New Zealand's favourite author Joy Cowley has come out of
retirement to write 15 completely new early literacy stories about
some of her most well-known and much-loved characters. After
repeated requests from students and teachers around the world, Joy
has written three new books each on the further adventures of Mrs
Wishy-Washy; The Hungry Giant; Smarty Pants; Dan, the Flying Man;
and The Meanies. The NEW Joy Cowley Collection
features 15 titles, available as both Big Books and Small Books.
Audio Support, read by Miranda Harcourt, is also provided on either
CD or MP3.
Back by popular demand, New Zealand teachers' favourite Story
Box books have been re-released as The Joy Cowley
Collection. Reunite with Mrs Wishy-Washy, The Hungry
Giant, and other popular characters created by New Zealand's own
world-famous author Joy Cowley. The Joy Cowley
Collection features 35 titles, available as both Big Books
and Small Books.
Plays are an interactive, inclusive, and enjoyable way for
students to develop their reading fluency. This exciting new series
provides 10 plays by the renowned and much-loved children's author
Joy Cowley, creator of the classroom classics Mrs
Wishy-Washy and The Hungry Giant. The Joy
Cowley Plays are a unique collection of shared reading
texts for ages 6-9, and will be a resource you and your students
will use over and over again.
Signatures, Set 1 is an exciting series of 30
chapter books for Years 4-8, with a following 30 titles in
Signatures, Set 2. Internationally acclaimed
children's author Joy Cowley has written 15 of the
Signatures child-centred chapter books and
selected and edited 45 more books from exciting Australian and New
Zealand authors.
Active Lives: Biographies on Stage is a dynamic
literacy programme that combines the human-interest appeal of
biographies with the hands-on action of plays.
The 30 brand-new chapter books in Signatures, Set
2 have all been selected and edited by Joy Cowley. Joy has
acted as an editor and mentor to these vibrant New Zealand and
Australian authors, who were chosen because their writing style is
fresh and child-centred.
Key Features
• Signatures is published as mini-series of three titles
following the same characters or theme.
Students are hooked into the first book and want to keep
reading.
• Detailed Guided Reading lesson plans and Blackline
Masters are provided on disc for Set 2.
These plans were written by New Zealand RT: Lits and are
aligned to the Literacy Learning
Progressions, which are the basis of the National Literacy
Standards.
