On Writing Well by William Zinsser
This is one of my favourite books of all time - it works both as a book to dip into when you have some spare time and as a serious book for anyone who wants to improve their writing. But it's no dry textbook...
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January 9, 2008
The Pronoun Game
The Pronoun game is excruciating fun with a carload of children - great for long journeys. It's much more challenging than you would think and is the best way I know to teach someone what a pronoun is and why they are so important, and have lots of laughs on the way...
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January 11, 2008
A Lion in the Meadow by Margaret Mahy
Every child who has had trouble getting adults to take what they say seriously will identify with the little boy in this book...
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On Writing by Stephen King
The bulk of Stephen King’s career has revolved around the horror genre and I read many of these books in school, mainly the lesser known ones like Nightmares and Dreamscapes, The Tommyknockers, Skeleton Crew, and the Richard Bachman (King’s pseudonym) book, The Regulators.
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Big Dog ... Little Dog by P.D. Eastman
This delightful tale is ideal for reading out loud with lots of scope for silly voices to contrast the two dogs and all their different attributes and tastes.
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January 14, 2008
I Do It by Andrew Daddo
Kids can do anything - some are just more insistent about it than others.
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Diary of a Wombat by Jackie French
Jackie French's Diary of a Wombat has won numerous awards and with good reason - it's a funny and engaging book for early readers.
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Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss
With Eats, Shoots and Leaves, English author, Lynne Truss, invites us into her stickler world, but she does so with great humour in a very Cranky Old People kind of way.
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About January 2008
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