Kathryn Simmonds

Herätys ja jalkeille nallet, on kevätsiivouksen aika! Kaikki 1, 2, 3...20 karhua tarttuvat innolla toimeen. Huiskis tuonne ja hupsis tänne, mikä mylläkkä siitä syntyykään. Liity touhukkaaseen joukkoon, seuraa riimiteltyä tarinaa ja laske mukana kahteenkymmeneen!

This rollicking picture book featuring twenty VERY silly bears spring cleaning is perfect for introducing young readers to counting Twenty bears have been asleep Lying in a snoring heap. Now it's spring and time to clean Time to tidy, shine and sheen Get ready for a shot of pure counting fun as twenty very busy bears attempt to spring clean their cottage after winter hibernation. Spring is here and it's time to TIDY . . . but are these silly bears up to the task?

The funniest counting book of the year, featuring twenty VERY silly bears. Can you count them all? Twenty bears have been asleep Lying in a snoring heap. Now it’s spring and time to clean! Time to tidy, shine and sheen! Get ready for a shot of pure counting fun, as twenty very busy bears attempt to spring clean their cottage after winter hibernation. Spring is here and it’s time to TIDY … but are these silly bears up to the task? This hilarious picture book is perfect for little ones learning to count!

The funniest counting book of the year, featuring twenty VERY silly bears. Can you count them all? Twenty bears have been asleep Lying in a snoring heap. Now it’s spring and time to clean! Time to tidy, shine and sheen! Get ready for a shot of pure counting fun, as twenty very busy bears attempt to spring clean their cottage after winter hibernation. Spring is here and it’s time to TIDY … but are these silly bears up to the task? This hilarious picture book is perfect for little ones learning to count!

When the TV makeover people come to call, forty-something green campaigner Tessa is mortified at what they rake up, not only about her wardrobe but also her youthful stay at Greenham Common. Love and Fallout is a hugely entertaining novel from debut novelist and award-winning poet Kathryn Simmonds. Kathryn Simmonds was born in Hertfordshire and worked in children's publishing before taking a creative writing MA at the University of East Anglia in 2002. Her collection Sunday at the Skin Launderette won the Forward Prize for best first collection in 2008 and was shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award and longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. Her short stories have been published in a number of magazines and broadcast on Radio 4, and she has written an afternoon play for Radio 4 called Poetry for Beginners. She published her second poetry collection, The Visitations, in 2013.

In the old French city of Marseille, it's Christmas Day and Martin the shoemaker is eagerly expecting a very special guest. As the day goes on, Martin provides warmth for a shivering street sweeper, gives a meal to a young mother, presents shoes to a little boy with bare feet, and offers company to a lonely old woman. But when night falls, Martin's special guest still hasn't arrived . . . Or has he? A book about the true meaning of Christmas that is perfect to read together during the festive season.

Joukko hilpeitä karhuja pakkaa auton ja huristelee merenrantaan. Hoi nallet, uimaranta kutsuu! Kaikki kaksikymmentä karhua ottavat ilon irti kesäisestä lomapäivästä. Nyt uidaan, rakennetaan hiekkalinnoja ja pelataan palloa. Onkohan rannalla ollut koskaan tällaista säpinää? Railakas riimitelty tarina kutsuu lukijan liittymään iloiseen joukkoon ja laskemaan karhujen mukana kahteenkymmeneen!

Meet a pompous young prince, who believes he can do anything - without ever needing to practise! That is until he meets a wise, retired witch who teaches him the most magical lesson . . . Prince Lupin has jousted and feasted and now he's BORED. But when he decides to spend the afternoon 'helping' the gardener and the palace cook, he leaves a trail of chaos and destruction behind him. After all, it takes practise to become good at something, even if you are a prince! After an embarrassing musical performance live on stage, Prince Lupin flees into the forest where he meets someone rather special – a retired witch with a passion for pottery. With her patience, perseverance and friendship Prince Lupin finally learns that practise makes magic . . . and that it helps to have manners too! Fantastically warm and funny verse from award-winning poet and writer, Kathryn Simmonds, with richly detailed illustrations from Becky Colvin, the winner of the Macmillan Prize for Illustration 2023 and creator of The Great Green Island. Princes Don't Practise is an incredibly funny and relatable tale with an important message for all – practise makes magic! Perfect for anyone who struggles with NOT being instantly perfect, which is most children.

Twenty bears unpacking cases. Look at those excited faces! Ready to enjoy the sun… Holidays are so much fun! Get ready for a shot of pure counting fun, as twenty very excited bears set off for a holiday on the beach. Summer is here and it’s time to RELAX – but are these silly bears up to the task?

Twenty bears unpacking cases. Look at those excited faces! Ready to enjoy the sun… Holidays are so much fun! Get ready for a shot of pure counting fun, as twenty very excited bears set off for a holiday on the beach. Summer is here and it’s time to RELAX – but are these silly bears up to the task?

