Kaye Umansky

Three Rocking Crocs is a glorious and instantly accessible collectionof traditional stories, retold with musical developments. They makeexcellent classroom projects and can lead to engaging assemblyperformances. The glorious and instantly accessible Threes series - Three Tapping Teddies, Three Singing Pigs, Three Rapping Rats - rocks into action again with this fine new collection of traditional stories, retold with musical developments for classroom or assembly. Aimed at children at the top end of primary, the stories are well suited to the age level, and the musical developments are challenging, while never forgetting that they are for generalist teachers to deliver. The eight stories, which range from the hilarious to the downright scary, include Beauty and the Beast, The Frog Prince, Theseus and the Minotaur, Dick Whittington and Baba Yaga. They make excellent classroom projects and can lead to engaging performances. Excellent alternative material for users of Music Express Years 5 and 6. Whiteboard/Photocopiable pdfs are available to download free at www.acblack.com/music

Stomp, Chomp, Big Roars! Here Come the Dinosaurs! - a hilarious book by Kaye Umansky and Nick SharrattThis is the way we stomp our feet, Stomp! Stomp! Stomp! This is the way we like to eat, Chomp! Chomp! Chomp! Stomp! Chomp! Big Roars, Here come the dinosaurs! A brilliant third action rhymes book from the perfect duo of Kaye Umansky and Nick Sharratt. Following on from Tickle my Nose and Wiggle My Toes, this book focusses on the perennial favourites, dinosaurs, and boasts a whole host of brand new interactive fun rhymes about all sorts of things. Illustrated with Nick Sharratt's superbly vibrant and fantastic dinosaur characters, this is a popular and hilarious book.Kaye Umansky was born in Plymouth, Devon. She taught in London primary schools for twelve years, specializing in music and drama. She now lives in north London with her husband and teenage daughter. She is the author of the popular Pongwiffy books.The young Nick Sharratt spent most of his time drawing and later took an Arts Foundation course at Manchester Polytechnic and a BA in Graphic Design at St Martin's. He is now well-known for his illustration of the books of Jacqueline Wilson and Jeremy Strong and for his own titles. He has won many awards, including the Children's Book Award in 2001 for Eat Your Peas. Nick lives in Brighton.Look out for other titles by Kaye and Nick:Stomp, Chomp, Big Roars! Here Come the Dinosaurs!; My Very First Joke Book; Goblinz and the Witch; Yo Ho Ho! A-Pirating We'll Go; Faster, Faster, Nice and Slow; Red Rockets and Rainbow Jelly; One to Ten and Back Again; The Hundred-Mile-an-Hour Dog

A music and literacy resource for Early Years. This work contains 15 lively chants and stories retold by Kaye Umansky. It includes favourites such as Goldilocks", "Little Red Riding Hood", "Pinocchio", "Chicken Licken" and "Cinderella" – with musical development activities by Helen MacGregor. A much-loved music and literacy resource for Early Years - now with a bright new cover! A musical treat – 15 lively, enchanting chants and stories retold by Kaye Umansky. Includes favourites such as Goldilocks, Little Red Riding Hood, Pinocchio, Chicken Licken and Cinderella - all with imaginative musical develpment activities by Helen MacGregor.

Hooray! Hooray! It’s the horses’ holiday! They come by coach, they come by car, they come from far away. This humorous rhyming story takes the reader on a riotous journey to Dobbin World, where the horses’ holiday activities seem strikingly similar to our own. This is a Band 6/Orange book which offers varied text and characters, with action sustained over several pages. This is a humorous rhyming story and the postcard on pages 14 and 15 provides a new approach to revisiting and exploring the story. This book supports learning about geography near the seaside. This book has been levelled for Reading Recovery and quizzed for Accelerated Reader. For more guided reading books in this Collins Big Cat band, try Chewy Hughie (9780007186921) written by Jane Clarke and illustrated by Sarah McConnell.

‘I want a pet! I want a pet! I hope I like the pet I get!’When a boy goes to the Strange Pet Shop to find a pet, there’s no knowing what he’ll find there. He is very particular, and nothing at the Strange Pet Shop suits him until, at last the perfect pet comes bounding through the door! Green/ Band 5 books offer early readers patterned language and varied characters.Text type – A poem with predictable structure and patterned language.At the end of the story is a poster advertising the Strange Pet Shop, which is ideal for further discussion and supporting further work outside the reading session.Curriculum links – Citizenship: Animals and us.This book has been levelled for Reading Recovery.

Contains several stories each containing a music activity. This book comes with free downloadable lesson plans.

Three Rapping Rats, winner of a TES best primary resource award for music, is one of those books which teachers love – an instant success with children. The 12 traditional tales, retold with Kaye Umansky's characteristic wit, each contain a song. Everyone will know the familiar melody, and the specially rewritten words carry the story along in the most natural and interactive way. Before they know it, everyone's taking part in an magical little performance. The music activities which accompany each story will be familiar in concept to everyone who uses Music Express. The fresh new cover is a welcome treat for a much-loved title in a much-loved and ever-popular series.

My Very First Joke Book is full of the very funniest and best jokes!An excellent introduction to jokes and joke-telling. Over 60 jokes and rhymes, each with their own hilarious illustration - perfect for playground comedians.There are 'Knock, knock!' jokes, 'Doctor, doctor' jokes, monster jokes, and plain daft jokes. There are silly rhymes, crazy crossbreeds and a whole library of joke titles. Each one is in a large easy-to-read typeface and has its own humorous illustration to make it even funnier!Kaye Umansky is best known as the creator of Pongwiffy (Puffin) - hugely popular with children because of the irreverent humour. Kaye's trademark humour is evident in all her books and she is well qualified to write a joke book for very young children.

This sparkling adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's Snow Queen by popular children's author Kaye Umansky comes as a complete performance pack including great songs, dramatic incidental music, full CD backing tracks, and an expandable cast list which gives everyone a chance to shine. To present a public performance of this musical you will need a performance licence. Simply email [email protected] or phone 01484 668 148 and request a Performance Licence Application Form.

Meet Pongwiffy Eureka Pongwiffy has just conjured an amazing spell, a wall of smell to protect her hovel in a dump site. It's so disgusting that nobody can get near it without her secret magic formula. Now she's ready to organize the best-ever Halloween Bonfire party, featuring a fancy dress parade. Pongwiffy has even persuaded her sometime best friend, Sharkadder, to be a judge. Everything's coming up stinkweed -- until her Broomstick goes missing, then shows up white as a sheet, and practically splinters at the whisper of "Goblin " Pongwiffy's desperate. What have the Goblins done to Broomstick? Is it contagious? And who's this down-on-his-luck genie lurking around her precious dump? Clearly he's up to no good. It's curtains in the coven for Pongwiffy unless she can pull off a slam-bang parade and outwit the evildoers before everything goes to heck

A rhyming picture book in which a group of children prepare for a party. The bright, action-packed illustrations feature all kinds of delicious food.'While a group of children prepares for a party, Jim has just one job. He must pass the jam. As the pages fill with piles and piles of food, the jam is still missing. Gradually, it becomes apparent that Jim will not be able to pass the jam - some has been eaten, some has been spilled and quite a lot is covering the walls, floor and Jim... Pre-school children and infants will find much to amuse them.' - JUNIOR BOOKSHELF'Marvellously memorable... very funny' - SCHOOL LIBRARIAN'Great fun to read aloud' - BABY MAGAZINE