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Winnie the Witch 9 reviews
Valerie Thomas
HarperCollins, 2007
Bright colourful with a lot to look at.
This is, I think very much more for a child from 2-4 than anything else. The language is simple as are the concepts. It is very good humoured and beautifully illustrated. This is a book my 2 and 4 year old love to look at.
There are quite complicated illustrations of Winnies house which is a large castle - it is all in black. The problem is that Winnie's cat is also black, she can see the cat ...
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Winnie at The Seaside
Valerie Thomas, Korky Paul
Oxford University Press, 2005
Winnie decides she needs a seaside break, so she and Wilbur zoom off to the coast. Winnie makes a beeline for the sea to cool down. Wilbur makes a beeline for anywhere other than the sea - he hates water, and can't bear getting wet. To avoid all the other, numerous, holiday-makers, Winnie puts down her towel, and sets up her beach umbrella, further down than the beach than anyone else - and clearly below the tide line. Of course, the tide ...
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Winnie's New Computer (Winnie the Witch)
Valerie Thomas
Oxford University Press, 2006
Winnie the Witch is very pleased with her new computer. She spends hours exploring just what it can do and even orders herself a new wand on the internet. Winnie becomes so wedded to technology that she decides to throw away her book of spells and her old wand - from now on all her magic will be at the click of a mouse! Then, while Winnie is asleep, Wilbur tries to pounce on the computer mouse and strange things start to happen. Winnie wakes up ...
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Winnie's Magic Wand (Winnie the Witch)
Valerie Thomas
Oxford University Press, 2002
Winnie has a new spell to perform, and she can't wait. She has a beautiful dress to wear too, but she suddenly sees that she has spilt red jelly on it. In a tearing hurry she pops it into her washing machine - along with her magic wand! The dress is lovely and clean, but the wand - well, the wand is just not the same. And Winnie's spells don't seem to work either. Winnie is in despair. How will she be able to perform her special spell? All the ...
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Winnie the Witch Collection: Three Books in One (Winnie the Witch)1 review
Valerie Thomas, Korky Paul
Oxford University Press, 2004
Wow!
Love love love this book! It's a simple story w/a quirky main character & loveable cat. Great illustrations with details. Can be used to teach the concept of camouflage for animals. I read it in my kindergarten class each year & my students always want to hear it again & again. Great present for a child especially a girl.
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Happy Birthday Winnie1 review
Valerie Thomas
Oxford University Press, 2008
Winnie!
Winnie is a favorite with my 4 year old. The fold-out birthday cake in the middle she loves. The detail in the illustration fascinates her and the words are a pleasure for me to read, meaning that the author knows how to make a readable sentence, unlike many other children's books (Chris Van Allsburg & Jan Brett amongst them) who would be better off hiring a writer to structure a read-aloud ...
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Sanji and the Baker7 reviews
Robin Tzannes
Oxford University Press, 2008
We love this book
My wife and I just had our first baby 3 weeks ago. We were given this book as a baby gift. It is a wonderfully written book with charming, detailed illustrations. The ending is clever and surprising and illustrates that some of the best things in life are free. I would also recommend it as a lesson in cultural diversity.
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Winnie's Midnight Dragon2 reviews
Valerie Thomas
HarperCollins, 2008
Abracadabra!
This book is adorable! Winnie and her cat Wilbur have an adventure just after midnight when a baby dragon arrives at their house. My 3-year old has been running around for days saying "Abracadabra!" The illustrations are excellent, whimsical, and very rich, and it's as much fun for grown ups to read as for the little ones.
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Whizz-bang Winnie (Winnie the Witch)
Laura Owen
Oxford University Press, 2008
Life is never dull for Winnie the Witch! In 'Hot Cross Winnie' a trip to the shops turns into a desperate hunt for a missing Wilbur; in 'Winnie's Book Day' a problem with reading doesn't stop Winnie from bringing stories to life for a whole class full of children; in 'Winnie Gets Cracking' she creates a 'chocodile' capable of laying chocolate eggs; and in 'Whizz-Bang Winnie' Winnie gets her skates on to speed past the motorised competition in ...
