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A collection of wonderfully hilarious, ridiculous rhymes put together by a master compiler, well known for his collections with OUP. John Foster is a poet in his own right and is highly-regarded in both the trade and in schools for his brilliant collections.LOOPY LIMERICKS is the first of 4 sparkling new collections of nonsense poems which mark the return of Collins Chidlren’s Books to poetry publishing. John Foster is a well-known poet, teacher, and his book WHAM BAN ORANGUTAN is hugely popular (OUP), and the title of this was taken from his own poem. He is highly-regarded both in the trade and in schools.The books use both new and existing material with humorous line illustrations throughout.• Well-know poets included, such as: Roger McGough, Edward Lear, Michael Palin, Kaye Umansky, Spike Milligan and many more• It is divided into fun sections under the headings Animal Crackers, Dotty Dressers, Dreadful Disasters, Ghostly Groans, Musical Madness, Monstrous Moments, Potty People, Ridiculous Romances, School Sillies, Travellers’ Tales, Tummy Troubles, Vampire Bites and Last Writes.

RIDICULOUS RHYMES is the second of 4 sparkling new collections of nonsense poems which mark the return of Collins Children’s Books to poetry publishing. John Foster is a well-known poet, teacher, and his book, WHAM BANG ORANGUTAN is hugely popular (OUP). He is highly-regarded both in the trade and in schools.The books use both new and existing material with humorous line illustrations thorughout. Well-known poets are included such as Spike Milligan, Michael Rosen, Pam Ayers, Jez Alborough and John Foster himself.Where do dinner ladies eatwhile you enjoy their cooking?They pop out to the burger barwhen non one else is looking. Jez Alborough

A collection of wonderfully hilarious, seriously scary rhymes put together by a master compiler, well known for his collections with OUP. John Foster is a poet in his own right and is highly-regarded in both the trade and in schools for his brilliant collections.SERIOUSLY SCARY POEMS continues a sparkling new collection of nonsense poems which mark the return of Collins Children’s Books to poetry publishing. John Foster is a well-known poet, anthologist and teacher who is highly-regarded both in the trade and in schools.

A collection of wonderfully hilarious, completely crazy poems put together by a master compiler, well known for his collections with OUP. John Foster is a poet in his own right and is highly-regarded in both the trade and in schools for his brilliant collections.COMPLETELY CRAZY POEMS continues a sparkling new collection of nonsense poems which mark the return of Collins Children’s Books to poetry publishing. John Foster is a well-known poet, anthologist and teacher who is highly-regarded both in the trade and in schools.

People have run Marathons for more than 100 years, but how long is a marathon? Where are they run? Who can enter? Find out all about one of the most toughest and popular running events, in this non-chronological report.People have run Marathons for more than 100 years, but how long is a marathon? Where are they run? Who can enter? Find out all about one of the most toughest and popular running events, in this non-chronological report.Pages 14-15 feature a glossary, index, and a whole host of marathon facts.Orange/Band 6 books offer varied text and characters, with action sustained over several pages.Ideas for Guided Reading in the back of the book provide practical support and stimulating activities.This book has been levelled for Reading Recovery. This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.

Build your child’s reading confidence at home with books at the right levelWhat's it like to compete in the world's largest sporting event? Find out all about the Olympic Games, when they began and how they have changed over time. Read about the different events and some of the amazing stories of how athletes have won their medals in this fascinating information book. Topaz/ Band 13 books offer longer and more demanding reads for children to investigate and evaluate.Text type: An infomation book.A useful chart on pages 46-47 compares Olympic events from the ancient games, the first modern games and the most recent games to help children discuss what they’ve read and think about the way the sporting event has changed and developed over time.Additional information retrieval devices such as a glossary and index can be evaluated for their usefulness as children develop critical reading skills.Curriculum links: Geography: Connecting ourselves to the world; Citizenship: Living in a diverse world.This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.

