Max and Chaffy: Welcome to Animal Island!

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Choosing Books for the Classroom: The Just Imagine review panel select their favourite Graphic Novels. The super-cute artwork is complemented by Jamie Smart’s wonderful sense of humour and elevated further by a beautifully sensitive core emotional story in each book.

Max and Chaffy 2: The Great Cupcake Mystery (Paperback) Max and Chaffy 2: The Great Cupcake Mystery (Paperback)

This experience has been fantastic primarily for the children, the school and also for me (professionally). Yourself and Bob are much cherished in our booky world and I personally really appreciate everything that you do. In this seventh adventure, These books are about friendship, listening to each other and the development of empathy. I have even talked the head into a little revamp of the library so that we can display them properly! And] to build all the fun and colourful locations for our characters to explore, and then hide plenty of things in them for them and the reader to find.Jamie Smart studied art at college for four years, but it was just an excuse to practise drawing animals with boggly-eyes.

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Two contrasting styles are used for the everyday story and the game narrative, which has a retro feel. His pet ghost, Squiggle, has Squiggle Power, which means that he can fly and do really fast loop-the-loops. When her sister takes her own life, Emmy is overwhelmed, not least because her beloved Beth was also Lizzie Beck, a famous and troubled singer. Max is brilliant at finding things and helping people and as he sets off exploring the island, one good deed leads to another. This is a series which is likely to be very popular with parents and teachers everywhere and will most definitely get kids hooked on reading!Fickling said Max and Chaffy was “quite simply one of the most gorgeous and fun new series of books that I have ever seen. A hugely absorbing, assured and well-written fantasy adventure for 9+, from an award-winning author. Formerly a teacher (secondary and primary) and university lecturer, with over 40 years’ experience, Nikki is Director of Just Imagine.

Chaffy | Find ALL the Chaffies! Find Chaffy | Find ALL the Chaffies!

This fun story is about a little girl and her partner, Chaffy, exploring animal island to help Chief Constable Moose find his cupcake for his surprise birthday party. A straightforward plot with easy to read images make this a good introduction to comics for younger readers. When she decides to trust Jacob, and go with him to his own place and time, she discovers undreamt-of freedom, at an unbearable cost. Each successive chapter builds on the story of where Chaffy belongs, with the charming conclusion being that he belongs with his soulmate Max!They would also only drop off a case of books and leave us to run it – it was so lovely to have you on hand to chat to the children and recommend them books, as well as the small (but appreciated! Max has just moved to Animal Island and it’s full of new friends such as Orlando, Crumbs, Moose and Pedalo. Expensive but entirely worth it, this spectacular retelling of the Persian invasion of Greece from the perspective of Golgo, a Spartan queen, marries a numinous sense of classical legend with satisfyingly grim accounts of Spartan training, warfare and sacrifice. His comic Fish-Head Steve was the first work of its sort to be shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny Prize. She is the author of Exploring Children’s Literature now in its fourth edition (Sage, 2019) and co-author of Guiding Readers, winner of the UKLA Academic Book Award (UCL, 2016).

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Not only did Crumble let Max and Chaffy into the secret, but all the noise attracted Chief Constable Moose, who was accused of ruining the surprise and sent away. Teachers and parents will also love the design a chaffy activity sheets and draw along videos on www. The denouement was a big surprise, but everybody learned that plans are not more important than people and that being greedy can lead to a sore tummy. Sunny’s favourite game is Super Rabbit Boy, where his carrot-loving friend must thwart all the plots the evil King Viking of Boom. A super full-colour series from Thomas Flintham, best known here in the UK for his illustrations for Pamela Butchart’s Baby Aliens series.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. Do take the opportunity to discuss Pizza and Taco’s responses to Hamburger, perhaps they could be more inclusive. Nyla grew up with her mum and her grandma, because her dad died when she was little – or so she’s always been told. When he meets a small, blue spirit who needs his help, however, he finds the courage to make human friends for the first time.