by admin | Oct 23, 2010 | 5th/6th, Class Novel
The year is 1914 and Amelia Pim will soon be thirteen. There are rumours of war and rebellion, and Dublin is holding its breath for major, dramatic events. But all that matters to Amelia is what she will wear to her birthday party and how she can be the envy of her...
by admin | Oct 23, 2010 | 3rd/4th, Class Novel
Where would you find talking snails, fighting queens, Welsh witches and winter sunflowers? In stories, of course, and that’s why Juliet loves them. On a holiday in France, Juliet hears lots of stories — from her grandmother and from the toymaker who sells...
by admin | Oct 17, 2010 | 1st/2nd, Class Novel
Grandad and Lenny are trying to paint the living-room. But Grandad’s paint is very old and it’s gone quite strange. It has stripes and patterns in it….. At first it seems like fun to make pictures with this weird paint. Lenny calls his picture ‘Fang’ because it looks...
by admin | Oct 17, 2010 | 1st/2nd, Class Novel
Lenny and his mad grandad buy a flying saucer and shoot into space together. But space is full of all sorts of creatures — some are friendly, some are not so friendly… Getting into space is easy. Getting home again — alive — is going to be a...
by admin | Oct 17, 2010 | 1st/2nd, Class Novel
Ed Cooper’s a senior infant now and that means using the big boys’ toilet. Ed needs ‘to go’ but he just can’t. The big white toilet is very different to the junior infants’ loo– with no lock on the door and goodness knows what...
