Bøker av Ian MacDonald

Far away across the stars, there is an alien school, where tiny little aliens go to learn the alien rules ¿ Find out what young aliens get up to at school in this humorous rhyming story. How aliens get to school, what they learn, and what they have for lunch!A lien School is part of the Rocket Phonics range from Rising Stars Reading Planet. Rocket Phonics builds a firm foundation in word reading through fresh and fully decodable phonics books for Pink A to Orange band. Reading Planet books have been carefully levelled to support children in becoming fluent and confident readers. Each book features useful notes and activities to support reading at home as well as comprehension questions to check understanding. Reading age: 5-6 years

Prince Seymour buys some magical dancing boots to impress a princess, but the boots are taken by a talking frog who wins the princess's heart. What can the prince do? The king suggests capturing a fire-breathing dragon. Will this daring deed be enough to change the princess's mind? The Magic Boots is part of the Rocket Phonics range from Rising Stars Reading Planet. Rocket Phonics builds a firm foundation in word reading through fresh and fully decodable phonics books for Pink A to Orange band. Reading Planet books have been carefully levelled to support children in becoming fluent and confident readers. Each book features useful notes and activities to support reading at home as well as comprehension questions to check understanding. Reading age: 5-6 years

What on earth are phonics? Are they from the planet Mars? What are mathematics? Do they buzz around the classroom and tangle in our hair? There are so many questions when we first start school! Will the teacher be able to help us understand all these scary-sounding new words? Help Me, Teacher! is part of the Rocket Phonics range from Rising Stars Reading Planet. Rocket Phonics builds a firm foundation in word reading through fresh and fully decodable phonics books for Pink A to Orange band.Reading Planet books have been carefully levelled to support children in becoming fluent and confident readers. Each book features useful notes and activities to support reading at home as well as comprehension questions to check understanding. Reading age: 5-6 years

When the otters of Larch Class go pond dipping, they are hoping to find pond skaters and dragonflies, so are surprised when they see a scary pond monster ... Or is the monster just their classmate, Dell, playing a trick on them?Out of the Pond is part of the Rocket Phonics range from Rising Stars Reading Planet. Rocket Phonics builds a firm foundation in word reading through fresh and fully decodable phonics books for Pink A to Orange band. Reading Planet books have been carefully levelled to support children in becoming fluent and confident readers. Each book features useful notes and activities to support reading at home as well as comprehension questions to check understanding. Reading age: 5-6 years

Project X Origins is a ground-breaking guided reading programme for the whole school. This Graphic Texts pack contains 1 set of guided reading notes and 4 reading books, 1 each of: Time Stealer, The Jungle Book, If and other poems, Great Inventors.

Project X CODE Extra introduces more exciting adventure stories and stimulating non-fiction texts into the Project X CODE series, to provide additional practice outside of the core intervention sessions. This pack contains 1 copy of each of the 4 books at Turquoise Book Band.

Human survival has always depended upon our ability to form and sustain social organisations. By creating positive organisations we can build a worthwhile society. A positive organisation is created by the hard work of leaders and members and influenced by the way the organisation is designed, especially its systems. This book outlines that work.

Project X Origins Graphic Texts can help children to reach higher standards in comprehension. Max and his friends go back in time to Saxon England and find themselves in the midst of King Alfred's battle against the Vikings! Can the friends help the king and stop the Tick-Tock Man from stealing his candle clock?

The children are convinced that there is a strange creature in the bathtub ... But is it a spider, a squid, or even a bat? Will Mum come and get rid of the creature or does Gran have a simpler explanation of what the mysterious 'creature' really is? Bug in the Bath is part of the Rocket Phonics range from Rising Stars Reading Planet. Rocket Phonics builds a firm foundation in word reading through fresh and fully decodable phonics books for Pink A to Orange band. Reading Planet books have been carefully levelled to support children in becoming fluent and confident readers. Each book features useful notes and activities to support reading at home as well as comprehension questions to check understanding. Reading age: 4-5 years

Josh and Safi dream of winning the scarecrow competition, but dreams turn to nightmares when the scarecrows go missing. Have they been stolen... or did they walk? Dare you read Nightmare of the Scarecrows?

From the author of the acclaimed Revolution in the Head, Ian MacDonald takes us on a journey through the music of the sixties and seventies. Combining a close reading of the music with a detailed understanding of the times, this collection confirms Ian MacDonald's reputation as one of Britain's most important music journalists.

Ian MacDonald's The New Shostakovich presents the case for the dissident view, arguing passionately that the meaning of the composer's music cannot be fully appreciated without a knowledge of the terrible times he and his fellow artists lived through under Soviet Communism.