Most Popular Books by Valerie Thomas

Winnie and Wilbur have found the perfect ingredients for six of their most adventurous and exciting stories: dinosaurs, pirates, space rockets, broomsticks, submarines, and flying carpets - and they would love to share them with you. Not only are there six Winnie and Wilbur picture books, illustrated by Korky Paul, to share, this great-value boxed set also includes two special edition CDs featuring more than 90 minutes of stories and music - perfect for storytime, bedtime and journeys. Includes the following Winnie and Wilbur titles: The Broomstick Ride, The Flying Carpet, The Pirate Adventure, The Dinosaur Day, Winnie and Wilbur In Space, Winnie and Wilbur Under the Sea.

Our exciting new Wilbur toddler and baby board book series is based on the bestselling picture books by Valerie Thomas and Korky Paul. Wilbur the cat is cuddly, friendly, and ready to introduce babies and toddlers everywhere to early-learning concepts with a dash of his very own feline mischief.

When Winnie and Wilbur decide to celebrate Chinese New Year, the party is going with a swing. Family? Check! Friends? Check! Food? Check! Fun? Check! But just when Winnie waves her wand to make parade costumes for everyone, Wilbur goes missing. Oh no! Will Winnie find him before the firstfirework lights up the sky?This edition includes an audio CD with an entertaining narrated version of the story including music and sound effects.The best-selling Winnie and Wilbur series has been delighting readers both young and old since 1987 and Winnie and Wilbur have become favourite characters in homes and schools all over the world.

"Just imagine what it would be like to live in a bouncy castle, to travel on a paper aeroplane, to meet a pirate snowman, or keep a dragon as a pet. Crammed with pictures that show every madcap detail of Winnie''s world, this is a book where you decide who to meet, where to go, and what to do." --Back cover.

This book offers a clear and comprehensive guide for practitioners who wish to draw on therapeutic imagery in their work with substance misusers. The approach and strategies described here are based on the author''s many years of clinical practice in a wide range of drugs agencies. This book discusses the safe and effective use of imagery at different stages of the recovery journey. It explains how to draw on the powerful diagnostic capacity of images in therapeutic work with complex conditions, and it also identifies classic imagery patterns associated with specific drugs. It describes simple visualization procedures that can be used for ameliorating drug withdrawal symptoms and includes guided imagery scripts designed to promote recovery. It also discusses in detail how imagery can be used effectively in ongoing psychotherapy with substance misusers. The creative process of therapeutic imagery is illustrated throughout by case vignettes.

Gertie is very pleased with herself. She has turned the postman into a pig. The postman''s two children are not so pleased. They are determined to break Gertie''s spell. Little Rocket SeriesFast paced junior fiction for 7+ readers. Each gripping tale will keep children hooked Coloured illustrations are throughout the books.

Abracadabra! When Winnie starts waving her wand around she can change Wilbur from black to green, turn her broomstick into a bicycle, and even magic winter into summer. This fantastic volume brings together three of Winnie and Wilbur''s maddest mishaps: Winnie the Witch, Winnie Flies Again and Winnie in Winter.

This fantastic volume includes six of Winnie and Wilbur''s crazy capers. Meet them in their black house, take a hazardous ride on Winnie''s broomstick, join them on a hot and sunny winter''s day, find out what happens when Winnie''s wand stops working, discover how much chaos a computer can cause and spend a day with them at the seaside! This collection is a must-have purchase for Winnie fans everywhere and, for those who have yet to meet everyone''s favourite witch, it is a book that is guaranteed to make readers the best of friends with Winnie and her big black cat, Wilbur!

Recognizing that learning to spell is a complex, active process of discovery, this book presents some suggestions for the teaching of spelling that may be incorporated into different types of language programs and adapted to suit the needs of children with a range of spelling abilities. Following the introduction, a section on beginning spelling offers suggestions for introducing children to the purpose and structure of written language, activities for learning about the letters of the alphabet, and a description of children''s spelling as they learn about the relationship between sounds and letters. Further growth in spelling is discussed in the next section, which covers topics such as teaching spelling through children''s writing, helping children to discover correct spelling, and teaching children to identify and correct the words they have misspelled. Ways to extend the range of childrens'' writing and to promote spelling are discussed in the next section. The last two sections offer ways for evaluating children''s spelling and suggestions for helping children learn to use a dictionary. (HOD)

A study investigated the way in which children make use of morphemic information when they are learning to spell. Specifically, it examined the use of morphemic information in spelling compound words; the use made of morphemic information when adding suffixes to words, and the way the morphological rule governing the formation of the past tense is acquired. Subjects, 360 7-to-9-year-old children from 30 schools in Melbourne, Australia, were administered spelling tests over a 3-day period. Results showed that many of the children did not appear to be aware of the significance of the morphemic structure of the words they were asked to spell, and knowing how to spell a morpheme in one context did not ensure that it would be spelled correctly in another. The children''s spelling of the irregular past tense morpheme indicated that they were attempting to apply a rule, but for many the rule was difficult to acquire. The bilingual children in the sample, as a group, were less competent than the monolingual children at making use of morphemic information, but the difference was not great, and the error patterns of the two groups were similar. (Author/FL)

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