away on a magical journey to such places as the Land of Expectation, the Mountains of Ignorance and the Castle in the Air. He meets the weirdest folk, such as the Threadbare Excuse, who mumbles the same thing…
‘A thrilling, original, evocative and eerie tale – I adored it!’ Michelle Harrison, author of A Pinch of Magic Step into a world of secrets, folklore and illusions, where nothing is as it seems and magic is at play. Madame Augustina Pinchbeck, travels the country conjuring the spirits of dearly departed loved ones. for a…
We listen to the truth, the memories, the bits made up. We gaze at each other. We eat warm buttered toast. We know that the sun will fall, that the children and the birds will be silent. We know that we will return to separate lives and separate deaths. We listen to the stories, that…
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