A comprehensive workbook of fun, illustrated English exercises for ages 4-5 An entire year of English learning packed into 192 pages! Full of fun, illustrated activities, this workbook teaches and reinforces the big concepts a child learns in Reception English at school, covering phonics, letters and sounds, vocabulary, high-frequency words, handwriting, and more! Practise phonics and handwriting. Revisit confusing letters such as b and d. Explore vocabulary topics, including cause and effect and opposites. Go over key vocabulary for maths concepts such as "fewer", "more", and counting groups. Develop speaking and listening skills with Teddy Talks, and share your ideas with the world! Developed with teachers and curriculum experts, and hilariously illustrated by Hollywood artists. In line with the National Curriculum. "This workbook is a wonderful resource full of fun, illustrated activities, which complement the Reception curriculum." Emma Madden - Headteacher, Fox Primary School With a team of award-winning artists and writers, Mrs Wordsmith creates books, card games, worksheets, and mobile games to improve the reading and writing of kids aged 4-11, and to make learning fun! Variations of this content are available as printable worksheets at mrswordsmith.com © Mrs Wordsmith 2021

A comprehensive workbook of fun, illustrated English exercises for ages 5-6 An entire year of English learning packed into 192 pages! Phonics, vocabulary, grammar, high-frequency words, handwriting, and more! Developed with teachers and curriculum experts, and hilariously illustrated by Hollywood artists. In line with the National Curriculum. Practise long and short vowels and adjacent consonants. Revisit grammar topics, such as prepositions and conjunctions. Go over maths vocabulary, including measuring words and telling the time. Develop speaking and listening skills with Teddy Talks. "This workbook is a wonderful resource full of fun, illustrated activities, which complement the Year 1 curriculum." Emma Madden - Headteacher, Fox Primary School With a team of award-winning artists and writers, Mrs Wordsmith creates books, card games, worksheets, and mobile games to improve the reading and writing of kids aged 4-11, and to make learning fun! Variations of this content are available as printable worksheets at mrswordsmith.com © Mrs Wordsmith 2021

1,000+ must-know words for kids, covering everything from emotions to technology - hilariously illustrated to reinforce their meaning Boost vocabulary - and fall in love with words! Join Mrs Wordsmith's cast of word-hungry animals as they take kids on an adventure to learn the words they need to express themselves in every part of life. More than 1,000 words cover everything from emotions to mathematics, food to philosophy, making a big mucky mess to cleaning up, as well as a whole chapter on the future of technology. Designed by literacy experts to be hilariously fun and endlessly surprising, each page bursts with Hollywood illustration. The words are curated from global curriculum lists for kids aged four to eight, with extra challenging vocabulary added to the mix. "Mrs Wordsmith Epic Words Vocabulary Book uses the very latest in the science of learning to grab children's attention and teach them words about their world.

Become a master storyteller with illustrated story kits How to Write a Story builds confidence and helps kids fall in love with writing! 21 story starters from detective adventures to space missions Visual guides for structuring stories Illustrated writing prompts Descriptive vocabulary lists Creative writing techniques Developed with teachers and assessment experts With a team of award-winning artists and writers, Mrs Wordsmith creates books, games, worksheets, and apps to improve the reading and writing of kids aged 4-11, and to make word learning fun! "This is a wonderfully engaging and helpful resource to help children fall in love with stories. The storytelling guidance is excellent, and the story kits are full of helpful questions, rich vocabulary, and even graphs to help motivate and inspire young writers to be." Emma Madden - Headteacher, Fox Primary School This content is also available to purchase as a printable workbook at mrswordsmith.com Mrs Wordsmith 2021

Finally, a way to make practising phonics fun! Master decoding words using phonics with these three decks of increasing difficulty. Race to get rid of your cards by matching sounds and letters, and play wild cards to trip up your opponents! Blah Blah Blah is a hilariously fun card game, perfect for kids who are just starting to learn to read. Master decoding words using phonics with these three decks of increasing difficulty. Race to get rid of your cards by matching sounds and letters, and play wild cards to trip up your opponents! How does Blah Blah Blah work? Every card features a word consisting of three letters (or groups of letters). Each player takes seven cards. One card is placed face-up on the table with the rest of the deck in a pile, face-down. Players must play a card from their hand that contains at least one of the letters that are in the word on the table. The first player to get rid of all their cards wins. But beware! Wild cards hidden in the deck can force you to skip your turn or draw more cards. Blah Blah Blah was developed with a unique proprietary algorithm by our machine learning team to make sure it works. And it was tested with teachers and kids to make sure they love it! Why are phonics so important? English consists of about 44 phonemes (sound variations), but more than 170 graphemes (different written representations for these sounds). This means that English has no strict one-to-one correspondence between letters and sounds, but it’s also not entirely irregular. It involves numerous patterns and regularities. Phonics is the method that helps children become aware of these regularities, and it’s proven to be very effective.

The mesmerizing bestseller that combines the storytelling gifts of Donna Tartt and the suspense of Alfred Hitchcock—A New York Times Ten Best Book of the Year Special Topics in Calamity Physics is a darkly hilarious coming-of-age tale and a richly plotted suspense story, told with dazzling intelligence and wit. At the center of the novel is clever, deadpan Blue van Meer, who has a head full of literary, philosophical, scientific, and cinematic knowledge. But she could use some friends. Upon entering the elite St. Gallway School, she finds some—a clique of eccentrics known as the Bluebloods. One drowning and one hanging later, Blue finds herself puzzling out a byzantine murder mystery. Nabokov meets Donna Tartt (then invites the rest of the Western Canon to the party) in this novel—with visual aids drawn by the author—that has won over readers of all ages.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys: A pandemic has devastated the planet, sorting humanity into two types: the uninfected and the infected, the living and the living dead. • "One of the best books of the year." —Esquire After the worst of the plague is over, armed forces stationed in Chinatown’s Fort Wonton have successfully reclaimed the island south of Canal Street—aka Zone One. Mark Spitz is a member of one of the three-person civilian sweeper units tasked with clearing lower Manhattan of the remaining feral zombies. Zone One unfolds over three surreal days in which Spitz is occupied with the mundane mission of straggler removal, the rigors of Post-Apocalyptic Stress Disorder (PASD), and the impossible task of coming to terms with a fallen world. And then things start to go terribly wrong… At once a chilling horror story and a literary novel by a contemporary master, Zone One is a dazzling portrait of modern civilization in all its wretched, shambling glory. Look for Colson Whitehead’s new novel, Crook Manifesto, coming soon!