This photographic non-fiction book examines how animals and people move. Red / Band 2A – A simple non-fiction bookText type – Non-fictionThe focus phonemes in this book are j, a and d. Other phonemes practised are s, t, i, p, n, c, k, e, o, r, g, u, l, h, f, b and ai.The final spread gives the children the opportunity to recap and discuss the text.This book has been levelled for Reading Recovery.This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.

A collection of wonderfully hilarious, really rude poems put together by a master compiler, well known for his collections with OUP. John Foster is a poet in his own right and is highly-regarded in both the trade and in schools for his brilliant collections.REALLY RUDE POEMS continues a sparkling new collection of nonsense poems which mark the return of Collins Children’s Books to poetry publishing. John Foster is a well-known poet, anthologist and teacher who is highly-regarded both in the trade and in schools.

Some cars are big and powerful, while others are very small. Some can even fly or float on water! Find out about some of the world’s coolest and most unusual cars in this highly photographic information book. Collins Big Cat Progress builds confidence, helping struggling pupils not only to read, but to love readingDual-banded books provide age-appropriate interest level material matched with a lower reading ability levelEvery book is levelled by reading expert Cliff Moon to ensure precise, systematic, measurable progression to help close the ability gapThe books use a range of reading strategies: phonic, graphic, syntactic and contextual to build confident, accurate, fluent readersDesigned to build speaking and listening skills, as well as reading skills, the books are highly visual and include incredible illustrations and photographsEvery book has a Key Stage 2 look-and-feel to engage older pupils and avoid stigmatisationTopics are relevant for children in years 3-6 and connected to the curriculum and framework objectives for these years to support inclusionProgress titles contain a Reader Response page to encourage the pupil to respond to and recall what they have read. This offers an ideal opportunity to check comprehensionIdeas for Reading, written by primary literacy expert Gill Howell are included in the back of every book to help you support the reading needs of each child

Your Life provides the only whole school solution for combining Citizenship and PSHE at Key Stages 3 and 4. The third editions of this bestselling series contains extensive materials on Economic Wellbeing and Financial Capability.Building on the huge success of the second editions, each full-colour Student’s book has been completely updated to provide a range of age-appropriate stimulus material and engaging activities designed to develop student’s skills, knowledge and understanding in line with the revised Programme of Study and the National Framework for PSHE.Your Life: offers a progressive, coherent programme for the Citizenship and PSHE throughout secondary schoolreduces preparation time with well-researched, balancedcoverage of a huge range of topicsis ideal for use on a year by year or selective basis with a clear flexible structure and self-contained unitsoffers masses of support for teachers including photocopiable activities and assessment materialContents of Your Life 11. You and your feelings – anxieties and worries2. You and your body – growing and changing3. You and your responsibilities – beliefs, customs and festivals4. You and your time – managing your time5. You and your values – right and wrong6. You and your family – getting on with others7. You and your body – smoking8. You and the law – children’s rights9. You and other people – bullying10. You and the media – the power of television11. You and your money – pocket money, budgeting and saving12. You and the world of work – developing a product13. You and your body – drugs and drugtaking14. You and the community – being a good neighbour15. You and your money – you as a consumer16. You and your opinions – how to express your ideas17. You and your body – eating and exercise18. You as a citizen – British government19. You and the world of work – attitudes to work20. You and the community – taking action: raising money for charity21. You and other people – people with disabilities22. You and global issues – resources, waste and recycling23. You and your achievements – reviewing your progress

