Books: Children
Poet of a lost
tions for use, Reloaded
Reading the
it forms part series updates
generation
of a suite that myths and
game
includes a legends from
The Black Chair
5,000-word around the
Cup Final Day
Phil Carradice
First Dictionary, world, creat-
David James, with photos by
ISBN 978-1-84323-978-9
a 2,000-word ing an acces-
Joe Pepler
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First Thesaurus sible range of
ISBN 978-184167-960-0
and a useful classic stories
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£5.99
workbook of activities. aimed at
£6.99
older, reluc-
The story of
tant readers. Janosik, the hero
Written by
Ellis Evans, bet-
of this book, is a mythical Polish
Portsmouth
ter known by
Wet and wild
outlaw who robs from the rich to
and England
his bardic name
support the poor.
goalkeeper
of Hedd Wynn,
The Kingdom of the Deep
David
is well known
Frank Hinks
James, this
to Welsh
ISBN 978-095470-465-0
new title in
speakers. A
www.ramion-books.com
Monsters and
the Goal!
serving soldier series gives a
in the trenches
£12.99
munchies vivid picture
of World War I, he composed of one player’s experience of the
the poem Yr Arwr (The Hero),
Frank Hinks Zac Zoltan’s Mad Monster
FA cup final at Wembley. The
Agency: Return of the
which won the Welsh National
is a lawyer,
Chocoholic Vampires
series is accompanied by work-
Eisteddfod in 1917. Evans died
and his books
Knife and Packer
books and a Teacher’s Guide
in battle six weeks before the
for children
ISBN 978-0-745-9827-5
(978-184167-827-6).
eisteddfod, and the ‘Black Chair’
began as bed-
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of the title is the bardic chair
time stories for
which he would have occupied,
his three now
£4.99
draped in black.
adult sons. This
Under the sea
This book fictionalises his experi-
is the thirteenth
‘Knife and
ence as a tribute to him and all the
book in his Ramion series of self-
The Crossing of Ingo
Packer’ is the
young men who died in the war.
illustrated magical tales. Possibly
Helen Dunmore
nom de plume
For the older reader, it is a moving
not politically correct, they have ISBN 978-0-00-727026-2
of a pair of
account of creativity and compan-
a yuck factor that makes them
www.harpercollins.co.uk
cartoonists
ionship rising from the squalor
attractive to boys who are oth-
well-known
and brutality of the trenches.
erwise reluctant to read. The
£6.99
for their
Particularly resonant in Wales, it
dysTalk site for the parents of
adult work in
deserves a wider audience.
children with reading difficul- Helen
ties reports that it has found the
publications
Dunmore’s
Ramion books useful.
including
Ingo series
Private Eye
deals with the
Words, words,
and the BBC History magazine.
adventures
They have also collaborated in
of Sapphire
words...
Heroes and
the past on children’s books.
and Connor,
villains
This book is the first in a series
human chil-
First Illustrated Dictionary
featuring schoolboys Josh Flunk
dren who
ISBN 978-07217-1132-4 Wanted: Janosik
and Spencer Topps, who, in
also live in
www.schofieldandsims.co.uk Andrew Matthews
their spare time, run an agency
the undersea
ISBN 978-1-84299-612-6
dedicated to protecting the world
world of the Mer. The fourth and
£9.95
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from ever more peculiar and
final book combines beautiful
comical monsters. A comic strip
description, gripping adventure
Clear and colourful, this first
£5.99
approach is broken up by a small
and thought-provoking insights
dictionary has 500 illustrations
amount of simple text, and the
into the problems of pollution
and more than 2,000 headwords. Barrington Stoke specialises in
series should be interesting to
and conservation, in a style older
With clear and concise instruc- books for reluctant readers. Its
older, reluctant readers.
readers will find rewarding.
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