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Gervase Phinn
Helps you discover some wonderfully funny and touching nativity play anecdotes, including children forgetting their lines, ad-libbing, falling of the stage, picking their noses and showing their knickers.
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What makes Naomi’s granny wobble? What’s the secret ingredient in Richard’s jam tarts? What is Billy’s unconventional method for making babies? The author helps you look at life through a…
Dominic’s middle name is trouble, but not because he’s got a troublesome nature, but quite simply because he’s always in the wrong place at the wrong time. So it’s not…
Bad Becky is cheeky (but charming), opinionated and always in some kind of trouble. But you can’t help loving her. This title tells a story about a princess who gets…
As the newly appointed County Inspector of Schools in North Yorkshire, the author reveals in this warm and humorous account, the experiences of his first year in the job -…
The second in a delightful new series from bestselling author Gervase Phinn, set in a village at the top of the Yorkshire Dales, and following on from his acclaimed Dales…
The third in a delightful new series from bestselling author Gervase Phinn, set in a village at the top of the Yorkshire Dales, and following on from his acclaimed Dales…
The delightful new novel from bestselling author Gervase Phinn, full of colourful characters and laugh-out-loud moments, set aboard a Mediterranean cruise ship
You know the situation - you either want to curl up in a ball and hide as your child or grandchild says something embarrassing, or you join in the laughter…
Children are delightful and appealing ‘little treasures’, but because they are also innately honest and direct, they can also make you smile or cringe with embarrassment with the things they…
The first in a delightful new series from bestselling author Gervase Phinn, set in a village at the top of the Yorkshire Dales, and following on from his acclaimed Dales…
As children progress through the primary school they need to be exposed to a rich diet of poetry and encouraged to read, perform and write it themselves. In addition, children…
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Schooldays. The teachers we loved and loathed, the summer holidays that seemed to last forever. Itchy woollen socks, scuffed knees, conker battles lost and won. The days when a carefully…
First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Tells of a life full of happiness, conversation, music and books shared with his three siblings, mother and father. This book is a snapshot of growing up in Yorkshire in…
Life for the Gervase Phinn is about to become not unlike the rambling hills of the Dales themselves - up and down and all over the place. After a routine…
A touching and hilarious gift book of poetry and prose on the subject of children and Christmas from the Yorkshire school inspector and bestselling author of the Dales series and…
First novel by bestselling author of the Dales series, Gervase Phinn. A warm, funny, moving and romantic tale of life in a village primary school when a new headmistress arrives…
The follow-up to THE LITTLE VILLAGE SCHOOL by the bestselling author of the Dales series, Gervase Phinn. A charming, warm-hearted and funny tale of life in a village primary school…
The third brilliantly funny and warm-hearted novel in the Little Village School series from bestselling author Gervase Phinn.
The fourth novel in the Little Village School series, packed full of humour, warmth and village drama, from bestselling author Gervase Phinn.
The fifth novel in the Little Village School series, packed full of humour, warmth and village drama, from bestselling author Gervase Phinn.
Presents a collection of poetry on family, teachers, pupils and the dreaded school inspector. New kids, disobedient deputy heads, school reports and fireworks, daydreamers and embarrassing mums all make an…
Gervase Phinn begins his second year as a Yorkshire schools inspector.
Awkward teachers, pompous school governors and fearsome lollipop ladies occasionally make the author’s hectic job as a school inspector more than difficult. But, for him, the main challenge remains the…
Bestselling author Gervase Phinn writes with warmth and wit on the pleasures and pains of growing older.
Gervase Phinn thinks he’s heard just about everything in his two years as a school inspector, but a surprising enquiry from an angelic six-year-old reminds him never to take children…
This entertaining volume of verse for the very young is the perfect introduction to poetry. It includes poems about everything that is important to children: animals, family, food - and…
One hot day in the middle of a jungle, a strange little creature hatches out of an egg. Who am I? he asks himself. Off he plods through the tall…
A second collection of poems based on familiar themes…..
Rich in language, humour and rhyme, this hilarious tale is perfectly complemented by Amanda Montgomery-Higham’s witty illustrations. Lizzie and Dominic desperately want a kitten but they get much more than…
Lizzie and Dominic desperately want a kitten but they get much more than they bargain for.
Dave Harris
Tackles transition head on, provides countless examples of how primary and secondary schools can work together more effectively to ensure students enjoy a smooth and effective move from primary to…
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