Sir John Soane's Greatest Treasure describes one of the most important antiquities ever found in Egypt
- the beautiful calcite
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Sir Lance-a-Little is the bravest cleverest knight in all the whole kingdom of Notalot
- or so he likes to think Now available
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Sir Lance-a-Little is the bravest cleverest knight in all the whole kingdom of Notalot
- or so he likes to think Now available
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Sir Lance-a-Little is the bravest cleverest knight in all the whole kingdom of Notalot
- or so he likes to think Now available
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Sir Lance-a-Little is the bravest cleverest knight in all the whole kingdom of Notalot
- or so he likes to think Now available
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Sir Lance-a-Little is the bravest cleverest knight in all the whole kingdom of Notalot
- or so he likes to think Now available
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Once upon a time in a deep dark bog lived a teeny tiny speckled frog Now he might be tiny (the other frogs call him stuff like 'weedy pants' & 'sugar puff') but his ambition is great For he wants to be known henceforth as Sir Lilypad! Sir Lilypad the brave & wise! Slayer of the
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- dragonflies & all he needs to effect this transformation? A kiss from a willing princess of course A new fantastically funny froggy tale from internationally bestselling picture book duo Anna Kemp & Sara Ogilvie

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A tender lyrical tale from the author&s childhood in an idyllic English village with environmental & conservational themes In this involving tale master storyteller Michael Morpurgo revisits the "landscape of his memories" telling of his boyhood in the idyllic village of Bradwell fifty years before The village is a stone&s throw from the sea & is peopled by quirky characters such as the three Stebbing sisters the white moustachioed Colonel Burton & Bennie the village thug But the heroine of this story is the serene Mrs Pettigrew who lives in a railway carriage down in the marshes with her dogs donkey bees & hens But industrial reality intrudes when plans are made to build a nuclear power station on the site of the marshes endangering Mrs Pettigrew&s home & the gulls owls kestrels & thousands of insects & plants which also belong there A village battle ensues for & against the environmental hazard of the power station & the young Michael finds himself caught up in the sad fate of Mrs Pettigrew & the landscape of his boyhood ...

The whole kingdom is plagued by the screeching howling din made by the Nasties so the King sends Sir Ned to deal with them A wolf a witch & a troll help Ned along the way but it turns out he has walked into danger
- these three are the notorious nasties themselves! Luckily he works out why they sound so awful & teaches them to listen to each other so they ask him to join the band rather than turning him into dinner
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Sir Pass This rather short rather stout knight is not like the others The peculiar knight wears a bascinet helmet covering everything but the knight's crossed eyes He wears blue gauntlets over chain-mail & heavy metal breast plates Cast in the finest resin before being lovingly h&-painted This round knight is likely to make any medieval enthusiast chuckle ...