Agnese Baruzzi – illustratör

Oxford Reading Tree Story Sparks is an emotionally-engaging fiction series that will fire children's imaginations. These original stories will get children thinking, and develop and deepen their comprehension skills. The variety of authors and illustration styles broadens children's reading experience, with something to appeal to every child.This pack contains one of each of the following original stories: Dear Mum, Bad, Bad Dog, Snoot, My Sabre-tooth Pet, How the Bink Got Its Stink, Looga and Barooga: The Treasure of Soap Island.All the books in the series are carefully levelled, so it's easy to match every child to the right book for them. They also contain inside cover notes, to enable parents and teachers to support children in their reading. Help with children's reading development is also available at www.oxfordowl.co.uk.

Oxford Reading Tree Story Sparks is an emotionally-engaging fiction series that will fire children's imaginations. These original stories will get children thinking, and develop and deepen their comprehension skills. The variety of authors and illustration styles broadens children's reading experience, with something to appeal to every child. This pack contains six of each of the following original stories: Dear Mum, Bad, Bad Dog, Snoot, My Sabre-tooth Pet, How the Bink Got Its Stink, Looga and Barooga: The Treasure of Soap Island.All the books in the series are carefully levelled, so it's easy to match every child to the right book for them. They also contain inside cover notes, to enable parents and teachers to support children in their reading. Help with children's reading development is also available at www.oxfordowl.co.uk.

Dear Mum is an adventure story told through Anna's letters to her mum. Anna and Joe travel the world and go into space, on a quest to find the jewels hidden by the cunning Lord Zonktron ... and all without leaving their bedroom. A charming and brightly-illustrated adventure in imagination.Oxford Reading Tree Story Sparks is an emotionally-engaging fiction series that will fire children's imaginations. These 36 original stories will get children thinking, and develop and deepen their comprehension skills. The variety of authors and illustration styles broadens children's reading experience, with something to appeal to every child. All the books in the series are carefully levelled, so it's easy to match every child to the right book for them. They also contain inside cover notes, to enable parents and teachers to support children in their reading. Help with children's reading development is also available at www.oxfordowl.co.uk.

Introducing a bewitching world of mystery and magic, this collection of stories includes tales of singing elves with magical feet, skeletons that move of their own accord and a heroic blackbird who outwits a powerful king. Includes storytime CD read by the author.

El canguro Abelardo va todas las mañanas a su trabajo en la central energética.Junto a su amiga, la oveja Felisa, el elefante Benito, la rana Clotilde y el mono Doménico dedican la jornada agenerar energía… ¡mucha energía!Pero por las tardes a Abelardo le sucede algo muy extraño. O quizá no lo sea tanto.En cualquier caso, es un secreto que tiene muy bien guardado... ¿Lo descubrirán sus amigas y amigos?¿Y si todos tuviésemos un secreto? Abelardo es un canguro muy especial. Y después de conocer su historia, tal vez nos demos cuenta, que todos lo somos.

L''Abelard és un cangur molt especial.Cada tarda li passa una cosa estranya...És un secret i el té ben guardat.El descobriran les seves amigues i amics?L''Abelard és un cangur molt especial.Cada tarda li passa una cosa estranya...És un secret i el té ben guardat.El descobriran les seves amigues i amics?

O canguro Abelardo vai todas as mañás ao seu traballo na central enerxética.Xunto á súa amiga, a ovella Felisa, o elefante Benito, a ra Clotilde e o mono Doménico dedican a xornada a xerar enerxía... moita enerxía!Pero polas tardes a Abelardo sucédelle algo moi estraño. Ou quizais non o sexa tanto.En calquera caso, é un segredo que ten moi ben gardado... Descubrirano as súas amigas e amigos?E se todos tivésemos un segredo? Abelardo é un canguro moi especial. E despois de coñecer a súa historia, talvez deámonos conta, que todos o somos.

