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Join Red Robin books author Neil Griffiths for yet another spectacular
Autumn storytime session! At Borders Bookshop Swindon, on Saturday,
25th October, between 10.30am and 12.30pm. Be prepared for a spooky
Spidacular time with special spooky prizes galore! Don’t miss this rare
opportunity to see him in action and a chance to get your very own
signed copies of his new books - There’s a spider in the bath and
Where have you two been? This is a free event and no booking is
required, but get there early as it's sure to be popular with Neil's
ever growing army of fans. A perfect way to get you in the mood for
Halloween!
This Autumn we launch our new leafy story about a baby hedgehog and
baby deer. Read how Prickles challenges Antlery to a race home, But
along the way they pick up more than they bargained for, as they race
through woods, fields and gardens, before landing with a bump at the
big old Oak tree! This 'racey' read is another winner from Neil
Griffiths, with fun illustrations from Janette Louden - £5.99.
Having already established a series of highly effective and successful
workshops, Neil Griffiths adds another to the list. Caught or Taught
aims to raise the profile of the role of adults as key promoters of the
pleasure of reading. Redressing the balance of time devoted between
teaching skills and developing positive attitudes to reading.
This thought provoking and practical course will explore the many ways
that adults both in school and at home can play a critical role in
developing children into life-long readers.
For more information please download the appropriate leaflet or call
01793 421168 for more details and availability.
Treat yourself this summer and read about how Stanley always has an
excuse to try and get out of having a bath. But, this time he really
isn't spinning a 'yarn'! A super, suspense story that 'weaves' its way
to a spidacular pop-up conclusion. Another winner from Neil Griffiths,
beautifully illustrated by Peggy Collins with paper engineering by
David Rose - £6.99.
Red Robin Books author Neil Griffiths will be visiting two Waterstones
bookshops on Saturday 19th July, as part of their nationwide 'Super
Story Time Saturday'. He will be telling his amazing children's stories
from 11am at the Waterstores, Oracle store in Reading and then moving
on to the Waterstones store in Staines, High Street from 2pm. Both
events are free and no booking is required, just turn up on the day.
The recent week long storytelling festival to launch Swindon Libraries'
summer reading challenge - Team Read, was a huge success with over 1000
Swindon school children being entertained and taking part in
performances of The musical version of "The Journey" and "The Star"
written by Neil Griffiths. The music for the performances was compossed
by David Posnett who had flown over from Oman especially, to perform.
The Swindon librarians also took part and told everyone about the great
"Team Read" challenge. For more information visit your local library.
The week ended with a special storytime session at the Swindon Borders
bookshop
With recycling high on everyones agenda these days we've brought out a
new Play on a Shoestring role play resource pack. It contains
everything you need to inspire a brilliant role play area in the
classroom, including 40 photocopiable teacher guidance sheets, 20
photocopiable children's resources, a CD-ROM for duplicating and an
audio CD of new songs. At just £24.00 this is exceptional value for
money and a great resource for any school. Other packs available are,
Air Travel, Cafe, Garden Centre, Pet Shop, The Post Office and The
Three Bears.
Following last year's highly successful storytelling festival, Any
Time, Any Place, Anyone, Swindon Libraries in collaboration with Red
Robin Books have again combined to produce another fabulous free event
for schools in Swindon. " A Bowl Full of Stories", will feature the
premier performance of "The Journey", a delightful new music, mime and
dance enhanced storytelling experience. This will be accompanied by a
"bowl full" of multi-sensory story based activities. This week long
festival, from 16 to 20 June, to celebrate story and the "Year of
Reading", launches the Swindon Libraries Summer Reading Challenge,
"Team Read". As this event is only for pre-booked schools, Red Robin
books has arranged for Neil Griffiths to appear at the Swindon branch
of Borders Bookshop on Saturday the 21 June between 10.30am and
12.30pm. This event is free to anyone so you can just turn up on the
day. Neil will be telling his amazing stories and performing a special
"Swindon" launch of his latest book Ten Sleepy Sloths. There's even a
chance to win tickets to see real sloths!
Neil recently spent an amazing day at Battersea Park Zoo, launching his
latest book, Ten Sleepy Sloths, illustrated by Judith Blake. As well as
telling the singalong story to a large crowd of kids and parents, there
was an opportunity for all to take part in a number of outdoor games to
win some fantastic prizes! Judith Blake had put together a collection
of brilliant of games for the children to play, involving the
characters from the book. Check out our slide show of the days events
to see what fun was had! Our thanks to Battersea Park Zoo for allowing
us in, and especially keeper Fiona Vella for looking after us through
out the day.
http://www.batterseaparkzoo.co.uk
Red Robin Books author, Neil Griffiths, has been busy visiting a number
of schools this year, telling his amazing stories and giving support to
teachers and parents to help promote literacy in this 2008 "Year of
Reading" Neil recently visited Hunters Bar Infant School in Sheffield.
Our thanks to Rhyme & Reason Booksellers for helping to organise the
visit. www.rhyme-reason.co.uk.
Neil also spent a wonderful day in
Eastbourne at St Andrew's C of E Infants School as part of their own
literacy week. Again our thanks to Mr and Mrs Dork's Bumper Bookshop
for Boys and Girls who helped to organise the event.
www.bumperbookshop.org.uk.
He will be visiting Riverview C of E Primary
and Nursery School in West Ewell, Surrey, on June the 27. There will be
a special teachers session between 3.45 and 5pm, so if you are a
teacher in the area he would love to see you. Please call the school on
0208 337 1245 to book your place!
This year sees Red Robin Books and Corner to Learn launch their first
catalogue. Packed full of exciting storybooks and teacher resources, we
hope there's something for everyone! Download
your copy now or email us
your details and we'll send you your very own copy!
Neil will be holding 3 FREE story telling sessions at Battersea Park
Zoo on Sunday 20th April. Come along at 11am, 12 noon or 2pm and join
in the fun. Each session lasts approximately 45 minutes and includes
craft activities, games, competitions and prizes galore! Don't miss
this rare opportunity to see Neil in action and a chance to get your
very own signed copy of his new book - Ten Sleepy Sloths, on sale in
the zoo shop!
http://www.batterseaparkzoo.co.uk/html/index.html
Like all good retailers we like to offer our customers the occasional
bargain! So for a limited period only we're offering you any of our
four hardback picture book titles, at the special price of just £5.00
each (plus postage and packing). That's cheaper than our paperbacks, we
must be mad! Choose from:
Throughout the year Neil will continue to appear at bookshops up and
down the country and perhaps in some places you might not expect! His
first magical story times this year, will be at The White Horse
bookshop in Marlborough on 22 February. As it's half term week, why not
take the chance to be part of one of Neil's story times and purchase a
special signed copy of one of his books while you're there.
We start the new year with the launch of Ten Sleepy Sloths! You'll be
able to singalong and find crazy creatures to calculate, on this
amazing adventure into animal arithmetic. Sloths, parrots, penguins and
pandas are amongst the animals, in this the latest picture book from
Neil Griffiths, illustrated by Judith Blake. You can count on this
being an instant wildlife winner!
A big Happy New Year to all our readers. We trust that it has started
well for you and that you have a successful year ahead. Here at Corner
to Learn and Red Robin Books, we thank you for your support and hope
that you will continue to visit our site throughout the coming year as
we endeavour to offer you the best in children's picture books and
teacher resources. Our site will continue to be updated on a regular
basis so please make sure you keep checking back!
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