our Life provides the only whole school solution for combining Citizenship and PSHE at Key Stage 3 and 4. The third editions of this bestselling series contains extensive materials on Economic Wellbeing and Financial Capability.Building on the huge success of the second editions, each full-colour Student’s book has been completely updated to provide a range of age-appropriate stimulus material and engaging activities designed to develop student’s skills, knowledge and understanding in line with the revised Programme of Study and the National Framework for PSHE.Your Life: offers a progressive, coherent programme for the Citizenship and PSHE throughout secondary schoolreduces preparation time with well-researched, balancedcoverage of a huge range of topicsis ideal for use on a year by year or selective basis with a clear flexible structure and self-contained unitsoffers masses of support for teachers including photocopiable activities and assessment materialContents1. You and your feelings – self esteem2. You and your body – drugs and drugtaking3. You and your resonsibilities – other cultures and lifestyles4. You and your money – gambling5. You and your values – where do you stand?6. You and your family – divided families7. You and your safety – at home and in the street8. You and the law – the police9. You and other people – friends and friendships10. You and the media – the power of advertising11. You and your time – making the most of your leisure12. You and the world of work – employment and unemployment13. You and your body – drinking alcohol14. You and the community – the school as a community15. You and your opinions – speaking your mind16. You and your body – contraception and safer sex17. You as a citizen – of the European Union18. You and the world of work – understanding business19. You and the community – taking action on the local environment20. You and other people – older people21. You and global issues – food and water22. You and your achievements – reviewing your progress

Your Life provides the only whole school solution for combining Citizenship and PSHE at Key Stage 3 and 4. The fourth editions of this bestselling series contains extensive materials on Economic Wellbeing and Financial Capability.Section 1: Personal wellbeing1. Developing your identity and imageA sense of identityBehaviour and self-image2. Managing your emotions and moodsHow do you manage how you feel?Assertiveness3. Changing relationshipsFriends and familyExploring love4. Coping with crisesSeparation and divorceBereavementLeaving home5. Thinking ahead – planning your futureAssessing your skills and investigating careersWhy work experienceGetting started on work experienceSection 2: Social education6. Britain – a diverse societyHow did Britain beginIs there a national identity and culture in BritainIs Britain racist?7. Human rightsWhat are human rights?What are responsibilities?8. Rights and responsibilitiesParental responsibilityWhat is work?/The law at workConsumers and traders9. Challenging offensive behaviourUnderstanding prejudiceFighting discriminationSection 3: Keeping healthy10. Healthy eatingEating and body shapeHealthy eating and junk food11. Safer sex and contraceptionWhat is the right time to have sex?Practising safer sex12. Drinking and smokingUnderstanding why people drink and smoke13. Health mattersKeeping healthyHealthcare checkSection 4: Citizenship14. The law of the landWhat is the law?/Making the lawCivil law and criminal law15. Crimes and punishmentCriminal responsibilityThe Youth Justice systemPunishment and sentencing16. It’s your governmentThe UK ParliamentGovernment FinanceVoting and electionsDevolutionDemocracy17. It’s your councilLocal government18. Working for changeHow can you change thingsNational Pressure groupsYouth ProjectsSection 5: Citizenship – Economic and financial capability19. Managing your moneyBudgetingHow to manage your finances20. Financing businessesMoney for businessesBusiness cost and budgeting21. Enterprise challengeWhat is an enterprise challenge?Making a business planSection 6: Reviewing22. Reviewing and recording learning

Your Life provides the only whole school solution for combining Citizenship and PSHE at Key Stage 3 and 4. The fourth editions of this bestselling series contains extensive materials on Economic Wellbeing and Financial Capability.Section 1 – Personal well-beingDeveloping your own values1. Confronting social and moral issues2. Exploring social and moral issuesManaging your time and studies3. Coping with revision4. Coping with examsMarriage and commitment5. Attitudes to marriage and commitment6. Long term relationshipsParenthood and parenting7. Becoming a parent8. ParenthoodThinking ahead9. Your options at 1610. Further education and training11. Applying for jobsSection 2 – Social educationHuman rights12. Protecting and Enforcing Human Rights13. Human Rights Abuse14. Refugees, asylum seekers and economic migrantsGlobal challenges15. Poverty16. World health17. EducationMedia matters18. The news agenda19. A free media?20. Privacy versus Public InterestChallenging offensive behaviour21. Sexism and sexual harassment22. Homosexuality and homophobiaSection 3 – Keeping healthyManaging stress and depression23. Stress24. DepressionSafer sex25. Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs)26. HIV and AIDSDrugs and drug taking27. Drugs – the risks28. Drugs – the lawEmergency First Aid29. First aid – coping with an emergency30. Shock and resuscitationSection 4 – CitizenshipThe UK’s role in the world31. The European Union32. The UK and the EU33. The UK and NATO34. The UK and the Commonwealth35. The United NationsGlobal challenges – wars, weapons and terrorism36. Wars, weapons and arms races37. What is terrorism?38. Fighting terrorismGlobal challenges39. Environmental issues40. Taking action to protect the environmentWorking for change41. Campaigning for change42. Campaigning for changeCo-operating on a community project43. Volunteering44. Getting involved in a community projectSection 5 – Economic and financial capabilityManaging your money45. Borrowing money46. Work and payEconomy47. The UK economy48. How the UK economy works49. How the global economy worksSection 6 – Reviewing50. Reviewing and recording your learning

