The midnight hour approaches You lie in bed & try to sleep but there is the howling of the wind outside the creak of a floorboard the scream of a cat the ticking clock Your heart beats your skin crawls & despite yourself you reach for this book & enter a world like a nightmare haunted by dark fears guilty secrets & the bloody consequences of rage revenge & obsession You cannot tear yourself away these tales will appall & yet enthrall you for no mere mortal can resist the master of Gothic horror Edgar Allan Poe ...

Fifteen easy-to-tell stories combining biblical teaching with contemporary storytelling Set within the world of the classroom each story has its roots in one of Jesus' parables Primary children will recognise themselves & their classmates in the stories & relate to the underlying message that is the essence of the parable Each assembly outline is topped & tailed by a theme to help direct the teacher towards the main teaching objective of the story & a prayer or reflection & suggested song to close the assembly if desired Each unit also contains a teacher's page giving the Bible reference for the original parable & information to link the teaching to PSHECitizenship & the National Framework for RE or local SACRE guidelines ...

True inspirational & amazing tales of boys & girls who stood up & stood out 208 pages 100 colour illustrations Brooks Ben ...

Ideal for sharing on a journey or at bedtime this lively audio collection contains ten entertaining animal stories with fun music & sound effects perfect for the attention span of three year olds Track listing Christine's Cornflakes The Dirty Dinosaur Cock-a-Doodle Croak! The Race Where's Teddy? Stop it! No Room for Panda Nigel's Toothache Whose Egg? & Indoor Sports ...

This is a bilingual book in Panjabi & English It contains two stories The Hare & the Tortoise & Two friends & the Bear Panjabi vocabulary with English translation & some questions about the stories have been given at the end of the book Each story is illustrated with beautiful coloured pictures 24 pages 18colill Nagra J S ...

Stories from the Kitchen is a mouth-watering smorgasbord of stories with food in the starring role by a rich variety of authors from Dickens Chekhov & Saki to Isak Dinesen Jim Crace & Amy Tan 400 pages ...

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Includes:: eight of Jesus' best loved stories Children relate to stories & there was never

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From Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Artist of the Beautiful & Albert Camus's The Artist at Work to Bernard Malamud's Rembrandt's Hat & Aimee Bender's The Color Master the tales collected here range from haunting fables about the power of art to vivid portraits of those who create 400 pages Secker Tesdell Diana ...

Three exciting adventure stories for children just beginning to read The Knights of King Arthur were the bravest strongest & most loyal knights of all which these stories show as they battle dragons slay giant ogres & rescue maidens in distress Usborne Young Reading has been developed with reading experts from Roehampton University ...

This is a new title in Usborne Young Reading Series One It feature three original stories set on the magical Pony Island where rainbow-coloured talking ponies get up to all kinds of mischief & adventure! It offers desirable & collectable editions to foster pride in book ownership as well as reading enjoyment The Young Reading Series One is aimed at children just beginning to read to help build confidence & ability It is developed in consultation with Alison Kelly who is a senior lecturer in education & an early reading specialist from Roehampton University ...