Books with author Carol Henderson

Charlie is thrown out of his normal routine when one day, on the way home from school, he is chased by a strange cat-like creature with hands. To the rescue comes Peazle, a strange and plucky boy from the past. Charlie has been targeted by Morgana, a villainous and vengeful creature from theworld of magic. Charlie and Peazle's attempts to escape, and to overcome the threat of Morgana, lead to a wild chase across Scotland, full of incident, excitement and surprises, before they finally triumph.

Is the age of heroes over before it's even begun? Meet Stephen Swift, the latest recruit to the secret school for the heroes of the future. Or, at least, he was. Then the school was shut down because of budget cuts, and Stephen was thrown back into the world, newly redundant and his memories taken from him for reasons of national security. Waking up in a small town with no idea how he got there, Stephen uses his newly acquired powers to become its protector, working tirelessly to fight crime and making himself something of a phenomenon in the process. But Stephen isn't the only ex-student struggling to find his place in the world. There's Evelyn, the vigilante of London tracking down those who prey on the poor and vulnerable as she fights for social justice. And there's also Victoria, angry and looking to assemble an army of superpowered individuals to fight a campaign of terror against the world that she feels abandoned her. Together, Stephen and Evelyn must defend the world that Victoria seeks to wage war against. But are they fighting for the right side? And how exactly do you beat someone who can control time itself? It looks like the world might just need heroes after all.

Eli is a firefly who is desperately searching for his super-bug power. Seeing all the other super-bugs using their super-bug powers only makes him more determined to find his own!Along the way Eli Firefly starts to feel better as he learns how he isn’t the only one who couldn’t find his power. Puteo the neighbourhood beetle only found his very unusual power by accident when the Queen Ant made a royal visit.But it is not until one of the neighbourhood bugs gets into a dangerous situation and Eli the firefly’s help is urgently needed that he is finally able to show just what a super-bug he really is! With the aid of his Auntie Carlita and many of the other super-bugs in his village he slowly comes to realise that he was looking in all the wrong places for his super-bug power. Note: All bugs and powers are based on real life bugs as a learning tool.

Dances have been a great resource for composers throughout history. Bourree by Handel was written as a dance from France. It is great for teaching bowing distribution starting with small bows and progressing to larger bows in both the A section and B sections of the song. Not only does this teach control of the bow, but teaches how to produce a fuller sound without pressing on the bow. The Scales Aren't Just a Fish Thing Method adds clues throughout the sheet music without an extra word of instruction. Music theory is assimilated in passing as the student reads the sheet music. Notes are color-coded. Stems indicate the string on which the note is played (great for learning to shift into various positions.) Bowing indicators are on nearly every note. Learning a piece of music correctly from the start is essential. Remedial learning is undesirable. So why not teach and nurture instead of 'test' from the beginning just because it isn't the way we have done it before? Adults don't crawl, but without crawling, our brains don't develop properly. There is a proper time for each style of development. Scales Aren't Just a Fish Thing is a proven method of teaching students from a very young age, older adults, those with learning differences and just about anyone, how to play an instrument. The method is available for violin, cello, piano.