This poetry collection for 6 year olds comprises 34 fun, accessible poems to read together at home. Featuring a fantastic range of children's poets and four exciting themes with full-colour illustrations, this is the ideal approach to encourage a love of reading, whilst developing an understanding of poetry, meeting the new requirements of the National Curriculum. Poetry is a fun way for children to enjoy learning to read, developing their vocabulary and understanding of ideas and themes. This collection offers a wide range of poems to appeal to all children, from poems about giants and space rockets to poems that are great to read aloud, like 'The Wizard Said' and 'Meddling Muddle'. The collection has been carefully selected for children in Year 2 of school and includes helpful parent notes for every poem and a glossary of key terms from the series editor and children's poet, John Foster. It is the second of three poetry collections that will support your child from learning to read in Year 1 through to understanding themes and developing vocabulary in Year 3. This collection of poetry has the perfect balance of engaging rhyme, familiar themes and amusing illustrations to promote a lifelong love of reading.

A book aimed at both trade and schools markets that brings together the best of John Foster's original poetry. There are over 250 poems divided into themed sections, in which there will be humorous and thoughtful poems sitting side by side. It includes a vast range of types of poem, such as shape poems, acrostic poems, limericks, diary poems, raps, story poems, recipe poems, which makes it the perfect collection for use in the classroom, or just to dip into.

Here is a collection of fabulously funny poems put together by John Foster and illustrated with creative genius by Korky Paul. There are poems by a range of authors about all kinds of football matches - including meteorite footballs, football on the moon, a witches versus wizards football match, the goalie with expanding hands, and the Stone Age man who invented football. Guaranteed to delight, this is a perfect introduction to poetry either at home or at school.

John Foster presents a penetrating investigation of the question: what is it to perceive a physical object? Is perceptual contact with a physical object, he asks, something fundamental, or does it break down into further factors? If the latter, what are these factors, and how do they combine to secure the contact? For most of the book, Foster addresses these questions in the framework of a realist view of the physical world. But the arguments which thereby unfold - arguments which undermine direct realism and establish a version of the sense-datum theory - lead to the conclusion that we do not perceive physical objects at all. The only way to avoid this conclusion is by abandoning physical realism for a form of idealism, and this is the option which Foster finally embraces.The Nature of Perception makes a valuable contribution to the ongoing debate: it sheds light on the traditional issues, and breathes new life into positions which most current philosophers assume to be dead.

Chucklers is a series of funny novels, short stories, anthologies and comics that make reading a pleasure for 7-11 year olds. There is something for everyone in this varied collection which is packed with fantastic illustrations.Each book contains inside cover notes to support children in their reading. FREE online teaching notes are available at www.oxfordowl.co.ukThe series is written by top children's authors and edited by award-winning author Jeremy Strong. The books are finely levelled, making it easy to match every child to the right book.This pack contains six books, one each of: Gizmo, Tyrannosaurus Max, The Ghost in the Washing Machine, Fur from Home Animal Adventures, King Arthur Needs You!, Transylvania United..

Chucklers is a series of funny novels, short stories, anthologies and comics that make reading a pleasure for 7-11 year olds. There is something for everyone in this varied collection which is packed with fantastic illustrations.Each book contains inside cover notes to support children in their reading. FREE online teaching notes are available at www.oxfordowl.co.ukThe series is written by top children's authors and edited by award-winning author Jeremy Strong. The books are finely levelled, making it easy to match every child to the right book.This pack contains thirty-six books, six of each of: Gizmo, Tyrannosaurus Max, The Ghost in the Washing Machine, Fur from Home Animal Adventures, King Arthur Needs You!, and Transylvania United.

