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"GOT SOME FLOW" - 50 CENT
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THE ODDSOCKTOPUS APRIL 2023 "GUY'S GOT LYRICS" - AKALA "GOT SOME FLOW" - 50 CENT • Major Author Promo<on • Chris<an Foley has appeared on Ted Talks, Sky Arts, Oprah, and even in Westminster PMQs! • He is co-founder of the charity ‘Mentality’ 97819196148479781919614847 £7.99
He has published 6 poetry collections for adults, and more than 100 books for young readers – fiction, poetry, plays, picture books, and anthologies.
'The Very Best of Wes Magee' (Macmillan) won the 'Children's Poetry Bookshelf Award'
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This book is packed full of witty poems for children of all ages. Filled with mind-blowing facts about weird and wonderful creatures, this highly entertaining collection of poems will delight both adults and children alike!
Chris White - Artist, Poet, Performer, Author. . . also does a paper - round.
Chris White is an author and illustrator extraordinaire. If you like your poetry wild, zany and yucky, you’ll certainly find plenty to laugh at. Chris also delves into difficult ideas about what is and isn’t “normal”, and how individuality counts.
Chris is participating in the BBC’s Digital curriculum project which aims to provide on-line literacy support for children.
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Nick!Toczek!is!a!writer!and!performer! working!variously!as!poet,!journalist,! magician,!vocalist,!lyricist!and!radio! broadcaster.!!
He!founded!his!poetry!magazine!The!LiCle!Word!Machine,!coEfounded! Moseley!Community!Arts!FesSval,!and!toured!with!his!music!and!poetry! troupe,!The!Stereo!GraffiS!Show.!Moving!back!to!Bradford!in!1977,!he!coE founded!the!seminal!music!fanzine!The!Wool!City!Rocker!and!formed!the! band!Ulterior!MoSves,!in!which!he!was!lyricist!and!lead!vocalist.!Since!the! midE’90s,!his!collecSons!of!children’s!poetry!including!‘The!Dragon!Who!Ate! Our!School’!have!seen!him!become!a!bestEselling!children’s!writer.!By!2011,! Toczek!had!worked!as!a!visiSng!writer!in!thousands!of!schools,!visiSng! dozens!of!countries!worldwide!in!the!course!of!this!work.!
Rappaman to the Rescue children that teach about the importance of respect, love, liberty, social justice, and truth and rights. also takes inspiration from different cultures around the world, including Jamiaca, from where Donova originates.
AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR Donovan Christopher cultural reggae artist and social justice worldwide. expression and helps to motivate and inspire p ages.
Donovan’s school visits offer fun and thought provoking presentations and workshops geared towards motivating and inspiring students to not only perform better in the classroom, but to become socially responsible members of a larger comm
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Donavan!Christopher,!aka!DEBo!General,!is!a!rap! poet,!cultural!reggae!arSst!and!a!dedicated! advocate!for!social!jusSce!worldwide.!!
His!work!serves!as!a!tool!for!selfEexpression!and! helps!to!moSvate!and!inspire!people!of!all!ages.! From!early!years!educaSon!to!upper!secondary! and!university!groups,!Donavan’s!school!visits! offer!fun!and!thoughtEprovoking!presentaSons! and!workshops!geared!towards!moSvaSng!and! inspiring!students!to!not!only!perform!beIer!in! the!classroom,!but!to!become!socially! responsible!members!of!a!larger!community.!
FacilitaSng!a!safe!and!intellectually!challenging! environment,!Donavan!encourages!students!to! express!their!views!and!opinions!about! challenging!social!issues,!such!as!respect!of!self! and!others,!tolerance!and!cultural!diversity!and! bullying.!
Donavan!takes!his!message!throughout!Europe! and!has!worked!with!a!wide!range!of!social! organizaSons!in!the!UK,!including!the!West! Yorkshire!and!Calderdale!Police,!Young!People’s! Service!and!Crimestoppers.!He!has!also!spoken! and!performed!at!anSEgun!conferences!in!both! Huddersfield!and!Leeds,!focusing!on! understanding!gangs!in!response!to!a!rise!in! gunErelated!incidents!throughout!the!UK.!
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a collection of poems for children that teach about the importance of respect, love, liberty, social justice, and truth and rights.
