General Editor: Sue Palmer Fiction Editor and Language Consultant: Wendy Body The Longman Book Project for ages 4-11: *Inspires children with an unparalleled variety of fiction by significant children's authors and illustrators such as Anne Fine, Beverley Naidoo, Michael Rosen, Jacqueline Wilson and Geraldine McCaughrean. *Offers at-a-glance NLS teaching support in a literacy grid at the back of every book highlighting text, sentence and word level work for easy access by teachers, teaching assistants and parents. *Specific materials for progress monitoring and assessment for teachers and children in the Teacher's Books including reading and writing assessment task copymasters, test passages and reading records. *Provides gradual, age-appropriate progression and supportive clusters of shared, guided and independent reading books based around common themes for Key Stage 1/P1-3. *Presents a wide range of different titles to stimulate all readers at Key Stage 2/P4-7. *Covers a huge range of NLS fiction genres including plays and poetry to promote speaking and listening. *Promotes valuable awareness of community and citizenship through many titles based around issues of community, environment and health.

Alice Pettway's Barbed Wire and Bedclothes explores the familiar and finds it all akimbo and sharp-elbowed. A daughter confronts her mother, conjuring her own fetal anger: "could you feel the pulse of my resentment?" and cringes at her mother s "every glance, a confirmation of failure". Love itself is a "struggle" here, "flint-sharp." Even the body is at war with itself, menaced by mastectomy, threatening dissolution. And yet the rough-and-tumble of real life is rewarded by the knowledge that "those who have treasured / their battles and blunders / will never do battle alone." These poems are terse, precise, evocative, and sensuous; to anyone grown timid or lazy or comfortable, they send a challenge: "cut the barbed wire now and chance the landmines."

- Philip Appleman

There are a lot of good things to say about the poems of Alice Pettway. Probably what sets them apart more than any other virtue is the subtle but insistent sense of irony they convey - one of the rarest and most valuable aspects of any art, but especially of poetry.

- Miller Williams

Happily lounging in their haunted house, the monsters wait for new victims to prey upon, waiting to feed on the psychic energies of fear. It is a rare treat when the foolish mortals enter your halls of doom, but luckily today is such a day! A large group of kids has decided to spend the night in your halls, daring each other to face the terrors until the break of dawn. Dawn will not come soon enough tosave them, the only question that remains is which group of monsters will terrorize them the most!In Bump In The Night 2 to 6 players each playa group of six monsters that they will use to terrorize people in the haunted house. If enough terror is generated in a person, or if a person is forced to flee the house, the player claims the person for a point. Points can also be gained through special bonus cards. The first player to have five or more points on their turn wins the game.Bump in the Night features a beautifully illustrated, modular game board, assorted cards, rules, dice, 14 custom sculpted People figures, tokens, AND 36 custom sculpted monster figures.Bump in the Night is a game for 2-6 players ages 12 and up.The game is playable in 60-90 minutes.

General Editor: Sue Palmer Fiction Editor and Language Consultant: Wendy Body The Longman Book Project for ages 4-11: *Inspires children with an unparalleled variety of fiction by significant children's authors and illustrators such as Anne Fine, Beverley Naidoo, Michael Rosen, Jacqueline Wilson and Geraldine McCaughrean. *Offers at-a-glance NLS teaching support in a literacy grid at the back of every book highlighting text, sentence and word level work for easy access by teachers, teaching assistants and parents. *Specific materials for progress monitoring and assessment for teachers and children in the Teacher's Books including reading and writing assessment task copymasters, test passages and reading records. *Provides gradual, age-appropriate progression and supportive clusters of shared, guided and independent reading books based around common themes for Key Stage 1/P1-3. *Presents a wide range of different titles to stimulate all readers at Key Stage 2/P4-7. *Covers a huge range of NLS fiction genres including plays and poetry to promote speaking and listening. *Promotes valuable awareness of community and citizenship through many titles based around issues of community, environment and health.