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The other side may be big and strong, but will they get past our secret weapon? * You can help your child to practise his reading by spending 10 minutes a day sharing short stories and simple rhymes. * Books 9-16 of Read with Ladybird are ideal for children who are in the early stages of learning to read. * You can be confident that practising at home with Read with Ladybird will support work done at school.

Tigers, snakes and crocodiles too. But who watches you when you're at the zoo? * Sharing a story or rhyme for only 10 minutes each day helps your child to enjoy practising her reading. * Books 1-8 of Read with Ladybird will help children who are just starting to learn to read. * You can be confident that practising at home with Read with Ladybird will support work done at school.

Welcome to the maddest salon in town, where every day is a bad hair day! * You can help your child to practise his reading by spending 10 minutes a day sharing short stories and simple rhymes. * Books 9-16 of Read with Ladybird are ideal for children who are in the early stages of learning to read. * You can be confident that practising at home with Read with Ladybird will support work done at school.

You can help your child to practise her reading by spending 10 minutes a day sharing short stories and simple rhymes. * Books 9-16 of Read with Ladybird are ideal for children who are in the early stages of learning to read. * You can be confident that practising at home with Read with Ladybird will support work done at school.

How did the stars get their names? Read Grandad's magical story to find out. * Spending a few minutes each day enjoying well-written stories helps your child to build her confidence in reading. * Books 17-20 of Read with Ladybird are ideal for children who are starting to read for themselves. * You can be confident that practising at home with Read with Ladybird will support work done at school.

My dad can't dance, my mum can't sing - but you'll still love them! * You can help your child to practise his reading by spending 10 minutes a day sharing short stories and simple rhymes. * Books 9-16 of Read with Ladybird are ideal for children who are in the early stages of learning to read. * You can be confident that practising at home with Read with Ladybird will support work done at school.

From the peerless author of The Lottery and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, this is a spectacular new volume of unpublished and uncollected stories, essays, lectures, letters and drawings. Let Me Tell You brings together the deliciously eerie short stories Jackson is best known for with frank and inspiring lectures on writing; comic essays she wrote about her large, rowdy family; and revelatory personal letters and drawings. Jackson's landscape here is most frequently domestic - dinner parties, children's games and neighbourly gossip - but one that is continually threatened and subverted in her unsettling, inimitable prose. This collection is the first opportunity to see Shirley Jackson's radically different modes of writing side by side, revealing her to be a magnificent storyteller, a sharp, sly humorist and a powerful feminist. Shirley Jackson was born in California in 1916. When her short story The Lottery was first published in The New Yorker in 1948, readers were so horrified they sent her hate mail; it has since become one of the most iconic American stories of all time. Her first novel, The Road Through the Wall, was published in the same year and was followed by five more: Hangsaman, The Bird's Nest, The Sundial, The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, widely seen as her masterpiece. In addition to her dark, brilliant novels, she wrote lightly fictionalized magazine pieces about family life with her four children and her husband, the critic Stanley Edgar Hyman. Shirley Jackson died in her sleep in 1965 at the age of forty-eight. "An amazing writer." (Neil Gaiman). "The world of Shirley Jackson is eerie and unforgettable...She is a true master." (A. M. Homes). "Shirley Jackson's stories are among the most terrifying ever written." (Donna Tartt).

Shirley Jackson is one of the most important American writers of the last hundred years. Since her death in 1965, her place in the landscape of twentieth-century fiction has grown only more exalted.As we approach the centenary of her birth comes this astonishing compilation of fifty-six piecesmore than forty of which have never been published before. Two of Jacksons children co-edited this volume, culling through the vast archives of their mothers papers at the Library of Congress, selecting only the very best for inclusion.Let Me Tell You brings together the deliciously eerie short stories Jackson is best known for, along with frank, inspiring lectures on writing; comic essays about her large, boisterous family; and whimsical drawings. Jacksons landscape here is most frequently domestic: dinner parties and bridge, household budgets and homeward-bound commutes, childrens games and neighborly gossip. But this familiar setting is also her most subversive: She wields humor, terror, and the uncanny to explore the real challenges of marriage, parenting, and communitythe pressure of social norms, the veins of distrust in love, the constant lack of time and space.For the first time, this collection showcases Shirley Jacksons radically different modes of writing side by side. Together they show her to be a magnificent storyteller, a sharp, sly humorist, and a powerful feminist.This volume includes a Foreword by the celebrated literary critic and Jackson biographer Ruth Franklin.

The perfect read for Hallowe'en, this new hardback volume of Jackson's finest stories reveals the queen of American gothic at her unsettling, mesmerising best.There's something nasty in suburbia. In these deliciously dark tales, the daily commute turns into a nightmarish game of hide and seek, the loving wife hides homicidal thoughts and the concerned citizen might just be an infamous serial killer. In the haunting world of Shirley Jackson, nothing is as it seems and nowhere is safe, from the city streets to the country manor, and from the small-town apartment to the dark, dark woods...

This fun activity book focuses on the five vowel sounds, helping to develop the vital learning skills of linking sounds to printed words, words to pictures and pictures to objects in the world around us. Children learn how to sound out the short and long vowel sounds using the clear words and pictures. This is a trusted approach to first reading based on children understanding and hearing the different sounds in words.

In September 2005, Alex Kapranos began writing about what he ate while touring the world with the rock band Franz Ferdinand. The writing is as much about where he eats and the people he eats with as the unusual flavours he tastes on the road. Whether it's munching donuts with cops in Brooklyn, swallowing bull's balls with the band in Buenos Aires or queuing for a saveloy in South Shields, these are surprising and vivid snapshots of life on the road. Funny, poignant, sickening or sexual depending on the situation, the material, both new and previously published in the Guardian, is fascinating and entertaining.

Hooting owls, howling dogs and coughing sheep, but what's making the eeriest noise of all? * You can help your child to practise her reading by spending 10 minutes a day sharing short stories and simple rhymes. * Books 9-16 of Read with Ladybird are ideal for children who are in the early stages of learning to read. * You can be confident that practising at home with Read with Ladybird will support work done at school.

Do you have problems waking up? Then try the fantastic, boombastic Wakey Wakey Machine! * Spending a few minutes each day enjoying well-written stories helps your child to build his confidence in reading.* Books 17-20 of Read with Ladybird are ideal for children who are starting to read for themselves.* You can be confident that practising at home with Read with Ladybird will support work done at school.

Stickers to swap, players galore. Now we've run out, let's get some more! This text is part of a series of books that aim to help children who are just starting to learn to read.

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