Stories from the Kitchen is a mouth-watering smorgasbord of stories with food in the starring role by a rich variety of authors from Dickens Chekhov & Saki to Isak Dinesen Jim Crace & Amy Tan 400 pages ...

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Includes:: eight of Jesus' best loved stories Children relate to stories & there was never

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From Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Artist of the Beautiful & Albert Camus's The Artist at Work to Bernard Malamud's Rembrandt's Hat & Aimee Bender's The Color Master the tales collected here range from haunting fables about the power of art to vivid portraits of those who create 400 pages Secker Tesdell Diana ...

Three exciting adventure stories for children just beginning to read The Knights of King Arthur were the bravest strongest & most loyal knights of all which these stories show as they battle dragons slay giant ogres & rescue maidens in distress Usborne Young Reading has been developed with reading experts from Roehampton University ...

This is a new title in Usborne Young Reading Series One It feature three original stories set on the magical Pony Island where rainbow-coloured talking ponies get up to all kinds of mischief & adventure! It offers desirable & collectable editions to foster pride in book ownership as well as reading enjoyment The Young Reading Series One is aimed at children just beginning to read to help build confidence & ability It is developed in consultation with Alison Kelly who is a senior lecturer in education & an early reading specialist from Roehampton University ...

In this beautifully packaged anthology A S Byatt Alice Munro Elizabeth Bowen Sherwood Anderson Edith Wharton Anita Desai Colm Toibin Lorrie Moore & many others reflect upon all aspects of motherhood in stories lyrical & satirical realistic & fantastic hilarious & heartbreaking Here at last is a gift-book that is neither sentimental nor 'inspirational' offering instead high-quality literary fiction which will continue to entertain long after the chocolates have been eaten & the flowers thrown away ...

This series contains poetry & prose anthologies composed of writers from across the English-speaking world 428 pages Worked examples or Exercises ...

The lives of the saints throughout the ages have inspired admiration & worship Stories & legends of these men & women with their extraordinary devotion to God & humanity were passed down from generation to generation as inspirational tales for adults The stories of these remarkable people provide richly inspiring material for children to read or listen to This selection of tales & legends comes from the writer's many years of teaching children taking into account what young listeners have enjoyed or responded to & the questions they've asked The stories are suitable for children aged between about seven & eleven The book

Includes:: over forty saints ranging from well-known heroes like St Francis & Joan of Arc to less known but equally colourful characters from a wide range of periods & places

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Classic adventure stories by Joseph Conrad Rudyard Kipling Stephen Crane Robert Louis Stevenson & Jack London mix with marvellously imaginative tales by Isak Dinesen Patricia Highsmith & J 400 pages Everyman ...

Get ready for broomstick rides & bubbling cauldrons in these magical short stories from Enid Blyton
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