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Winter Wonders
Description: Reading for with topic of winter. Fiction and non fiction, aimed at school age.
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Letters from Father Christmas (PDF)
by J. R. R. TolkienThe first ever B-format edition of Tolkien's complete Father Christmas letters, including a new introduction and rare archive materials.
Horrid Henry's Christmas Cracker (PDF)
by Francesca Simon'Horrid Henry's Christmas Cracker' contains four funny stories that will invoke every family's worst Christmas nightmares, as Horrid Henry sabotages the school play, tries to do his Christmas shopping, ambushes Father Christmas, and endures Christmas dinner with the guests from hell.
Horrid Henry's Christmas Cracker
by Francesca Simon'Horrid Henry's Christmas Cracker' contains four funny stories that will invoke every family's worst Christmas nightmares, as Horrid Henry sabotages the school play, tries to do his Christmas shopping, ambushes Father Christmas, and endures Christmas dinner with the guests from hell.
Holly and Ivan's Christmas Adventure
by Oliver LansleyA brand new Christmas story for children, Holly and Ivan’s Christmas Adventure is a magical tale of two brave little toys who fall off the back of Santa’s Sleigh on Christmas Eve. Not wanting their new owners to wake up to no presents, they set off on an epic journey to find them.Presented here as both a story book and a play, Holly and Ivan’s Christmas Adventure is packed with charming illustrations.
Hamlyn Quickcook: Winter Warmers
by Jo McAuleySatisfying, fuss-free winter warmers are the perfect antidote to cold and rain. With this selection of 360 recipes a wide range of meals is at your fingertips. What's more, you can choose the recipe option to fit your busy schedule - prepare your food in just 30, 20 or 10 minutes. So banish the winter blues with deliciously comforting dishes, including Pork, Pepper & Chorizo Goulash, Tiger Prawn & Sweet Potato Curry, Cowboy Beef & Bean Casserole, Roasted Squash & Chickpea Tagine, Melting Chocolate & Date Fondants and Rhubarb & Clementine Crumbles.
Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens and Neil BartlettUsing only Charles Dickens’ extraordinary words and a chameleon ensemble of eight actors, Neil Bartlett's powerful stage version of this much-loved story brings its settings and characters to thrilling theatrical life.From its opening image of little Pip, alone on the windswept marshes, to the haunted darkness of mad Miss Haversham's cobweb-strewn lair, this brand-new adaptation especially commissioned by Aberystwyth Arts Centre takes its audience on a journey right to the heart of Dickens’ great exploration of childhood terrors and hopes - and of adult dreams and regrets.
GCSE English Text Guide
by Cgp Books"This CGP Text Guide contains everything you need to write top-grade essays about ‘A Christmas Carol’ by Charles Dickens. It’s suitable for all GCSE English exams, including the new ones starting in summer 2017. Inside, you’ll find clear, thorough notes on the novel’s context, plot, characters, themes and the writer’s techniques - with quick questions, in-depth questions and exam-style questions included at the end of every section. There’s also detailed exam advice to help you improve your grades, plus a cartoon-strip summary to remind you of all the important plot points!
For the Time Being
by W. H. Auden and Alan JacobsFor the Time Being is a pivotal book in the career of one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century. W. H. Auden had recently moved to America, fallen in love with a young man to whom he considered himself married, rethought his entire poetic and intellectual equipment, and reclaimed the Christian faith of his childhood. Then, in short order, his relationship fell apart and his mother, to whom he was very close, died. In the midst of this period of personal crisis and intellectual remaking, he decided to write a poem about Christmas and to have it set to music by his friend Benjamin Britten. Applying for a Guggenheim grant, Auden explained that he understood the difficulty of writing something vivid and distinctive about that most clichéd of subjects, but welcomed the challenge. In the end, the poem proved too long and complex to be set by Britten, but in it we have a remarkably ambitious and poetically rich attempt to see Christmas in double focus: as a moment in the history of the Roman Empire and of Judaism, and as an ever-new and always contemporary event for the believer. For the Time Being is Auden's only explicitly religious long poem, a technical tour de force, and a revelatory window into the poet's personal and intellectual development. This edition provides the most accurate text of the poem, a detailed introduction by Alan Jacobs that explains its themes and sets the poem in its proper contexts, and thorough annotations of its references and allusions.
