Tuesday, 26 March 2013

Reference Books: Gardening

Usborne First Skills Starting Gardening 9780746056585
By following step-by-step instructions young, green-fingered beginners will be able to develop basic gardening skills. Through a range of projects and activities children will learn how to grow and care for a variety of plants, from planting salad bulbs to growing a sunflower.

RHS Gardening Projects 9781409324942
Bursting with garden projects to make, cook and create, this book provides different projects for children to get excited about. It includes beautiful photographs that inspire children to make their own projects whilst bringing the garden to life.

Grow It, Eat It
Helps children to learn how to plant seeds and turn their produce into delicious meals that they can eat. This work also helps them to discover how food grows, from photosynthesis to pollination and learn to care for their plants. It offers recipes for snacks, lunches and dinners that are tasty and encourage your child and family to eat healthily.

RHS Ready Steady Grow
Cool gardening projects for kids, provided by the experts from the RHS. Children will have fun learning to grow all kinds of plants, vegetables and fruits with speedy results. Projects include making a pizza garden, growing a fairy ring, and designing a secret garden; and many of them can be grown in pots or window boxes. Ages: 7+

Garden Crafts for Children 9781908170255
Garden Crafts for Children is crammed full of inspirational ideas to get kids excited about gardening and nature. A wheelbarrow vegetable garden, cress caterpillars, an insect hotel and a sunflower alley are just some of the fun and creative ideas in this invaluable book.

Grow Organic, Eat Organic
What does organic mean? How do you make an organic garden? Why are worms and ladybirds so important? Discover the answers to these questions as well as lots of other useful advice in this lovely first book for budding organic gardeners and cooks.

300 Step by Step Cooking and Gardening Projects
Suitable for budding gardeners and superchefs, this guide to cooking and gardening presents a range of fun and tasty recipes and educational projects and activities inside and out. It contains more than 300 activities and recipes, from growing your own fruit and vegetables, to cooking them for yummy results.

The Garden Cook
Suitable for children, their parents and anyone interested in growing and cooking good food, this book is sure to ignite a passion for cooking in a new generation. It includes a basics chapter with safety hints for exploring the garden and tips like how to set up your own veggie patch and how to plant for the seasons.Perfect for children, their parents and anyone interested in growing and cooking good food, this is a beautifully photographed and illustrated book with 76 easy-to-follow recipes aimed at 8-13 year olds. It's designed to ignite a passion for growing, cooking and eating good food.

Eddie's Garden
A perfect introduction on how to make a first garden, told through a fictional story and with a 'how to' spread at the end. Contains fabulous watercolour illustrations. Ages: 4+. 'Children will learn a great deal, but it's a lesson sprinkled with magic; a sense of potential wonders' The Independent

I can Cook from the Garden
Ties into the enormously successful CBeebies and BBC 2 programme }i can cook{. With its combination of grow your own and cookery, this book is right on trend with the DIY ethic of the show. There are instructions for planting seeds, nurturing crops and harvesting, as well as recipes for for using those foods in finished dishes (which enthrals children!) With a range of crops detailed, children will be shown how to grow simple herbs in household pots and larger plants in the back garden. 


EYFS Resource:
Gardening and Growing
9781907241307















Monday, 4 March 2013

Books with Football

One of the World Book Day ideas was to send the child into school wearing a Football Kit.

Below are some books that have football as the theme.

Horrid Henry and the Football Fiend (Francesca Simon) 6upwards


Girls FC (Helena Pielichaty) 8upwards

--Do Goalkeepers Wear Tiaras? Can Ponies Take Penalties? Are All Brothers Foul? Is An Own Goal Bad? Who Ate All The Pies? What's Ukrainian For Football? So What If I Hog The Ball? Can't I Just Kick It? We're The Dream Team, Right? Do Shinpads Come in Pink? Here We Go!

Jamie Johnson (series) (Dan Freedman) 8upwards
--The Kick Off, Shoot to Win, Golden Goal, Man of the Match, World Class, Final Whistle

Football Detective series (Tom Palmer) 8upwards

--Foul Play, Dead Ball, OffSide, Killer Pass, Own Goal

Football Academy Series (Tom Palmer) 8upwards
--Real Thing, Reading the Game, Captain Fantastic, Free Kick, Boys United, Striking Out

The Squad Series (Tom Palmer) 8upwards
-- Black Op, White Fear

The Bare Bum Gang and the Football Face-Off (Anthony McGowan and Frances Castle) 6upwards

Football Stories (Rob Childs) 6upwards
--Keeper's Ball, Strike
Football 3-in-1 books (Rob Childs) 6upwards
--Big Football Collection, Big Football Frenzy, Big Football Treble

County Cup series (Rob Childs) 6upwards
--Cup Favourites, (the rest of the series is OP)
 
Hot Shot Harry (Rob Childs) 8upwards
Zero to Hero (Rob Childs) 8upwards
Black and White (Rob Childs) 8upwards

Great Catesby Village School Series (Rob Childs) 6upwards 
-- Great Team Omnibus
Moving the Goalposts (Rob Childs) 8upwards

Football Mad (collection) 8upwards
4 books in 1 volume,Mark's Dream Team (Alan MacDonald), Nice One, Sam! (John Goodwin), There's Only One Danny Ogle (Helena Pielichaty) and The Worst Team In The World (Alan MacDonald).

The Number 7 Shirt (Alan Gibbons) - Barrington Stoke

TJ and the Hat-Trick, TJ and the Penalty (Theo Walcott) 8upwards

Football Fever (Sophie Smiley) 6upwards

Paul Faustino Series (Mal Peet) 10upwards
--Keeper, The Penalty

Goal (Robert Rigby) 10upwards
--Goal, Goal 2: Living the Dream,  Goal 3: Glory Days

Tigers series (Janet Burchett) 8upwards
--Ghost Goalie, Ghost Sriker, Save the Pitch, Tigers on Television, Cup Final

Dino FC (Keith Brumpton) 6upwards
-- Terror on the Training Ground, the Missing Fans, The Great Kit Catastrophe, The Vanishing Goalie, Transfer Trouble, The Unlucky Striker  

Stat Man (Alan Durant) - Barrington Stoke

Bend it like Beckham - Narinder Dharmi 10upwards

Oshie (Jon Blake) (also useful for special needs - Oshie has Cerebral Palsy) 6upwards
Total Football - Some you Win (Alan Gibbons) 10upwards

Super Soccer Boy series (Judy Brown) 6upwards

Striker Boy (Jonny Zucker) 8upwards

Strikers series (David Ross) 10upwards
--Young Blood, Big Deal, Bad Boys

Dream On (Bali Rai) - Barrington Stoke

The Football Ghosts (Malachy Doyle) - Red Bananas (learning to read)

Olympia on the Ball (Shoo Rayner) 6upwards

Billy the Kid (Michael Morpurgo) 5upwards

The Fib (Neal Layton) 8upwards

Soccer Squad (Bali Rai) 8upwards
--Starting Eleven, Missing,

Stanley Bagshaw and the Short-Sighted Football Trainer (Bob Wilson)
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Introduction to the blog

It's World Book Day this week, and lots of people on the forum I visit are asking for ideas for costumes for their children - they usually have to be book-based, and it seems that it's a very hard task.

I thought I'd try to categorize some books to help!

It also means that it someone says "can you think of any books where there are.... " then I can use this as a comparison list.
It might need to be updated and edited a lot!

I think it should be useful to other booksellers too.
(everyone's always asking "my child enjoyed blahblah, can you think of anything similar!)