Books with author Alan Trussell-Cullen

Sam is a young girl who hates chores but loves to invent machines to do them for her! One day, Sam gets the opportunity of a lifetime! Nearby construction workers are on a deadline and they need some of Sam's inventions to help build Luigi's Italian Restaurant in time. Sam's expertise helps the men and she saves the day! Sam is a wonderful role model for any young girl who enjoys math, science, or technology. Along with quirky illustrations, this story will help children learn that it is always a good idea to use what you're good at to help others.About Shell Education Rachelle Cracchiolo started the company with a friend and fellow teacher. Both were eager to share their ideas and passion for education with other classroom leaders. What began as a hobby, selling lesson plans to local stores, became a part-time job after a full day of teaching, and eventually blossomed into Teacher Created Materials. The story continued in 2004 with the launch of Shell Education and the introduction of professional resources and classroom application books designed to support Teacher Created Materials curriculum resources. Today, Teacher Created Materials and Shell Education are two of the most recognized names in educational publishing around the world.

Sam is a young girl who hates chores but loves to invent machines to do them for her! One day, Sam gets the opportunity of a lifetime! Nearby construction workers are on a deadline and they need some of Sam's inventions to help build Luigi's Italian Restaurant in time. Sam's expertise helps the men and she saves the day! Sam is a wonderful role model for any young girl who enjoys math, science, or technology. Along with quirky illustrations, this story will help children learn that it is always a good idea to use what you're good at to help others.About Shell Education Rachelle Cracchiolo started the company with a friend and fellow teacher. Both were eager to share their ideas and passion for education with other classroom leaders. What began as a hobby, selling lesson plans to local stores, became a part-time job after a full day of teaching, and eventually blossomed into Teacher Created Materials. The story continued in 2004 with the launch of Shell Education and the introduction of professional resources and classroom application books designed to support Teacher Created Materials curriculum resources. Today, Teacher Created Materials and Shell Education are two of the most recognized names in educational publishing around the world.

Building off of the popularity of social media, the story of Palaki the penguin's blog posts relates to the reader. Unfortunately, Palaki swims off in the wrong direction and ends up in a climate that is far too warm for a penguin. Luckily, a group of humans at the Wellington Zoo are kind enough to help nurse Palaki back to health so that he can make his journey home to Antarctica. Young readers will be exposed to blogging and the importance of nurturing wildlife in this fun and informative reader. About Shell Education Rachelle Cracchiolo started the company with a friend and fellow teacher. Both were eager to share their ideas and passion for education with other classroom leaders. What began as a hobby, selling lesson plans to local stores, became a part-time job after a full day of teaching, and eventually blossomed into Teacher Created Materials. The story continued in 2004 with the launch of Shell Education and the introduction of professional resources and classroom application books designed to support Teacher Created Materials curriculum resources. Today, Teacher Created Materials and Shell Education are two of the most recognized names in educational publishing around the world.

Sam is a young girl who hates chores but loves to invent machines to do them for her! One day, Sam gets the opportunity of a lifetime! Nearby construction workers are on a deadline and they need some of Sam's inventions to help build Luigi's Italian Restaurant in time. Sam's expertise helps the men and she saves the day! Sam is a wonderful role model for any young girl who enjoys math, science, or technology. Along with quirky illustrations, this story will help children learn that it is always a good idea to use what you're good at to help others.

This cheerful kids’ book is loaded with all kinds of fun but scary information about super toxic creepy-crawly critters, toads that never should be kissed, spiders just waiting to jab you with their poisonous fangs, venom-spitting snakes, and fabulously cute and colourful frogs that you should never – make that NEVER touch. Why? Because the slime on their skins could have you dead by dinner time!Yes, this book is full of all kinds of fun facts and alarming information that kids will then be able to use to intrigue (or terrify) their friends, and captivate (or horrify) their teachers and parents!Kids will find the answers to important questions like: Whose bite is more dangerous – Mr. or Mrs. Black-Widow spider? And why you should never dance the samba with a Mamba. (And even if you do, why you’ll only do it once!) Kids will also find out if they suffer from arachnophobia – or at least how to spell it – and what they should do if they get stung by a bee or a wasp.Poisonous Stuff is loaded with super cool images, a lively down-to-earth text, some laugh out loud bad jokes, and amazing photos and information about some of the most astonishing and scariest things on our planet. Kids aged seven to seventeen, will not only want to read this book – they’ll want to share it with others and find out more for themselves. Some will probably even grow up to become toxicologists or famous arachnologists like Little Miss Muffet’s dad!Kids reading this book will also learn how to keep themselves safe in a world full of fangs, stingers and toxic chemicals. They’ll probably be surprised to find out about the many poisons that may be lying about their own homes. And what is even more surprising, they’ll learn about how some poisons can actually be useful!Poisonous Stuff features include full color images, text boxes, visual gags, an index and glossary, plus fun quizzes to test the reader’s knowledge and understanding.Poisonous Stuff is the second in the Good Stuff Books series by New Zealand children’s author Alan Trussell-Cullen who has written over 400 books for kids, as well as stage plays, TV comedy scripts, and lots of zany kid’s poems. Other titles in the series include Really Big Stuff, Smelly Stuff, and Really Fast Stuff.

