Children's Reading Books

Paper back Earthquake and Traveller novel
Tom is a young man from the traveller community with a six-year-old sister, Luckry (Lucretia) who’s a bit of a pain, and a ‘girlfriend’ (don’t say that or she’ll slap him) Nat. All is going well in a kids growing up kind of way until fracking starts in the local countryside. Tom got his nickname ‘Blotch’ owing to the burns he got from corrosive chemicals stored in the mining company’s yard next door to the Traveller site.

But the Travelling community has some beliefs that are not held by everyone and such strong family ties that even death cannot separate generations. And when Luckry swears she’s received instructions from dead Big Gran involving throwing money in a wishing well she just has to do it, even if means bringing on an earthquake … and then she goes missing leaving Tom and Nat with the terrifying task of trying to find her in the midst of an earthquake.

Ossiri and the Bala Mengro, Richard O'Neill reader. Ossiri makes a willow branch musical instrument - and wakes the ogre! Book too big for full scanning. £6.50 + £1.95 p&p contribution only.

Yoki and theParno Gry. Richard O'Neill reader. Yoki works to pull a family out of its run of bad luck with tales of a wonderful horse. Book too big for full scanning. £6.50 + £1.95 p&p contribution only.

Polonius the Pit Pony. Richard O'Neill reader. Escaped pit pony Polonius joins Travellers and pays back their help. Based on true story. Book too big for full scanning. £6.50 + £1.95 p&p contribution only.

Reflections - True Stories to Make You Think
Reflections - True Stories to Make You Think
From members of St John's Methodist Church.

Reduced from £5.50 to £1.75.

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Discounted by 49%

Gypsy Traveller Folk Tales England Wales Scotland Ireland

24 traditional folk tales and 4 poems from the Traveller culture - England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland to give children - and adults - hours of entertainment. Wonderfully illustrated with over 40 line drawings by Romany artist Amaletta.
A mix of traditional Traveller tales - to be read to younger children and for older ones to read and enjoy.
Meet Smallbones, Connor who just can’t get it right, and a host of adventures from the Traditional Jack. What happens to Bridget with the fairies, what’s special about the king's semolina, trouble with trolls and just where is Aunt Hilda’s land? A5 size
A4 landscape, 154 pages. £6.

Pin-Up Cobs. Gypsy horses photos book with light hearted captions
An easy-to-read book by Fran Scott comprising 32 beautiful colour photos with light-hearted captions and the names of the horses. Aimed at young adults with little reading and hard to motivate children. 32 pp, A5 size

The special price is well below production cost price. £1.

A Day at the Races - Epsom Derby. Lovely children's book by Lisa Mary Todd for Traveller children and by a Traveller for children to read about Derby Day. Ideal for children from about 7 to 12. Fabulous colour photos. New. 14 pages, A5 size. REDUCED to £2.50

Counting Animals. Brilliant bi-lingual children’s book for Foundation ages and before. Large book with heavy duty pages in which children can be shown a picture and be asked to count how many of a particular animal are in the picture. The pictures go from counting 1 to 20 and very unusually are in both English and Anglo Romani as well as numerically. Landscape format, A4. WAS £9.99! Now £1.99.

Finches. Written by Tom McCready with photos by Tom and family, Wendy McGinty and Roseanne Price. Superb water colour paintings by Amaletta. Full colour throughout.
A detailed account for children of how to look after finches in captivity including legal requirements. £3

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REDUCED BY 48%. Gypsy Horse. Marvellous 40 page book with numerous colour photos by US-Irish Traveller Lise McNamara. In the USA, the official breed name is Gypsy Horses or Gypsy Vanners and Lise and her husband and daughter breed them on their ranch, Blarney Stone Acres.Lise, Steve and Kelsey are unusual because in the whole of the USA there are only 500 Gypsy horses.
Lise says, “We are so proud of these horses. They have a quality of elegance, beauty, and movement that is incredible. They are unlike any other breed of horse.” £4.

