Katie In London

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While their Grandmother is asleep they experience a wonderful adventure when a stone lion comes to life and gives them an insiders guide to London. Join our community to get personalised book suggestions, extracts straight to your inbox, 10% off RRPs, and to change children’s lives. In a PE lesson you could link it to the fire of London and do lots of movements that could represent a fire spreading. James created his first Katie book 'Katie's Picture Show' over twenty years ago as a way to share his enthusiasm for art with children.

Join them on a whirlwind tour of the sights, including the Tower of London, the London Eye and Buckingham Palace! When Katie and her brother Jack visit London with Grandma, something very unexpected happens… One of the Trafalgar Square lions comes to life and takes them on a wonderful tour of the city including Buckingham Palace, the Tower of London, Big Ben and the London Eye. This would be a lovely way to introduce any child to London, perhaps as a way to calm nerves before a first trip or as a way to reminisce after visiting. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.Together Katie and her brother Jack travel with one of the famous Trafalgar lions and take us on a journey to all these places. James Mayhew has a series of books about Katie that are usually introducing children to a particular artist.

He has made regular appearances at the National Galleries in Edinburgh and London and visits many schools, and arts and literary festivals. It follows the adventures of Katie and her younger brother Jack who take a tour around London on the back of a golden lion from Trafalgar Square. James Mayhew's first book for children was Katie's Pictures Show, (Orchard Books 1989) establishing the long running series about a child's adventures in an art gallery. Visiting the incredible and famous landmarks that London has to offer are beautiful illustrated in this story.

From Peter and the Wolf, to Scheherazade, James has worked internationally with many different orchestras and musicians, creating illustrations in time to music. Katie and her brother are taken on a tour of the sights of London, they take in Trafalgar Square, The London Eye and Buckingham Palace in the company of their friend the Lion. His collaborators include the London Mozart Players, BBC National Orchestra of Wales and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. It has some further information at the back of the book for those who want to know more about some of the places and, of course, if you're planning a trip to London to take part in any of the celebrations this would be a nice way to show a child what there is to see. Many of his books have a cultural agenda and James is passionate about introducing children to art, music, opera, ballet and traditional tales.