Character-Building Stuff

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This straight-forward resource gives teachers, counselors, and parents over 140 common-sense lessons with reproducible activities for developing traits selected as representative of good character, s

1000+ words to help kids find inspiration, boost vocabulary, and write richly described, compelling stories.For budding storytellers everywhere – the only dictionary that kids will want to read from cover to cover.Storyteller’s Illustrated Dictionary is designed to help you write brilliant stories. It’s the English dictionary, hilariously reimagined!Find writing inspiration! Storyteller’s Illustrated Dictionary is packed with over 1,000 words of inspiration.Structure your story! Richly descriptive vocabulary is arranged into six key building blocks of storytelling – Character, Setting, Taste and Smell, Action, Emotion, and Weather.Learn words! Hilarious illustrations by award-winning Hollywood artists reinforce meanings, ensuring words are unforgettable. Commonly occurring word pairs give you even more ideas for exciting storytelling.Storyteller's Illustrated Dictionary was previously published by Mrs Wordsmith in 2018.

Yoto Carnegie Greenaway Awards 2022Shortlisted for the Yoto Kate Greenaway Medal 2022. From the creator of modern classic Meerkat Mail comes a very funny woodland story showing the dangers of having too much stuff. Too Much Stuff is set in the same forest as Gravett's award-winning Tidy, it features a host of gorgeous woodland animals, including Pete the badger.Meg and Ash are a pair of magpies who are building a nest for their perfect eggs. Although they begin their nest construction using the usual mud, sticks and grass, Meg and Ash are soon convinced that their nest doesn't have enough stuff and begin to collect more things to add to an ever-growing pile. From cuckoo clocks to mops and socks, a pram and even a car - their need for stuff seems endless.Until - crash! - the inevitable happens. Emily Gravett's engaging, exquisitely illustrated story will appeal to fans of Tidy and of such classics as The Animals of Farthing Wood and the glorious package including a double-sided jacket w

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