Ok, try the following: “Hot butter beans! I’ll mosey on into town with this here gold nugget and buy me the biggest, fattest hog in all of Texas…” Seriously, this is a book that begs to be read aloud – but if you can’t do the accent, then you’d be better off finding a copy of the original English fairy tale on which it’s based (The Old Woman and her Pig, as collected by Joseph Jacobs). If, on the other hand, you can pull off a reasonably authentic cowboy drawl, then get stuck in, as this hilarious reworking of the old cumulative story of an uncooperative animal and the chain of events needed to get it moving will have your audience rolling in the aisles. It would be great fun to act out, too.
Pig's back in this incredible fourth diary told in an original, hilarious and unforgettable voice and packed with Pig's own drawings. This is fresh and silly laugh-out-loud humour…
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Phoenix has no desire to spend his summer at a stange house, with a cousin he barely knows. But when he finds a secret letter written by his mother, Elvira, shortly before she…
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It’s never too early for pupils to start understanding the inherent difficulties in the study of history – the importance of knowing whence one’s information is coming, and…
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Kelpies, selkies and trows – oh, my! Scottish folklore (and specifically, Robert Kirk’s The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns and Fairies) is the basis of the latest novel by…
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Tales of dysfunctional family units are hardly a rarity amongst books aimed at the 9+ age group – however, Simon Mason’s wonderful lightness of touch makes this novel…
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