' This book is produced out of an enthusiastic belief in people & a desire to encourage them to take charge of their lives. If difficulties & problems are ganging up on you & your confidence is shaky, it is hoped that this book may make you realize that you can indeed handle whatever comes & handle it well. ' Norman Vincent Peale from his Letter to the reader. ITS ALWAYS TOO SOON TO QUIT Everyone has problems at some point in their lives. They occur every day in business, family & personal life. Sometimes they seem insurmountable, or there are just too many of them for us to feel able to cope. This book will give you hope -and practical strategies to face the future with complete confidence. You Can If You Think You Can shows you how to develop self-trust & motivation, how to forget fear & build calmness, how to recognise problems as challenges & how to tap all your inner resources to live your life to the full. ...

Robin Davies is both a shrewd observer & an energetic actor in a drama that takes him from school to Oxford. With him we live through all the pangs of a pre-war adolescence in South London, & on through his rites of passage to adulthood, involving rebellion, self-discovery, sex, seduction & commitment. You Can't Do Both is classic Amis
- brilliantly funny, outrageous, & alive to every social nuance; it is also tender, compellingly insightful & strongly autobiographical.
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When the story opens, Megan who is a foster mother, has two children in her charge: Anna a 12 year old who is, 'rather given to magical thinking' & Raymond who is 10 & never speaks to anyone. Both children have sad broken backgrounds; Anna (in her fourth foster home) fantasises that her debt-ridden, alcoholic mother is a famous actress & Raymond's totally unreliable mother rarely comes to see him. Sam, a frightened rabbit of a child, rejected by his family because of lameness & pebble specs is the next to join the foster family & then Brent arrives dramatically in the middle of the night
- a tearaway teenager totally beyond the control of his unimaginative, intellectual father. All four of Megan's foster children have difficulties to overcome in the house high above the river, where each one of them becomes involved in some way with the mysterious river woman. It is impossible not to be totally drawn into the pattern of Brent, Anna, Raymond & Sam's lives in this imaginative & compassionate novel.
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Imagine you could go anywhere, with anyone & do anything. Where would you live? Where would you sleep? Who would be your friends? What games would you play? Go on... you choose! With the help of Nick Sharratt's wonderfully detailed illustrations, Pippa Goodhart looks at a whole range of scenarios where choosing is made fun! ...

Imagine you could go anywhere, with anyone & do anything. Where would you live? Where would you sleep? Who would be your friends? What games would you play? Go on... You choose!
With a simple text & vibrant illustrations children will love creating their own stories & letting their imagination run wild!

Now with a wonderfully fun story sticker frieze! Readers have the power to decide how the story should unfold. With over forty vibrant stickers, their creations can be as normal or as wacky as they want


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