Don't Wear Your Knickers on Your Head (and Other Very Serious Poems about Really Important Stuff)

Don't Wear Your Knickers on Your Head (and Other Very Serious Poems about Really Important Stuff) PDF Author: Becci Murray
Publisher: Llama House Children's Books
ISBN: 9781916206977
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 102

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Book Description
You'll find lots of very serious poems about really important stuff (like toenails, sausages and yaks) in this hilariously irreverent collection of illustrated poetry from children's author Becci Murray. Don't Wear Your Knickers on Your Head is the new rib-tickling read for ages 6 - 10 years. REVIEWS FOR DON'T WEAR YOUR KNICKERS ON YOUR HEAD 'Fun and lively poetry, perfect for Primary age children. My 9 year old daughter loved the travelling sneeze poem!Lovely to see work by a new female children's poet!' - Rae (reader's review) 'Amazing poems and hilarious stories! This book really made me laugh! I think that my favourite poem was 'DON'T WEAR YOUR KNICKERS ON YOUR HEAD' because I think that one made me laugh the most but they are all really funny!' - Abi (reader's review) 'An amazing book. I would definitely recommend!' - Mia (reader's review) PLEASE NOTE: Paperback copies of this book contain black and white illustrations, and the eBook is in full colour.

Don't Wear Your Knickers on Your Head (and Other Very Serious Poems about Really Important Stuff)

Don't Wear Your Knickers on Your Head (and Other Very Serious Poems about Really Important Stuff) PDF Author: Becci Murray
Publisher: Llama House Children's Books
ISBN: 9781916206977
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 102

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Book Description
You'll find lots of very serious poems about really important stuff (like toenails, sausages and yaks) in this hilariously irreverent collection of illustrated poetry from children's author Becci Murray. Don't Wear Your Knickers on Your Head is the new rib-tickling read for ages 6 - 10 years. REVIEWS FOR DON'T WEAR YOUR KNICKERS ON YOUR HEAD 'Fun and lively poetry, perfect for Primary age children. My 9 year old daughter loved the travelling sneeze poem!Lovely to see work by a new female children's poet!' - Rae (reader's review) 'Amazing poems and hilarious stories! This book really made me laugh! I think that my favourite poem was 'DON'T WEAR YOUR KNICKERS ON YOUR HEAD' because I think that one made me laugh the most but they are all really funny!' - Abi (reader's review) 'An amazing book. I would definitely recommend!' - Mia (reader's review) PLEASE NOTE: Paperback copies of this book contain black and white illustrations, and the eBook is in full colour.

Warning

Warning PDF Author: Jenny Joseph
Publisher: Souvenir Press
ISBN: 180081142X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 20

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Book Description
'Utterly charming and uplifting' The Good Book Guide Voted Britain's favourite poem, 'Warning', written in 1961, is known and loved the world over for its message of old age as a time for indulgence and fun. In the poem's respectable middle-aged woman, as she imagines herself in old age as a cheeky rebel with outrageous clothes and dotty behaviour, poet Jenny Joseph has created a character whose thoughts have been quoted at conferences and funerals, used to cheer up sick friends and remembered with pleasure by children and adults alike around the world. Here, 'Warning' appears as a beautiful updated edition with new illustrations; the perfect gift for a friend or relative who wants to grow older free from expectations, with a joyful and rebellious spirit.

What Was I Scared Of?

What Was I Scared Of? PDF Author: Dr. Seuss
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0375853421
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 33

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Book Description
Readers of all ages love Dr. Seuss's spooky and silly story about facing your fears! Featuring over 50 special glow-in-the-dark bonus stickers and a luxe, gift-worthy cover that glows in the dark and has a matte "soft-touch" finish! I was deep within the woods When, suddenly, I spied them. I saw a pair of pale green pants With nobody inside them! What's a pair of empty green trousers doing by itself in the woods? Or riding a bike through town? The narrator of What Was I Scared Of? does not want to find out. The spooky pants give him the creeps! This Seussian gem from The Sneetches and Other Stories shines on its own as it delivers a timeless message about fear and tolerance. Perfect for slumber parties and perusal by flashlight--it comes with a sheet of spooky glowing stickers bound inside as an added bonus!

This Is Pleasure

This Is Pleasure PDF Author: Mary Gaitskill
Publisher: Pantheon
ISBN: 1524749141
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 97

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Book Description
Starting with Bad Behavior in the 1980s, Mary Gaitskill has been writing about gender relations with searing, even prophetic honesty. In This Is Pleasure, she considers our present moment through the lens of a particular #MeToo incident. The effervescent, well-dressed Quin, a successful book editor and fixture on the New York arts scene, has been accused of repeated unforgivable transgressions toward women in his orbit. But are they unforgivable? And who has the right to forgive him? To Quin’s friend Margot, the wrongdoing is less clear. Alternating Quin’s and Margot’s voices and perspectives, Gaitskill creates a nuanced tragicomedy, one that reveals her characters as whole persons—hurtful and hurting, infuriating and touching, and always deeply recognizable. Gaitskill has said that fiction is the only way that she could approach this subject because it is too emotionally faceted to treat in the more rational essay form. Her compliment to her characters—and to her readers—is that they are unvarnished and real. Her belief in our ability to understand them, even when we don’t always admire them, is a gesture of humanity from one of our greatest contemporary writers.

