Books with author M. Corbett

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An easy-to-use resource for teaching essential reading skills to the whole class using an interactive whiteboard. This book accompanies the i-read Year 5 CD-ROM. It can be used alongside the CD-ROM for group or independent reading away from the interactive whiteboard. Series Editor Pie Corbett has specially selected poems for i-read written by a host of well-loved poets, to ensure that this unique collection provides children and teachers with a vibrant read. The poetry collection includes the work of significant poets, longer classic and narrative poetry, and performance poetry.

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Ask any good journalist what the best part of the job is and he's likely to say the serendipitous moment when one story turns into another. A few years ago, the Ottawa Citizen's Ron Corbett set out to write a tale on wolves in Ontario's Algonquin Provincial Park. A chance encounter at a gas station led him to the front door of Frank Kuiack, who, Corbett was told, knew a good deal about the park's wolves. When Corbett went to meet him, he learned something remarkable about Kuiack. He was the last of the old-time fishing guides still working full-time in the park. "Kuiack's life," he writes, "seemed to be a counterpoint to the many changes that had taken place over the years, not only around Algonquin Park, but elsewhere in Canada."Corbett explores those rush-toward-the-21st-century changes in this lyrical narrative of a fishing trip via canoe through the park with Kuiack. It would turn out to be the old man's last journey as a guide. By using the guide as his centrepiece, he weaves together a marvellous anecdotal history of the park, its fishing, and legendary guides like Basil Sawyer, Sam Beaver (friend and guide to The New Yorker's E.B. White), and Tom Thompson, who once lived in Algonquin's wilderness and seems such a part of its geography. Corbett writes: "While [the changes] led to the slow disappearance of the fishing guides in the Algonquin Highlands, Kuiack never abandoned the calling. Today, he is the last practitioner of a business, a trade, an art, that will die with him." Which makes the serendipity that brought Corbett and Kuiack together just that much more fortunate. Because of their meeting, something that would have otherwise been lost has now been preserved with great care and real affection. --Jeff Silverman

After inheriting the leadership of the mice on Lickey Top, a young mouse, beset by doubts and feelings of inadequacy, ignores the problems of the community until a momentous trip to the city teaches him about courage, duty, friendship and his own qualities as a leader.Two mice--each unaware of the other--begin an epic quest to fulfill the same glowing prophecy and encounter both friendly and unfriendly creatures along the way

Tori Baylor is a dancer and an animal lover. Or is she an animal lover and a dancer? On the first day of school, she discovers that her class will dissect a frog this year, and she gathers her courage to tell the forbidding Mrs. Stengle she doesnt want to take part. The new science teacher's rudeness comes as a shock, and Tori wishes she had a close friend to laugh it off with. Dance classes six days a week, however, leave little time for friends. Tori wonders if she should forget her dream of a ballet career and plan to work with animals instead. Her mother's arthritis is worsening, and Tori feels guilty seeing her limp off to work to pay for her lessons. She'd love to be an animal rights activist, if she could be brave enough. But not to dance--how could I bear it? she asks herself. Her mother, who once hoped to become a dancer, has always told Tori and her sister, "Be sure to have a second string to your bow," meaning a second career choice. I do have two strings, Tori thinks, dance and animals. But which should be my first-string future?