Roald Dahl Creative Writing with James and the Giant Peach: How to Write Phenomenal Poetry by Roald Dahl; Quentin Blake (Illustrator)

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Category: Art, music, language, craft and humanities

Discover limericks, narrative poems, acrostics and haiku with the World's NUMBER ONE Storyteller! Float off with James and his insect friends and learn how to use poetic language in stories and poems. These super fun activities will help you to: · Improve language and vocabulary skills · Develop the tools you need to write your own stories · Learn how to write with rhythm and rhyme, and practise performing your very own poems. Roald Dahl's Creative Writing will spark your creativity, build your confidence and inspire you through the wonderful worlds of Roald Dahl's best loved stories! Filled with top tips and ideas boxes, each book introduces techniques and methods to help you plan and write a phizz-whizzing story of your own! ...Show more

Roald Dahl's Creative Writing with the BFG by Roald Dahl

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Category: Art, music, language, craft and humanities

Bring your story alive in a whoppsy setting! Explore adjectives, imagery, similes and more with the BFG. These fun activities and writing tasks help to develop language and vocabulary skills, giving you the tools you need to write your own story. Learn how to set a scene, appeal to the senses and write detailed descriptions of your setting.Roald Dahl's Creative Writing sparks creativity, builds confidence and inspires young writers through the wonderful worlds of these best-loved stories. Filled with top tips and ideas boxes, each book introduces techniques and methods to help you plan and write a phizz-whizzing story of your own! ...Show more

Orchestra by Avalon Nuovo Avalon; David Doran David

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Category: Art, music, language, craft and humanities

Before there were DJs, rock stars, pop groups and jazz trios... there was the orchestra. Whether it takes centre stage or brings performances and motion pictures to life, the orchestra is the magificent original musical voice of the west.Learn about all of the ingenious instruments that make up the orch estra and the luminary composers whose work has endured for centuries. Travel from the Wiener Musikverein in Vienna to the world's greatest recording studios to see stunning orchestras in action, all illuminated by David Doran's stylish and immersive illustrations. ...Show more

Roald Dahl Creative Writing with the Twits: Remarkable Reasons to Write by Roald Dahl

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Category: Art, music, language, craft and humanities

Write interviews, play scripts, diary entries and instructions! Find your own remarkable reason to write with the Twits. These fun activities and writing tasks help to develop language and vocabulary skills, giving you the tools you need to write your own story. Learn how to use persuasive language, en tertain your reader and add sparkle to non-fiction. Roald Dahl's Creative Writing sparks creativity, builds confidence and inspires young writers through the wonderful worlds of these best-loved stories. Filled with top tips and ideas boxes, each book introduces techniques and methods to help you plan and write a phizz-whizzing story of your own! ...Show more

Roald Dahl's Creative Writing with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

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Category: Art, music, language, craft and humanities

Invent terrific heroes and revolting villains to star in your story! Describe believable characters with Charlie and Mr Wonka. These fun activities and writing tasks help to develop language and vocabulary skills, giving you the tools you need to write your own story. Learn how to create heroes and vil lains with their own interests, behaviours and backstories. Roald Dahl's Creative Writing sparks creativity, builds confidence and inspires young writers through the wonderful worlds of these best-loved stories. Filled with top tips and ideas boxes, each book introduces techniques and methods to help you plan and write a phizz-whizzing story of your own! ...Show more

Roald Dahl Creative Writing with Fantastic Mr Fox: How to Write a Marvellous Plot by Roald Dahl

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Category: Art, music, language, craft and humanities

Plan brilliant beginnings, magnificent middles and excellent endings with the World's NUMBER ONE Storyteller! Think up terrific stories with Fantastic Mr Fox and learn how to structure the perfect plot. These super fun activities will help you to: · Improve language and vocabulary skills &middo t; Develop the tools you need to write your own stories · Learn how to use action scenes, perspective and tense to write an exciting story. Roald Dahl's Creative Writing will spark your creativity, build your confidence and inspire you through the wonderful worlds of Roald Dahl's best loved stories! Filled with top tips and ideas boxes, each book introduces techniques and methods to help you plan and write a phizz-whizzing story of your own! ...Show more