DISCOUNTED BY 44%. Hell and Damp Nation. (KS3 book, interest ages 9-14, RA 10.4) A black comedy.
School nuisance Sidney Smith suddenly discovers he's died and gone to hell! And the Devil (Old Forky Tail) has made him an officer!,But things quickly start to go wrong when school mate Waggle and the persecuted English Teacher (Gerbil) arrive. Roles change, Sidney gets demoted and, eventually, thrown down a crack of doom. Fortunately, just when things are getting very hot (in more ways than one) he realises that every furnace has a cool bit. Assisted by Sergeant King Henry VIII, Sidney seeks to get his own back on the devil but it’s more spectacular than he expected. Heaven lodges a complaint and Sidney has to flee in the ethereal lift to seek sanctuary "upstairs". It should be Sid’s chance to make good - but of course it isn’t. In the end, God and the devil find an ingenious way to sort him out ...!
Ideal for individual, paired and group reading as well as a host of reading activities. Written by Robert Dawson with superb illustrations by Jodie Cresswell. A5, laminated card cover. £3.75

NOW DISCOUNTED BY 49% - Houses and Homes
The ever popular book by Gill May and Michelle Nye, illustrated by Neville and Janet Timmins and Rowena Jones, showing the different homes occupied by Travellers of all sorts, from tents and wagons to trailers and buses and houses. A superb cross-cultural book for Foundation/KS1. £3.50

REDUCED BY 81% - How Rabbits Came to England., . Ginge Brown’s traditional story from his own family of how his family emigrated here bringing rabbits with them. Written as a story and also as a playlet (with those spoken English/ Drama/ Assembly times in mind). Interest age mid KS1 - mid KS2, RA 9y 9m, but artificially high due to repeated words - especially rabbit, Moses, Jacob, Ephraim - which alone increase RA by 9 mths. £1.

Jack and the Troll. 6 folk tales collected in the North East Midlands from Romany people. These tales all appear in Gypsy Traveller Folk Tales (above) but for a cheap quickie read to or for children, reduced from £5.50 to £1

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DISCOUNTED BY 56%. - Kenny, the SAS and the Queen. Kenny has a rotten life and the worst Mum in the world. So it's a good job his best friend is Traveller boy Gary, especially when the SAS raid in the middle of the night (and even Kenny's Mum finds them hard to cope with!)
It's a very dangerous situation and the police can't make head nor tail of it. And then there's the panther, the box of stolen maggots and the job as a gardener - and lots and lots of laughs.

Interest age 8-13, low R/A. Teacher's pack available. £3

Last few copies. The first ever comic book for Traveller children - Romany Gypsy, Scottish, Irish, New Age and Roma. Packed with strip cartoons, jokes, activities and all aimed at Traveller kids and their culture and way of life. 40p, 4 colour, 8 colour tinted. £1 to clear

Red Eye Ghost. Interest ages 9-14, RA 10.8). Travellers Granda and Gran MacPhee are showing grandchildren Johnny, Kathy and Ewan the old ways. They pitch a bender on the shore of Scotland’s west coast near a strange mound. Johnny sees a sinister red-eyed ram which seems to speak into his mind. The place is haunted by An Reith, a man once known as the Ram, and by victims of the Highland Clearances who have been waiting for someone like Johnny to appear. Through time slips and modern parallels, Johnny meets the past full on, and is able to help all the ghosts to find peace and tackle prejudice – but not before he has faced terrible danger. A gripping page-turner Written by Micky MacPhee with superb illustrations by Jodie Cresswell. A5, pp, laminated card cover, 91pp. £3.50

Uncle Walter, Reduced by 54%. By Traveller Barbara Walsh, illustrated with 10 colour photos by John McKale (Note - photos are of Traveller gatherings, especially NE England, excluding Appleby, not of the actual text). True story in which Uncle Walter disappears during a big family gathering ...
Interest age 7-12, Reading Age approx 7yr 7 mth. £2.50

Appleby Fair. Reduced by 50%. RA 8.6, CA 7-13.By Anne Salter. 14 superb photos (13 colour) by Valentin Kovalenko, Chiara Contrino, Joy Thrower and Jackie Nesbitt. Everything’s ready for the Trotting (Harness Racing) until someone tries to knobble it. Then Traveller boy Ian and his friendly ghosts have to intervene... £2.50

The Christening. NOW DISCOUNTED 45%. Val Mannering and Lisa Young’s account of a Traveller christening in London, illustrated by Leela Holland. Interest age all KS1/2, RA 8y 10m. RA artificially high due to repeated complex words - sister, christening, Godmother - which increase RA by 8 months). £3.

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Ups and Downs, written by Irish Traveller children. An account of a trip to the races. Super A4 size book from Hillingdon Traveller Education. Stunning colour pictures. 20 pages. Reduced to just £2.

Which Witch. Historical early reading book for Traveller kids by Alan Dearling and dating from about 1970. Archival item. £3.

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