The series Montessori: A World of Achievements is a collection of texts for children that contain playing activities aimed at encouraging the development of the main cognitive skills, such as the recognition of numbers, shapes and colours. They are designed and built according to the specific educational and pedagogical approach of the Montessori Method. Various species of animal live in Dirondello wood: children of 3 to 4 years can get to know them by involvement in enjoyable activities, developed in the Montessori style. By means of lines to trace, shapes to recognise and colour, drawings to cut out, and many brightly coloured stickers to place, children gradually learn new information on the features of woodland animals, at the same time developing their cognitive potential. The structure of the activities develops around some fundamental Montessori principles: - the content of the games follows a progressive complexity, to allow the child to become gradually familiar with it; - each activity has three progressive stages of learning: 1. presentation of the material through senses, 2. Recognition of the learning object material, 3. re-enactment of the material; the adult has a role of assistance and introduction to the various activities but the child can play independently the games; handling and practical experience have a central role: often is required you to glue stickers, cut, draw and finger paint. Ages: 3 to 4

The series Montessori: A World of Achievements is a collection of texts for children that contain playing activities aimed at encouraging the development of the main cognitive skills, such as the recognition of numbers, shapes and colours. They are designed and built according to the specific educational and pedagogical approach of the Montessori Method. At the Armonia Farm, little ones of 3 to 4 years learn the features of farm animals, thanks to enjoyable, strategically developed activities, according to the Montessori method. By means of outlines to trace, shapes to recognise and colour, drawings to cut out, and many brightly coloured stickers to place, children gradually learn new information about animals, at the same time developing their cognitive potential.The structure of the activities develops around some fundamental Montessori principles: - the content of the games follows a progressive complexity, to allow the child to become gradually familiar with it; - each activity has three progressive stages of learning: 1. presentation of the material through senses, 2. Recognition of the learning object material, 3. re-enactment of the material; the adult has a role of assistance and introduction to the various activities but the child can play independently the games; handling and practical experience have a central role: often is required you to glue stickers, cut, draw and finger paint. Ages: 3 to 4

This book helps children aged three and up explore various themes related to the seasons of the year, highlighting the peculiarities of each season and reinforcing the idea of change and the cyclical passage of time. The book furnishes information and curious facts about the typical weather of each season, the fruits and vegetables that are grown in each season, the habits of animals in different seasons and what kind of clothes are most adapt in which months. All the activities make it possible to assimilate information in the simple, independent manner inspired by the Montessori Method. Ages: 3 plus

Why do so any children run and hide from multiplications and decimal numbers? Perhaps because they haven't yet found out just how much fun there is to be had in math ... In particular, with these two new books in the series Mad for Math, children will find out that math problems can be surprisingly fun when done with the entertaining monsters from the planet Zot, and that fractions are completely different when you learn them together with a band of pirates and Greg the parrot! Thanks to the brightly coloured and exciting places, young readers will have to help the characters to solve enigmas and problems with mathematical calculations. The journeys are structured in a gradual and intuitive way: the main aim of these innovative activity books is, in fact, to help children learn independently, encouraging them to use their brains to understand the mathematical rules while playing. This is why there are no definitions or abstract formulas in these books. Children can however check their answers against the solutions found at the back of the books. This series of didactic and educational books will teach children that not only can you play with math ... you can even have fun! Ages: 6 plus

Why do so any children run and hide from multiplications and decimal numbers? Perhaps because they haven't yet found out just how much fun there is to be had in math ... In particular, with these two new books in the series Mad for Math, children will find out that math problems can be surprisingly fun when done with the entertaining monsters from the planet Zot, and that fractions are completely different when you learn them together with a band of pirates and Greg the parrot! Thanks to the brightly coloured and exciting places, young readers will have to help the characters to solve enigmas and problems with mathematical calculations. The journeys are structured in a gradual and intuitive way: the main aim of these innovative activity books is, in fact, to help children learn independently, encouraging them to use their brains to understand the mathematical rules while playing. This is why there are no definitions or abstract formulas in these books. Children can however check their answers against the solutions found at the back of the books. This series of didactic and educational books will teach children that not only can you play with math ... you can even have fun! Ages: 10 plus

The idea behind the boardbook collection was to attract even the youngest readers (from as young as 3 years old); to encourage them to discover subjects and areas that interest them (nature, animals, shapes, etc.) and to help them classify the things that surround them. The series is comprised of ten little books. Two are instructive, teaching shapes and numbers; five are exploratory and describe settings that are fun to discover (farm animals, wild animals, the backyard and its insects, the vegetable garden) and three are short stories about the experience of birth in nature (the birth of a little bird, of a butterfly and of a flower). Narration becomes the background for the text since touching and picture reading are the primary means of interpretation. A guiding character accompanies the child throughout each developing story until the end, where there is a summary of all the characters introduced in the book. Consistent with the Montessori approach, the child is encouraged to interact independently with his or her book. For example, in some cases, the child is asked to use a finger to trace the outline of a shape and notice its characteristics (round, sharp-edged, jagged, etc.). In others, he or she is asked to use a finger to follow a path in order to discover hidden characters and learn to associate them with their most distinctive features (the lion's tail, the rabbit's ears, the colours of vegetables, etc.). Ages 3 plus

