New Releases by Fiona Waters

This guide looks as the different types of storms around the world using eye-witness accounts, newspaper reports, photographs and diagrams.

Princesses conjure up an image of a glittering fairy-tale world to which children - especially little girls - are drawn. This is an anthology of a diverse collection of stories, from the sleeping beauties of traditional tales to the feisty heroines of modern fiction.

This differentiated text title examines legal and illegal drugs. It looks at what drugs are, how they are used in sport and how medicines help you when you are ill. Differentiated text titles allow pupils with lower reading ability to enjoy the same topics as their classmates.

Genre Range for ages 5-11: * Provides exciting and engaging texts from all the fiction genres children need to experience and understand.* Offers rich opportunities for speaking and listening through playscripts and poetry ranging from classics to contemporary.* Provides easily manageable drama for study and performance in the classroom and an introduction to Shakespeare in Key Stage 2.* Especially motivates and supports reluctant readers through accessible, visual genres such as comic strips and Access texts for ages 9-11.* Provides varied models for writing for comparison, discussion and practice with letters and diaries providing particularly supportive examples of written communication.* Simple integration of assessment for learning into class teaching is provided in the Teaching Notes which ensure children''s reading and writing skills progress at word, sentence and text level.* Accessible Teaching Notes and Activity sheets ensure teachers, teaching assistants and parents are all able to contribute to teaching and learning.

Genre Range for ages 5-11: * Provides exciting and engaging texts from all the fiction genres children need to experience and understand.* Offers rich opportunities for speaking and listening through playscripts and poetry ranging from classics to contemporary.* Provides easily manageable drama for study and performance in the classroom and an introduction to Shakespeare in Key Stage 2.* Especially motivates and supports reluctant readers through accessible, visual genres such as comic strips and Access texts for ages 9-11.* Provides varied models for writing for comparison, discussion and practice with letters and diaries providing particularly supportive examples of written communication.* Simple integration of assessment for learning into class teaching is provided in the Teaching Notes which ensure children''s reading and writing skills progress at word, sentence and text level.* Accessible Teaching Notes and Activity sheets ensure teachers, teaching assistants and parents are all able to contribute to teaching and learning.

Genre Range for ages 5-11: *Provides exciting and engaging texts from all the fiction genres children need to experience and understand.*Offers rich opportunities for speaking and listening through playscripts and poetry ranging from classics to contemporary.*Provides easily manageable drama for study and performance in the classroom and an introduction to Shakespeare in Key Stage 2.*Especially motivates and supports reluctant readers through accessible, visual genres such as comic strips and Access texts for ages 9-11.*Provides varied models for writing for comparison, discussion and practice with letters and diaries providing particularly supportive examples of written communication.*Simple integration of assessment for learning into class teaching is provided in the Teaching Notes which ensure children''s reading and writing skills progress at word, sentence and text level.*Accessible Teaching Notes and Activity sheets ensure teachers, teaching assistants and parents are all able to contribute to teaching and learning.

Designed to fit the National Curriculum, this is part of the Longman Book Project. The project aims to enable teachers throughout the primary school to teach: language; fiction; and non-fiction. This preview pack contains one copy of each title in Bands 9-11, plus a teacher''s resource book.

Classic fairy tales delightfully and freshly retold by the highly respected Fiona Waters, and illustrated throughout.

Classic fairy tales delightfully and freshly retold by the highly respected Fiona Waters, and illustrated throughout.

Genre Range for ages 5-11: * Provides exciting and engaging texts from all the fiction genres children need to experience and understand.* Offers rich opportunities for speaking and listening through playscripts and poetry ranging from classics to contemporary.* Provides easily manageable drama for study and performance in the classroom and an introduction to Shakespeare in Key Stage 2.* Especially motivates and supports reluctant readers through accessible, visual genres such as comic strips and Access texts for ages 9-11.* Provides varied models for writing for comparison, discussion and practice with letters and diaries providing particularly supportive examples of written communication.* Simple integration of assessment for learning into class teaching is provided in the Teaching Notes which ensure children''s reading and writing skills progress at word, sentence and text level.* Accessible Teaching Notes and Activity sheets ensure teachers, teaching assistants and parents are all able to contribute to teaching and learning.

Genre Range for ages 5-11: * Provides exciting and engaging texts from all the fiction genres children need to experience and understand. * Offers rich opportunities for speaking and listening through playscripts and poetry ranging from classics to contemporary. * Provides easily manageable drama for study and performance in the classroom and an introduction to Shakespeare in Key Stage 2. * Especially motivates and supports reluctant readers through accessible, visual genres such as comic strips and Access texts for ages 9-11. * Provides varied models for writing for comparison, discussion and practice with letters and diaries providing particularly supportive examples of written communication. * Simple integration of assessment for learning into class teaching is provided in the Teaching Notes which ensure children''s reading and writing skills progress at word, sentence and text level. * Accessible Teaching Notes and Activity sheets ensure teachers, teaching assistants and parents are all able to contribute to teaching and learning.

This is an anthology of poetry about mothers and their daughters, including poems by Christina Rossetti, Stevie Smith, Helen Dumore, Charles Causley and Robert Graves.

This collection is for parents struggling to make time for storytime. The stories each take five minutes to read and the volume includes works by such authors as Joan Aitken, Anne Fine, Terry Jones, Dick King-Smith and Margaret Mahy.

The classic Oscar Wilde story of the selfish giant who won''t let anyone into his garden - until his heart is softened by one very special little boy, illustrated with great drama. The Bloomsbury Children''s Classics Series: The Brave Sister, retold by Fiona Waters, illustrated by Danuta Mayer The Selfish Giant, retold by Fiona Waters, illustrated by Fabian Negrin The Emperor and the Nightingale, retold by Fiona Waters, illustrated by Paul Birkbeck Bisky Bats and Pussy Cats, animal nonsense poems by Edward Lear, illustrated by Matilda Harrison. The Nonsense Verse of Lewis Carroll, illustrated by Lorna Hussey

An emperor learns that the natural voice of the nightingale is more beautiful than the song of an artificial one.

A fresh, original anthology that children around 9 to 12 will find packed with poems to enjoy. Fiona waters has come up with an exceptional collection where old favourites are juxtaposed with unusual contemprary choices in a seemingly random way. Livel small drawings and decorations throughout make the book particularly attractive and approachable.

A collection of poems and carols celebrating Christmas, drawn from Spain, France, America and the UK.