What happens when an anxious sunflower seed named Vernon faces his fears--and decides to grow and bloom anyway? The children are planting sunflowers at school, and Carla is given a seed named Vernon. All the other children's seeds are excited to get out of the packet and start growing, but not Vernon. He knows about slugs and birds and thunderstorms. He knows that the world is scary--and though Carla waters him lovingly, to her dismay, Vernon is the only seed that doesn't grow into a seedling. Can Vernon drum up the courage to push himself out of the ground and face the world for Carla? This warm and reassuring story for young children who feel anxiety about a new chapter in their life, such as starting school, may help seed the realization that the satisfaction of new experiences is worth overcoming one's fears.

A side-splittingly funny picture book about open-mindedness and the power of change. The Bug Hotel has a fancy dining room, a rooftop terrace … even a pool if water is your thing. What a wonderful hotel! Trouble is, Branwell the solitary bee is not welcomed by the other guests – they're convinced he will sting! But Branwell can't sting, and even if he could, he wouldn't want to. When a curious toddler starts poking and shaking the bug hotel, our stripy hero, Branwell, ends up saving the day, showing us all a thing or two about resolving tricky situations peacefully.

This anthology showcases the very best in humorous short story writing, by outstanding contemporary women writers, including Kathy Lette, Sadia Azmat, Lucy Vine, Josie Long, Paula Lennon, and many more. It includes the winning and shortlisted stories from the Comedy Women in Print Short Story Prize. From tales of a narcoleptic biscuit lover, con artists with a twist, and the accidental death of a hamster; to consequences of accidental gluing, the imagined world of extreme shopping, and the delightfully surreal world of canine dating, these 15 boldly imaginative stories range across a multitude of genres and themes. Each proves the power of the short story to disarm, tickle or simply entertain.

A warm and reassuring picture book about finding your courage even when you'd rather play it safe. The children are planting sunflowers at school and Carla gets given a seed called Vernon. All the other children's seeds are excited to get out of the packet and start growing. Not Vernon. He knows about slugs, and birds, and thunderstorms. The world is scary. Carla waters him lovingly, but Vernon is the only seed that doesn't grow into a seedling. "Safe and snug, snug and safe," mutters Vernon, until he realizes how upset Carla is. Vernon understands that he needs to pluck up his courage, push himself out of the ground, and face the world. He needs to do it for Carla. And as Vernon blossoms into a sunflower, he discovers that although the world is not perfect, it can be ... wonderful.

Tackling the loss of the poetâ??s mother â?? as well as themes of motherhood, birth, death and marriage â?? this poignant collection explores how we grieve and remember those we love.

The Visitations is the follow-up to Kathryn Simmonds' Forward Prize-winning debut, Sunday at the Skin Launderette. The poems are entertaining, amusing and accessible, but unafraid to bring in darker themes and worlds unseen. The tone shifts throughout between the elegiac and the sharply satirical, lit up with life's moments of sudden illumination: a life coach finds an old passport, an infant teeters on the brink of speech." This playful and knowing first collection is fuelled throughout by a strong sense of lyricism." – The Guardian on Sunday at the Skin LaunderetteKathryn Simmonds' first book of poems, Sunday at the Skin Launderette (Seren, 2008; ISBN 9781854114617), won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the Felix Dennis Prize, and was shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award and longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. Her pamphlet of poems Snug was a winner in the Poetry Business competition in 2004 and subsequently published by Smith/Doorstop (ISBN 9781902382678). She lives in London and works as a freelance writer, editor and teacher.

Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, and longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award 2008. Quietly persuasive and formally adept, the poems in Kathryn Simmonds' first collection engage with both the quotidian and the transcendental. Often in urban or suburban settings, her protagonists struggle with mundane tasks such as cooking or commuting or office work - all of the obstacles of modernity - and then, by some shift of attention, or by some keen narrowing of focus, they chance upon the surreal or the spiritual. This is a poetry of subtle contexts and allusions, as much as concerned with the vulnerability of the body as for the fate of the soul and the idea of 'keeping faith' in God and life." An expansive imagination, a wide formal range, wit and humanity - Sunday at the Skin Laundrette is a remarkable debut." Michael Symmons Roberts"Quirky, witty, moving Kathryn Simmonds' gift is to find joy and beauty in unexpected places. She invests the everyday world with an extraordinary luminosity." Jackie Kay"This playful and knowing first collection is fuelled throughout by a strong sense of lyricism... The collection is made up of such balancing acts, of gentle glimpses into the pitfalls and seeming treacheries of the everyday" Charles Bainbridge, The GuardianKathryn Simmonds was born in Hertfordshire in 1972, she has an MA in writing from the University of East Anglia. She currently lives in London. Kathryn received an Eric Gregory Award in 2002 and her pamphlet Snug, was published in 2004. Her poems have appeared widely in magazines and she was winner of the 2006 Poetry London Competition and the 2007 Wigtown Poetry Competition.