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Mini Winnie (Winnie the Witch)
Laura Owen
Oxford University Press, 2008
Winnie the Witch is ready for anything life throws at her! In 'Winnie's Awful Auntie' Winnie and Wilbur have to deal with an unbearably fussy relative on an unexpected visit; in 'Winnie Goes Cleaning' Winnie offers her janitorial services to the local school with hilarious results; in 'Winnie and the Ghost in the Post' Winnie and Wilbur find themselves the surprise winners of a television poetry competition and in 'Mini Winnie' there's an ...
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Winnie the Witch. Story Book / Activity Book. (Lernmaterialien)1 review
Korky Paul, Valerie Thomas, ...
Cornelsen, Berlin, 1995
Anarchic and great fun
As an owner of many black cats in the past, I could certainly identify with Winnie's problem. I've taken many a nasty fall due to black cats lurking on dark stairs. Her attempts to solve the problem by first changing Wilbur's colour are beautifully and wittily illustrated and guaranteed to raise a smile. The cat's bemusement and embarassment at his new colouring is also spot on. Winnie ...
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The Old Woman's Nose
Joy Cowley
Sunshine Books, The Wright Group, 1989
This book is a gift to the people of Chicago from the Chicago Tribune Foundation for the Adult New Reader Collection of the Chicago Public Library Foundation.
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The Fish Who Could Wish2 reviews
John Bush
Kane/Miller Book Pub, 1994
Great fun to share!
This is a great story to share and read aloud. The rhyme scheme flows easily, and the illustrations are just as silly as the text. The kids in my storyhour have loved it as well as the adults. Boy, that is one foolish fish!
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Winnie Flies Again4 reviews
Korky Paul
Kane/Miller Book Publishers, 2000
A Wickedly Funny Story
This book is so hilarious, even as an adult I found myself laughing out loud to Winnie the witch's antics. I plan on reading this book to my kindergarteners around Halloween time. I can't wait to see their reaction!
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Monster Poems
John Foster, Korky Paul
Oxford University Press, USA, 2004
This is a collection of poems about one of children's favourite subjects - monsters. Korky Paul's lively illustrations to life this popular poetry book. John Foster and Korky Paul's poetry partnership began over 10 years ago, with the publication of "Dragon Poems". The combination of John's inspired and witty selection of poems, with Korky's crazily imaginative and anarchic illustrations, has proved exceptionally popular. "If this combination of ...
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Dragon Poems 2 reviews
John Foster, Korky Paul
Oxford University Press, USA, 2004
Great for all lovers of poetry or dragons!
I'm an adult but I collect children's books. Why? Because of books like this one. I love any collection of poetry of a theme, and this one is wonderful. I love poems, I love dragons, I love this book! I'm going to get several of them for Christmas gifts for both children and adults. The choice of poems is unbelievable. Who knew there were so many poems about dragons? And the illustrations ...
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Dinosaur Poems1 review
John Foster, Korky Paul
Oxford University Press, USA, 2004
Got my non-reader to read
My 9 year-old son brought this book home from the library yesterday and was actually excited about reading, for the first time, ever. He read some of the poems to me and I found them to be really clever. We both got a chuckle out of what really happened to the dinosaurs.
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The Dog Who Could Dig
Jonathan Long
Oxford University Press, 2008
Digger is a very determined dog. He has started looking for the bone that he buried and he just won't stop digging. Deeper and deeper he goes, unearthing all sorts of extraordinary things - an old shoe, a coal-miner, and even an underground train. But he's also getting hungrier and hungrier - will Digger ever find something to chew on for his dinner?
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Scary Poems Set: Consisting of Dinosaur Poems, Dragon Poems, and Monster Poems
John Foster
Oxford University Press, USA, 2005
Here is a collection of poems -- dinosaurs, dragons, and monsters -- that is sure to inform and delight! From dinosaurs in the bath, eating the fridge, and dancing to dragons hiding to hairy, scary monsters, kids will spend hours enthralled in these books!
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The Grammar Lab: Bk.11 review
Kenna Bourke
Oxford University Press, 1999
The Grammar Lab
This book is really good for children who learn the basic English Grammar. It's easy to follow and easy to understand. The illustration is good and interesting, too. I recommend this book for those who wants to learn basic English. I like this book very much, because I learn a lot from this book, too.
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