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Authors
Pupil's Book and Activity Book: Caroline Nixon & Michael Tomlinson Teacher's Book: Lucy Frino, Melanie Williams with Caroline Nixon & Michael Tomlinson Teacher's Resource Book: Kathryn Escribano with Caroline Nixon & Michael Tomlinson
My Home Booklet: Kirstie Grainger
The authors and publishers are grateful to the following illustrators:
Melanie Sharp, c/o Sylvie Poggio; Lisa Williams c/o Sylvie Poggio; Lisa Smith c/o Sylvie Poggio; Emily Skinner c/o Graham-Cameron Illustration
Thanks and Acknowledgements
Authors' thanks
Many thanks to everyone at Cambridge University Press and in particular to:
Rosemary Bradley for supervising the whole project and for her keen editorial eye; Emily Hird for her energy, enthusiasm and enormous organisational capacity; Colin Sage for his hard work, good ideas and helpful suggestions; Claire Appleyard for her editorial contribution; Julieta Hernández for supervising the ESS Second Edition. A special thank you goes to Juan González Cué, our Production Controller for the ESS Second Edition.
Many thanks to Karen Elliot for her expertise and enthusiasm in the writing of the Phonics sections.
We would also like to thank all our pupils and colleagues at Star English, El Palmar, Murcia and especially Jim Kelly and Julie Woodman for their help and suggestions at various stages of the project.
The publishers are grateful to the following contributors:
Carrie Lewis and Inés Avello: freelance editors
Lanchuela: additional design and page make-up
Louise Edgeworth: picture research and art direction
Wild Apple Design Ltd: page design
Blooberry: additional design
Chefer and Eduardo Bertone: cover design and illustration
Melanie Sharp: cover characters illustration
John Green and Tim Woolf, TEFL Audio: audio recordings; Craig Stevenson, BraveArts. S.L.
Robert Lee: song writing
Dedications
I would like to dedicate this book to the women who have been my pillars of strength: Milagros Marín, Sara de Alba, Elia Navarro and Maricarmen Balsalobre - CN
To Paloma, for her love, encouragement and unwavering support. Thanks. - MT
The Authors and Publishers would like to thank the following teachers for their help in reviewing the material and for the invaluable feedback they provided:
Mira Grbic, Knjizara Cambridge Centar, Bosnia and Herzegovina; Silvia Fiorese, Cultura Inglesa, Brazil; Clara Ribeiro Haddad, Lourenço Castanho School, Brazil; Maria Teresa Sepúlveda Leiva, Universidad Santo Tomás, Chile; Milica Bili´c-Štefan, Zagreb, Croatia; Nemat Matta, ELT consultant, Egypt; Catherine Johnson-Stefanidou, Johnson-Stefanidi School of Foreign Languages, Thessaloniki, Greece; Rupert Procter and Sean Fox, ABC Pathways School, Hong Kong; Sandra Fox, Gorgonzola, Italy; Hector López López, Colegio Latino Cardenas, Tabasco, Mexico; Y Paez, L Ruiz, Colegio Fernandez de Lizardi, Morelia Michoacán, Mexico; Dorota Czos, Warsaw, Poland; Katarzyna Nicholls, Teacher Trainer, Poland; Fiona Dunbar, Seville, Spain; Carmen Zahonero, Academia Aleza, Madrid Spain; Tuba Bada, Adana Gundogdu Koleji, Adana, Turkey; Celia Gasgil, MEV Özel Izmir Ilkögretin Okulu, Izmir, Turkey.
The authors and publishers would like to thank the following consultants for their invaluable feedback:
Coralyn Bradshaw, Pippa Mayfield, Hilary Ratcliff, Melanie Williams.
We would also like to thank all the teachers who allowed us to observe their classes, and who gave up their invaluable time for interviews and focus groups.
The authors and publishers are grateful to the following illustrators:
Adrain Barclay, c/o Beehive Illustration; Kelly Kennedy c/o Sylvie Poggio; Melanie Sharp, c/o Sylvie Poggio; Beatrice Costamanga c/o Bright Agency; Gary Swift; Lisa Williams, c/o Sylvie Poggio; Emily Skinner, c/o Graham-Cameron Illustration; Chris Garbutt, c/o Arena; Lucía Serrano Guerrero (English for Spanish Speakers Edition).
The authors and publishers would like to thank the children at St Matthew’s Primary School, Cambridge, for participating so enthusiastically in the photograph sessions.