Helen Poole

The 24-page book, Who's Mr. Goldfluss?, introduces early learners to teacher-focused concepts that will help them gain important reading comprehension and social skills. The vibrant illustrations and engaging leveled text in the Little Birdie Books' Leveled Readers work together to tell fun stories while supporting early readers. Featuring grade-appropriate vocabulary and activities, these books help children develop essential skills for reading proficiency.

This Rhyming Title Tells The Story Of How Jack And His Friends Worked Together To Get The Job Of Building A Birdhouse Done.

The 24-page book, Jill and the Beanstalk, introduces early learners to teacher-focused concepts that will help them gain important reading comprehension and social skills. The vibrant illustrations and engaging leveled text in the Little Birdie Books' Leveled Readers work together to tell fun stories while supporting early readers. Featuring grade-appropriate vocabulary and activities, these books help children develop essential skills for reading proficiency.

According to one observer, Lewes ‘has seen more poor devils sentenced for treason, murders and felonies than any other Sussex town’. These tales from the town’s past reveal its connections to intriguing cases involving both well-known historic figures and ordinary people who have been led to committing crime. Within these pages are accounts of the Bungalow murderer Patrick Mahon, the attack of the Earl of Arundel’s castle and a schoolmaster that took punishment too far. Mixing genuine historical documents with archive and contemporary photography to show the scenes where these disturbing dramas were played out, Poole’s collection of true crime provides a mesmerising evocation of the past. It is sure to haunt the imagination of any reader with an interest in the sinister side of Lewes history.

The county town of East Sussex can look back on more than a thousand years of well-recorded history, and this perceptive book examines its life over that span of time through the events and the individuals that have given Lewes its character. The author examines the influence of the River Ouse on commerce; the roads, once so bad that oxen took people to church; religion, dominated for 450 years by the Cluniac Priory of St Pancras at Southover; markets and fairs, agriculture, law and order, and much more. This book has much to say and it does very powerfully.

This ancient market town had for centuries been one of the most important places in the county, but had changed very little before the railway arrived. Unfortunately the sanitary conditions were shocking—while the town enjoyed a reputation for the fragrance of its lavender-water! “... fascinating and hitherto unpublished photographs ... will appeal to many. For the Hitchin resident it is an essential. ” Hertfordshire Countryside