6 February 2012

First Words: Animal Words



The colourful and humorous illustrations in these first word books provide an entertaining way of introducing toddlers and young children to words.

Farmyard, pet and wild animals are all included in this delightful collection of familiar and not so familiar animals.
Help children to develop reading and language skills by looking through the book together.
Encourage them to look closely at the pictures,spot similarities and differences, and to talk about what they see.
Children will soon learn to recognise the animals and enjoy matching the names to the pictures.

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3 February 2012

The Magic School Bus Gets Cold Feet - A Book About Hot-and Cold-blooded Animals


Liz, the class lizard, is missing! Is she in some sort of trouble? The class forms a rescue party. But to find Liz, they need to learn what it is like to be a reptile. Join the Magic School Bus gang on this cool field trip, and find out what it really means to be cold-blooded.

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Make and Colour Wild Animals



Colourful and creative wild habitats (jungle, savannah, desert and mountain) with black and white animals to cut out and colour in Plus a stencil of helpful shapes. Make it-yourself wildlife sanctuaries with all the characters for hours of absorbing art and crafts and pretend play. Coloured crayons and scissors are all you need to create your very own wild life habitat.

Clare Beaton started her career with BBC children's television and her big, bold colourful art and craft work is popular with television producers. She has written and illustrated many children's books, particularly on craft. She has three children of her own, Jack, Kate and Thomas, and she lives in London.


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1 February 2012

Macmillan - Visual Dictionary - Vegetable Kingdom


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SF Reading Practice Book - G1


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Macmillan - Visual Dictionary - Animal Kingdom





A national bestseller since it was first introduced in 1992, the Macmillan Visual Dictionary is now available with its own extraordinary CD-ROM. In addition to the book's 3,500 illustrations and 25,000 terms, this ultimate reference package offers selected animation, audio pronunciation for every term in English, Spanish, and French, and more.

Product Details
Hardcover: 864 pages
Language: English

With thousands of intricate and colorful illustrations presented in a browser-friendly paperback format, the new compact edition of The Macmillan Visual Dictionary is an easily portable follow-up to the popular hardback version. The dictionary connects each phrasing, key word, or key words to a grouping of finely detailed and descriptive pictures, all formatted into a series of sections assembled in an easy-to-follow index at the beginning of the book. With a depth that includes 12 kinds of mushrooms and 4 types of billiards, the Visual Dictionary also manages to keep a wide enough focus so that most anyone interested in contemporary life will find a section or two to capture their eye and attention--whether they're painstakingly searching the book for help with a research paper, tracking down a contested fact, or peering through the many vivid drawings for pure pleasure.


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