Musgrove the nanny of Notting Hill is back in this classic Christmas tale from Ilona Rodgers. In their latest adventure, Musgrove and Hermione venture beyond Notting Hill to spend Christmas in the countryside with Musgrove's aunt Aurelia. While there, Hermione learns all about Musgrove's eccentric family, especially his cousin Reggie, who arrives in his aeroplane, 'The Flying Rat' on Christmas Eve....along with a special guest.
Musgrove, the Nanny of Notting Hill is a beautifully written children's book following the adventures of Hermione's nanny, Musgrove. Its delightful illustrations and endearing charaters make this book especially captivating. This book was written for the 3-5 year old market and is the first of a series.
Here is the fifth in the brilliant series of books about Musgrove the nanny rat of Notting Hill, a series which is treasured by all small children from 3 to 5 years of age who know the existing titles. Musgrove in Kensington Gardens tells of nanny Musgrove taking his Hermione to the Princess Diana playground in Kensington Gardens. Then they find that so many boys and girls are queuing up to swing that Musgrove has to improvise an entirely original solution by the use of his Aunt Aurelia s wondrous scarf.
Musgrove the rat is a reliable and responsible nanny, looking after young Hermione. This remarkable character, with his bowler hat on his head and newspaper under his arm, resides in the Notting Hill area of London. Under Musgrove's care, the little girl has magical and intriguing adventures. In this short story, Hermione is astounded to find some
In this tale, Musgrove and Hermione discover a giant vegetable in Kensington Gardens, and enlist the help of a bizarre array of characters to uproot it. Musgrove and the Monster Turnip is a charming and entertaining re-telling of the classic fairytale, 'The Enormous Turnip' - with a twist.
'Richly documented and convincingly presented' -- New Society Mods and Rockers, skinheads, video nasties, designer drugs, bogus asylum seeks and hoodies. Every era has its own moral panics. It was Stanley Cohen's classic account, first published in the early 1970s and regularly revised, that brought the term 'moral panic' into widespread discussion. It is an outstanding investigation of the way in which the media and often those in a position of political power define a condition, or group, as a threat to societal values and interests. Fanned by screaming media headlines, Cohen brilliantly demonstrates how this leads to such groups being marginalised and vilified in the popular imagination, inhibiting rational debate about solutions to the social problems such groups represent. Furthermore, he argues that moral panics go even further by identifying the very fault lines of power in society. Full of sharp insight and analysis, Folk Devils and Moral Panics is essential reading for anyone wanting to understand this powerful and enduring phenomenon. Professor Stanley Cohen is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics. He received the Sellin-Glueck Award of the American Society of Criminology (1985) and is on the Board of the International Council on Human Rights. He is a member of the British Academy.
It is Hermione's birthday and, returning with her nanny Musgrove from buying the biggest cake ever made by Fortnum and Mason's, they are presented with an amazing gift. Fished out of the lake in St. James's park by a pelican, a baby is deposited in the middle of Hermione's cake. Only when Hermione's party guests have arrived and the cake is brought to the table, is this unforeseen presence revealed, as it struggles through the layers of cake. This new adventure, as do its predecessors, combines enchanting illustrations with a vividly evoked sense of place and a delightful narrative.
