Böcker av Sue Walker

Tangled Tales are a new innovative junior fiction format which involves two stories in one book. Each side follows a different character in the same story, which aims to encourage children to see that not everything is always what it seems. Whether it''s a group of adventuring ants and the kids trying to save them, or the world''s luckiest and unluckiest boys, these books are sure to get everyone giggling and thinking.Zog the Zombie Dog: Zog the dog loves chasing cats, ginger biscuits and his owner, Daniel. Which is why he can't resist running into the road to tell off Daniel's bully. What he doesn't expect is to wake up as a zombie! Feeling generous, the Grim Reaper has given Zog another chance at life... but can Zog resist passing on the curse until morning? The Grim Reaper's Apprentice: Billy is a Gremlimp: incredibly naughty creatures that love to cause chaos. On his tenth birthday, Billy must fulfil his family's tradition and perform his biggest prank, so when an opportunity to become the Grim Reaper's apprentice comes up, it's too good to pass up. But will Billy take his mischief too far?

"Don't touch - it's poisonous," Jess Ponder, the Schools' Secret Agency 'Double A-Star' agent, tells schoolmate and master of the forged sick-note, Leo Sleepwell, when he sees a trail of dried, gold saliva on the seal of an envelope. The letter it contained was sent to Jess by the notorious Nine-carat, aka 'The Man with the Golden Tongue'.

Moll asks Uncle Boll to puppy-sit her pug, Pete. She makes sure there is lots of food for Boll to eat. But Boll is always hungry, and Pete looks very tasty...

It was on a beautiful morning in June 1973 that eleven-year-old Miller McAllister s world fell apart That was the weekend that police found the remains of three missing teenage girls on the tiny Scottish island of Fidra. And that was the weekend that Miller s father, Douglas, was arrested for triple murder. Thirty-two years later, Douglas has died in prison and Miller returns home after decades of self-imposed exile. The McAllister family always maintained Douglas s innocence as steadfastly as Miller maintained his guilt. But when Miller is given the legal archive and a letter his father wrote to him just days before his death, suddenly everything looks less clear. To excavate the past and recover the truth, Miller immerses himself in the terrible events of over thirty years ago and his family s darkest hour. Was nothing quite as it seemed on that fateful June day? Could Douglas McAllister have been innocent after all? And if he didn t kill the girls who did?

Language has graphic as well as linguistic aspects to it, this book argues that there are many opportunities for collaboration between typographers and applied linguistics. Typographic examples looked at include letter writing conventions and the house style of printers and publishers.