A gripping World War II adventure from War Horse author & former Children's Laureate Michael Morpurgo Jo did not stop until he'd shut the door behind him & even then his heart could not stop pounding in his ears Jo finds out that Jewish children are being smuggled away from the Nazis over the mountains near his village All goes to plan until German soldiers start patrolling the mountains & Jo realises the children are trapped Jo'EURO (t)s slightest mistake could have devastating consequences Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal & Guardian Fiction award In the tradition of Goodnight Mr Tom Carrie's War The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas & perfect for fans of The Bone Sparrow Waiting for Anya is a novel that takes children to the heart of a tumultuous period in history It will provide a wider context for kids who have studied the Holocaust & The Diary of Anne Frank Other Michael Morpurgo titles you may enjoy The Eagle in the Snow Listen to the Moon A Twist of Gold Private Peaceful ------ Former Children's Laureate Michael Morpurgo needs no introduction He is one of the most successful children's authors in the country loved by children teachers & parents alike Michael has written more than forty books for children including the global hit War Horse which was made into a Hollywood film by Steven Spielberg in 2011 Several of his other stories have been adapted for screen & stage including My Friend Walter Why the Whales Came & Kensuke's Kingdom Michael has won the Whitbread Award the Smarties Award the Circle of Gold Award the Children's Book Award & has been short-listed for the Carnegie Medal four times He started the charity Farms for City Children in 1976 with his wife Clare aimed at relieving the poverty of experience many young children feel in inner city & urban areas Michael is also a patron of over a dozen other charities Living in Devon listening to Mozart & working with children have provided Michael with the ideas & incentive to write his stories He spends half his life mucking out sheds with the children feeding sheep or milking cows; the other half he spends dreaming up & writing stories for children For me the greater part of writing is daydreaming dreaming the dream of my story until it hatches out
- the writing down of it I always find hard But I love finishing it then holding the book in my hand & sharing my dream with my readers Michael received an OBE in December 2006 for his services to literature
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When you're small waiting for anything can seem to take a lifetime especially when it's a baby! There is so much to sort out for the new arrival
- clothes toys & a place to sleep A new addition to any family is exciting but the experience can also be worrying & confusing for siblings Coping with the new situations & emotions that arise can be very challenging This series of four board books deals with the anticipation of waiting for the new baby the excitement of the arrival itself & the beginnings of the special relationship that develops between siblings The simple conversational text & lively illustrations are carefully designed to encourage further dialogue between reader & child
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The second in the award winning British Comedy TV series featuring two elderly residents at the ' Bay view Retirement Village' who refuse to succumb to old age & the lifestyle that expectedly goes with it ...

The fourth in the award winning British Comedy TV series featuring two elderly residents at the ' Bay view Retirement Village' who refuse to succumb to old age & the lifestyle that expectedly goes with it ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play All seven episodes from the first series of the BBC sitcom starring Stephanie Cole as Diana Trent & Graham Crowden as Tom Ballard two prickly residents of the Bayview Retirement Village who aren&t quite ready to give up on life yet In this series Diana has to do all she can to cheer up Tom after a health scare Diana might be in trouble after covering up her medical information & Diana tries to restart her career as a photojournalist Episodes are & Welcome to Bayview&; &A Trip to Brighton&; & Cheering Up Tom&; & The Christening&; & Fraulein Mueller&; & The Psychiatrist&; & & The Helicopter& ...

Nothing happens nobody comes nobody goes it's awful' This line from the play was adopted by Jean Anouilh to characterize the first production of Waiting for Godot at the Theatre de Babylone in 1953 He went on to predict that the play would in time represent the most important premiere to be staged in Paris for forty years Nobody acquainted with Beckett's masterly black comedy would now question this prescient recognition of a classic of twentieth-century literature ...

Subtitled 'A tragicomedy in two Acts' & famously described by the Irish critic Vivien Mercier as a play in which 'nothing happens twice' En attendant Godot was first performed at the Theatre de Babylone in Paris in 1953 It was translated into English by Samuel Beckett & Waiting for Godot opened at the Arts Theatre in London in 1955 ' Go & see Waiting for Godot At the worst you will discover a curiosity a four-leaved clover a black tulip; at the best something that will securely lodge in a corner of your mind for as long as you live' Harold Hobson 7 August 1955'I told him that if by Godot I had meant God I would have said God & not Godot This seemed to disappoint him greatly' Samuel Beckett 1955 ...

Meet Oz he&s got a talent for trouble but his heart&s always in the right place (well nearly always) Uprooted from his friends & former life Oz finds himself stranded in the sleepy village of Slowleigh When a joke backfires on the first day at his new school Oz attracts the attention of Isobel Skinner the school psycho
- but that&s just the beginning After causing an accident that puts his mum in hospital Oz isn&t exactly popular at home either His older sister&s no help but then she&s got a problem of her own one that&s growing bigger by the day Oz knows he&s got to put things right but life isn&t that simple especially when the only people still talking to you are a hobbit-obsessed kid & a voice in your own head! Packed with action heart & humour Waiting for Gonzo takes you for a white-knuckle ride on the Wheel of Destiny as it careers out of control down the Hillside of Inevitability The question is do you go down laughing? Or grit your teeth & jump off?
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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERVienna 1913 Lysander Rief a young English actor sits in the waiting room of the city's preeminent psychiatrist as he anxiously ponders the particularly intimate nature of his neurosis When the enigmatic intensely beautiful Hettie Bull walks in Lysander is immediately drawn to her unaware of how destructive the consequences of their subsequent affair will be One year later home in London Lysander finds himself entangled in the dangerous web of wartime intelligence
- a world of sex scandal & spies that is slowly steadily permeating every corner of his life
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A personal exploration of the mysterious world of birds through a single year 368 pages Richardson Rosamond ...