Payments made using National Book Tokens are processed by National Book Tokens Ltd, and you can read their Terms and Conditions here. Tom Tolkien is an experienced teacher and educational consultant who taught for 20 years in primary and secondary schools, including Woodleigh School in North Yorkshire, where he was Head of English and ran a 4000 book prep school library for pupils aged 3-13. Join our community to get personalised book suggestions, extracts straight to your inbox, 10% off RRPs, and to change children’s lives.

As people say its not quite what we think and often downright slimy but nevertheless a fascinating read in many ways. I think it's really poignant, I think it's really important and I think it's really accessible to be able to talk about these things via music.This book redefines British history, the Empire and postcolonialism, and will invite you to think again about the narratives and key moments in history that you have been taught up to now. Comparison for creative writing could be made with the inertia of lockdown, post-Brexit, climate-changing and inward-looking England of today. Aware that an era – their formal schooling – is ending, there is already an almost timetabled period of reflection that could be used to capture thoughts, writing and media that define their lives and experiences. The book shows how these agendas fit into the much wider picture of what's really going on in the world, and--crucially--how the power lies with us to bring it to an end. Boakye sends out his address to children everywhere because, as the kid says at the start of ‘ Pass the Dutchie’, ‘ This generation rules the nation’.

Throughout the millennia Turkey formed the core of several Empires–Persia, Rome, Byzantium–before becoming the center of the Ottoman Empire.

There was just the right amount of choice to suit everyone without being overwhelming and I received comments from parents and staff about the quality of books offered compared to previous sales which have always been based around current crazes and well known celebrity authors. This exhilarating playlist tracks some of the key shifts in modern British history, and explores the emotional impact of 28 songs and the artists who performed them. Like many 'early' readers of this book, I was aware of much of its content already; separately, not just from the many and varied sources quoted in it - but Mark Devlin has brought so many pieces of a puzzling jigsaw together in an immensely comprehensive and articulate way. No one book or piece of information has either the complete set of answers or the truth, Mark Devlin's book however is for those that get a sense that the world is not quite how you think it is yet struggle to put the pieces together to understand the bigger picture. He remembers what it’s like to be young and captures so beautifully his eight-year-old boyish innocence of what makes a song ‘great’ – hey, everything is great when it sounds right and feels right, yes?

There are also illustrations from Ngadi Smart that add a visual dimension to this original book for music and cultural inquisitive teens. Cockney Translation is an excellent choice to analyse not just for content, and social history, but also for its use of dialects and accents and how the audience might interpret these. They might examine how some accents elicit particular reactions in some parts of the country and not others, and how accents can be unfairly perceived to be attached to a particular social class.His powers of persuasion clearly exceeded those of Colonel Baker, who seemed the personification of Victorian solidity until that embarrassing incident in the sealed railway compartment, where he failed to entice Miss Dickinson to join in his bit of fun, and afterwards had to try and explain his conduct to the High Court, with the whole nation hanging on his every word.