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The Curious Case of Karl Nova
Karl Nova
Fronting the Premier League Writing Stars poetry competition, inspiring over 7,000 entries with his poem Beautiful Ambition and returning to his old primary school to deliver an assembly and individual poetry workshops to Key Stage One and Key Stage Two classes, as well as officially opening the school's new library
Being an ambassador for National Poetry Day, sharing a new poem, ‘see through my eyes’ to celebrate the day and inspire children and young people to get involved
Delivering creative writing workshops in person and digitally to children and young people all over the UK and internationally including at Hay Festival and Bradford Literature Festival
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Karl Nova is the winner of the 2018 CLiPPA p rize, and the prestigious Ruth Rendell Award for 2020
NOMINATED FOR THE 2022 CARNEGIE MEDAL 3
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Mo has won a very special prize, an Ancient Egypt sleepover in a museum. But he has no clue how dangerous it will be. With a mystery to solve, codes to crack and priceless treasure to save, one thing is sure: Mo will not be getting any sleep tonight!
Brilliant thrilling mystery fiction for children who love all things Egyptian!
ISBN: 9781919614809
Price: £6.00 B Format Paperback
Extent: 160 pages
ISBN: 9781919614830
Price: £6.99
Format: 225x165mm, PB
Extent: 208 pp
Category: Middle Reader
BIC Code: YFT
Age: 7-11 years
Pub Date: December 2022
DETAILS
‘Where is she? Where’s my gran? What have you done with her?’ shouted Stan
Gertie, Stan, Zoe, Dr Foot and Dame Cropper (holding Sweetie under her coat) tiptoed down the stairs at Cropper Towers like a band of oddly-dressed slightly damp ninjas.
KEY SELLING POINTS
• True or False quiz
• Glossary of ancient Egyptian terms
• A fun tale of friendship and working together to solve problems
• Perfect timing for all things Egyptian with 100th anniversary of discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb
• Perfect reading material for both boys and girls aged 7+ - a love of reading!
CONTACT DETAILS
Caboodle Books is represented by: MMS
AUTHOR
Jason Beresford is a children’s author and former primary school teacher who just loves running school workshops. LoveReading4Kids said of his Fish Finger series, ‘This is undoubtedly the perfect reading material for both boys and girls aged 7+ - plenty of humour … but most of all it has heart.’
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WARRIOR&KIDS&3& KICKING&UP&A&STORM& £5.99&Paperback& March&2017& ADVANCE INFORMATION Title: Hector’s Android Author: Kathryn White ISBN: 978-0-99548-856-4 Price: £5.99 Format: 198mm x 130 mm, PB Extent: 76 pp Category: Fiction BIC Code: YFG CBMC: C3N79 Age: 7-11 years Pub Date: July 2018 SUMMARY Hector and his best friend, Kofi, are going to build Blaster BLADE 1, but when Sameer and Lucas put their mean machines into action to take down Hector’s Android, the battle of the robots begins. Enter the world of robots, at your peril. AUTHOR Kathryn White has been writing for children since 2000 and has been published by OUP, Little Tiger, A&C Black, Bloomsbury (to name a few!) and most recently by Andersen Press in 2017 . She has written books including poetry, ghost omedy and mystery/adventure n artist/illustrator has worked for many years in the creative industries as an exhibiting artist, book illustrator, graphic designer, carpenter and animator. He teaches the skills and crafts that he KEY SELLING POINTS Well known published author Of particular interest to anyone who loves robots or watches ‘Robot Wars’ on the TV CONTACT DETAILS Caboodle Books is represented by: MMS 50 Godfrey Avenue Twickenham TW2 7PF info@mms-publishing.com 9780992938949 £5.99 9780956265678 £5.99 9780993300011 £5.99 9780995488564 £5.99 9780995488557 £6.99 9780993300066 £5.99 Kicking Up A Storm 9780993300097 £5.99 Pull No Punches 9780992938970 £5.99 Not Just For Kicks 9780992938919 £05.99 9780956948243 £5.99 9780956523969 £5.99 9780956265623 £6.99 9781999774912 £5.99
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Pages: 250
ISBN: 9781999774998
Age: 8 – 14 years
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Title: Canalligator
Author: Giovanni Esposito aka SPOZ
Illustrator: Purrl Pankras
ISBN: 9781999774998
Price: £9.99
Format: 225x165mm, PB
Extent: 148 pp
Category: Poetry Graphic Novel BIC Code: YFW
Age: 8-14 years
Pub Date: November 2022
DETAILS
A brilliant interactive graphic novel written in poetic verse by Spoz with a QR code at the start of each chapter which, when scanned, takes you to Spoz’s YouTube channel where the reader can view a short film of each chapter.
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