It started ok, and then it got really irritating. The first chapters on the origins of the English language and why spelling appears so erratic was interesting. and then the rest was a rehash of what I already knew and one hopes any child learning English or learning in English would know (do th...
Funny, tough-minded and tender, this is the story of Matilda and her two sisters growing up in Sydney, Australia, in the early 1950s. Their father is mentally unstable and largely absent, their mother is possibly in the thrall of his brother, and a headline-making Russian spy defection is taking ...
It was Icara’s father. ‘Hallo Dad,’ said Icara. ‘Well, hallo there,’ said Icara’s father, smiling upwards, ashing his cigarette. Cubby was taken aback. The judge! This was not what she had imagined – a man in shorts and a striped shirt, with reading glasses on his nose. Whenever she’d pictured Ic...
Letters, letters, letters Anagrams Have a look at these pairs of words:LEMON/MELON DANCE/CANED ELVIS/LIVES Look really hard at the letters. What do you notice about them? Well, in each pair, the two words are made up of exactly the same letters, they’ve just been arranged differently. This is cal...
