Lucy and Tom at the Seaside

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Younger (and older) children can enjoy making sandhills to jump off or digging holes in the sand – who can dig the deepest? Talk about different types of beaches: rocky with pools, sandy, pebbles, small coves and wide bays, big waves or calm ripples. From the creator of Dogger, Shirley Hughes, this timeless book of seaside fun has every element of a wonderful day at the seaside. Practitioners should feel able to dip in and out of the ideas provided, extending and adapting them to suit the children in their settings. Shirley Hughes was born in West Kirby, near Liverpool, in 1927, and studied fashion and dress design at Liverpool Art School, before continuing her studies at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art in Oxford.

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The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network. Lucy and Tom at the Seaside– Follow Lucy and Tom’s adventures at the beach and enjoy Shirley Hughes’ delightful illustrations in this beautifully told story. Follow a happy family day out by the seaside as Tom and Lucy enjoy making sandcastles, looking in rock pools and going on a donkey ride.

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To get us in the holiday spirit, we would like you to share the story of ‘Lucy and Tom at the Seaside’, this week. If you can’t get to a real beach most of these activities can also be done at the setting or home too, and remember activities can be adapted for children of all ages. Lucy and Tom at the SeasideBOOK DETAILAge Range: Baby - 5 years Grade Level: Preschool - Kindergarten Series: Lucy and Tom Paperback: 32 pages Publisher: Red Fox; Reprintedition (March 1, 2016) Language: English ISBN-10: 178295516X ISBN-13: 978-1782955160Book DescriptionLucy and Tom are celebrating 55 years in publication in 2015 with this gorgeous reissue of a timeless Shirley Hughes picture book Everyelement of a wonderful family day at the seaside is captured as Lucy and Tom help Dad make a beautiful sand castle, find a crab's claw in arock-pool, and make seaweedy faces in the sand. She wrote two novels for older children, Hero on a Bicycle, about a 13-year-old Italian boy during the occupation of Florence, and Whistling in the Dark, set during the Liverpool Blitz.Shirley Hughes has won the Other Award, the Eleanor Farjeon Award, and the Kate Greenaway Medal for Illustration twice, for Dogger in 1977 and for Ella's Big Chance in 2003. Your children will love singing songs, meeting 'Lucy and Tom at the Seaside', playing games, designing and making their own light houses, making their own healthy smoothies and having a seaside party to celebrate at the end! This bundle contains the bumper seaside topic pack, two seaside themed story packs and a fun role play pack for creating a seaside role play area. As well as an immersive beach you can also create mini beaches, either for small world, imaginative play or as 3-D art.

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Her books include the wordless picture book Up and Up, collection of rhymes and poems Out and About, and for the very young The Nursery Collection.Create beach scenes using glue, sand, sandpaper, fabrics, tissue paper, cellophane, gravel, string, mini-bead shells and creatures! She also collaborated with her daughter, Clara Vulliamy, on the Dixie O'Day series; which saw Shirley with an illustrator for the first time with Shirley writing the text and Clara creating the illustrations. This story is one of my 3-year-old's favourite in a treasury book of baby and toddler stories and rhymes we have. Once upon a holiday time… If possible have a suitcase with some holiday items, sandals, t-shirt shorts, sun cream, sun hat, bucket, spade, to aid vocabulary and focus attention.