Celebrated for beautiful yet challenging paintings of women in diverse architectural contexts, from luxury Los Angeles hotels to temporary social housing, from nail bars to nighttime parties, Caroline Walker deftly broaches subjects including the pay gap, migrant workers, the beauty industry, domestic life, gender stereotypes and ageism.
Tom is a big cat. Or is he...? Ted picks the red duck. Will it win?
Tim and Dad mix up pancakes. Can Ned get one? Ned can run and sit. Will Ned and Tim get the cup?
Oscar loves computer games and coding, but when his mum drags him around a draughty castle he might be in for the adventure of his life. After finding a secret door, Oscar steps back in time to medieval times and soon finds himself in the middle of a plot to kill the king. Can Oscar use his codebreaking skills to stop the plot and return home?
This story is part of Reading Champion, a series carefully linked to book bands to encourage independent reading skills, developed with Dr Sue Bodman and Glen Franklin of UCL Institute of Education (IOE)
This story is part of Reading Champion, a series carefully linked to book bands to encourage independent reading skills, developed with Dr Sue Bodman and Glen Franklin of UCL Institute of Education (IOE)
This story is part of Reading Champion, a series carefully linked to book bands to encourage independent reading skills, developed with Dr Sue Bodman and Glen Franklin of UCL Institute of Education (IOE)
Celebrated for her paintings of women in diverse contexts, from luxury Los Angeles hotels to temporary social housing, Caroline Walker navigates subjects including the pay gap, the beauty industry, gender stereotypes and ageism. Here she presents a body of work depicting the daily life of the artist's mother at the family home in Fife, Scotland.
This story is part of Reading Champion, a series carefully linked to book bands to encourage independent reading skills, developed with Dr Sue Bodman and Glen Franklin of UCL Institute of Education (IOE)
MacDonald 'Max' Gill (1884-1947) was an architect, letterer, mural painter and graphic artist of the first half of the twentieth century, best known for his pioneering pictorial poster maps including the whimsical Wonderground Map of London Town. His beautiful painted panel maps decorate the Palace of Westminster and Lindisfarne Castle and the alphabet he designed in 1918 is still used on the British military headstone.He enjoyed close links with many leading figures in the arts & crafts world: the architects Sir Charles Nicholson, Sir Edwin Lutyens and Halsey Ricardo, the calligrapher Edward Johnston, Frank Pick of the London Underground, and of course his brother - the sculptor and typographer Eric Gill.Overshadowed in recent times by his controversial sibling, MacDonald Gill was nevertheless a significant artist of his time. With much of his four-decade output touching on the remarkable events and developments of his time - including two world wars, the decline of Empire, the advent of flight, and innovations in communications technology, his work also takes on a unique historical importance.Drawing chiefly from family archives, this biography of MacDonald Gill is the first publication to tell the story of this complex and talented man.