Father Christmas (UEB Uncontracted)
by Rnib BookshareThis picture shows Father Christmas standing up and facing forward dressed in his familiar costume. Next to him is a sack of presents. There is a locator dot shown, which will be at the top left of the page when the image is the right way up. Father Christmas's red hat with its white bobble is at the top right of the page and down from this is his head, with two bushy white eyebrows, two eyes, red nose, moustache, mouth, long hair and flowing white beard. On either side of his beard is the fleecy white collar of his red coat, and down from this a wide belt. To the left and right he holds his hands and arms out from his side, showing the sleeves of his coat with fleecy white trim at the wrist. Down the page again is the white trim of his coat, his red trousers and his big brown boots. The sack of presents is at the bottom left of the page.
Father Christmas (UEB Contracted)
by Rnib BookshareThis picture shows Father Christmas standing up and facing forward dressed in his familiar costume. Next to him is a sack of presents. There is a locator dot shown, which will be at the top left of the page when the image is the right way up. Father Christmas's red hat with its white bobble is at the top right of the page and down from this is his head, with two bushy white eyebrows, two eyes, red nose, moustache, mouth, long hair and flowing white beard. On either side of his beard is the fleecy white collar of his red coat, and down from this a wide belt. To the left and right he holds his hands and arms out from his side, showing the sleeves of his coat with fleecy white trim at the wrist. Down the page again is the white trim of his coat, his red trousers and his big brown boots. The sack of presents is at the bottom left of the page.
Father Christmas (Large Print)
by Rnib BookshareThis picture shows Father Christmas standing up and facing forward dressed in his familiar costume. Next to him is a sack of presents. There is a locator dot shown, which will be at the top left of the page when the image is the right way up. Father Christmas's red hat with its white bobble is at the top right of the page and down from this is his head, with two bushy white eyebrows, two eyes, red nose, moustache, mouth, long hair and flowing white beard. On either side of his beard is the fleecy white collar of his red coat, and down from this a wide belt. To the left and right he holds his hands and arms out from his side, showing the sleeves of his coat with fleecy white trim at the wrist. Down the page again is the white trim of his coat, his red trousers and his big brown boots. The sack of presents is at the bottom left of the page.
Elk in Winter
by Robert PackRobert Pack is a narrative master blessed with a keen ear for everyday speech. In poems that recall Robert Frost's meditative regard of nature, Pack's newest collection, Elk in Winter, resolves universal questions in the particular, the personal, and the intimate. This rich and varied volume moves from comedy to elegy, from lyric to narrative, in which individual characters are revealed and rendered symbolic by the stories that enclose them. What finally unites the poems of Elk in Winter is Pack's desire to appeal to the ear as much as to the heart, and to discover and reveal the passionate music of ideas.
Dr Seuss, Yellow Back Books
by SeussThis classic Seussian tale tells the story of the disgruntled Grinch and his fiendish attempts to steal Christmas from the citizens of Who-ville. With wacky rhymes and zany illustrations from the master himself, it has been a seasonal favourite with young readers for over 40 years. Yellow Back Books are for fluent readers to enjoy.
Collins Snap Revision — A CHRISTMAS CAROL
by Collins Uk Staff and Collins Gcse StaffExam Board: AQA Level & Subject: GCSE English Literature First teaching: September 2015 First exams: June 2017 Revise set texts in a snap. Need extra help with 'A Christmas Carol' ahead of the exam? Revise and review your understanding of the plot, characters, themes and context with this handy A5, exam-focused guide. With lots of practice and tips for your AQA exam, this 'A Christmas Carol' Snap Revision Text Guide contains all the key information you need to get a top mark.
Collins Big Cat, Band 10/White
by Penny Dolan and Karen DonnellyScrooge was not a kind man. One Christmas Eve he was visited by three ghosts, who took him on a journey from the past, through the present and in to the future. Was it too late for him to change his ways? This retelling of Charles Dickens' classic story is written by Penny Dolan. * White/Band 10 books have more complex sentences and figurative language. * Text type: A retelling of a story by a significant author * Curriculum links: Literacy: Extended stories/Significant authors.
The Christmas Truce
by Phil PorterDecember 1914. As families across Europe gather to celebrate Christmas, a generation of young men find themselves far away from their loved ones in the trenches of the Western Front. There they face a world seemingly devoid of any peace or goodwill. But on Christmas Eve 1914, as the men of the Warwickshire Regiment shelter in their trenches, something astonishing happens. Across no-man’s-land they hear music. The German soldiers are singing Christmas carols; the same carols their families are listening to, hundreds of miles away in Birmingham, Warwick and Stratford-upon-Avon. Leaving their trenches, carrying only their courage and their humanity, they go to meet their enemies; not to fight, but talk, to exchange gifts, to celebrate Christmas. And the next day, together, they play an unforgettable game of football. This playtext contains song lyrics, including original lyrics by Sam Kenyon.
