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Today we are going to write a story with a Macguffin in. What's a Macguffin I hear you ask? It's a valuable object in a story that both the hero ...
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Read Lily's school report and create your own… The other day as I was searching through a pile of old historical papers left behind long ago by the Hartman family, ...
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Make a mechanical or mechanimal roller animation flip-book… You will need an A4 piece of paper and a long pencil. Fold your paper down the middle vertically, to make one ...
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Build your own Victorian animation toy… What is a zoetrope? A zoetrope is a Victorian animation toy that produce the illusion of motion by displaying a sequence of drawings that ...
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Write your own Victorian style penny dreadful story… Penny Dreadfuls were popular in the 19th Century, full of suspense, action and mystery, have a go at writing your own… Download ...
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Play a Skycircus spot the difference game and draw your own circus invitation… Download this work sheet ...
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When I write a new book I like to create a Pinterest board to collect images to inspire the story. It is a bit like making a scrapbook, but online ...
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Find ten Moonlocket related words with this catastrophic and courageous word search! Download this worksheet ...
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Colour in your own version of the Cogheart cover… Cogheart cover art by Katherine Millichope & Becca Stadtlander © Usborne Publishing, 2017 Download this work sheet ...
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Write your own Cogheart review on this classroom worksheet… Download this work sheet ...
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Cogheart Display - Egerton Primary Create a Cogheart display for your school or library… Apologies, that I couldn't tag everyone's name, but thanks to all the amazing teachers who sent ...
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Find ten Cogheart related words with this daring and dastardly word search! ...
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Can you guide Lily through the Moonlocket maze to reach Malkin? ...
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Draw your own literary map like the ones in the Cogheart Adventures… Download the Cogheart map of London Download the Moonlocket map of Brackenbridge Maps illustrated by Becca Stadtlander and ...
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Create your own paper puppets from Cogheart and Skycircus… Download this worksheet… ...
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Below you can see how the Moonlocket cover was designed by Kath Millichope and illustrated by Becca Stadtlander… How Kath and Becca designed the Moonlocket cover Now that you've have ...
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In the fourth Cogheart Adventure Shadowsea, Lily, Robert Malkin take a trip in a submarine, where they get in all kinds of trouble again! This time submerged beneath the Atlantic ...
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A mechanimal is a mechanical-animal a bit like Malkin in Cogheart. They are mechanical pets who you need to wind up to make go, and they have their own skills ...
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Seven top tips to help you try and write the first draft of your novel… (These are some tips I wrote for people who want to spend a long time ...
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Download these free Cogheart Adventures gifs… Right-click to download these free Cogheart gifs and share The Cogheart Adventures ...
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