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Format: 4 CDs Unabridged

Running time approx. 4 hours 25 mins

Danny lives with his father in an old gipsy caravan behind a filling-station. Danny's dad is the best - a wonderful mechanic, a brilliant storyteller and a genius at kites. But, as we all learn as we get older, grown-ups can be complicated creature, and so it is that one day, when he is nine years old, Danny discovers that his dad has a deep, dark secret. It is a secret that is just about to lead them on a dangerous and thrilling adventure…

Read by Peter Serafinowicz

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Format: Listening Book - Book and CD

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Number of pages: 214

Reading Age: 8-10 Interest Level: 8-12

Accelerated Reader: Book Level 4.1 Interest Level MY

Book Band: Brown

Notes: On a dark, silvery moonlit night, Sophie is snatched from her bed by a giant. Luckily it is the Big Friendly Giant, the BFG, who only eats snozzcumbers and glugs frobscottle. But there are other giants in Giant Country. Fifty foot brutes who gallop far and wide every night to find human beans to eat. Can Sophie and her friend the BFG stop them? Let's hope so - otherwise the next child a gruesome giant guzzles could be YOU.

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Format: Listening Book - Book and CD

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Borrow one of our Easi-listening CD player and headphone sets to use with this resource Learning Resources Hub (formerly WSLR)

Number of pages: 227

Reading Age: 8-10 Interest Level: 7-11

Accelerated Reader: Book Level 6.6 Interest Level MY

Book Band: Dark Blue

Notes: Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III is a young Viking, living in the village of Berk. Trained to hunt the dragons that plague the village, Hiccup forms an unlikely friendship with Toothless, an injured dragon.
The font used for 'Dragonese' is not as easy to read as the others and may cause some difficulties for less able readers.

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Episode length: 4 - 8 mins

A collection of stories featuring royalty, read by celebrity guests.

Cantankerous King Colin by Phil Allock

Lettice the Ice Princess by Mandy Stanley

Prince Cinders by Babette Cole

Princess Penelope and the Runaway Kitten by Alison Murray

Princess Smartypants by Babette Cole

Princesses Are Not Perfect by Kate Lum

Sir Lilypad: A Tall Tale of a Small Frog

The Princess and the Pig by Jonathan Emmett

The Worst Princess by Anna Kemp

You Can’t Eat a Princess by Gillian Rogerson

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Episode length: 4 - 6 mins

A collection of stories featuring farm animals, read by celebrity guests.

Can’t Sleep Without Sheep by Susanna Leonard Hill

Chickens Can’t See in the Dark by Kristyna Litten

Click Clack Moo Cows That Type by Doreen Cronin

Eggday by Joyce Dunbar

Farmer Duck by Martin Waddell

Farmyard Flyers by Mike Bostock

First Week at Cow School by Andy Cutbill

Giggle Giggle Quack by Doreen Cronin

On the Road with Mavis and Marge by Niamh Sharkey

Pete the Sheep by Jackie French

Ping Pong Pig by Caroline Jayne Church

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Episode length: 3 - 8 mins

A collection of stories about Monsters, read by celebrity guests.

Bedtime for Monsters by Ed Vere

Don’t Call Me Sweet by Smriti Prasadam-Halls

Egg by Alex T Smith

My Friend the Weather Monster by Steve Smallman

No Such Thing as Nessie by Chani McBain

The Big Splash by AH Benjamin

The Great Monster Hunt by Norbert Landa

The Yoga Ogre by Peter Bently

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Episode length: 3 - 8 mins

A selection of stories about special people and things, read by celebrity guests.

Baggy Brown by Mick Inkpen

Bedtime Without Arthur by Jessica Meserve

Bridget Fidget Hold on Tight by Joe Berger

Can You Hear the Sea? by Judy Cumberbatch

Dear Bunny by Bianca Gomez

Dogger by Shirley Hughes

Guess How Much I Love You by Sam McBratney

I Love My Grandma by David Bedford

Minty and Tink by Emma Chichester Clark

Pip and Posy – The Bedtime Frog by Axel Scheffler

That Rabbit Belongs to Emily Brown by Jeanne Willis

Washabye Bear by Thomas Docherty

Where’s My Teddy Bear? by Jez Alborough

Zoe and Beans – Where’s Binky Boo by Chloe and Mick Inkpen

Amazing Daddy by Rachel Bright

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Episode length: 4 - 7 mins

A collection of traditional and modern fairy tales, read by celebrity guests.

Traditional:

Gingerbread Man by Mairi Mackinnon

Henny Penny Parts 1 & 2 by Paul Galdone

Little Red Riding Hood

The Magic Porridge Pot by Brothers Grimm

The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse by Helen Ward

Modern:

How the Library (Not the Prince) Saved Rapunzel by Wendy Meddour

Interstellar Cinderella by Deborah Underwood

Jill and Dragon by Lesley Barnes

The Naughtiest Ever Fairy by Nick Ward

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BBC School Radio Broadcast - 7 episodes

Episode length - 20 mins Movement and dance series for children aged 4-6.

NB: If you would like to keep this collection until January, to enable you to use it in the final week of Autumn term, please note this on your request and we will be happy to collect it when our driver visits your school in the Spring term. 

Unit 1 - The Nutcracker

A unit for Christmas based on ETA Hoffman's traditional story, The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, accompanied throughout by Tchaikovsky's music from his ballet score The Nutcracker written in 1892.

1 - Christmas Eve

2 - The Battle with the Mouse King

3 - The Land of Sweets Unit 2 - Twas the Night Before Christmas

Winter scenes of snowflakes and Christmas trees establish the festive context. The children become the inhabitants of the Christmas house, witnessing the arrival of St Nicholas. They create dance sequences in which they see him arrive and ride as reindeer through the sky.

1 - A Sleigh Full of Toys

2 - Happy Christmas to All!

Unit 3 - Journey of the Magi A two-part unit concentrating on the journey of the Magi - the Three Kings - on their way to find the Baby Jesus in the Christmas story.

1 - In Search of Baby Jesus

2 - Gifts for a King  

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BBC School Radio Broadcast - 4 episodes

Assembly series for children aged 5 to 7 including a story, song, reflection/prayer and opportunities for discussion. This unit can be used to fulfil the statutory requirement for an act of Collective Worship.

1 - What's Your Favourite Story?

(The wonder of imagination and storytelling; Roald Dahl centenary; you'll never be alone with a book)

2 - Traditional Tales

(Working together to achieve a goal; traditional tales as a genre; harvest and giving thanks for food)

3 - Myths and Legends

(Myths/legends as a genre; being brave and asking for help; being grateful for the light and heat of the sun)

4 - Parables

(Being a good "neighbour"'; who are our neighbours? parable as a genre; stories with a "message")

Notes taken from BBC School Radio wesbite. Full teacher notes are included with this resource.

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