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Retells the story of a young woman's struggle against her sisters' cruelty, her family's lost fortune, and her dealings with a frightful beast who wishes to marry her, in this book containing two other classic tales.

(Paperback)

Designed to help students studying English in Years 11 and 12 to better understand the prescribed texts by including: plot summaries and a step-by-step guide to content and themes; assistance in locating appropriate quotations; key questions focusing on significant themes, issues and characters.

(Paperback)

The Crate of Souls follows the journey in 1836 of three immigrant ships: the Buffalo, the Rapid, and the Africaine, from England heading towards the as yet uncolonized South Australia.

(Paperback, 2nd edition)

The book is divided into two parts: Part 1 has emphasis on the reader's role as an active producer of meaning. Part 2 focuses on specific aspects of narrative fiction. Each part contains several groups of stories and each group has an introduction for the student which explains the concepts to be explored.

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Join in the noisy animal romp down on the farm. Lively rhymes are brought to life with fun, vibrant artwork of favourite farm animals. This fabulous picture book from an award-winning creative team is a delight to read aloud and share with young children.

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(Paperback)

Designed to help students studying English in Years 11 and 12 to better understand the prescribed texts by including: plot summaries and a step-by-step guide to content and themes; assistance in locating appropriate quotations; key questions focusing on significant themes, and issues and characters.

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(Hardback)

William Shakespeare's tragic play about The Moor of Venice, fully illustrated and retold for younger readers. Part of the Usborne Reading Programme, this book is written for fully confident readers who still need to gain the stamina needed for standard length books.

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This guide is part of a series designed to help students studying English in years 11 and 12 to better understand the prescribed texts, and to develop individual responses which will result in improved essays in answer to a range of typical senior examination questions.

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The sun is rising, and its time for all Animal Sleepy Heads to get out of bed! These are the songs their parents sing to help them wake up and greet the new day.

(Paperback, 2nd New edition)

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Looking closely at how picture books succeed in combining words (text) and pictures apprentices students into reading and producing multimodal texts.

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Sixty-seven familiar and not so familiar fables from Aesop, including the tortoise and the hare, the frogs who wanted a king, the lion who fell in love, and the donkey who danced on the roof.

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Karen Idlewild had two young sons. One died in a fire, the other, Jonah, survived in unusual circumstances. On a visit to Paris, and against the warnings of her father, Karen takes Jonah on a bizarre quest to meet Samuel Beckett, a writer whose philosophy she admires, and who, she is sure, can explain her tragedy in terms she can accept.

(Paperback, New edition)

In an attempt to bring Shakespeare to life, this story, which is one of a series, describes how Shakespeare wrote Richard III and how the play fits into his entire body of work. The story of the play itself is told in narrative without dumbing down the language or key themes.

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Perhaps one of the most popular of Stevenson's works, A Child's Garden Of Verses, first published in 1885, is regarded universally as one of the greatest recollections of childhood in verse.

(Paperback, Main)

From the trembling new-born calf in Season Songs to the gently sleeping one recorded in Moortown Diary, animal life as observed in the pages of Flowers and Insects, Elmet, River, Lupercal and Hawk in the Rain is seen afresh through the diversity and imaginative energy of this collected volume.

(Hardback)

An entertaining retelling of one of Shakespeare's best-loved comedies, beautifully illustrated by Serena Riglietti. - Young readers will treasure this gift edition, which is published in hardback with a ribbon marker. Ages 9+.

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The course of true love never did run smooth... A magical retelling of Hermia, Helen, Demetrius and Lysander's classic story - and of the impish fairy Puck, who meddles in their tangled web of love with hilarious consequences... With notes on Shakespeare and the Globe Theatre, and Love and Magic in A Midsummer Night's Dream.