The idea behind the boardbook collection was to attract even the youngest readers (from as young as 3 years old); to encourage them to discover subjects and areas that interest them (nature, animals, shapes, etc.) and to help them classify the things that surround them. The series is comprised of ten little books. Two are instructive, teaching shapes and numbers; five are exploratory and describe settings that are fun to discover (farm animals, wild animals, the backyard and its insects, the vegetable garden) and three are short stories about the experience of birth in nature (the birth of a little bird, of a butterfly and of a flower). Narration becomes the background for the text since touching and picture reading are the primary means of interpretation. A guiding character accompanies the child throughout each developing story until the end, where there is a summary of all the characters introduced in the book. Consistent with the Montessori approach, the child is encouraged to interact independently with his or her book. For example, in some cases, the child is asked to use a finger to trace the outline of a shape and notice its characteristics (round, sharp-edged, jagged, etc.). In others, he or she is asked to use a finger to follow a path in order to discover hidden characters and learn to associate them with their most distinctive features (the lion's tail, the rabbit's ears, the colours of vegetables, etc.). Ages: 3 plus

In this large format book, children can test their powers of observation and practice doing additions. The most prevalent dinosaurs and reptiles of the Prehistoric Age are depicted in Agnese Baruzzi's richly detailed, full page illustrations. The children must find the animals, count them and write down their results in the designated area on the margin of the page. How many dinosaurs can they find on each page? The correct answers are on the last page of the book so that the children can check their work. Entertaining and educational at the same time, this big book will give hours of fun to its young readers. Ages: 7 plus

This series is a collection of texts for children which contains playing activities aimed to encouraging the development of the main cognitive skills following the Montessori method and its most typical topics. The contents follow a progressive complexity to challenge the children to complete various tasks with great results all by themselves. My First Book About Telling Time is dedicated to 3 to 4 year old children. It leads them through a series of concepts about the passing of time using a variety of fun games. The goal of the book is to stimulate the development of temporal coordinates through phase changes, physical changes and the evolution of moments throughout the day. Ages: 3 plus

Geometry has never been funnier! Green, funny aliens will help children to master the knowledge of shapes, formulas and figures. A new, entertaining activity book to challenge young readers joins the worldwide successful Mad for Math series with a collection of fun games based on geometry - which can really be fun! Children can be challenged with games of growing complexity though out this activity books - and all answers can be found at the end. A didactic and educational, yet entertaining book which teaches children that you can not only play with geometry... but also to have fun with it! Ages: 8 plus

Get ready to go on a series of exciting maze adventures with fire-breathing dragons, beautiful princesses, and knights in shining armour. Can you find your way to the end of each puzzle - and count all the characters on the page, too? Are you ready for a challenge? Do you have a keen eye? Find out! Every richly designed maze on these colourful pages features dozens of princesses, dragons, and knights, all trying to distract you from reaching the end. Sharp solvers must find the right path, but they'll also have to count the characters and the objects they see along the way - royal crowns, skulls, owls, ghosts, cauldrons, a wizard's books - and add them up. Keep your concentration, and then check the solutions at the back of the book to see if you've got it right. Ages: 6 plus

Two of the biggest challenges that children face while learning math are logic and problem solving. Learning to understand the reasoning that hides behind a problem, will become an extremely engaging and satisfying game. This also provides the foundations for acquiring logical and deductive abilities, which are essential in any field. Children will find multiple choice questions and math problems, as well as hidden codes, labyrinths and other fun and engaging puzzles and riddles. The solutions can be found at the back of the book. Through this activity book, you can teach children not only how fun it can be to explore math, but also how important it is to understand the logic mechanisms that each problem hides, even before finding the answer. Ages: 6 plus

The books are designed and created by following the Montessori teaching method, by means of drawings built up with simple, repeated geometrical forms, minimal details and sharp outlines defined by the colours that are most easily identified by small children: black and white. Progressively complex visual features as well as introducing a third, colour, red, which children begin to perceive at the age of three months. The introduction to the third colour, the wide variety of subjects and the encouragement to trace the story paths with their fingers will hold the children's attention well beyond their first few weeks of life and through their entire first year. Four new titles of a best-selling series for newborns. Ages: 0 to 12 months