Adventures happen when you least expect them!Steve Tomkins wasn’t crazy about having his cousin, Gail, come to stay – especially during theholidays when he had hoped to be doing exciting things with his friends. Gail was a country kid. What did she know about all the fun things you could do in the city? Too bad about her Mom being sick and in the hospital. But what would his best friend Tony and all his other friends think about him having to hang out with this boring girl from the country? Little did Steve know that he and Gail would suddenly find themselves in the middle of one of the most exciting adventures in their entire lives! (So far, anyway!) It would be an adventure that would include chasing cat burglars, escaping from murderers, clinging to the outside of a city building four stories up, an emergency helicopter rescue, and even a hot spot on the TV news! So how did all this happen…?

Now kids, here is a book that will really get up your nose! It will give you a good look around inside those nostrils, too! Yum!We know dogs are good at following a scent, but what about us poor humans? And by the way, guys, if you really want to impress your girlfriend with a bunch of flowers, what’s the one flower you should never have in that bouquet? Yes, it’s the dead-horse arum. One sniff and you’ll know why the poor flower got that name!There’s even a chapter on farts! (Sorry, “gas” or flatulence”!) And did you know that the ancient Romans actually had a law making it legal to fart at banquets!You’re feeling sick? Don’t go to the doctor, ask your dog. One sniff and he’ll give you a diagnosis! (Maybe that should be a “dognosis”?) Smelly Stuff is loaded with super cool images, a lively down-to-earth text, author Alan Trussell-Cullen’s wacky sense of humor, and amazing facts about the work done by that incredible organ we humans use to hold up our sun glasses, yes, the nose. Other features include text boxes, visual gags, an index and glossary, plus fun quizzes to test the reader’s knowledge and understanding.Yep! There’s a lot to be sniffed at in this book, especially if you are a kid between the age of 7 and 17 (or 70!). You’ll really enjoy showing it to all the kids in your class! You might even make your teachers laugh! (Either that, or they’ll confiscate your book so they can read it themselves!) You can try the Final Great Big Pong Quiz on all your friends to see how much they know.Here are some sample questions to see how much you know already:Pheromones areScary noises at nightComplaints made by Egyptian pharaohsSmell signals that provide information and instructions for other animalsDecomposition isWriting a story by starting at the end firstWhen dead stuff gets broken down into smaller stuffWriting music that stinksSmelly Stuff is the third in the Good Stuff Books series by New Zealand children’s author Alan Trussell-Cullen who has written over 400 books for kids, as well as stage plays, TV comedy scripts, and lots of zany kid’s poems. Other titles in the series include Really Big Stuff, Poisonous Stuff, and Really Fast Stuff.

Really Big Stuff is loaded with mind-boggling facts, super cool images, lively down-to-earth text, laugh-out-loud bad jokes, and copious quantities of quirky information about just about everything that is astonishingly BIG! This is just the thing to capture the curiosity and imagination of kids and preteens aged seven to fifteen. Kids won’t only want to read this book. They’ll want to share it with others, as well as find out more for themselves. Reading Really Big Stuff is a great way to get kids (and adults) hooked on mathematics, science and history, too. Like, do you know how tall you are in smoots or in London double-decker buses? Or how beautiful you are in Helens? Do you know who invented the mile, or who stretched the mile to make it a little bigger, and why? Have giants ever really existed? How big was Bigfoot? Has anyone actually seen a yeti? (Probably not yeti…). And do you know what makes us grow? And if you don’t grow as tall as you’d like, who do you blame – your Mom or your Dad? Really Big Stuff features include full color images, text boxes, visual gags, an index and glossary plus fun quizzes to test your knowledge. Really Big Stuff is the first in the Good Stuff Books series by New Zealand children’s author Alan Trussell-Cullen who has written over 400 children’s books as well as stage plays, TV comedy scripts and lots of zany poems for kids. Other titles in the series include Poisonous Stuff, Smelly Stuff, and Really fast Stuff.