The Young Oxford Book of Football Stories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Young Oxford Book of Football Stories write by . This book was released on 2000. The Young Oxford Book of Football Stories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Young Oxford Book of Football Stories
The Young Oxford Book of Football Stories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Young Oxford Book of Football Stories write by James Riordan. This book was released on 1998. The Young Oxford Book of Football Stories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A collection of Football Stories, mixing humour, excitement and tension, about professional and amateur teams, girls playing and succeeding, English and German soldiers at Christmas, Gestapo v. Kiev Dynamo - and football poems as well. James Riordan is a distinguished children's book writer, as well as being Professor of Russian at the University of Surrey.
The Young Oxford Book of Sports Stories
The Young Oxford Book of Sports Stories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Young Oxford Book of Sports Stories write by James Riordan. This book was released on 2001. The Young Oxford Book of Sports Stories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Like nothing else, sport today is international. So this book of stories and poems contains a wide range of games played in all English-speaking countries: ice hockey as well as swimming and wrestling, baseball as well as soccer and boxing, cricket as well as fishing and ice dancing, gymnastics as well and running and basketball.All the poems and three of the stories are written by women. Some pit women against men, in swimming and pool. Some pose problems that women face in playing the game according to rules written by men. Some suggest the power and solidarity that sport can give women.The authors come from Britain and Canada, the USA, and the West Indies. They include such well-known writers as Ernest Hemingway, Jack London, Alan Stilltoe, Margaret Atwood, Barry Hines, and Damon Runyan.
The Young Oxford Book of War Stories
The Young Oxford Book of War Stories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Young Oxford Book of War Stories write by James Riordan. This book was released on 2001. The Young Oxford Book of War Stories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Out of the hundreds of wars that ravaged the twentieth century, the three wars covered in this book were the longest and blackest. In total they lasted 20 years and killed nearly 100,000,000 people. The writers in this collection of stories and poems are friend and foe - British and German, Russian and American. The first story is from All Quiet on the Western Front by the German Erich Maria Remarque, perhaps the most moving war novel ever written. Other writers - Russian, German, and English - convey in verse the tragedy and waste of the 'Great War'. The six British Children's writers write about World War II - Robert Westall and Robert Swindells on the 'home' war, Michael Morpugo about a 'war horse', Jill Paton Walsh on the war at sea, and Ian Serraillier and Anne Hohn on refugees in occupied Europe. Young girls - Anne Frank and Tatiana Vassieleva - provide war diaries. Since 1945 no one has suffered as much as the people of Vietnam. In her moving story Rachel Anderson shows not only a nation's suffering but how war can brutalise soldiers. Finally, the women's poems on the two world wars show that war is a woman's affair as well as a man's.
The Young Oxford Book of Train Stories
The Young Oxford Book of Train Stories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Young Oxford Book of Train Stories write by Dennis Hamley. This book was released on 2001. The Young Oxford Book of Train Stories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is a collection of stories which celebrate the fascination of trains and railways - stories of danger and menace, stories of happiness and laughter, spy stories, love stories, murder stories, and, most of all, ghost stories. You'll take mysterious stories on strange, unearthly trains, shovel coal on a steam engine, meet unexpected passengers on Eurostar, run into something very dangerous in an Indian tunnel, see a disaster magically averted in Australia, and encounter a famous rock star (is he really dead?) on theCalifornian Zephyr. Many of the stories have been specially commissioned for this book from well-known children's authors such as Geraldine McCaughrean, Adele Geras, Hilary McKay, Douglas Hill, John Gordon, and Alison Prince. Others are classic stories by writers such as William Mayne, Eleanor Farjeon, and E.Nesbit.
