Big Silver Spaceship
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This issue’s cover is from The Hutchinson Treasury of Children’s Poetry (cover illustration by Peter Weevers). Edited by Alison Sage (who also edited The Hutchinson Treasury of Children’s Literature), this sumptuous anthology is loosely divided into four sections corresponding to age starting with nursery rhymes and first poems through to poems for older children and classic poetry. Poems from such modern poets as Roger McGough, Ted Hughes, Wendy Cope and Maya Angelou sit alongside poems by Longfellow, Robert Louis Stevenson, Shelley and Shakespeare. The anthology is illustrated in full colour and black and white. Newly commissioned illustrations from, for example, Quentin Blake, Shirley Hughes and Nicola Bayley are included alongside illustrations by Randolph Caldecott, Jessie Willcox Smith and Kate Greenaway. With such a comprehensive range of poems for 2-11 year olds and upwards, this is a wonderful family book.
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Big Silver Spaceship
We have lift-off! This bold, colourful pop-up book has instant appeal for young children. The child takes control of the space mission by moving the ingeniously engineered tabs. On leaving the earth's atmosphere, we eject the external fuel tank and manoeuvre the satellite into orbit. As mission is accomplished, we open up the satellite to discover its purpose - it is to relay weather data back to earth. Touch down! The amazing parachute brake concludes another successful voyage. The text is challenging, but the clear, simple sentences, using words familiar in spoken language, are absorbed with enthusiasm. This is the sixth and final title in Wilson-Max's series of interactive pop-up books, primarily great fun, but featuring fascinating educational information.