Don't Eat Soup with your Fingers is filled with poems and jokes. Find out what's worse than being eaten alive by spiders and why a cat makes a better hat than a cow.Chucklers is a series of funny novels, short stories, anthologies and comics that make reading a pleasure for 7-11 year olds. There is something for everyone in this varied collection which is packed with fantastic illustrations.Books contain inside cover notes to support children in their reading. Help with children's reading development also available at www.oxfordowl.co.uk.The series is written by top children's authors and edited by award-winning author Jeremy Strong. The books are finely levelled, making it easy to match every child to the right book.

When Dad Scored a Goal in the Garden is packed with poems and jokes. Discover what happens when Dad thinks he's Ronaldo. Learn some new tricks from Slick Nick's dog, and what NOT to do if you're a wizard's apprentice.Chucklers is a series of funny novels, short stories, anthologies and comics that make reading a pleasure for 7-11 year olds. There is something for everyone in this varied collection which is packed with fantastic illustrations.Books contain inside cover notes to support children in their reading. Help with children's reading development also available at www.oxfordowl.co.uk.The series is written by top children's authors and edited by award-winning author Jeremy Strong. The books are finely levelled, making it easy to match every child to the right book.

The Ghost in the Washing Machine is packed with poems and jokes. Have you ever wondered how aliens drink their tea? Or what's written on a robot's tombstone? Find out about a trampolining queen, then take a sneaky peak at a superhero's diary.Chucklers is a series of funny novels, short stories, anthologies and comics that make reading a pleasure for 7-11 year olds. There is something for everyone in this varied collection which is packed with fantastic illustrations.Books contain inside cover notes to support children in their reading. Help with children's reading development also available at www.oxfordowl.co.uk.The series is written by top children's authors and edited by award-winning author Jeremy Strong. The books are finely levelled, making it easy to match every child to the right book.

Watch your Teacher Carefully is packed with poems and jokes. Enjoy a dance with the disco sheep but watch out for Beryl the Budgie. Learn why dragons don't make good pets, and what happened when Grandpa's false teeth escaped.Chucklers is a series of funny novels, short stories, anthologies and comics that make reading a pleasure for 7-11 year olds. There is something for everyone in this varied collection which is packed with fantastic illustrations.Books contain inside cover notes to support children in their reading. Help with children's reading development also available at www.oxfordowl.co.uk.The series is written by top children's authors and edited by award-winning author Jeremy Strong. The books are finely levelled, making it easy to match every child to the right book.

Chucklers is a series of funny novels, short stories, anthologies and comics that make reading a pleasure for 7-11 year olds. There is something for everyone in this varied collection which is packed with fantastic illustrations. Each book contains inside cover notes to support children in their reading. FREE online teaching notes are available at www.oxfordowl.co.ukThe series is written by top children's authors and edited by award-winning author Jeremy Strong. The books are finely levelled, making it easy to match every child to the right book.This pack contains 6 books, 1 of each: Charlie - Prince of Wheels, The Trials of Ruby P. Baxter, Watch your Teacher Carefully, The Adventures of Captain Fearbeard, The Ugh Factor and Simon Barbecue.

Chucklers is a series of funny novels, short stories, anthologies and comics that make reading a pleasure for 7-11 year olds. There is something for everyone in this varied collection which is packed with fantastic illustrations. Each book contains inside cover notes to support children in their reading. FREE online teaching notes are available at www.oxfordowl.co.ukThe series is written by top children's authors and edited by award-winning author Jeremy Strong. The books are finely levelled, making it easy to match every child to the right book.This pack contains 36 books, 6 of each: Charlie - Prince of Wheels, The Trials of Ruby P. Baxter, Watch your Teacher Carefully, The Adventures of Captain Fearbeard, The Ugh Factor and Simon Barbecue.