Chocolate Cake

Chocolate Cake PDF Author: Michael Rosen
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141386258
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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Book Description
When I was a boy, I had a favourite treat. It was when my mum made . . . CHOCOLATE CAKE! Ohhh! I LOVED chocolate cake. Fantastically funny and full of silly noises, this is Michael Rosen's love letter to every child's favourite treat, chocolate cake. Brought to life as a picture book for the first time with brilliant and characterful illustrations by Kevin Waldron.

A Loving, Faithful Animal

A Loving, Faithful Animal PDF Author: Josephine Rowe
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 193678758X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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Book Description
"I found myself considering those rare things only books can do, feats outside the purview of film or fine art . . . Gorgeous." —Samantha Hunt, The New York Times Book Review It is New Year’s Eve 1990, in a small town in southeast Australia. Ru’s father, Jack, one of thousands of Australians once conscripted to serve in the Vietnam War, has disappeared. This time Ru thinks he might be gone for good. As rumors spread of a huge black cat stalking the landscape beyond their door, the rest of the family is barely holding on. Ru’s sister, Lani, is throwing herself into sex, drugs, and dangerous company. Their mother, Evelyn, is escaping into memories of a more vibrant youth. And meanwhile there is Les, Jack’s inscrutable brother, who seems to move through their lives like a ghost, earning both trust and suspicion. A Loving, Faithful Animal is an incandescent portrait of one family searching for what may yet be redeemable from the ruins of war. Tender, brutal, and heart–stopping in its beauty, this novel marks the arrival in the United States of Josephine Rowe, the winner of the 2016 Elizabeth Jolley Prize and one of Australia’s most extraordinary young writers.

Troubling the Line

Troubling the Line PDF Author: TC Tolbert
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781937658106
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
The first-ever collection of poetry by trans and genderqueer writers

Black Swan Green

Black Swan Green PDF Author: David Mitchell
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 158836528X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306

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By the New York Times bestselling author of The Bone Clocks and Cloud Atlas | Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize Selected by Time as One of the Ten Best Books of the Year | A New York Times Notable Book | Named One of the Best Books of the Year by The Washington Post Book World, The Christian Science Monitor, Rocky Mountain News, and Kirkus Reviews | A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist | Winner of the ALA Alex Award | Finalist for the Costa Novel Award From award-winning writer David Mitchell comes a sinewy, meditative novel of boyhood on the cusp of adulthood and the old on the cusp of the new. Black Swan Green tracks a single year in what is, for thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor, the sleepiest village in muddiest Worcestershire in a dying Cold War England, 1982. But the thirteen chapters, each a short story in its own right, create an exquisitely observed world that is anything but sleepy. A world of Kissingeresque realpolitik enacted in boys’ games on a frozen lake; of “nightcreeping” through the summer backyards of strangers; of the tabloid-fueled thrills of the Falklands War and its human toll; of the cruel, luscious Dawn Madden and her power-hungry boyfriend, Ross Wilcox; of a certain Madame Eva van Outryve de Crommelynck, an elderly bohemian emigré who is both more and less than she appears; of Jason’s search to replace his dead grandfather’s irreplaceable smashed watch before the crime is discovered; of first cigarettes, first kisses, first Duran Duran LPs, and first deaths; of Margaret Thatcher’s recession; of Gypsies camping in the woods and the hysteria they inspire; and, even closer to home, of a slow-motion divorce in four seasons. Pointed, funny, profound, left-field, elegiac, and painted with the stuff of life, Black Swan Green is David Mitchell’s subtlest and most effective achievement to date. Praise for Black Swan Green “[David Mitchell has created] one of the most endearing, smart, and funny young narrators ever to rise up from the pages of a novel. . . . The always fresh and brilliant writing will carry readers back to their own childhoods. . . . This enchanting novel makes us remember exactly what it was like.”—The Boston Globe “[David Mitchell is a] prodigiously daring and imaginative young writer. . . . As in the works of Thomas Pynchon and Herman Melville, one feels the roof of the narrative lifted off and oneself in thrall.”—Time

Azalea Fern and the Last Ruin of the Extinct

Azalea Fern and the Last Ruin of the Extinct PDF Author: Becci Murray
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781913944117
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 236

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Book Description
A new world with an ancient secret...  Azalea Fern is fiercely curious, and in a world of giant buttermoths and crystal waters, there's plenty to see. So why does she long to explore the one place she's forbidden to go? Perhaps it's because the mechanicary house is old and creepy. Perhaps it's because the crumbling bricks are the last relic of an extinct species. Or perhaps it's because her ma said, 'Stay out of the ruin.' Whatever the reason, Azalea is about to dig-up an ancient secret that will shatter her perfect world forever.

My Name Is Monster

My Name Is Monster PDF Author: Katie Hale
Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 1786896370
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 326

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Book Description
'Strikingly beautiful' Guardian 'Tough and tender' Joanne Harris After the Sickness has killed off her parents, and the bombs have fallen on the last safe cities, Monster emerges from the Arctic vault which has kept her alive. When she washes up on the coast of Scotland, everyone she knows is dead, and she believes she is alone in an empty world. Slowly, piece by piece, she begins to rebuild a life. Until, one day, she finds a girl: another survivor, feral, and ready to be taught all that Monster knows. But as the lonely days pass, the lessons the girl learns are not always the ones Monster means to teach . . .