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Follow the life cycle of the seahorse – from its birth and eating in its habitat, all the way through to finding a mate and breeding. Green/Band 5 books offer early readers patterned language and varied characters.Text Type: An information book.Pages 22 and 23 summarise the life cycle of the seahorse.Curriculum Links: Citizenship: Animals and us.This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.

Build your child’s reading confidence at home with books at the right levelA traditional folk tale about twelve princesses who defy their father’s rules forbidding them to dance, by finding a magical kingdom where they can let loose – and wear out their shoes!Ruby/Band 14 books give increasing opportunities for children to develop their skills of inference and deduction.Text type: A traditional taleCurriculum links: English: fairy stories, myths and legend.This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.

Nok is missing. Will Max and Ant be able to follow the footprints and find him in On Nok's Trail?Find out what happens when Nok uses his powers to start Tiger's toy trucks in I Win! Who will be the first to cross the finish line?In Popcorn Surfing, Ant and Nok are cooking popcorn. Find out what happens when Nok puts too much corn into the popcorn maker!The micro-friends take their car to the park in Stuck in the Mud. Will their day be ruined when it suddenly starts to rain?Max's sister, Molly, has lost the cow from her toy farm. What else will Max and Nok find in the long grass when they go looking for it? Find out in The Lost Cow.Nok wants to go for a trip in Max's rocket in The Rocket Flight. What will happen when they take off and zoom into the air? Each book comes with notes on the inside front and back covers for teachers, TAs and parents/carers, which give question prompts and points for discussion, phonic practice words, challenge words, and additional activities that children can do.

Nok is missing. Will Max and Ant be able to follow the footprints and find him in On Nok's Trail?Find out what happens when Nok uses his powers to start Tiger's toy trucks in I Win! Who will be the first to cross the finish line?In Popcorn Surfing, Ant and Nok are cooking popcorn. Find out what happens when Nok puts too much corn into the popcorn maker!The micro-friends take their car to the park in Stuck in the Mud. Will their day be ruined when it suddenly starts to rain?Max's sister, Molly, has lost the cow from her toy farm. What else will Max and Nok find in the long grass when they go looking for it? Find out in The Lost Cow.Nok wants to go for a trip in Max's rocket in The Rocket Flight. What will happen when they take off and zoom into the air? Each book comes with notes on the inside front and back covers for teachers, TAs and parents/carers, which give question prompts and points for discussion, phonic practice words, challenge words, and additional activities that children can do.

Nok is missing. Will Max and Ant be able to follow the footprints and find him in On Nok's Trail?Find out what happens when Nok uses his powers to start Tiger's toy trucks in I Win! Who will be the first to cross the finish line?In Popcorn Surfing, Ant and Nok are cooking popcorn. Find out what happens when Nok puts too much corn into the popcorn maker!The micro-friends take their car to the park in Stuck in the Mud. Will their day be ruined when it suddenly starts to rain?Max's sister, Molly, has lost the cow from her toy farm. What else will Max and Nok find in the long grass when they go looking for it? Find out in The Lost Cow. Nok wants to go for a trip in Max's rocket in The Rocket Flight. What will happen when they take off and zoom into the air? Each book comes with notes on the inside front and back covers for teachers, TAs and parents/carers, which give question prompts and points for discussion, phonic practice words, challenge words, and additional activities that children can do.

Nok is missing. Will Max and Ant be able to follow the footprints and find him in On Nok's Trail?Find out what happens when Nok uses his powers to start Tiger's toy trucks in I Win! Who will be the first to cross the finish line?In Popcorn Surfing, Ant and Nok are cooking popcorn. Find out what happens when Nok puts too much corn into the popcorn maker!The micro-friends take their car to the park in Stuck in the Mud. Will their day be ruined when it suddenly starts to rain?Max's sister, Molly, has lost the cow from her toy farm. What else will Max and Nok find in the long grass when they go looking for it? Find out in The Lost Cow.Nok wants to go for a trip in Max's rocket in The Rocket Flight. What will happen when they take off and zoom into the air? Each book comes with notes on the inside front and back covers for teachers, TAs and parents/carers, which give question prompts and points for discussion, phonic practice words, challenge words, and additional activities that children can do.

Cat is painting a picture at school. Nok wants to help, but will he make it any better or will he just make a mess? Find out in Cat's Painting.Ant, Tiger and Nok are playing in the garden when Nok starts to feel hot. How can a micro-alien cool down? Find out in It's Too Hot!Cat, Tiger and Nok are at the fair in Helter-Skelter. Find out what adventures await the micro-friends when Nok spots a ride that looks exactly like a space rocket!In Funfair Fun, Nok finds himself trapped among some fairground toys. Can Cat and Tiger win the game and claim Nok as their prize?Nok has fallen asleep in one of Tiger's trainers. He's in for a shock when Tiger wakes him up using Robo-Rex! Find out how Nok gets his own back in A Shock for Nok.The micro-friends are playing football in the garden in Goal! Nok feels left out, so they find a way to play it at micro-size. What will happen when Nok goes in goal?Each book comes with notes on the inside front and back covers for teachers, TAs and parents/carers, which give question prompts and points for discussion, phonic practice words, challenge words, and additional activities that children can do.

