Newts, Lutes & Bandicoots

by Mark Carthew, Mike Spoor (Illustrator)

Overview

Newts, Lutes and Bandicoots is full of rhymes, riddles and objects to search for; these provide the clues for what to search for on each page. So the book becomes a language learning experience as well as an enjoyable read.

The book has detailed and humorous full-page colour illustrations that children will revisit time and time again.

The illustrations take the reader through many imaginative and colourful worlds, including a trolls’ lair, a magician’s cave, a circus, a castle, ski slopes and the outback

Product Details

BN ID:	2940014587587
Publisher:	IP (Interactive Publications Pty Ltd)
Publication date:	06/23/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	34
File size:	16 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	6 - 8 Years

About the Author

Mark Carthew is an award winning editor, author and teacher, well known for his numerous books and series exploring wordplay, music, movement, drama and humour. He is the series editor of the award winning and internationally regarded illustrated drama script series VoiceWorks and contributing author and editor in the Chatterbox series for Pearson Education.

Mark’s recent books for children include Wicked Wizards and Leaping Lizards (Random House), Five Little Owls (New Frontier), The Gobbling Tree (New Frontier) and Can You Keep a Secret? Timeless rhymes to share and treasure (Random House).

Mike Spoor has illustrated more than 200 titles, including picture books, junior novels, maths books, magazines and teachers’ resources. He lives in the UK, where he also lectures in ceramics, as well as offering school workshops in both ceramics and illustrating.

His books for children include Wicked Wizards and Leaping Lizards (Random House), the Dinosaur Cove series (Oxford University Press) and Blackbeard’s Sword: the Pirate King of the Carolinas (Stone Arch Books).

Editorial Reviews

Newts, Lutes and Bandicoots is a book that will delight young readers. It masterfully incorporates word and picture interplay into every aspect of book. Each spread is densely and colourfully illustrated with no white space. There is much for the reader to take in. Illustrations are accompanied by humorous rhymes and riddles.

Vicki Stanton

The illustrations are fun with oodles of different "goings on" to find on the busy pages. At the back of the book there is a list of things to find on each page also, so really this is a good value book chock full of activities.

Keep the kids entertained with Newts, Lutes and Bandicoots, challenge them with a tongue twister out loud or to find things the quickest. More fun then you can throw a marmoset at.

Angela Hall

There are endless discoveries to be found and observation skills are definitely needed.

There’s an element of fantasy in every scene and Mark Spoor has thought very carefully about how to give the most to every illustration. The riddle answers can be found on the second last page and on the whole of the last page there is, under a listing of sub-headings of page numbers, all the words used in the book and the question, ‘Did you find these things?’

Anastasia Gonis