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This experience has been fantastic primarily for the children, the school and also for me (professionally). lived for games, from pouncing, twirling and frolicking, to getting ‘ up to all sorts of mischief’ His favourite season was Spring, when he would frighten the baby birds about to take flight. Your selection was perfect for our children and what really made the difference was your ability to engage with each child, discuss their interests and help them to choose a suitable book based on your extensive knowledge of the books you were selling.

Walker Books) When the cat arrived at Rosie’s house and ‘ poked his head out of the box‘ suddenly, Rosie laughed, ‘ How do you do, Mister Boo! I have even talked the head into a little revamp of the library so that we can display them properly! It's only when he feels himself unable to do these things anymore as time passes that he becomes sad. Yesterday a parent came over to tell me how impressed she was by the book fair and that you did a fabulous job of selling the books to the children first. In the week of publiciation the book was cancelled and rather than see them pulped, she bought 100 copies and used them to insulate the attic.

It was such a pleasure to meet you both, and I really appreciated how smoothly and professionally you ran everything. A lively tale about a fun-loving cat learning to accept change, imaginatively illustrated by the award-winning Petr Horácek. These short, witty stories, have been animated for TV with Alan Bennett and Richard Briers playing the parts. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Joyce is the author of Oddly , The Monster Who Ate Darkness, and Shoe Baby and Pat-a-Cake Baby , which were both illustrated by her daughter, Polly.Read more about the condition New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. Thereafter, we watch his frolicking, gaiety over seasons until it comes to a time when our cat has ‘ slept for longer and longer more than he ever had before’. Once again we are in the animal kingdom, tracking the life and behaviour of an irascible but beloved animal. After the twin towers tragedy it was recommended as a way of helping children to feel safe again and in 2001 Joyce and the illustrator went on tour to America. I was at my last school for 4 years and we had ********* book fairs every term – and every term, I was disappointed by the narrow range of books.

A lively tale about a fun-loving cat learning to accept change, imaginatively illustrated by the award-winning Petr Horacek. The project stalled for a long time, then GRAFFEG , an independent Welsh publisher, issued sparkling new versions , continuing the classic illustrations by James Mayhew.is a tender, empathetic, and beautifully considered picture book with such a delightful story and colour-saturated, rich and wonderful pictures from Joyce Dunbar and Petr Horáček. As well as the original 4 volumes, there are now 4 more, with planned total of 12, each with 3 stories. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. She was a creative writing tutor on the Greek island of Skyros for 10 years, and is also a tutor for The Arvon Foundation.