Bob Barton

Bob Barton traces the 175 year-old relationship between railways, refreshment rooms and the brewing industry through this guide covering everything from main line termini to rural branch line halts. It includes the growing phenomenon of steam hauled ale trains on preserved railways, and features reproductions of pump-clips of railway themed beers.

Unusual Railway Pubs, Refreshment Rooms and Ale Trains

Robert Barton

Jirina Marton

Inspired by his own fascination with the high Arctic -- its beauty, mystery and harshness -- storyteller Bob Barton has collected and retold his favorite tales from northern lands. Here are folk and fairy tales from Scandinavia, Russia and Canada's far North. Originally passed by word of mouth, a few of the tales were published in sources now out of print and were at risk of being lost forever. From magical stories such as "The Reindeer Herder and the Moon" and "Katya and the Goat with the Silver Hoof," to the cleverness found in "Frostbite" and "Grandfather Bear," to the surprising outcome in "The Raven and the Whale," readers will turn to these stories again and again. Illustrator Jirina Marton, who herself has long had a deep interest in the North, has perfectly captured the spirit of these stories in each of her beautifully rendered paintings. Book jacket.

Tales from Northern Lands

The Bear Says North

"Reindeer Herder and the Moon" and "Raven and the Whale" are some of the stories presented in this colorfully illustrated anthology featuring folktales and fairy tales from Scandinavia, Russia, and Canada's far north.

Little Book of Northern Tales

Queen Victoria¿s private waiting room; the setting for the film classic Brief Encounter;a Lincolnshire signal cabin; a pre-war parcels van; a gas-lit ladies¿ waiting room; anda wooden carriage of 1876... some of the locations that serve as station pubs with adifference. You can, quite literally, drink in Britain¿s railway history (and dine too) in theworld¿s first purpose-built railwayman¿s inn, or the Metropolitan Railway¿s headquarters,or the terminus of the late lamented Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway. Theauthor, Bob Barton, has spent five years visiting remarkable hostelries where caskale and coffee is served along with generous portions of railway heritage and nowyou can too, with the help of this lavishly illustrated guide.Stations both large and small once had licensed refreshment rooms of the typeimmortalized in Noel Coward¿s Brief Encounter. During the nineteenth century, a newgeneration of railway pubs on and adjacent to stations became the successors tocoaching inns, for which the railways had sounded the death-knell. Bob Barton tracesthe 175 year-old relationship between railways, refreshment rooms and the brewingindustry through this guide covering everything from main line termini to rural branchline halts. It includes the growing phenomenon of steam hauled Ale Trains onheritage railways, and features reproductions of pump-clips of railway themed beers.The book will appeal to railway enthusiasts as well as both armchair and actualtravellers (the places featured can all be visited, most of them by train as well as bycar) in addition to real ale lovers and those who like their nostalgia infused with thesight or spirit of steam trains.

A tiny speck imprisoned in a world of white... This is an exciting adventure novel told through the eyes of eleven-year-old ships boy Jeremy. It is both history and fiction. The merchant ship Henrietta Maria has been trapped in the ice of Hudson Strait for two months. It is August 6, 1631, when she finally breaks free to search for a northwest passage. The crew knows that it must leave Hudson Bay by early October to avoid being caught in the ice for the winter. The ship is leaking badly and the crew is ravaged by scurvy. Finally, Captain James announces that they cannot make it back to Hudson Strait before freeze-up. With half the crew suffering from scurvy and even lacking boots, will anyone survive in this cold and desolate place?

Trouble on the Voyage

David Booth

Learn how to create a "culture of poetry" that demonstrates the power of words and strengthens the language lives of children. Poetry Goes to School is a comprehensive resource for teachers who want to fill their classrooms with poetry. The authors have expanded the territory covered in their previous book, Mother Goose Goes to School. In this rich collection, they have gathered and classified a remarkable collection of poetry and teaching strategies into a meaningful, manageable program. The book is organized around eight inviting units: patterns, word play, nursery rhymes, ceremonies, images, voices, stories, and information. Each unit contains: a description of the genre; inviting lessons and tools for using them in classrooms; sample poems to motivate language discussion; ideas for exploring all forms of poetry with children. Teachers can select from the wide range of response activities that will involve the children in reading, writing, role-playing and the arts. Assessment techniques for supporting the poetry program complement this inviting resource.

From Mother Goose to Shel Silverstein

Poetry Goes to School

Myra Barrs

" Part food for thought, part instruction manual, part stories and scripts to explore, and part encouragement to recharge, this practical book offers a comprehensive approach to using role play and discussion to build meaningful language experiences. It explores issues around storytelling, silent speech, writing, and imagination and shows teachers how to be effective observers and support the deeper meaning that comes from working inside and outside the text. This authoritative resource is full of simple strategies and texts that have been chosen for their ability to engage students, get them out of their chairs, and let them learn actively and socially. The strategies begin with simple games, and evolve into more complex learning opportunities. The model texts give teachers a great place to start, and anecdotes from real classrooms put them into context. These classroom glimpses illustrate the real power that students can bring to their learning as they share within groups and find ways to involve their audience."--Publisher.

It's about New Ways to Inspire Students

This Book Is Not about Drama...

The definitive guide to using shared stories in the modern, up-to-date classroom. Child-tested and ready for integration into any curriculum, the book explores how to nurture the sense of story within the imagination of children. Learn effective ways to encourage students to use ideas, values, and language from their reading in their own stories and listen to each other, respond, and build on collective responses.

Story Works

Grade level: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, l, p, e, i, t.

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