Cat is painting a picture at school. Nok wants to help, but will he make it any better or will he just make a mess? Find out in Cat's Painting.Ant, Tiger and Nok are playing in the garden when Nok starts to feel hot. How can a micro-alien cool down? Find out in It's Too Hot!Cat, Tiger and Nok are at the fair in Helter-Skelter. Find out what adventures await the micro-friends when Nok spots a ride that looks exactly like a space rocket!In Funfair Fun, Nok finds himself trapped among some fairground toys. Can Cat and Tiger win the game and claim Nok as their prize?Nok has fallen asleep in one of Tiger's trainers. He's in for a shock when Tiger wakes him up using Robo-Rex! Find out how Nok gets his own back in A Shock for Nok.The micro-friends are playing football in the garden in Goal! Nok feels left out, so they find a way to play it at micro-size. What will happen when Nok goes in goal?Each book comes with notes on the inside front and back covers for teachers, TAs and parents/carers, which give question prompts and points for discussion, phonic practice words, challenge words, and additional activities that children can do.

Cat is painting a picture at school. Nok wants to help, but will he make it any better or will he just make a mess? Find out in Cat's Painting.Ant, Tiger and Nok are playing in the garden when Nok starts to feel hot. How can a micro-alien cool down? Find out in It's Too Hot!Cat, Tiger and Nok are at the fair in Helter-Skelter. Find out what adventures await the micro-friends when Nok spots a ride that looks exactly like a space rocket!In Funfair Fun, Nok finds himself trapped among some fairground toys. Can Cat and Tiger win the game and claim Nok as their prize?Nok has fallen asleep in one of Tiger's trainers. He's in for a shock when Tiger wakes him up using Robo-Rex! Find out how Nok gets his own back in A Shock for Nok.The micro-friends are playing football in the garden in Goal! Nok feels left out, so they find a way to play it at micro-size. What will happen when Nok goes in goal?Each book comes with notes on the inside front and back covers for teachers, TAs and parents/carers, which give question prompts and points for discussion, phonic practice words, challenge words, and additional activities that children can do.

Cat is painting a picture at school. Nok wants to help, but will he make it any better or will he just make a mess? Find out in Cat's Painting.Ant, Tiger and Nok are playing in the garden when Nok starts to feel hot. How can a micro-alien cool down? Find out in It's Too Hot!Cat, Tiger and Nok are at the fair in Helter-Skelter. Find out what adventures await the micro-friends when Nok spots a ride that looks exactly like a space rocket!In Funfair Fun, Nok finds himself trapped among some fairground toys. Can Cat and Tiger win the game and claim Nok as their prize?Nok has fallen asleep in one of Tiger's trainers. He's in for a shock when Tiger wakes him up using Robo-Rex! Find out how Nok gets his own back in A Shock for Nok.The micro-friends are playing football in the garden in Goal! Nok feels left out, so they find a way to play it at micro-size. What will happen when Nok goes in goal?Each book comes with notes on the inside front and back covers for teachers, TAs and parents/carers, which give question prompts and points for discussion, phonic practice words, challenge words, and additional activities that children can do.

On a tall hill, in a tall house, lived a tall man and a small mouse…From Mara Bergman and Birgitta Sif, creator of Oliver and Frances Dean Who Loved to Dance and Dance, comes an enchanting new story of friendship and teamwork; a modern fable of little and large. All day long, the Tall Man does tall things that need doing, like picking apples and untangling swings and fixing all the broken things. But, one day, the huge town clock simply stops to TICK and TOCK and DING! Whatever will the Tall Man do? However hard he tries, he just doesn’t have a clue! Perhaps now is just the right time for the perfect little friend to come along?

An inspiring picture book story of hope and survival written and illustrated with lyricism, empathy and warmth. The perfect read for animal lovers who dream of making a difference.Maggie is on holiday with her aunt and uncle. Meanwhile her mum waits for Maggie’s baby brother to come home from hospital. On a walk across the wild Norfolk shoreline, Maggie finds a seal pup stranded on the beach, all alone. She is the sweetest thing Maggie has ever seen. But without her mum, how will the seal survive? Who will rescue her and will she ever be returned to the sea, and find her family again? Expressed through her vivid dreams and thoughtful actions, Maggie longs for the rescue and survival of this dear little seal pup. And, all the while, she hopes with all her heart to be reunited with her own mum and baby brother again.

