Books with author John Foster

Charlie gives kids all they need to know to travel Victorian London incognito—dapper disguises and the lowdown on Sweeney Todd, telegraphs, and common diseasesIt's London, 1851, and Queen Victoria is on the throne—the year of the Great Exhibition. The Department of Historical accuracy need a bold and adventurous History Spy to get the facts. Your mission is to learn how to walk, talk, and dress like a Victorian, and go and explore the streets of London. With Charlie's help, you will find out about the fearsome factories, dinosaur bones, and incredible inventions that made the Victorian age so exciting.

Readers will enjoy an interesting look at not only the man, but the 19th century world in which he lived. Britain’s enormous growth and emergence as a democracy, Germany united under Bismarck, Russia freeing the serfs, Japan opened to foreign trade, the U.S. in turmoil over slavery and many other cultural and socio/economic events are all shared in Foster’s engaging text laced with her traditional pictures, maps, time lines and graphs.

Award winning, 35-year veteran of the moving business, John Fister offers a winning combination in one book to ease the process of moving to a new home - Adventurous Storybook, Packing Tips and Activity Book. Large format, 8.5 x 11, glossy, sturdy cover. This book beautifully illustrates the excitement of moving while addressing the process, sharing tips and techniques of packing and giving your children activities to keep them busy and happy.

A collection of wonderfully hilarious, ridiculous rhymes put together by a master compiler, well known for his collections with OUP. John Foster is a poet in his own right and is highly-regarded in both the trade and in schools for his brilliant collections.LOOPY LIMERICKS is the first of 4 sparkling new collections of nonsense poems which mark the return of Collins Chidlren’s Books to poetry publishing. John Foster is a well-known poet, teacher, and his book WHAM BAN ORANGUTAN is hugely popular (OUP), and the title of this was taken from his own poem. He is highly-regarded both in the trade and in schools.The books use both new and existing material with humorous line illustrations throughout.• Well-know poets included, such as: Roger McGough, Edward Lear, Michael Palin, Kaye Umansky, Spike Milligan and many more• It is divided into fun sections under the headings Animal Crackers, Dotty Dressers, Dreadful Disasters, Ghostly Groans, Musical Madness, Monstrous Moments, Potty People, Ridiculous Romances, School Sillies, Travellers’ Tales, Tummy Troubles, Vampire Bites and Last Writes.