Suitable for reading aloud & encouraging first words & early reading this book helps you learn all about colours 16 pages DK ...

Helps you play peekaboo with Sophie the Girafe & hear your baby giggle in delight as hidden surprises are revealed This book introduces your baby to Sophie the Giraffe & her friends using hands-on activities such as touching a squidgy nose or tickling Sophie's spots providing your baby with hours of peekaboo fun 12 pages DK ...

This is the gripping story of the five Munich university students who set up an underground resistance movement in World War II featured in the award-winning Oscar-nominated film Sophie Scholl
- The Final Days This 75th anniversary edition commemorates the 75 years since their arrest & execution in 1943 This updated edition

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In this extraordinary novel Stingo an inexperienced twenty-two year old Southerner takes us back to the summer of 1947 & a boarding house in a leafy Brooklyn suburb There he meets Nathan a fiery Jewish intellectual; & Sophie a beautiful & fragile Polish Catholic Stingo is drawn into the heart of their passionate & destructive relationship as witness confidant & supplicant Ultimately he arrives at the dark core of Sophie's past her memories of pre-war Poland the concentration camp &
- the essence of her terrible secret
- her choice

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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 Meryl Streep plays Sophie Zawistowska in this penetrating drama set in 1947 post-World War II Brooklyn Kevin Kline plays her all consuming lover Nathan The story revolves around Sophie&s struggle as a Polish-Catholic immigrant in the United States who had survived a Nazi concentration camp The lovers& drama unfolds through the observations of a friend & would-be writer Stingo (Peter Mac Nicol) As the trio grows closer Stingo discovers the hidden truths that they each harbour resulting in a narrative that is both captivating & moving ...

Small but very determined Sophie is everyone's favourite farmer-to-be! A classic story for young readers by the beloved author of Babe From the beloved author of Babe comes the first of six stories about Dick King-Smith's most adored (human!) character the inimitable Sophie re-imagined twenty years later by the witty perceptive paintbrush of the award-winning Hannah Shaw Sophie loves animals of all kinds but how will she grow up to be a farmer if she is not allowed any of her own? She goes looking for creatures to keep in her menagerie but all she seems to find is trouble
- yikes! & there is one pest she certainly doesn't want around her prissy new neighbour Dawn
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The international bestseller about life the universe & everything When 14-year-old Sophie encounters a mysterious mentor who introduces her to philosophy mysteries deepen in her own life Why does she keep getting postcards addressed to another girl? Who is the other girl? & who for that matter is Sophie herself? To solve the riddle she uses her new knowledge of philosophy but the truth is far stranger than she could have imagined An addictive blend of mystery philosophy & fantasy Sophie's World is an international phenomenon which has been translated into 60 languages & sold more than 40 million copies ...

Sophocles (4976 406 BCE) considered one of the world s greatest poets forged tragedy from the heroic excess of myth & legend Seven complete plays are extant including Oedipus Tyrannus Ajax Antigone & Philoctetes Among many fragments that also survive is a substantial portion of the satyr drama The Searchers ...

Sophocles' Antigone is probably the most widely read & performed of all Greek tragedies & its themes & conflicts resonate powerfully into the modern era In this new edition Mark Griffith combines sophisticated literary & cultural interpretation with close attention to language metre & issues of performance & thus makes the play more fully available to readers of Greek than ever before The introduction requires no knowledge of Greek & will interest all students of drama & literature ...

Treating ancient plays as living drama Classical Greek drama is brought vividly to life in this series of new translations Students are encouraged to engage with the text through detailed commentaries including suggestions for discussion & analysis In addition numerous practical questions stimulate ideas on staging & encourage students to explore the play's dramatic qualities Antigone is suitable for students of both Classical Civilisation & Drama Useful features include full synopsis of the play commentary alongside translation for easy reference & a comprehensive introduction to the Greek Theatre Antigone is aimed primarily at A-level & undergraduate students in the UK & college students in North America ...