"A gorgeous treasury of joyful poems. Perfect to share together, the poems celebrate the everyday routine in the busy life of being a toddler." Bookseller Dive into a celebration of all the wonderful things babies and toddlers get up to throughout a busy day in this joyful collection of poems by beloved children’s author Mara Bergman.Baby wakes up early.What does Baby say?Good morning, World,I’m ready for another busy day!A perfect gift for children and grown-ups to share end enjoy together, Dear Little One celebrates the little things that make life with a toddler fun! From breakfast to bedtime, with plenty of playing and exploring, dancing and dreaming in between, this playful and charming anthology of poems for the youngest children is a treat to dip into, with beautiful, colourful illustrations throughout.

An inspiring picture book story of hope and survival written and illustrated with lyricism, empathy and warmth. The perfect read for animal lovers who dream of making a difference.Little Maggie is on holiday with her aunt and uncle. Meanwhile her mum waits for Maggie’s baby brother to come home from hospital. On a walk across the wild Norfolk shoreline, Maggie finds a seal pup stranded on the beach, all alone. She is the sweetest thing Maggie has ever seen. But without her mum, how will the seal survive? Who will rescue her and will she ever be returned to the sea, and find her family again? Expressed through her vivid dreams and thoughtful actions, Maggie longs for the rescue and survival of this dear little seal pup. And, all the while, she hopes with all her heart to be reunited with her own mum and baby brother again.

Celebrate Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, in this delightful story.The days were growing shorter. The air was getting cooler.It was autumn.And for Ellie, the best thing about autumn was Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year.Join Ellie and her family as they prepare to spend the Jewish new year with their loved ones, baking challah and honey cakes. But Ellie is not looking forward to seeing her bossy cousin Lara, who borrowed her paints and never gave them back. Can Lara find it in her heart to forgive her cousin and be friends again? A heartwarming story of forgiveness and new beginnings set, fittingly, during a festival of fresh starts.In this heartwarming picture book, young readers will learn the recipe for their very own challah bread and a guife to crafting a Happy New Year card. With words from award-winning author and poet Mara Bergman and charming, stylish art by Aura Lewis, this is the perfect gift to celebrate Rosh Hashanah.Also available in the CELEBRATE & MAKE series:One Diwali DayA Golden EIdWelcoming the Lunar New Year

Celebrate Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, in this delightful story.The days were growing shorter. The air was getting cooler.It was autumn.And for Ellie, the best thing about autumn was Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year.Join Ellie and her family as they prepare to spend the Jewish new year with their loved ones, baking challah and honey cakes. But Ellie is not looking forward to seeing her bossy cousin Lara, who borrowed her paints and never gave them back. Can Lara find it in her heart to forgive her cousin and be friends again? A heartwarming story of forgiveness and new beginnings set, fittingly, during a festival of fresh starts.In this heartwarming picture book, young readers will learn the recipe for their very own challah bread and a guife to crafting a Happy New Year card. With words from award-winning author and poet Mara Bergman and charming, stylish art by Aura Lewis, this is the perfect gift to celebrate Rosh Hashanah.Also available in the CELEBRATE & MAKE series:One Diwali DayA Golden EIdWelcoming the Lunar New Year

Celebrate Rosh Hashanah with Ellie and her family—and try your hand at some baking and making of your own.Shorter days and cooler air mean autumn is here. For Ellie, the best part is Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year! Ellie loves helping Mom bake round challahs, sampling the raisins, and assisting Dad with the sweet honey cake. As the house fills with delicious smells and the sky grows dark, her grandparents, aunt, uncle, and cousins arrive to mark the holiday with them—including bossy Lara. Can Ellie find it in her heart to forgive Lara for “borrowing” her paints last year? As part of a warm family series about festivals, The Sweetest Rosh Hashanah features two activity spreads inviting young readers to make their own challah bread and create a festive card to give to someone they love. Shana Tovah!

“Like a great photographer, MARA BERGMAN celebrates the moment and detail at the core of memory. Together, her poems show the great changes families experience – the free and fearless life of a young woman set alongside a dying mother hanging on so she can hold a great-grandchild, the one-sided conversations we have with the dead.Her dynamism is infectious – you are drawn into this family’s wonder, love, compassion, grief and happiness. Bergman’s poems remind me of Pablo Neruda’s belief in the driving force of love: ‘Hold on to that, don’t let it get away …’ and one of the final poems, ‘The Happiness’, delivers the book’s message: ‘Before it leaves, I will bury it deep enough to save.’After reading these poems, you’ll feel braced and ready, you’ll feel wiser and more generous, you’ll want to hold on to moments that contain your own astonishment.”- JACKIE WILLS

In Mara Bergman’s first full collection, the poet travels from the tenements of New York City to the Sussex countryside, from childhood to motherhood, and beyond. Through a wide range of subjects – steelworkers and young apprentices, photographs and photograms, dolls in a local museum’s hidden collection – she writes with a keen sense of time and place. These are probing poems, seeking to discover; poems with a sense of urgency. Here are poems about love, loss, friendship, family, fitting in and, ultimately, acceptance. They are infused with wonder and provide a fresh way of looking at the world.