Informationen zum Autor Wendy Cooling (1941-2020) taught English in London secondary schools for many years before moving to BookTrust, a charity that supports reading to children and adults. There she founded Bookstart, their flagship national programme that gives books to babies and toddlers to encourage parents and carers to foster a lifelong a love of reading. Wendy edited many short story and poetry anthologies for children and travelled the world talking about children's books and the importance of reading. In 2006 she won the Eleanor Farjeon Award for her outstanding contribution to children's literature, and was honoured to receive an MBE from the Queen in 2009. Wendy died in June 2020, aged 78. Klappentext WENDY COOLING was educated in Norwich. After travelling, she became a teacher which she later left to work as Head of the Children's Book Foundation. She is now a freelance book consultant and reviewer. Among the authors included in this anthologyare Philippa Pearce, Rudyard Kipling, Anita Hewitt, John Agard and Francesca Simon. Zusammenfassung Meet an amazing range of characters in this exciting collection of stories chosen especially for listeners of around 7-years-old. Make the acquaintance of the princess in the tower block! eager to escape from frogs and princes in tights; or Horrid Henry who hates everything and everybody; and the old man who wishes he could cry like he did when he was young...All this and much! much more is packed into this unforgettable audiobook.

Autorentext
Wendy Cooling (1941-2020) taught English in London secondary schools for many years before moving to BookTrust, a charity that supports reading to children and adults. There she founded Bookstart, their flagship national programme that gives books to babies and toddlers to encourage parents and carers to foster a lifelong a love of reading. Wendy edited many short story and poetry anthologies for children and travelled the world talking about children's books and the importance of reading. In 2006 she won the Eleanor Farjeon Award for her outstanding contribution to children's literature, and was honoured to receive an MBE from the Queen in 2009. Wendy died in June 2020, aged 78.

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WENDY COOLING was educated in Norwich. After travelling, she became a teacher which she later left to work as Head of the Children's Book Foundation. She is now a freelance book consultant and reviewer. Among the authors included in this anthologyare Philippa Pearce, Rudyard Kipling, Anita Hewitt, John Agard and Francesca Simon.

Zusammenfassung
Meet an amazing range of characters in this exciting collection of stories chosen especially for listeners of around 7-years-old. Make the acquaintance of the princess in the tower block, eager to escape from frogs and princes in tights; or Horrid Henry who hates everything and everybody; and the old man who wishes he could cry like he did when he was young...All this and much, much more is packed into this unforgettable audiobook.