John Foster presents a clear and powerful discussion of a range of topics relating to our understanding of the universe: induction, laws of nature, and the existence of God. He begins by developing a solution to the problem of induction - a solution whose key idea is that the regularities in the workings of nature that have held in our experience hitherto are to be explained by appeal to the controlling influence of laws, as forms of natural necessity. His second line of argument focuses on the issue of what we should take such necessitational laws to be, and whether we can even make sense of them at all. Having considered and rejected various alternatives, Foster puts forward his own proposal: the obtaining of a law consists in the causal imposing of a regularity on the universe as a regularity. With this causal account of laws in place, he is now equipped to offer an argument for theism. His claim is that natural regularities call for explanation, and that, whatever explanatory role we may initially assign to laws, the only plausible ultimate explanation is in terms of the agency of God. Finally, he argues that, once we accept the existence of God, we need to think of him as creating the universe by a method which imposes regularities on it in the relevant law-yielding way. In this new perspective, the original nomological-explanatory solution to the problem of induction becomes a theological-explanatory solution.The Divine Lawmaker is bold and original in its approach, and rich in argument. The issues on which it focuses are among the most important in the whole epistemological and metaphysical spectrum.

John Foster presents a penetrating investigation into the question: what is it to perceive a physical object? Is perceptual contact with a physical object, he asks, something fundamental, or does it break down into further factors? If the latter, what are these factors, and how do they combine to secure the contact?For most of the book, Foster addressed these questions in the framework of a realist view of the physical world. But the arguments which thereby unfold - arguments which undermine direct realism and establish a version of the sense-datum theory - lead to the conclusion that we do no perceive physical objects at all. The only way to avoid this conclusion is by abandoning physical realism for a form of idealism, and this is the option which Foster finally embraces. The Nature of Perception makes an important contrbution to the ongoing debate: it sheds fresh light on the traditional issues, and breathes new life into positions which most current philosophers assume to be dead.

A World for Us aims to refute physical realism and establish in its place a form of idealism. Physical realism, in the sense in which John Foster understands it, takes the physical world to be something whose existence is both logically independent of the human mind and metaphysically fundamental. Foster identifies a number of problems for this realist view, but his main objection is that it does not accord the world the requisite empirical immanence. The form of idealism that he tries to establish in its place rejects the realist view in both its aspects. It takes the world to be something whose existence is ultimately constituted by facts about human sensory experience, or by some richer complex of non-physical facts in which such experiential facts centrally feature. Foster calls this phenomenalistic idealism. He tries to establish a specific version of such phenomenalistic idealism, in which the experiential facts that centrally feature in the constitutive creation of the world are ones that concern the organization of human sensory experience. The basic idea of this version is that, in the context of certain other constitutively relevant factors, this sensory organization creates the physical world by disposing things to appear systematically world-wise at the human empirical viewpoint. Chief among these other relevant factors is the role of God as the one who is responsible for the sensory organization and ordains the system of appearance it yields. It is this that gives the idealistically created world its objectivity and allows it to qualify as a real world.

This volume, aimed at the general reader, presents life and times of the amazing animals that inhabited Earth more than 500 million years ago. The Cambrian Period was a critical time in Earth's history. During this immense span of time nearly every modern group of animals appeared. Although life had been around for more than 2 million millennia, Cambrian rocks preserve the record of the first appearance of complex animals with eyes, protective skeletons, antennae, and complex ecologies. Grazing, predation, and multi-tiered ecosystems with animals living in, on, or above the sea floor became common. The cascade of interaction led to an ever-increasing diversification of animal body types. By the end of the period, the ancestors of sponges, corals, jellyfish, worms, mollusks, brachiopods, arthropods, echinoderms, and vertebrates were all in place. The evidence of this Cambrian "explosion" is preserved in rocks all over the world, including North America, where the seemingly strange animals of the period are preserved in exquisite detail in deposits such as the Burgess Shale in British Columbia. Cambrian Ocean World tells the story of what is, for us, the most important period in our planet's long history.