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How To Be A Young #Writer

Christopher Edge | Age 11+

Created to inspire and guide budding writers, this book covers tips and advice for plot, characterisation, world-building, tone, editing, and much more to turn initial ideas into powerful stories. View product

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My Best Short Story in 500 Words

Christopher Edge | Age 6–8

A must-have write-in book for kids to put down their ideas, set the scene, choose their characters and craft their best short story in 500 words. With colourful illustrations throughout, it has prompts and ideas for building plot, action, characters and scenes. It also has suggestions for beginnings and endings to help children who are looking for a starting point. View product

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How to Write Your Best Story Ever!

Christopher Edge | Age 7+

Ideal for children wanting to enter story writing competitions! This is a humorous and authoritative book that will awaken the author in every child, unlocking their story ideas and giving them hints and tips to create their own stories. View product

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Oxford Roald Dahl Dictionary (Hardback)

Susan Rennie | Age 7+

This is not an ordinary dictionary. Lots of dictionaries tell you what an ‘alligator’ is, or how to spell ‘balloon’, but they won’t explain the difference between a ‘ringbeller’ and a ‘trogglehumper’. All the words that Roald Dahl invented are here, with real citations from Roald Dahl’s children’s books and illustrations by Quentin Blake, to inspire and encourage young writers and readers. View product

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Oxford Roald Dahl Thesaurus

Age 8+

This is a real thesaurus for all chiddlers and even some adult human beans. It features hundreds of spliffling words used and created by the world's best storyteller, Roald Dahl, together with useful synonyms, related words and phrases, idioms and word origins. View product

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Write Your Best Story Ever! Notebook

Christopher Edge | Age 7+

A must-have notebook to unlock the imagination and inspire children to start writing, full of great hints and tips, and activity pages for jotting down words, sketching characters, and writing in stories. Created by award-winning author Christopher Edge, this is the perfect companion to his How To Write Your Best Story Ever! View product

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Roald Dahl’s Rotsome & Repulsant Words

Susan Rennie | Age 7+

Cheeky chiddlers will love foxing grown-ups with Roald Dahl's mischievously insulting language. Plus get ready to be goose-gruggled and fluckgungled by the raft of snippets of serious language facts they will learn too. This little book is full of vermicious tips, definitions and examples from the World's No.1 storyteller. View product

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Roald Dahl: Words of Magical Mischief

Roald Dahl | Age 7+

This little hardback is full of Roald Dahl’s most magical language as well as a raft of snippets of serious language facts for cheeky chiddlers. This little book is full of bewitching tips, definitions and examples from the World’s No.1 storyteller. View product

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Roald Dahl: Beastly and Bewildering Words

Roald Dahl | Age 7+

A little book full of words and phrases inspired by Roald Dahl’s stories of fantabulous animals, frightswiping creatures and beastliness! Packed with bewildering words and fun ideas, it is the perfect inspiration gift to help children get writing creatively and build their confidence with words. View product

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Roald Dahl: Scrumptious and Delumptious Words

Roald Dahl | Age 7+

A little book full of words and phrases all about food from the delunctuous to the yucksome! Packed with toothsome wordy snippets and fun ideas from Roald Dahl’s brilliant stories and characters, it is the perfect inspiration gift to help children get writing creatively and build their confidence with words. View product

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