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Book of the Month: I Don’t Want to Be a Pea!

Just Imagine Book of the Month - August 2011

By Nikki Gamble (from Just Imagine), posted 03rd September 2011 at 8:50PM | Comments

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By Ann Bonwill, with illustrations by Simon Rickerty

A hippo called Hugo and a bird called Bella are getting ready for the Bird-Hippo Fancy Dress Party. They decide to go as 'The Princess and the Pea' but neither wants to be the pea. Well, you wouldn't, would you? Because they both want their own way, they can't agree on a costume and they almost don't go to the party at all.

Ann Bonwill's witty dialogue has some laugh out loud moments and it reads aloud very well making this a super choice for the primary classroom.

'I will be the mermaid and you will be my rock. You make a very fine rock.' Bird tells her friend. Hippo isn't convinced 'I don't want to be a rock. It is too grey and...

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Wanted: The Perfect Pet

Just Imagine Book of the Month - July 2011

By Nikki Gamble (from Just Imagine), posted 17th July 2011 at 2:03PM | Comments

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Wanted: The Perfect Pet by Fiona Roberton, published by Hodder Children's Books

Henry wants a dog. He wants a dog so badly. He wants a dog more than a frog (he already has hundreds of frogs and they don’t impress him one bit). He wants a dog more than a Cowboy outfit and  even more than an all expenses paid trip to the moon. There’s only one thing to be done. Henry places an advert in the newspaper: Wanted the Perfect Pet… and he waits…

Meanwhile, far away a lonely duck sits waiting for someone to mail or call him. He’s so lonely, that he has to play ping pong all by himself and that's not much fun. Then one day he picks up the newspaper and he reads Henry’s advert, and that...

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Inspiring and enabling well-informed approaches to literacy teaching

By Nigel Godfrey, posted 10th July 2011 at 11:58AM | Comments

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Last Autumn the inspiring literacy coordaintor in my daughter's primary school introduced me to teacher, lecturer and writer Nikki Gamble, proprietor of the new Just Imagine Story Centre in Chelmsford.  Nikki has helped our writer Craig Christie to select appropriate books for all our 2011/12 musicals, and I'm thrilled that she has agreed to write a regular "book of the month" column on this blog.

Just Imagine was set up by  Nikki Gamble with the aim to inspire, motivate and enable creative and well-informed approaches to literacy teaching and children’s literature for all education professionals.  I should add that they are a fantasticly well informed children's  and education book...

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