Playing with Collage (HB) by Jeannie Baker

$27.99 AUD

Category: Art, music, language, craft and humanities | Reading Level: 8.5 Kids Non Fiction

A how-to guide to making your own collages, brimful of fascinating hints and tips from a master of the genre. Over the course of a 40-year career, Jeannie Baker has perfected the art of collage in the creation of picture-book classics such as Where the Forest Meets the Sea and Window, a Boston Globe-Ho rn Honor Book. Her stunning pieces, devised by assembling all sorts of different textures, are known all around the globe. Whether it's dried flowers or tiny shells, spaghetti or postage stamps, she uses the world around her to make work that is astonishingly beautiful and deeply creative. In Playing with Collage, she shares her secrets at last – and encourages her readers to get creative. Within each of this book's four main sections, Jeannie presents an abstract collage of her own and offers suggestions and starting points for beginners. There are no right or wrong answers in this treasure of a book, it's all about trusting your instincts ... and playing! ...Show more

How to Write a Great Story by Caroline Lawrence

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Category: Art, music, language, craft and humanities

Million-copy-selling author Caroline Lawrence shares her best tips in this fun and accessible guide to creative writing and storytelling.

The Classical Music Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained by Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff

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Category: Art, music, language, craft and humanities

From Mozart to Mendelssohn, this comprehensive guide to classical music history and classical music biography is the perfect latest addition to the bestselling Big Ideasseries. Easy to understand and clear to follow, this history of classical music explores and explains music theory and the impact of s eminal pieces, while also providing fascinating stories about the lives of crucial composers and performers. The Classical Music Bookanalyses over 90 works by famous composers from Thomas Tallis in the early period to baroque masters like Bach and Handel to the classical genius of Beethoven and Wagner and beyond to the modern day in order to explore the key ideas underpinning the world's greatest classical compositions and musical traditions, and define their importance to the musical canon, placing them into their wider social, cultural, and historical context. Regardless of whether you are relatively new to the subject and want to learn or if you are a classical music aficionado, there is plenty to discover inThe Classical Music Book. ...Show more

Splat!: The Most Exciting Artists of All Time by Mary Richards

$30.00 AUD

Category: Art, music, language, craft and humanities

Splat! is the history of art at its most exciting and outrageous. Organized by artist and covering both key events and major movements such as the Renaissance and Impressionism to Surrealism and contemporary art, it is a valuable resource for young people curious about art. Each artist is introduced wi th bulleted facts including their country of origin, most famous works, the greatest challenges they faced in creating their art, background information, the movement they belonged to, and techniques they employed. This overview is expanded with further insight into who these artists were and how they changed the course of art. Here are Michelangelo and the High Renaissance; Bruegel and his paintings of everyday peasant life; Manet and the shock of Impressionism; and Duchamp and the Dada revolution. Children can also read the real-life stories of artists, such as Caravaggio, Jan Vermeer, Henri Rousseau, Vincent van Gogh, Wassily Kandinsky, and Frida Kahlo, who dared to imagine new ways of depicting the world. ...Show more

The Batsford Book of Music for Children by Becky Rumens-Syratt

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Category: Art, music, language, craft and humanities

A hugely enjoyable way for young children to learn about music. Following on from our successful Chess for Children, music teacher Becky Rumens-Syratt takes young children (aged 6 to 12) on a journey to understand the basics of music, and then specifically how to start to play some of the key instrument s: piano, guitar, and recorder. With the help of Trudi Treble and Barry Bass, you can teach children the language of music, the clefs, the stave, the notes and rhythm, with great games along the way, such as making your own edible stave and notes with strawberry laces and smarties or M&Ms. It gives detailed advice such as how to hold a recorder properly for very young children to using a chocolatey finger to learn how to blow into the instrument. It features the same style of illustration as Chess for Children and the same fun elements to make teaching your child about music as enjoyable as it should be. ...Show more

Magritte's Apple by Klaas Verplancke

$29.99 AUD

Category: Art, music, language, craft and humanities