The Lantern Gallery
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The Lantern Gallery, a collection of 11 beautifully illustrated characters from the stories within the Happy Acorn Club series of books to help introduce the 0-5 year old children to them and their stories.
Supplied as 3 x A3 and 7 x A4 prints, for you to display on the children's nursery or playroom walls, inspiring them to start using their imaginations as they begin their journey through life and everything that entails.
The Vowels Owls Game
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The child will recognise the poster from the Lantern Gallery, and it will increase interest in the game.
The poster is put on the floor, and the child has to put owl 'A' card, on owl 'A' in the poster.
This is excellent for hand eye coordination, and as two of each card are provided, two babies can play together.
On the back of the cards are three little words, once baby has learned how to select the pictures,
they can now learn how to select the words, an early incentive to read.
Moon Dust and Grit
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One day the Man on the Moon cried, a big tear fell to earth, and it landed on Lord Grit. The Man in the moon telephoned Lord Grit to say sorry, and said he cried "because children were forgetting their dreams" Lord Grit exclaimed, "This is serious"!, and they set up a partnership to get children to save their dreams, To help them remember, Lord Grit sends up his grit to add to the Moon Dust, and little Moneyspiders attach the grit to the dust. The children now have 'dreams with courage' and so do some parents! Sometimes, during the day, a moneyspider will land on a wrist to bring a daydream, simply make a wish, and gently blow the moneyspider back into the sky.
The Happy Acorn Club
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The purpose of the Happy Acorn Club album is to help our Little Acorn Children grow into Mighty Oak People.
There are twenty chapters, with stories and illustrations, that will excite the child's imagination and create a desire to know morer. The stories also amuse and interest the parents, which encourages them to read to their child, and this makes better bonding and happier families. The reading can start before the child can speak, but it will create an interest in the book, and give the child a desire to read. The book belongs to the child, and they will 'grow into the book'. It is the source of lots of learning, laughter and love.
Vowels Owls Moving Home
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The Vowels Owls lived in Green Barn, which was painted black. The barn was in the tiny hamlet of Thurlow Green. Great Thurlow and Little Thurlow had many barns, but the hamlet had only one, that is why it was named 'Green Barn', and painted black. It was one the edge of Lantern County, and was the home of the Vowels Owls family, who had five lively chicks, named A. E. I .O. and U.
These chicks were not ready to fly, and when President Fox found out the barn was going to be sold, he immediately set about finding them a new home. Before the chicks were old enough to fly, they had to move home, and with the help of Fox and his friends, this story tells how they did it.
Banker Bee
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Banker Bee is a misfit, but without doubt he is the happiest of Bees, One year the hive expected the birth of two queens, instead they had one queen, who was very large, as queens are, and the other was a very big boy! This had never happened before, he was half the size of the queen, and twice as big as the other bees. He was born with a huge smile on his face, and all the bees loved him, especially the Queen!! When bees are born, they are covered in honey, and the other bees wash the baby bees, by licking off the honey. Not only that, all babies love being tickled, and so baby bees are tickled and licked. Banker bee woke up, took a shower in the dew drops of a rose bush, worked harder than any other bee, and very contented, went to sleep and snored!! This kept all the other bees awake, and so he had to leave the hive, but President Fox found him, and gave him a home in Lantern County.
The Zombie at the Sandy Palms Golf Club
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The Zombie at the Sandy Palms Golf Club was inspired by personal experience of a golf club manager, who groomed every committee.
During his tenure, on two if not three occasions, some person became so irritated with the club management, oil was poured on the greens, costing £100,000 a pop to relay!
As oil was poured on the brown greens of the Middle East, I set the story in Arabia. This allowed me to feature in the story as 'Fareed bin Stitched Up', and I was!
With redoubtable imagination, a dreadful Zombie was blamed for the manager's morose love of absolute power, and with the help of General Sir Niblick Grit, the Zombie was resealed in his sarcophagus.
My knees are my Children
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My Knees are My Children', the autobiography of Frederick's chequered journey through life is written by his knee children. With the secret vantage point of being halfway up his trouser legs, strong of ligament and bathed in synovial fluid, two opinionated lumps of gristle hold forth on every aspect of his life - so far.
There is derring do, career failings, sporting incompetence, and of course romance, where the position of the joint authors gives rise to the brutal truths of bachelor existence. There is naturally much advice about parenting, and care of the human knees is taken care of by the parables of the Prophet Osteopath.
The Chronicles of Bruiser the Cat
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Bruiser was not my child, but he somehow acquired the same ruthless honesty as the knees. This large black tomcat arrived from the animal rescue centre, and in crossing the threshold of my home, he moved from homeless impoverishment, to a cat with aristocratic tastes. I thought he'd be a grateful refugee, but he had the critical facilities of all three of my older sisters, rolled into one. Many mature ladies love Bruiser, and look askance at me, as much to say, "why didn't you give him the smoked salmon".
The Plumtree Faith
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The Plumtree Faith was inspired by the plum tree in the garden of my newly purchased house. It was so cluttered up with surrounding trees, bushes, brambles, runners, and ivy, that it did not have room to breathe. That the builders had used the surrounding earth to hide assorted broken bricks and lumps of concrete, did not make matters better. I cut away all the foliage, and dug up the bricks, and next year it bloomed magnificently. The crop was so heavy, it broke off a branch. I resist the opportunity to claim God made the branch fall on my head. There was no such celestial prompting. I simply got fed up with a religion that was like a bad essay; an interesting start, a promising end; but nothing in the middle! My 'Pinkness' is a sublime intelligence that permeates the universe, and can be talked with as a friend.
In a nutshell, my 'God' wants us to live a happy life on Earth, and my book tells the reader to start living right here and now.
Saffron Lady
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Saffron Lady is a rich aristocrat whose husband cheated on her, and she promptly kicked him out of 'her' family home. She ripped the canvas from his portrait, and set fire to it! When her children heard of this she replied, "I've always enjoyed a good bonfire". She sued for divorce, and with three grown up children, and an estate valued at a few million, there was much family concern. After the settlement is agreed, her children decide to replace the vandalised portrait with one of her, the 'family matriarch'..
A local artist by the name of 'Truffle' is given this commission. He is not an aristocrat, nor is he impressed by anyone's status, however; the moment he meets Saffron Lady, he wants to paint her portrait. The dialogue between this dyed in the wool aristocrat, and a man of humble origins, has a subtle undercurrent of tease and justification; they 'joust' with words.
PROMOTION PACKAGE
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To celebrate this new website, we offer a PROMOTION PACKAGE of seven items costing £42.65 at the reduced price of £17.95 with P&P paid. Just by treating it as part of the family, this 'package' will help any child to learn the vowels by age three, and read and possibly write by age five.