Nick Sharratt

Jill Bennett

It's time for lots of noisy fun! Flip flop, flip flap, clickety-clickety clackety clack! Slurp some spaghetti, crash and bang, hear the trees go ping and the mice go clang! This is a perfect first collection of noisy poems for sharing aloud, delightfully illustrated by award-winning artist Nick Sharratt.

Noisy Poems

Charles Dickens

Edward Blishen

With commentary interwoven among extracts from some of his books, Charles Dickens is presented in terms of a well-known performer as well as a famous novelist, in a study that provides information on the unique literary talent that kept audiences captivated.

A Dickens Anthology

Stand Up Mr. Dickens

Practical Aesthetics brings a pursuit, long seen as rarefied and indulgent, out of the ivory tower and down to Ground Zero. Theoretically ambitious, fiercely original, it is a radical new account of art's rootedness in the social world and of the value of aesthetics to contemporary society. Beginning with the cultural watershed of 9/11, internationally-renowned scholar Jill Bennett explores artistic developments in relation to current events to argue that understanding aesthetics is as vital to social and political theory as it is to the arts. Taking as its starting-point a definition of art as the critical, self-conscious manipulation of media, Bennett examines a wide range of events from the "War on Terror" to the football World Cup to elucidate how aesthetic perception works in a social field, a process that begins with the rich emotional content of the visual imagery with which we are constantly bombarded. Now more than ever, Bennett argues, understanding how what we see informs what we do is not merely an artistic endeavour but one which is fundamental to our very being. Part of the Radical Aesthetics, Radical Art series, this book challenges the notion that art and 'real life' are somehow opposed. Practical Aesthetics proposes a new way of reading contemporary artworks - and a new understanding of how fundamental art is to our social survival.

Events, Affects and Art After 9/11

Practical Aesthetics

A collection of garden poetry featuring all manner of creepy crawlies, sunshine and snowdrops, owls and squirrels and many other aspects of nature, with evocative titles like Midsumer Night Itch, I Feel Sorry for the Slug and Mumbling Bees, and with contributions from John Agard, Judith Nicholls, Pat Moon, Wes Maggee, Shirley Hughes, Grace Nichols, Toney Bradman and may others.

A Collection of Garden Poetry

Sorry for the Slug

Dick King-Smith

Harry's legacy from his great-uncle, a talking parrot, proves to be a much more exciting gift than he ever imagined.

Jill Bennett

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