Most Popular Books by Brian MOses

A collection of performance poems useful as a classroom and library resource. This book features approximately 40 poems by some of the UK''s top children''s poets. It focusses on poems that come to life in performance and meet the needs of the classroom teacher particularly at KS2 in terms of delivering the Literacy Hour requirements for poetry.

This sizzling collection of poems brings you face to face with the school''s worst-behaved children.

Brightly illustrated nursery rhymes and alternative nursery rhymes for newly independent readers by some of today''s best loved children''s poets.

Exciting collections of poetry by poets from around the world that teach about values and good citizenship.

Each book features the original rhyme, accompanied by fun illustrations, with the whole rhyme repeated to allow children to spot the rhyming words. Then follows a fun, alternative nursery rhyme, again with full colour illustrations and the repeat of the whole alternative rhyme. These books not only offer a highly supportive first reading experience, starting from the familiar nursery rhyme and extending with the alternative rhyme, but also encourage children to play with language, stimulating their own writing. The series is compiled in consultation with Dr Hilary Minns, former Lecturer in English in Education at the University of Warwick.

In Ye New Spell Book Brian Moses has conjured up an enchanting collection of magical verse, including a Spell to Banish a Pimple, a Dragon''s Curse, love charms, old wives'' tales and the following sound advice: On Reflection Don''t practise strange spells in front of the mirror Don''t point at yourself with a wand Dont practise strange spells in front of the mirror I did - now I live in this pond - Mike Johnson

Time for a Rhyme is a large-format, themed series of poetry books for six- to eight-year-olds, featuring Macmillan poets. This book features poems about dinosaurs.

Galaxy reading books are a wonderful collection of fiction, non-fiction, poetry and plays to capture the interest of every child, helping to develop a life-long love of reading. When it?s assembly time and we?re sitting in line, what do we need? We need wriggle room. Make some space to read this collection of poems all about school! Reading age: 6-7 years

This is a collection of poems about all kinds of friends—best friends, enemies, and gangs, poems about friends who stick up for you, embarrassing friends, and more.

A child and their dog explore the woods. As they look around they think what it would be like if dragons were actually living there. There are strange footprints in the mud, there is mist coming from a cave that looks like dragons'' breath and, hidden in the fallen leaves, could those be dragon eggs? A wonderful, imaginative picture book to share with young readers with pictures that take their inspiration from medieval woodcuts of dragons and their glowing colors from stained glass windows.

This classic picture book, illustrated by the award-winning artist Mike Gordon, explains to young children what it means to be a respectful member of society and the importance of having respect for other people''s needs. It suggests ways of doing this, such as giving up your seat in a public place so that an elderly person can sit down. It encourages children to think about what respect means to them and looks at why it is important to have respect for library books, rules, animals, public places, as well as the concept of self-respect. This book is part of a series called Values, which helps children to develop their own value system and make responsible decisions. Notes for parents and teachers show how ideas in the books can be used as starting points for further discussion at home and in the classroom or in school assemblies. Other titles in the Values series: Taking Responsibility and Learning About Honesty

A series of questions are presented to famous poets, such as Michael Rosen, Ted Hughes and Valerie Bloom, to ask them how they write, where their inspiration comes from, what techniques they use and how they solve common writing problems.

Each of these humorous books features a young boy or girl who feels bored, lonely, worried, or unfairly treated. Each child discusses the way he or she reacts to these emotions and comes up with ideas to overcome them. Knowing that other children-and even adults, as the stories point out-share these feelings is a great comfort for kids. Text copyright 2004 Lectorum Publications, Inc.