The witch & her cat fly happily over forests rivers & mountains on their broomstick until a stormy wind blows away the witch's hat bow & wand They are retrieved by a dog a bird & a frog & each animal asks for a ride on the broom They climb on one after the next until the broom is so heavy that it snaps in two! What will happen next as they tumble into a bog & meet a greedy dragon? Ideal for use in the classroom Room on the Broom Big Book is a very funny story of quick wits & friendship Perfect for reading aloud children will be captivated by Julia Donaldson's irresistible verse & Axel Scheffler's spectacular illustrations ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Room On The Broom is a magical tale about friendship & family from best selling author & Children&s Laureate Julia Donaldson & illustrator Axel Scheffler A story about a kind witch who invites a surprising collection of animals to join her on her broom much to the frustration of her cat The gang ultimately saves the witch from a fearsome dragon & in gratitude she rewards them with a magnificent new broom which has room for everyone From the creators of the hugely success of The Gruffalo & The Gruffalo&s Child films Room on the Broom promises to be a beautifully animated half hour film featuring an all-star cast Actors Gillian Anderson Rob Brydon Martin Clunes Sally Hawkins Simon Pegg Timothy Spall & David Walliams Director Max Lang & Jan Lachauer Certificate Universal Suitable for All Year 2012 Screen 169 Languages English Duration 25 minutes (approx) ...

Join the witch & her cat a dog a frog & a bird on a NOISY bumpy broomstick ride The bestselling story from star picture-book pairing Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler
- now an interactive gift book with ten amazing magical sound effects! Room on the Broom Sound Book is from the creators of The Gruffalo which has sold over 135 million copies worldwide
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Join the witch & her animal friends in this must-have sticker book based on the bestselling picture book Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler Packed with games activities & over four hundred stickers Room on the Broom Sticker Book is perfect for journeys rainy days & school holidays
- a great gift for any child & a must for Halloween
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Set in a top London hotel this sitcom charts the hilarious complications & domestic disasters that beset a motley team of room-service waiters from missing tips to vanishing brides amorous dog owners to Triads Among them is Matthew Kelly in an early television role alongside veteran character player Bryan Pringle as the department&s formidable manager Mr Spooner a man who&s more than capable of a little skulduggery in order to save the reputation of his staff Room Service was penned by Jimmy Perry who with David Croft formed one of the most successful comedy-writing partnerships of all time the endlessly popular Dad&s Army & It Ain&t Half Hot Mum! featuring among their many credits This set contains all seven episodes alongside the unscreened pilot episode which features a different actor as Mr Spooner ...

A major film starring Brie Larson winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress & the Best Actress BAFTAShortlisted for the Man Booker Prize Shortlisted for the Orange Prize Jack is five He lives in a single locked room with his Ma Room by Emma Donoghue is an extraordinarily powerful story of a mother & child kept in isolation & the desire for & price of freedom ' Room is a book to read in one sitting When it's over you look up the world looks the same but you are somehow different & that feeling lingers for days' Audrey Niffenegger author of The Time Traveler's Wife ...

Writers' relationships with their surroundings are seldom straightforward While some like Jane Austen & Thomas Mann wrote novels set where they were staying (Lyme Regis & Venice respectively) Victor Hugo penned Les Miserables in an attic in Guernsey & Noel Coward wrote that most English of plays Blithe Spirit in the Welsh holiday village of Portmeirion Award-winning BBC drama producer Adrian Mourby follows his literary heroes around the world exploring 50 places where great works of literature first saw the light of day At each destination
- from the Brontes' Yorkshire Moors to the New York of Truman Capote Christopher Isherwood's Berlin to the now-legendary Edinburgh cafe where JK Rowling plotted Harry Potter's first adventures
- Mourby explains what the writer was doing there & describes what the visitor can find today of that great moment in literature Rooms of One's Own takes you on a literary journey from the British Isles to Paris Berlin New Orleans New York & Bangkok & unearths the real-life places behind our best-loved works of literature

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Rooms The Main Building is a single player puzzle game for Nintendo DSDSi that challenges players to find their way out of a confusing world of more than 100 2D rooms that are inexplicably jumbled into tiled segments The game utilizes a sliding tile game mechanic to move through these settings as well as a set of special items like ladders or phones that can be overlaid on the play area to bypass problematic areas Additional features include a level editor & the ability to share levels with other players over a Nintendo Wi-Fi connection Rooms Like None You Have Ever Seen In Rooms The Main Building players walk into a mystery like none they have ever experienced An invitation abruptly arrived at your doorstep diverts you to the entrance of a world that is physically scrambled yet filled with mystic beauty In that world you need to reach the exit by sliding the pieces of rooms in the same way as a slide puzzle At the same time you must use fantastic devices to navigate through each of these rooms The solution is only a doorstep away Getting there is the easy part Finding a way home will be the adventure Gameplay Rooms The Main Building is a point-&-click puzzle game that utilizes the classic sliding tile puzzle mechanic to challenge the player to move through a gameworld made up of more than 100 rooms that have been inexplicably rearranged To escape these rooms players use the DS stylus or their finger to click on the blank areas next to the section of the room that your character is in This shifts your character to that section But think ahead & plan accordingly to avoid problem areas or circumstance that may block your path In addition to spatially oriented thinking special items can also help you through your journey For instance use a ladder to climb vertically to a new room section or teleport to entirely new areas or rooms via one of the mysterious telephones available throughout the game These items & more can be found at various spots in the play area or in the central area connecting rooms know as " Rooms Street" Here you can also interact with non-player characters & get a better understanding of how this jumbled world came to be A unique point-&-click puzzle adventure for Nintendo DSDSi that is based on the classic sliding tile puzzle mechanic Play inside of intuitive & amusing rooms as you use objects & your wits to escape Over 100 rooms to traverse as you make your way through the buildings of this mystifying world Explore the additional play area of " Rooms Street" where you can interact with non-player characters find useful items & more

Includes:: a level editor to create your own levels The ability to share levels wirelessly via a Nintendo Wi-Fi connection allows players to share their creations with friends

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Salvador Dali once asked room service at Le Meurice in Paris to send him up a flock of sheep When they were brought to his room he pulled out a gun & fired blanks at them George Bernard Shaw tried to learn the tango at Reid's Palace in Madeira & the details of India's independence were worked out in the ballroom of the Imperial Hotel Delhi The world's grandest hotels have provided glamorous backgrounds for some of the most momentous
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- events in history Adrian Mourby is a distinguished hotel historian & travel journalist
- & a lover of great hotels Here he tells the stories of 50 of the world's most magnificent among them the Adlon in Berlin the Hotel de Russie in Rome the Continental in Saigon Raffles in Singapore the Dorchester in London Pera Palace in Istanbul & New York's Plaza as well as some lesser known grand hotels like the Bristol in Warsaw the Londra Palace in Venice & the Midland in Morecambe Bay All human life is to be found in a great hotel only in a more entertaining form


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Rooney tells the action-packed story of one boy's journey from the streets of Croxteth to one of the biggest stages in world football This heartwarming book tracks Rooney's fairytale rise from child superstar to Everton hero to Manchester United legend ...