Twelve classic Hans Christian Andersen fairy tales enchantingly illustrated and specially retold for younger readers. Includes the best-loved characters of ‘Thumbelina’ ‘The Little Mermaid’ and ‘The Ugly Duckling’, as well as a biography of Hans Christian Andersen. Beautifully bound in a padded hardback, ...
Jane Griffiths writes mysteriously resonant poems about home, exile and shifting frontiers in classically precise language. "Another Country" presents a selection from her first two collections, "A Grip on Thin Air" and "Icarus on Earth", as well as a whole collection of new work. Where the earlier books ...
The brand new hilarious and fully-illustrated instalment of the bestselling Tom Gates series! Having two sets of grandparents is turning out to be very good for me. The Wrinklies are keen on giving presents AND they\''re planning a family outing which is going to be EPIC! Even Delia wants to come. (I ...
A whimsical read-aloud of delicious answers to ridiculous questions about what can - and cannot - be done in the kitchen!Food critic and author Joshua David Stein tackles the world of cookery with his signature quirk and charm. From the practical ("Can I fry a scoop of gelato?") to the playful ("Do frozen ...
Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls 2 is an entirely new collection of 100 more bedtime stories about extraordinary women from all over the world. It boasts a brand new graphic design + 100 incredible new portraits created by the best female artists of our time. Having a passionate community that spans ...
A Puffin Book - stories that last a lifetime. Puffin Modern Classics are relaunched under a new logo: A Puffin Book. There are 20 titles to collect in the series, listed below, all with exciting new covers and fun-filled endnotes. Clive King''s Stig of the Dump is a much-loved modern classic. It is the ...
Starring the same little girl in the same charming illustration style as Hello In There!, In My Heart explores emotions—happiness, sadness, bravery, anger, shyness and more. Unlike other feelings books that tend to oversimplify, In My Heart lyrically explains what an emotion feels like, physically, inside. ...
This astonishingly inventive title allows young children to discover the inner workings of the human body in a gently humorous, yet wholly accurate way. Bright, original colour illustrations and diagrams display all the major organs of the human body and are accompanied by witty, clear and informative ...
As legend has it, the storyteller Aesop was a slave who lived in ancient Greece during the sixth century B.C. His memorable, recountable fables have brought amusing characters to life and driven home thought-provoking morals for generations of listeners and modern-day readers. Translated into countless ...
Great fun flap book packed with interesting information about space, and the amazing things that float through it - stars, moons, comets, and the planets of our solar system.
This revised and expanded edition of Tolkien''s own Hobbit-inspired poetry includes previously unpublished poems and notes, and is beautifully illustrated by Narnia artist Pauline Baynes. ''Here is something that no devotee of the Hobbit epic can afford to miss, while awaiting a further instalment of ...
This pack contains 12 cool vampire stickers from three cutting-edge artists: Nebojsa Matkovic is a freelance graphic designer from Novi Sad, Serbia; Citizen Panic is a skateboarding-inspired illustrator from Belgium; Iain Burke loves classic horror and is based in Brooklyn, New York City. These extra-large ...
An easy-to-use guide to grammar and punctuation with sections on nouns, pronouns, verbs, apostrophes, quotation marks and more. Clear explanations, fun illustrations and lively example sentences will help children develop their writing style and skills and there are short quizzes to test their knowledge. ...
This book teaches pre-schoolers how to describe size simply by having them ask the question ‘Who’s the biggest?’ to the pair of objects on every spread. The fun….
Europe in 1945 was prostrate. Much of the continent was devastated by war, mass slaughter, bombing and chaos. Large areas of Eastern Europe were falling under Soviet control, exchanging one despotism for another. Today, the Soviet Union is no more and the democracies of the European Union reach as far ...
GAME OF THRONES: A NEW ORIGINAL SERIES, NOW ON HBO.In this eagerly awaited sequel to A Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin has created a work of unsurpassed vision, power, and imagination. A Clash of Kings transports us to a world of revelry and revenge, wizardry and warfare unlike any you have ever ...
In 1985 Jeanette Winterson\''s first novel, "Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit", was published. It was Jeanette\''s version of the story of a terraced house in Accrington, an adopted child, and the thwarted giantess Mrs Winterson. It was a cover story, a painful past written over and repainted. It was a ...
Sedemnásťročná Carrie je outsiderka v škole i v živote. Odmalička robí všetko pre to, aby sa vyrovnala ostatným, ale nedarí sa jej. Nepeknú, neobľúbenú, zakríknutú stredoškoláčku ešte aj doma priam terorizuje fanaticky nábožná matka. Carrie si však jedného dňa uvedomí svoje mimoriadne vrodené schopnosti, ...
The complete fourth novel from Stephenie\''s Meyer\''s bestselling Twilight Saga, now with a gorgeous new cover to match the film artwork. To be irrevocably in love with a vampire is both fantasy and nightmare woven into a dangerously heightened reality for Bella Swan. Pulled in one direction by her ...
