Brian Moses

Did you know there was a School for Imaginary Friends? Well there is - and one of its star pupils is the narrator of Ray's story. Ray loves life in his village, until one day he hears his parents talking about moving house. Horrified by the idea, Ray invents an imaginary friend to talk to and even runs away. Eventually Ray is able to accept the move, and also the Ukrainian refugee mother and child who come to live with his family in their new home. As Ray finds his feet again, the Imaginary Friend wonders if he is needed any more, or if he can also move on?

Join our Poetry Street party and get creative! Do you like stringing words together to see what they look like and what they sound like? Do you have rhythms dancing in your head as you drift through the day? Do you rhyme all the time while your feet tap a beat? If you answered YES to all or most of these questions then you're pretty much hooked on words. Now - together - let's take a walk down Poetry Street!With an introduction to welcome readers and creative writing ideas, you will find fifty two poems for any week of the year. Accompanied by imaginative illustrations, this book is both the perfect gift and ideal writing manual for the classroom.

What Are We Fighting For? is a poetry collection that explores the concept of war in a brilliantly accessible way for younger readers.Fascinating and moving in equal measure, there are poems about incredibly brave dogs, cats and pigeons; the Christmas truce of WWI when soldiers played football in No Man''s Land; poems about rationing and what it was like to be an evacuee, poems about modern warfare and the reality of war today; plus lots of amazing true historical facts.This cross-curricular poetry book is a brilliant way to get young readers thinking about both the historical and philosophical aspects of war.