Irene Watts creates ten enchanting plays based on folktales and legends from around the world.

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Education & Teaching

Watts, Irene N.

Schools & Teaching

Heinemann

Jam-packed with intriguing classroom strategies to encourage students to create, build and dramatize their own stories, Making Stories has its roots in the traditional story circle.

MAKING STORIES

Young Marianne is one of the lucky ones. She has escaped on one of the first kindertransporte organized to take Jewish children out of Germany to safety in Britain.At first Marianne is desperate. She does not speak English, she is not welcome in her sponsors' home, and, most of all, she misses her mother terribly. As the months pass, she realizes that she cannot control the circumstances around her. She must rely on herself if she is to survive.In this exciting companion to Good-bye Marianne, Irene N. Watts has created a memorable character, and a story that is ultimately about hope, not war. Based on true events, this fictional account of hatred and racism speaks volumes about history and human nature.

Remember Me

Children's Books

Literature & Fiction

Demco Media

Remember Me: A Search For Refuge In Wartime Britain (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)

Turtleback Books

Finding Sophie (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)

Great Theme Parties for Children

Plans for giving eleven theme parties, including Halloween, winter, animals, and detectives, with suggestions for invitations, food, games, videos, and read-aloud books.

Great theme parties for children

Humor & Entertainment

Puzzles & Games

Sterling Pub. Co.

Features theme parties for children, all completely planned and including games, ideas for invitations, party favours and foods, as well as books to read aloud and videos to show.

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Sterling Pub. Co., Inc.

A heartbreaking story of loss and love. As autumn turns toward winter in 1938 Berlin, life for Marianne Kohn, a young Jewish girl, begins to crumble. First there was the burning of the neighbourhood shops. Then her father, a mild-mannered bookseller, must leave the family and go into hiding. No longer allowed to go to school or even sit in a café, Marianne’s only comfort is her beloved mother. Things are bad, but could they get even worse? Based on true events, this fictional account of hatred and racism speaks volumes about both history and human nature.

Good-bye Marianne: A Story of Growing Up in Nazi Germany

Tundra Books

Young Marianne is one of the lucky ones. She has escaped on one of the first kindertransporte organized to take Jewish children out of Germany to safety in Britain. At first Marianne is desperate. She does not speak English, she is not welcome in her sponsors’ home, and, most of all, she misses her mother terribly. As the months pass, she realizes that she cannot control the circumstances around her. She must rely on herself if she is to survive. In this exciting companion to Good-bye Marianne, Irene N. Watts has created a memorable character, and a story that is ultimately about hope, not war. Based on true events, this fictional account of hatred and racism speaks volumes about history and human nature.

Remember Me: A Search for Refuge in Wartime Britain

Selected by the Pennsylvania School Librarians Association as one of the PSLA YA Top Forty Fiction Titles 2003 Nominated in the fiction category for the 2004/2005 Red Cedar Book Awards (British Columbia's Young Reader's Choice book award) Sophie Mandel was only seven years old when she arrived in London on the first Kindertransport from Germany. She has grown up with a friend of her parents, a woman she calls Aunt Em, and despite the war and its deprivations, she has made a good life for herself in England with her foster mother. She has even stopped thinking about the parents she left behind. Now the war is over, and fourteen-year-old Sophie is faced with a terrible dilemma. Where does she belong? In this, the third book about the characters introduced in Good-bye Marianne and Remember Me, Irene N. Watts explores the themes of friendship, family, and the nature of love. Finding Sophie is sure to become a favorite.

Finding Sophie

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