Product Description: From the carrier launch in total darkness to the gut-dropping rolls through enemy antiaircraft fire, Peter Hunt puts you in the pilot’s seat for the flight of your life. Moments after the first Gulf War began, attack pilot Pete Hunt was catapulted into the night sky from the deck of the USS Ranger...read more

Product Description: This volume discusses the many ages of Children's Literature, from fairy tales and early didactic literature through to the classics of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and the modern day. Genres such as realism, fantasy, young adult literature and picture books are examined alongside debates on race, ideology, criticism and the future of Children's Literature...read more

Product Description: An orphaned girl, a grim moorland manor with hundreds of empty rooms, strange cries in the night, and a walled garden, with its door locked and the key buried. These are the ingredients of one of the most famous and well-loved of children's classics, an inspiring story of regeneration and salvation that gently subverted the conventions of a century of romantic and gothic fiction for girls...read more

Product Description: The discovery of a treasure map sets young Jim Hawkins in search of buried gold, along with a crew of buccaneers recruited by the one-legged Long John Silver. As they near their destination, and the lure of Captain Flint's treasure grows ever stronger, Jim's courage and wits are tested to the full...read more

Product Description: Every Athenian alliance, every declaration of war, and every peace treaty was instituted by a decision of the assembly, where citizens voted after listening to speeches that presented varied and often opposing arguments about the best course of action...read more

Product Description: John Richard Jefferies (1848-1887) was an English nature writer, essayist and journalist. He wrote fiction mainly based on farming and rural life. From early in life he showed a great love of the countryside, but was temperamentally unsuited to follow his father as a farmer, and in 1866 he found employment as a newspaper reporter for the North Wiltshire Herald and the Swindon Advertiser...read more

Product Description: Jamaican Voiceworks is an outstanding collection of fun and appealing Jamaican songs presented in the practical Voiceworks format. Peter Hunt is author of several Voiceworks books and Michael Burnett is an expert in Jamaican music...read more

Product Description: Folk Voiceworks is an outstanding collection of folk songs in the Voiceworks model, including songs from centuries past alongside pieces by celebrated folk musicians. You'll find pieces in a range of genres and styles, including shanties, protest songs, songs about the land, lullabies, love songs, and much more - scored flexibly for unison and part-singing...read more

Product Description: Junior Voiceworks 2 is a second dazzling collection of songs for choirs at or around KS2 level. Spanning a great range of styles and moods, the songs are presented in the highly practical Voiceworks format, with accessible music pages and notes for the teacher or leader...read more

Product Description: The study of children’s literature is currently centred on literary studies, educational studies, and a third more diverse group of many other related disciplines, including history, bibliography, sociology and psychology. All of these then overlap with cultural studies and contribute to the rapidly growing meta-discipline of childhood studies...read more

Product Description: SongStream 2: An American Journey is a second collection of ten songs for youth choirs, largely scored for SAB with some divisi and optional parts. These exciting, accessible, and stylistically varied pieces take you on a journey from Canada through North to Central and South America...read more

A tribute to more than 350 years of literary works features the fables, alphabet stories, fairy tales, nursery rhymes, picture books, and illustrations of 170 authors and artists, in a slipcased volume that includes discussions on the cultural contexts of children's literature as well as author annotations and bibliographies. Original. 20,000 first printing.

Product Description: for SAB, accompanied and unaccompaniedSongStream 1 is an exciting and innovative collection of 10 songs for youth choirs. Largely scored for SAB, with some divisi and optional parts, these songs combine the music of Bob Chilcott and the Voiceworks approach of Peter Hunt to present a dazzling array of pieces in all styles for young singers...read more

Product Description: This book provides an illuminating guide to literature that creates alternative worlds for young readers. Focusing on the work of Ursula Le Guin, Terry Pratchett and Philip Pullman, the book considers both the genre of 'alternative worlds' and the distinctiveness of these authors' texts, including Philip Pullman's The Amber Sypglass...read more

Product Description: Edited by Peter Hunt, a leading figure in the field, this book introduces the study of children’s literature, addressing theoretical questions as well as the most relevant critical approaches to the discipline. The fourteen chapters draw on insights from academic disciplines ranging from cultural and literary studies to education and psychology, and include an essay on what writers for children think about their craft...read more

Product Description: An inspired collection of pieces for Christmas, Voiceworks at Christmas meets the needs of all choral groups and overflows with festive cheer.· 30 fabulous carols and songs, from unison to four-part harmony and beyond ·Pieces for all occasions: school concerts, Advent and Christmas services, carol-singing · Ideal for youth and community choirs, school groups (Key Stage 2 upwards), choral societies, church choirs, and choral groups of all ages and experience · Vast range of repertoire: plainsong and early music, spirituals, folk pieces, carols in jazz style ·Introduces carols from the West Gallery and Sacred Harp traditions · Well-known carols in fresh arrangements and new songs by living composers · Tips and hints for warming up and preparing to rehearse · A complete lesson or rehearsal plan for each song · Photocopiable pages · CD with performances of all the songs and some backing track...read more

Product Description: From the carrier launch in total darkness to the gut-dropping rolls through enemy antiaircraft fire, Peter Hunt puts you in the pilot’s seat for the flight of your life.Moments after Desert Storm began, bomber pilot Pete Hunt was in the air over the Persian Gulf...read more

Product Description: Children's literature continues to be one of the most rapidly expanding and exciting of interdisciplinary academic studies, of interest to anyone concerned with literature, education, internationalism, childhood or culture in general...read more

Product Description: Voiceworks 2 is a second inspired collection of 66 fabulous songs including material to stretch more confident groups. Every bit as practical and accessible as Voiceworks 1. · Lively and simple ideas for key stage 3 (Scottish levels D and E) · Ideal for youth choirs, school groups, county youth choirs, and choral groups of all ages and experience · 66 songs, from simple unison to four-part harmony · Vast range of repertoire and styles from around the world · Songs for warm ups, rehearsal use, and concert repertoire · Most songs unaccompanied, or with simple accompaniments for keyboard or guitar · A complete lesson or rehearsal plan for each song · Vocal warm ups and general advice included · Double CD contains performances plus support material · Photocopiable page...read more

Product Description: Children's literature has recently produced a body of criticism with a highly distinctive voice. The book consolidates understanding of this area by including some of the most important essays published in the field in the last five years, demonstrating the links between literary criticism, education, psychology, history and scientific theory...read more

Product Description: The warring Greek city-states of the classical period often found it advantageous to use slaves in their armed forces and to encourage rebellion or desertion among the slaves of their enemies. But since military service was highly esteemed, while the state of slavery was despised, classical Greek historians such as Herodotus, Thucydides and Xenophon tended not to discuss slave participation in war...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A comprehensive Reference Guide to over 250 locations from the World of Ian Fleming and James Bond… Now you can follow in the footsteps of the most famous secret agent of all time—from the exclusive gentlemen's clubs of St James's to the breathtaking skyscrapers of Docklands, Isle of Dogs...read more

Product Description: This is a magnificent new resource for promoting good singing in schools and choirs. Packed with songs and ideas, the book and double CD will inspire any choir and make singing fun.

Product Description: Edited by one of the leading scholars in children's literature studies, this highly entertaining and scholarly anthology features over 120 complete works, poems, stories, and extracts from novels. Includes over 120 complete works, poems, stories and extracts from novels...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book offers a systematic introduction to some of the essential concepts necessary for the study of childrens literature. Incorporating thirteen essays from the highly-acclaimed International Companion Encyclopedia of Children's Literature , the chapters guide the reader through the most relevant areas of criticism and theory and summarise their contexts and application...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)