BOOKS
A wide range of Ian MacDonald's childrens fiction and teacher resource books are available to buy now from Educational Printing Services (ePrint). Below is just a selection of Ian's titles. For a complete list and full details of Ian MacDonald's paperbacks click here. To see Ian's Teacher's Resource and Assembly Books click here.
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Ian specialisies in short, easy to read paperbacks for reluctant readers. His stories are filled with amazing characters from strange aliens to skateboarding grannies. He has also written two assembly books for schools and an exciting cross-curricula resource book, Children in Wartime.
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The Mummy's Finger
A school trip to the museum and a mummified finger mysteriously slips from a glass case. When the missing digit turns up in Owen’s pocket, it spells big trouble! Owen, Freddie and Chaz are already on the train... and the ancient mummy’s curse is invoked! The three boys battle against a plague of scorpions, the stinging arrows of resurrected warriors... even the Mummy’s Missus is on the trail in this hilarious chase to return the mummy’s finger!
The Mummy’s Finger is the flesh-creeping sequel to Eyeball Soup and Alien Teeth (see below).
Powder Monkey
One minute Jack is zapping aliens on his key pad - the next he is fetching powder for the guns on board Nelson's flagship, HMS Victory. It is 1805 and Jack, a reluctant time-traveller, finds himself stuck in the middle of preparations for the Battle of Trafalagar. Jack tries to stay in a hammock, climb the masthead in a raging storm... even eat magggoty ship's biscuits! The tension mounts as the Victory advances on the French fleet. With 'horrible history' type fact pages here is a book to appeal to those who like facts and figures, especially boys.
The Magician's Bag
When two bags are accidently swapped at a train station, strange things start to happen to Seb. Disembodied voices echo in train carriages, pencils leap inside bottles and a white rabbit disrupts a school football match. Inside the bag Seb finds a strange map that will lead him to the amulet of an Egyptian princess. But someone else is on the trail too - the owner of the magic bag who plans to steal the priceless treasure!
Sam's Spitfire Summer
Sam's Spitfire Summer captures all the loneliness of the billeting hall and the excitement of finding a crashed Messerschmitt in this thrilling World War Two adventure. Packed with fantastic fact pages about life on the home front, and with amazing illustrations by Charlie Clough, here is a book which vividly portrays a child's-eye-view of life at the outset of the Second World War.
Teaching Wolrd War Two?
Sam's Spifire Summer and Children in Wartime combine to supply ALL YOU NEED to teach life on the Home Front in World War Two Britain.
Alien Teeth
Recommended by the Schools Library Asoociation Boys into Books (5-11)
Alien Teeth is the crazy new sequel to the extremely popular Eyeball Soup. When you accidentally sit on a set of teeth, they can be hard to remove from your bottom...especially when they belong to an alien who left them behind on a flying visit to Earth. The molars belong to Emperor Zarg and he wants them back! Alien Teeth is packed full of schoolboy humour and the narrative hurtles relentlessly from one outrageous disaster to another.
Eyeball Soup
Here are two amazing sci-fi stories in one book! Told with generous helpings of excitement, adventure and humour. Eyeball Soup and Magut the Alien are bound to appeal to young readers, especially boys. These stories introduce science fiction genre in an easy to read form and are short enough to read in a session in guided reading time.
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en in Wartime
Make a model of an Anderson Shelter; investigate materials for blackout curtains; try out real war-time recipes. These are just some of the exciting activities in this comprehensive and creative curriculum resource book about World War Two Britain. With teaching units on Evacuation, Rationing, the Blitz and the Battle of Britain, Children in Wartime has everything teachers could possibly need to teach about life on the Home Front. Packed with cross-curricular lesson plans, ideas and activities in every subject from Art and English to Science and Technology, Children in Wartime is a resource book which brings history to life in every classroom.
*Includes text on CD for easy printing
Mrs Wrelton’s Dinosaur
This, Ian's first published title, Mrs Wrelton's Dinosaur, featured on BBC South East News and on BBC Radio Kent.
Two hilarious stories about Sam and
Spike the dinosaur. Told from the viewpoint of 5 year old Sam, Mrs Wrelton's Dinosaur tells the story of the daring rescue of Spike the dinosaur from the skip on the school playground. Infant pupils will love to have these stories read to them.
Assembly Lines
A missing football boot, time travellers in Ancient Egypt, a weather forecast from Noah's Ark! All feature in this lively and thought provoking assembly book for schools. Twenty-five stories for everyday use, scripts and ideas for class assemblies and complete services for festivals and special occasions. All you could possibly need for assemblies and celebrations in one book.