By Randa Abdel-Fattah
That popular little character, Gingerbread baby, is back. Gingerbread baby needs some friends but can he make them? Can he talk to them? Where do you find friends for gingerbread babies? This is an adventure he’ll never forget.
Read more details, along with lesson plans, classroom helpers, a recipe for gingerbread and instructions for a Christmas gingerbread garland and a printable
In partnership with CAL (Copyright Agency Ltd), e:lit (the new name of the Primary English Teaching Association) has developed an e-manual for new authors who would like to present talks and workshops in primary schools.
The manual is based on the information and ideas presented in a 3 day training course trialled with a dozen authors in Sydney earlier in 2008.
The manual is divided into three sections:
The e-manual consists of 61 pages packed with information and ideas. It can be accessed in the Special Projects section of the e:lit website.
by Alice Schertle
llustrated by Jill McElmurry
Ages 3–7.
Beep! Beep! Beep! Meet Blue. A muddy country road is no match for this little pick up--that is, until he gets stuck while pushing a dump truck out of the muck. Luckily, Blue has made a pack of farm animal friends along his route. And they're willing to whatever it takes to get their pal back on the road.
"Fans and new readers alike will greedily devour McKinley's latest, a high fantasy as perfectly shaped and eloquently told as Beauty and The Hero and the Crown."
by Tonya Hurley
Now I lay me down to sleep,
I pray the Lord my soul to keep.
And if I should die before I awake,
I pray the popular attend my wake.
Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes
by Mem Fox,
Illustrated by Helen Oxenbury
Mem Fox has done it again!!
As everyone knows, nothing is sweeter than tiny baby fingers and chubby baby toes. . . . And here, from two of the most gifted picture-book creators of our time, is a celebration of baby fingers, baby toes, and the joy they—and the babies they belong to—bring to everyone, everywhere, all over the world
The Adderhead--his immortality bound in a book by Meggie's father, Mo--has ordered his henchmen to plunder the villages. The peasants' only defense is a band of outlaws led by the Bluejay--Mo's fictitious double, whose identity he has reluctantly adopted. But the Book of Immortality is unraveling, and the Adderhead again fears the White Women of Death. To bring the renegade Bluejay back to repair the book, the Adderhead kidnaps all the children in the kingdom, dooming them to slavery in his silver mines unless Mo surrends. First Dustfinger, now Mo: Can anyone save this cursed story?
Read the reviews and a message from Cornelia Funke, the author, and get classroom activities for Inkheart, many also applicable to Inkdeath. Here ...
Madeline and the Cats of Rome
by John Bemelmans Marciano
The author, John Bemelmans Marciano is the grandson of Ludwig Bemelmans, author of the original Madeline books. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, and he has carried on the tradition with a sure hand. While his images honor the tone of his grandfather's marvelous works, they have a light spirit about them which remains contemporary.
Bestseller Graeme Base harks back to his classic New York Times bestselling solve-the-mystery story The Eleventh Hour in an all-new book that will “puzzle” and entice young readers.