Books with author christopher lampton

Christopher Norton (born June 22, 1953) was born in New Zealand and is a British pianist and composer. Norton obtained a degree in music from the University of Otago in 1974. He taught music in Wellington high schools, worked as a composer-in-schools for a year, then free-lanced as a composer, arranger and pianist. He moved to the UK in 1977 on a New Zealand Government Scholarship. His earliest publications were with Universal Edition in London, and included Carol Jazz - improvisations on Christmas tunes - and Sing'n'Swing, for choir, piano and percussion. Boosey & Hawkes signed Norton in 1983, and the first of the Microjazz series appeared, an educational music series that has expanded over 30 years to include music for all of the major instruments with piano, ensemble books, backing tracks and midi-file backings. As of 2015 it ranked as the biggest selling music series for Boosey & Hawkes, with well over a million sales to that date.[citation needed] Boosey & Hawkes claims that it is "one of the most widely used educational series ever published."[1] Norton's other publications with Boosey & Hawkes include the Essential Guides to Pop, Latin and Jazz Styles, the Rock, Country, Latin and Jazz Preludes series, and the Christopher Norton Concert Collections. Other recently published works include a CD-ROM, So You Wanna Be a Pop Star, tutors for electronic keyboard and guitar, and a volume in Boosey & Hawkes' Buy A Band range. In 2006, Norton gave a microjazz workshop at the Royal Irish Academy of Music in Dublin;[2] he has also held workshops in Australia and New Zealand, Canada and the United States, the Netherlands, Spain, Germany, Malaysia, and Singapore.

Ever since he was a geckling, P.D. Puddleskipper dreamed of exploring the world just beyond the Kapok tree. For P.D. life was more than simply gathering grubs and lounging about in the sun like other geckos. Life was an adventure! But not until a terrible metal beast attacks the Emerald Forest does he finally get his chance. Piloting his latest invention, an airship called the Puddlejumper, P.D. leads his friends, fellow lizard Flora Springtail, a tree frog named Blinky, and a sleepy tree sloth named Waffles on an incredible journey in search of a new home. Join the crew of the Puddlejumper as they bravely venture forth across the Emerald Forest, battling sticky-fingered fruit bats and slippery snakes, exploring far-away places, looking for lost treasure, and making new friends along the way. From Way-Up peak to the Rollie-Roo River, the Cave of Song to the Great Kapok Tree, P.D. and his friends learn the value of friendship through their exciting adventures.

This is the second picture book about Rubear, a little almost-real cub bear who, after being rescued in Algonquin park by the author, has more adventures. In the first book, Rubear was found abandoned and without rear legs. The author made new ones for him out of wood and with these Rubear went on to do great things! In this book Rubear earns some Ranger badges while having fun and learning about camping in Algonquin. Algonquin Park is a beautifull wilderness area in Ontario, Canada. The book also has a Rubear game which young and old can play to race around by canoe and portage. There is as well some coloring pages of Rubear and his new friend Star. Believe or not the little cub also built a full-size ( for him that is) three foot canoe. So the book includes full instructions with pictures on how to build a canoe from cardboard or birchbark.