Christmas tree with decorations (UEB Uncontracted)
by Rnib BookshareThis is an image of a Christmas tree standing in a pot. There is a locator dot shown, which will be at the top left of the page when the image is the right way up. It is decorated with a star, gold coloured tinsel and multi-coloured baubles. At the top centre of the page is a five-pointed star and down the page is the Christmas tree with its typical zigzag outline. The tree is decorated with round blue, red and yellow baubles hanging from its branches and has sparkling gold tinsel draped across it. Near the bottom of the page is the tree's trunk standing in a red ceramic pot.
Christmas tree with decorations UEB Contracted)
by Rnib BookshareThis is an image of a Christmas tree standing in a pot. There is a locator dot shown, which will be at the top left of the page when the image is the right way up. It is decorated with a star, gold coloured tinsel and multi-coloured baubles. At the top centre of the page is a five-pointed star and down the page is the Christmas tree with its typical zigzag outline. The tree is decorated with round blue, red and yellow baubles hanging from its branches and has sparkling gold tinsel draped across it. Near the bottom of the page is the tree's trunk standing in a red ceramic pot.
Christmas tree with decorations (Large Print)
by Rnib BookshareThis is an image of a Christmas tree standing in a pot. There is a locator dot shown, which will be at the top left of the page when the image is the right way up. It is decorated with a star, gold coloured tinsel and multi-coloured baubles. At the top centre of the page is a five-pointed star and down the page is the Christmas tree with its typical zigzag outline. The tree is decorated with round blue, red and yellow baubles hanging from its branches and has sparkling gold tinsel draped across it. Near the bottom of the page is the tree's trunk standing in a red ceramic pot.
Christmas pudding (UEB uncontracted)
by Rnib BookshareOn this page is an image of a traditional Christmas pudding on a plate, smothered with brandy sauce and decorated with holly leaves. There is a locator dot shown, which will be at the top left of the page when the image is the right way up. At the top centre of the page are two prickly green holly leaves. Down the page from this is the creamy brandy sauce dripping down the sides of the rich, brown, fruit-filled pudding. Near the bottom of the page is the red plate that the pudding stands on.
Christmas pudding (UEB Contracted)
by Rnib BookshareOn this page is an image of a traditional Christmas pudding on a plate, smothered with brandy sauce and decorated with holly leaves. There is a locator dot shown, which will be at the top left of the page when the image is the right way up. At the top centre of the page are two prickly green holly leaves. Down the page from this is the creamy brandy sauce dripping down the sides of the rich, brown, fruit-filled pudding. Near the bottom of the page is the red plate that the pudding stands on.
Christmas pudding (Large Print)
by Rnib BookshareOn this page is an image of a traditional Christmas pudding on a plate, smothered with brandy sauce and decorated with holly leaves. There is a locator dot shown, which will be at the top left of the page when the image is the right way up. At the top centre of the page are two prickly green holly leaves. Down the page from this is the creamy brandy sauce dripping down the sides of the rich, brown, fruit-filled pudding. Near the bottom of the page is the red plate that the pudding stands on.
Christmas Crackers (UEB uncontracted)
by RnibThis page shows an image of two Christmas crackers. There is a locator dot shown, which will be at the top left of the page when the image is the correct way up. The two crackers stretch across the page horizontally. To the left and right of the page are the ends of the crackers. Their cylinder shapes are nipped in and twisted to make them easier to tear when you pull them apart. Each cracker is covered in a different coloured decorative paper: the red one at the top of the page has a pattern of stars and dots and the blue one at the bottom has a pattern of six-sided snowflakes and dots.
Christmas Crackers (UEB contracted)
by RnibThis page shows an image of two Christmas crackers. There is a locator dot shown, which will be at the top left of the page when the image is the correct way up. The two crackers stretch across the page horizontally. To the left and right of the page are the ends of the crackers. Their cylinder shapes are nipped in and twisted to make them easier to tear when you pull them apart. Each cracker is covered in a different coloured decorative paper: the red one at the top of the page has a pattern of stars and dots and the blue one at the bottom has a pattern of six-sided snowflakes and dots.
Christmas Crackers (large print)
by RnibThis page shows an image of two Christmas crackers. There is a locator dot shown, which will be at the top left of the page when the image is the correct way up. The two crackers stretch across the page horizontally. To the left and right of the page are the ends of the crackers. Their cylinder shapes are nipped in and twisted to make them easier to tear when you pull them apart. Each cracker is covered in a different coloured decorative paper: the red one at the top of the page has a pattern of stars and dots and the blue one at the bottom has a pattern of six-sided snowflakes and dots.