Most Popular Books by Fiona Waters

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.

Celebrate all the magic and joy of Christmas with this book of poems, starring a full cast of Christmas characters: snowmen, elves, reindeer and Santa himself!

Features princes and palaces, fairy godmothers and magic galore, but with a modern twist. This title features a clumsy princess who can''t curtsey, and a sleepy beauty who can''t keep her eyes open.

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.

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.

This is the book for you whether your best friend is a girl, a boy, a dog, your sister, your mum, your grandpa or even invisible. Best Friends Best Friends tell you secrets Best Friends always play Best Friends send you postcards When they go away. Best Friends say they’re sorry Best Friends say they care Best Friends may be absent But they’re always there. Steve Turner

When Charlie realises his Granny is sad, he finds a way to reach her through shared memories. A book that emphasises the value of empathy, and the power of love.

From a big bear that loves hugs to a little worm that longs to glow -- here are more than 20 stories from some of today''s favorite authors. Perfect for reading aloud, every tale here has the power to entertain and delight a child in just five minutes. This varied collection proves that even the shortest story time can be a special time! Book jacket.

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.

A collection of poems which intend to laughter into a readers day.

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.

Magic is the stuff of childhood and many of the very best children''s stories. This sparkling collection features spells and spell-breakers, witches and wizards, tricksters and enchanters, in a strange and mysterious blend of traditional and contemporary tales from around the world. This is a spellbinding collection to capture the imagination of any child.

Laura and Sophie are best friends. They are even growing their own friendship tree! But one day, Laura''s brother, Tommy, accidentally breaks the sapling. What will Sophie say? Will their friendship be ruined? Maybe Laura''s special friend, the star, can help her out once more.

Love Wishing for it, waiting for it, being in it, falling out of it, finding it, losing it, longing for it, grieving for it... From silent admiration to great dramatic passion, every aspect of love can be found within the pages of this little book. Included are poems by Carol Ann Duffy, Endy Cope, C. Day Lewis, Adrian Henri, Roger McGough, Dorothy Parker, Spike Milligan, John Betjeman, W. H. auden and Noel Coward, to name but a few. ''A superb selection'' Shelflife

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.