Books with author Marcia (eds.) Williams

The ancient Greek myths as you've never read them before! The classic stories of Theseus and the Minotaur and Arachne versus Athene are re-told here in master storyteller, Marcia Williams' inimitable comic style. These splendid adaptations have easy-to-read, accessible text and brilliantly witty illustrations, making them a perfect introduction to the classic legends of adventure and endeavour! Ideal for newly-confident readers - the classics have never looked so good!

Psyche and Eros is a highly attractive way to introduce children to one of the great Greek myths: Aphrodite, the goddess of love, is deeply jealous of Psyche, a beautiful human girl. When Aphrodite's son, Eros, falls in love with Psyche, Aphrodite tries to get rid of her in various unusual ways. But Psyche isn't just a pretty face. Colourful cartoons and comic dialogue bring Psyche and her adventures with the God of Love and in the Underworld right up to date! The cartoon format will appeal to reluctant readers Psyche and Eros is one of eleven books that make up Extended Reading Level A, for children in Year 5/Primary 6. This phase of Cambridge Reading aims to develop children's knowledge about language, its vocabulary, forms, structures and styles.

A tribute to 101 groundbreaking discoveries of some of the world's greatest - and not so great - inventors. Dedicated to Leonardo da Vinci, this latest wonderful offering from Marcia Williams is full of her characteristic humour. Packed with cartoon-strip illustrations and short biographies, it looks at the discoveries of many famous - and not-so-famous - inventors from around the world, including Leonardo da Vinci, Antonio Meucci and Alexander Graham Bell, John Logie Baird, Thomas Edison, James Watt and all their predecessors. Three cheers for inventors!;Informative, accessible and fun.;A wonderful introduction to these important historical figures - excellent for classroom study.

PROLOGUE Rarely does anyone think of his or her emotional and learning disabilities as being assets, beneficial, or that they can even be advantageous. The book, For the Love of Flight, examines the life of a young man who was raised in a struggling family that moved from town to town. This young man attended thirteen different schools before graduating from high school. (Fifteen schools including college.) Because he was enrolled in school at the age of four, he was always one to two years younger than his peers were. So during his school years, he was smaller, less mature than his classmates, and constantly the new kid in school. This made him the target of the school bullies. Add to his emotional baggage ADD (attention deficient disorder), and the subsequent bad grades; it’s no wonder that from an early age he had no self-esteem and was cast by society and himself to be a failure. But he had a dream; he wanted to fly. Little did he know that flying would be the therapy, the antidote for the baggage that he was issued and that his ADD made him a natural pilot. But the greatest challenge that he would ever face wouldn’t be the missions he flew in Vietnam or the near-fatal flights as a civilian, but his past when it comes back to haunt him. Now as an EMS (Emergency Medical Service) helicopter pilot, he must reach down deep inside himself to once again find his love of flight.