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Collected Poems for Children (Hardback) by Ted Hughes (illus Raymond Briggs)
$39.95 AUD
Category: Chapter Books
This collection brings together the poems Ted Hughes wrote throughout his life for children. They are arranged by volume, beginning with those younger readers and progressing to the more complex and sophisticated poems of "Under the North Star and What is the Truth?", and" Season Songs", which he remark ...Show more
Collected Poems for Children (paperback) by Ted Hughes
$27.95 AUD
Category: Chapter Books
This collection brings together the poems Ted Hughes wrote for children throughout his life. They are arranged by volume, beginning with those for reading aloud to the very young, progressing to the poems in "Under the North Star" and "What is the Truth?" and ending with "Season Songs", which Hughes rem ...Show more
FFangs the Vampire Bat and the Kiss of Truth by Ted Hughes
$11.99 AUD
Category: Chapter Books
Ffangs lives with the other vampires on Vampire Island, but he is different from the rest - he can't stand the sight of blood! When he arrives in London, everyone is too frightened to listen when he explains that he only wants to be human. And soon he finds himself alone in Buckingham Palace to face Tho ...Show more
How the Whale Became and Other Stories by Ted Hughes
$19.95 AUD
Category: Picture Books
Long ago when the world was brand new, before animals or birds, the sun rose into the sky and brought the first day. To begin with, all the creatures were pretty much alike - very different from what they are now. Those that wanted to be lions practised being lions. But there were other creatures - incl ...Show more
How the Whale Became: and Other Stories by Ted Hughes
$11.99 AUD
Category: Chapter Books | Reading Level: 6-9
This collection of eleven evocative, accessible and funny stories for children of 5 and more tells how a particular animal came to be as it is now. The Whale grew up in God's vegetable patch but was banished to sea when he became too large and crushed all His carrots; the Polar Bear was lured to the Nor ...Show more
Letters of Ted Hughes by Ted Hughes (selected & ed Christopher Reid)
$75.00 AUD
Category: Biography
At the outset of his career Ted Hughes described letter writing as 'excellent training for conversation with the world', and he was to become a prolific master of this art which combines writing and talking. This selection begins when Hughes was seventeen, and documents the course of a life at once reso ...Show more
Lupercal by Ted Hughes
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Plays
Lupercal, Ted Hughes's second book, contains many of the unsettling and vivid animal poems for which Hughes is so rightly celebrated, including 'The Bull Moses', 'Hawk Roosting' and 'Pike'.
Nessie the Mannerless Monster by Ted Hughes
$11.99 AUD
Category: Chapter Books | Reading Level: 6-9
Nessie, the Loch Ness Monster, is tired of being told that she doesn't exist. In this crackling , lolloping story in verse, Ted Hughes describes how she sets out on the road to London for an audience with the Queen...
Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being by Ted Hughes
$59.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Ted Hughes seeks to unlock the secret of Shakespeare in his critical magnum opus - reissued with a foreword by Robert McCrum. This enthralling tour de force of literary criticism, unprecedented in Shakespeare studies for its scope and daring, is nothing less than an attempt to show the Complete Works - ...Show more
The Iron Man by Ted Hughes
$34.95 AUD
Category: Picture Books | Reading Level: 10-14
Part modern fairy tale, part science fiction myth, The Iron Man describes the unexpected arrival in England of a mysterious giant "metal man" who wreaks havoc on the countryside by attacking the neighbouring farms and eating all their machinery. A young boy called Hogarth befriends him and he and the ex ...Show more
The Iron Man by Ted Hughes
$16.99 AUD
Category: Chapter Books | Reading Level: very good
A children's story in five nights. Mankind must put a stop to the dreadful destruction caused by the Iron Man. A trap is set for him, but he cannot be kept down. Then, when a terrible monster from outer space threatens to lay waste to the planet, it is the Iron Man who finds a way to save the world.