New Releases by June Crebbin

Oxford Reading Tree inFact is a non-fiction series that aims to engage children in reading for pleasure as powerfully as fiction does. The variety of topics means there are books to interest every child in this compelling series.The series is written by top children''s authors and subject experts. The books are carefully levelled, making it easy to match every child to the right book.This pack contains six books, one of each of Deep Down Weird, Perfect Pets, Zoom Out!, A Pony for a Day, Who Eats Who?, and Edward Lear''s Scrapbook.

The informative and compelling non-fiction titles offer authentic writing styles. The titles include traditional non-fiction text types and features, as well as quirky topics and content that provide a child-friendly way to learn.Stunning photography.Informative illustrations and diagrams.Authentic, child-friendly contexts for teaching reading.All titles can be purchased separately as single titles. For more information, please contact your Oxford Primary Consultant.

This simple picture book with a familiar theme, looks at the different thigns that a family take on a picnic; the rug, the basket, the sandwiches, the cakes and the drinks. The scene is set for a perfect picnic, until the wasps arrive! * Pink A/Band 1A books offer emergent readers very simple text supported by illustrations. * Text type - A story with a predictable structure and patterned language * A labelled illustration on pages 14 and 15 gives children the chance to recount and discuss the story. * This story is paired with an information book with a similar theme: Minibeasts by Siobhan Hardy.

This is a poetry book by June Crebbin exploring the themes of wildlife, the seasons, and life's simple pleasures. This series offers developing readers literary language and stories with distinctive characters.

Lady Jane has a taste for Elizabethan adventure in this spirited historical Racing Read.Lady Jane Hargrave is a reluctant maid of honour at the court of Queen Elizabeth I - but before she knows it she is appearing in a Shakespeare play, helping Francis Drake fight off the Spanish Armada and saving the Queen''s life. Long live the Queen! Long live adventure!

A series of ELT readers for young learners of English.

Hetti likes spaghetti. Jake likes cake. How about Fred? Fred likes bread! With seven colourful jigsaws and filled with fun rhymes, this makes an ideal reading book to share.

A series of ELT readers for young learners of English. Jess makes a special cake.

Based around the nursery rhyme "Sing a Song of Sixpence", these three stories expand the stories of the king, the queen and the maid in amusing and modern ways! Ages 6+

A journey on a train provides excitement, nice scenery, and pleasant anticipation.

George loves being a wizard''s helper in the school play, but he hates the green tights he has to wear. Everyone laughs when he puts them on. The tights must go, but getting rid of them is easier said than done.

This series of delightful storybooks is a flexible resource designed to help teachers engage and motivate young learners in the classroom. They are an ideal way to support children in the early stages of learning English. Teacher's Books and Audio Cassettes/CDs make the Storybooks simple to use: the Teacher's Books cover the entire level and include step-by-step teaching notes with ideas for classes of different ability, photocopiable worksheets, and 'If you have time' sections suggesting original ideas for games and activities. The Audio Cassettes/CDs feature all the titles in each level read aloud, exposing children to different voices while they have fun listening to the dramatisations. At levels 3 and 4 selected titles are designed to be read as a play. Watch your pupils' confidence in English grow as they act out the stories together!

This series of delightful storybooks is a flexible resource designed to help teachers engage and motivate young learners in the classroom. They are an ideal way to support children in the early stages of learning English. Teacher's Books and Audio Cassettes/CDs make the Storybooks simple to use: the Teacher's Books cover the entire level and include step-by-step teaching notes with ideas for classes of different ability, photocopiable worksheets, and 'If you have time' sections suggesting original ideas for games and activities. The Audio Cassettes/CDs feature all the titles in each level read aloud, exposing children to different voices while they have fun listening to the dramatisations. At levels 3 and 4 selected titles are designed to be read as a play. Watch your pupils' confidence in English grow as they act out the stories together!

This series of delightful storybooks is a flexible resource designed to help teachers engage and motivate young learners in the classroom. They are an ideal way to support children in the early stages of learning English. Teacher''s Books and Audio Cassettes/CDs make the Storybooks simple to use: the Teacher''s Books cover the entire level and include step-by-step teaching notes with ideas for classes of different ability, photocopiable worksheets, and ''If you have time'' sections suggesting original ideas for games and activities. The Audio Cassettes/CDs feature all the titles in each level read aloud, exposing children to different voices while they have fun listening to the dramatisations. At levels 3 and 4 selected titles are designed to be read as a play. Watch your pupils'' confidence in English grow as they act out the stories together!

This series of delightful storybooks is a flexible resource designed to help teachers engage and motivate young learners in the classroom. They are an ideal way to support children in the early stages of learning English. Teacher''s Books and Audio Cassettes/CDs make the Storybooks simple to use: the Teacher''s Books cover the entire level and include step-by-step teaching notes with ideas for classes of different ability, photocopiable worksheets, and ''If you have time'' sections suggesting original ideas for games and activities. The Audio Cassettes/CDs feature all the titles in each level read aloud, exposing children to different voices while they have fun listening to the dramatisations. At levels 3 and 4 selected titles are designed to be read as a play. Watch your pupils'' confidence in English grow as they act out the stories together!

It''s Pony Day at Merryfield Hall Riding School and Dad has promised to come and watch Amber jump for the first time ever Everything will be perfect... so long as Mum can get Amber to the stables on time for once, and rich, spiteful Donna doesn''t get her own way.

Hal starts pirate school and is so excited. But is it really a pirate''s life for Hal, who gets seasick, falls overboard a lot, and doesn''t know his west from east? Suggested level: junior, primary.

A new title in the highly acclaimed series for beginner readers, written using a variety of media, and ideal for use in compliance with the literacy strategy.

Two stripy socks, three torn tickets, four freckled frogs - how many things are in my pocket? The simple words, funny story and illustrations in this story are designed for children who are learning to read.

Meet my dog: a loud-barker, a tail-wagger, a cat-chaser - he''s all these things and more The simple words, funny story and illustrations in this story are designed for children who are learning to read.

Originally published: Cambridge, Mass.: Candlewick Press, c1998.

Alice wants Spike to win the dog show. Sometimes he''s good ...

A series of ELT readers for young learners of English.

Suitable for children in Year 2 (age 6), Strawberry Picking is from the Cambridge Reading genre strand Stories with Familiar Settings, a strand where children can identify with the setting and characters and make links with their own experiences. Strawberry Picking is one of nine books written by June Crebbin and illustrated by Peter Kavanagh. Each story centres on the everyday lives of children from two neighbouring families. Young readers will easily relate to the kind of situations in which the children find themselves, and will enjoy meeting the same characters across the nine books. Cambridge Reading at Key Stage 1 (Years 1 and 2) offers fiction, non-fiction, poetry and plays to introduce children to a variety of text types, authors and illustrators and provide a firm base for wider reading. This pack of 6 is for guided group reading.