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By Heart by Ted Hughes
$20.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: t/u until 2/3/16
What has happened to the lost art of memorising poetry? Why do we no longer feel that it is necessary to know the most enduring, beautiful poems in the English language 'by heart'? In his introduction Ted Hughes explains how we can overcome the problem by using a memory system that becomes easier the mo ...Show more
Collected Poems: Ted Hughes by Ted Hughes
$60.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
For the first time, the vast canon of Ted Hughes's poetry together in one beautiful and collectable paperback edition Collected Poems spans fifty years of work, from Hawk in the Rain to the bestselling Birthday Letters. It also includes the complete text of such seminal publications as Crow and Tales fr ...Show more
Collected Poems for Children (paperback) by Ted Hughes
$33.00 NZD
Category: Children's poetry
This collection brings together the poems Ted Hughes wrote for children throughout his life. They are arranged by volume, beginning with those for reading aloud to the very young, progressing to the poems in "Under the North Star" and "What is the Truth?" and ending with "Season Songs", which Hughes rem ...Show more
How the Whale Became: and Other Stories by Ted Hughes
$15.00 NZD
Category: Children's poetry | Reading Level: 6-9
This collection of eleven evocative, accessible and funny stories for children of 5 and more tells how a particular animal came to be as it is now. The Whale grew up in God's vegetable patch but was banished to sea when he became too large and crushed all His carrots; the Polar Bear was lured to the Nor ...Show more
How the Whale Became and Other Stories by Ted Hughes
$25.00 NZD
Category: Picture books
Long ago when the world was brand new, before animals or birds, the sun rose into the sky and brought the first day. To begin with, all the creatures were pretty much alike - very different from what they are now. Those that wanted to be lions practised being lions. But there were other creatures - incl ...Show more
Letters of Ted Hughes by Ted Hughes (selected & ed Christopher Reid)
$90.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
At the outset of his career Ted Hughes described letter writing as 'excellent training for conversation with the world', and he was to become a prolific master of this art which combines writing and talking. This selection begins when Hughes was seventeen, and documents the course of a life at once reso ...Show more
Nessie the Mannerless Monster by Ted Hughes
$15.00 NZD
Category: Children's poetry | Reading Level: 6-9
Nessie, the Loch Ness Monster, is tired of being told that she doesn't exist. In this crackling , lolloping story in verse, Ted Hughes describes how she sets out on the road to London for an audience with the Queen...
Poetry in the Making : A handbook for writing and teaching by Ted Hughes
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
A series of chapters built round poems by a number of writers including himself, (Ted Hughes) explores, colourfully and intensively, themes such as 'Capturing Animals', 'Wind and Weather' and 'Writing about People'. The purpose throughout is to lead on, via discussion of the poems to some direct encoura ...Show more
Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being by Ted Hughes
$70.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
Ted Hughes seeks to unlock the secret of Shakespeare in his critical magnum opus - reissued with a foreword by Robert McCrum. This enthralling tour de force of literary criticism, unprecedented in Shakespeare studies for its scope and daring, is nothing less than an attempt to show the Complete Works - ...Show more
The Iron Man by Ted Hughes
$17.00 NZD
Category: Children's fiction
"A classic is something utterly strange and original, and yet as deeply familiar and necessary as your own hands. The Iron Man is like no other story in the world and, fifty years after its first publication, we need it as much as ever." - Philip Pullman Part modern fairy tale, part science-fiction myt ...Show more
The Iron Man by Ted Hughes
$25.00 NZD
Category: Children's fiction
This is the award-winning illustrated edition of Ted Hughes' classic tale in paperback. Part modern fairy tale, part science fiction myth, The Iron Man describes the unexpected arrival in England of a mysterious giant "metal man" who wreaks havoc on the countryside by attacking the neighbouring farms an ...Show more
The Iron Man: 50th Anniversary Edition by Ted Hughes
$15.00 NZD
Category: Children's fiction
The Iron Man came to the top of the cliff.Where had he come from? Nobody Knows.How was he made? Nobody knows. Mankind must put a stop to the dreadful destruction by the Iron Man and set a trap for him, but he cannot be kept down. Then, when a terrible monster from outer space threatens to lay waste to ...Show more