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This splendid adventure book comes complete with a festive foil cover - perfect for Christmas stockings This is a story about Henry, who thought he couldn't manage without his lucky trucks. One snowy day, when The Fat Controller asked him to pull the Snowy Special - a train full of presents for the children - Henry thought his luck would run out. But as...
Bob the Builder and his machine team are busy in Sunflower Valley. Readers can join in by stroking Scruffty's soft ears, feeling the rough bricks and touching Scoop's shiny yellow paintwork. Can they fix it? Yes, they can! # Pages: 10 # Publication date: 3 August 2009 # Dimensions: 160x160mm # Format: Board # Age range: 1+
Description: In a triumph of contemporary storytelling, Picoult presents a fascinating portrait of Amish life rarely witnessed by those outside the faith--and discovers a place where circumstances are not always what they seem, where love meets falsehood, and where relationships grow strong enough to span two worlds. Description: From the bestselling...
Two brothers, Arthur and Jake, are the sons of a local farmer in the mid-1930s, when life is tough and another world war is looming. Arthur is reticent, solid, dutiful, set to inherit the farm and his father's character; Jake is younger, attractive, mercurial and dangerous to know. A young woman, Laura, comes into the community and tips the fragile...
From the author of the best-selling Snow Falling on Cedars, a dazzling new novel about youth and idealism, adulthood and its compromises, and two powerfully different visions of what it means to live a good life. John William Barry has inherited the pedigree;and wealth—of two of Seattle's elite families; Neil Countryman is blue-collar Irish. Nevertheless,...
It is 1962 and the Second World War has been over for seventeen years: people have now had a chance to adjust to the new order. But it's not been easy. The Mediterranean has been drained to make farmland, the population of Africa has virtually been wiped out and America has been divided between the Nazis and the Japanese. In the neutral buffer zone that...
The latest in the bestselling Alfred series from number one historical novelist, Bernard Cornwell. In the last years of the ninth century, King Alfred of Wessex is in failing health, and his heir is an untested youth. The Danes, who have failed so many times to conquer Wessex, smell opportunity! First comes Harald Bloodhair, a savage warrior leading a...
Annie Proulx's highly acclaimed, international bestseller and Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Quoyle is a hapless, hopeless hack journalist living and working in New York. When his no-good wife is killed in a spectacular road accident, Quoyle heads for the land of his forefathers -- the remotest corner of far-flung Newfoundland. With 'the aunt' and his...
Annotation Presents a collection of twelve writings on war and peace that range from a recollection of the destruction of Dresden in WW II to a short story about 3 privates and their fantasies of the perfect first meal upon returning home from war, to a darker, poignant story about the impossibility of shielding our children from the temptations of...
When Joe, Beth and Frannie move to a new home, an Enchanted Wood is on their doorstep. And when they discover the Faraway Tree, that is the beginning of many magical adventures! Join them and their friends Moonface, Saucepan Man and Silky the fairy as they discover which new land is at the top of the Faraway Tree. Will it be the Land of Spells, the Land...
Description: The super-seller memoir of a Cherokee boyhood in the 1930s. The most sensitive and evocative autobiographical account ever of the Cherokee way, as seen through the eyes of a young boy in the Appalachian Mountains. Description: This story has entranced readers of all ages since it was first published twenty-five years ago. The tale tells the...
Set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, this is the story of a wounded soldier, Inman, who escapes the army and tries to make his way home to Cold Mountain and to Ada, the woman he left behind when the war began. Description: In 1997, Charles Frazier's debut novel Cold Mountain made publishing history when it sailed to the top of The New York...
First single-volume publication of Pulitzer Prize-winning Spiegelman's two Holocaust cartoons, "Maus I" and "Maus II". Combined here are "Maus I: A Survivor's Tale" and "Maus II" - the complete story of Vladek Spiegelman and his wife, living and surviving in Hitler's Europe. By addressing the Holocaust through cartoons the author captures the everyday...
Usborne’s Everyday Words books help readers learn, revise and enrich their vocabulary * Excellent for young children learning to read, or speak another language, these enchanting picture word books feature thousands of Jo Litchfield’s miniature hand-modelled characters and objects * Includes a dictionary, vocabulary-builder and spelling and...
* A series of fun stories using very simple synthetic phonic-based text. * Synthetic phonic learning is the process of reading by sounding the individual sounds of a word and then blending them together to read the word as a whole. * With fold out flaps to make the reading experience more interactive. * Written in conjunction with an educational...
* Each double-page shows a different room in the house, and introduces children to the names of objects found there. * Robust tabs on the pages enable children to quickly locate their favourite scenes. * Illustrated with Jo Litchfield’s handmade models. * A great way to get talking about familiar objects and learn new words. * Series...