This starter pack is designed specifically for nursery & pre-school teachers. Each teaching resource has been carefully selected to help even the youngest children learn the alphabet sounds & shapes & develop their phonics skills in a fun way. All products come in a bright box for easy storage. Pack
Includes:: Early Years Handbook Early Years Handbook CD Alphabet Frieze ABC (hardback) Living ABC Software Big Picture Code Cards Alphabet Songs CD Handwriting Songs CD A-Z Copymasters Early Years Handwriting Copymasters
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This title has a special place for creating personal dictionaries. Each page features carefully chosen high-frequency words to start children off with their word collections. Ruled lines guide childrens handwriting strokes whilst adding to their dictionary pages. Size is A5/5.8x 8.3"
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Fully cross-referenced with the new Letterland Teachers Guide" these carefully structured workbooks help children move from recognising initial sounds to word building. Stimulating activities provide reinforcement & consolidation of word level skills & are suitable for group & independent work. Size is A4/8.3"x 11.7" 4 per pack." ...

In 1953 at the age of 41 Kathleen Ferrier Englands greatest lyric contralto lost her courageous battle with breast cancer. Her huge appeal to a wide audience
- in concerts on records on the radio & in the opera house
- has ensured her name endures to this day despite a career which lasted barely ten years. In just half that time this former telephone exchange operator was singing on stage at Covent Garden before royalty at private parties & at New Yorks Carnegie Hall. This collection of letters & twelve years of her personal diaries was first published by Boydell Press in 2003. Here an enlarged paperback edition contains a new chapter revealing her growing importance to the BBC an additional 90 letters together with much revised material & a selection of moving tributes. Published to mark the centenary of her birth in 1912 the book of more than 400 letters provides a vivid picture of a life which illuminated the war & post-war years of austerity & hardship. Kathleen Ferrier was surely fun to know. Her personality was a mix of extreme modesty & self-determined ambition topped with a mischievously blunt sense of earthy Lancastrian humour. She is known for her glorious voice but through the pages of these fascinating letters & diaries we get to meet the real person. DR CHRISTOPHER FIFIELD is a conductor music historian lecturer & broadcaster. He is the biographer of Max Bruch (Boydell Press 2005) & conductor Hans Richter & the author of a history of the music agents Ibbs & Tillett.

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Nothing in the papers not the most vivid & heart-rending descriptions have made me realise war like your letters Vera Brittain to Roland Leighton 17 April 1915. This selection of letters written between 1913 & 1918 between Vera Brittain & four young men
- her fiance Roland Leighton her brother Edward & their close friends Victor Richardson & Geoffrey Thurlow present a remarkable & profoundly moving portrait of five young people caught up in the cataclysm of total war. Roland Monseigneur is the leader & his letters most clearly trace the path leading from idealism to disillusionment. Edward Immaculate of the Trenches was orderly & controlled down even to his attire. Geoffrey the non-militarist at heart had not rushed to enlist but put aside his objections to the war for patriotisms sake. Victor on the other hand possessed a very sweet character & was known as Father Confessor. An important historical testimony telling a powerful story of idealism disillusionment & personal tragedy.
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It was if they came from another planet reflected one Suffolk farm worker remembering the arrival of the Yanks in 1944. They took the place by storm! recalled an old lady
- with a twinkle in her eye because more than the place it was the young women they took. The tall courteous big-spending strangers often became the first love & sometimes the love of a life. In Over Here" Jack Rosenthal tells the story of one such romance particularly significant to him as he would become its offspring. Using letters preserved by his mother Rosenthal reconstructs the relationship from the day of its beginning in March 1944 to its culmination in marriage in July 1945. With the stories behind linked weddings the narrative ranges from a dramatic escape after the fall of Hong Kong to the nightmares of the Arctic convoys & is supported by lively insights into the histories & social circumstances of the four families involved."
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Letters from Burma"
- an unforgettable collection from the Nobel Peace prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi. In these astonishing
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Sixty years after the first ascent of Mount Everest this unique book of letters celebrates in a very personal way this most majestic of mountains. With exclusive access to the private archives of pioneering New Zealand climber George Lowe this is a welcome tribute to an unsung hero. The conquest of Everest in the summer of 1953 was one of the twentieth-century's greatest triumphs of exploration. George Lowe's exploits on the mountain would become legendary. He was one of the lead climbers forging the route up Everest's Lhotse Face without oxygen & later cutting steps for his partners up the summit ridge. In this touching book a trove of unpublished letters from the Lowe collection are brought together for the first time to describe the day-by-day moments of this historic expedition as never before. In clear & elegant prose this is a unique testimony of a superlative human achievement. ...

This revised edition of Tolkiens famous illustrated letters from Father Christmas to his children

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The first ever B-format edition of Tolkiens complete Father Christmas letters including a new introduction & rare archive materials. Every December an envelope bearing a stamp from the North Pole would arrive for J.R.R. Tolkiens children. Inside would be a letter in strange spidery handwriting & a beautiful coloured drawing or some sketches. The letters were from Father Christmas. They told wonderful tales of life at the North Pole: how all the reindeer got loose & scattered presents all over the place; how the accident-prone Polar Bear climbed the North Pole & fell through the roof of Father Christmass house into the dining-room; how he broke the Moon into four pieces & made the Man in it fall into the back garden; how there were wars with the troublesome horde of goblins who lived in the caves beneath the house! Sometimes the Polar Bear would scrawl a note & sometimes Ilbereth the Elf would write in his elegant flowing script adding yet more life & humour to the stories. No reader young or old can fail to be charmed by the inventiveness & authenticity of Tolkiens Letters from Father Christmas. To mark ten years since the publication of the complete edition of Tolkiens Letters from Father Christmas in 1999 this new edition is the first time the letters have been available in B format. ...