Using the cover artwork of our much-loved Virago Modern Classics hardback range these elegant unlined notebooks celebrate three of our most popular titles The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith; The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter; & Good Behaviour by Molly Keane These beautiful notebooks are a must-have for all Virago fans
- surely the most stylish way of collecting notes on your favourite books Or maybe they will inspire you to write a novel of your own Each notebook features a ribbon bookmark high-quality paper & matching endpapers The Talented Mr Ripley & The Magic Toyshop feature artwork by vintage textile designers Marian Mahler & Jacqueline Groag Good Behaviour features a cover by award-winning designers Eley Kishimoto httpwwweleykishimotocom
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The sorcerer has sent you a street urchin like Aladdin into a cave to look for a magic lamp that lets you call upon a genie&s favors However the cave also encloses fabulous treasures sorted into three chests If you&re not too greedy this could be your chance to become rich! In Tales & Games Aladdin & The Magic Lamp a turn has three phases during which everyone plays simultaneously First choose how many chest cards you want to draw & from which chest Then call out to the genie by being the fastest Finally if you haven&t been too greedy draw chest cards while avoiding the scorpions The game ends when a player draws one of the three sorcerer cards & closes the cave Players 2-5 Playing time 20 minutes Ages 8 ...

The Hare & the Tortoise originally published as Royal Turtle is a card-driven betting game about animal racing loosely based on one of Aesop&s Fables At the start of a race each player secretly bets on two of four animals turtle rabbit sheep & duck One animal is chosen at random for each player then after receiving a hand of six cards each player places one of his cards face-down (possibly the same animal) as an additional bet Players then take turns laying down 1-4 cards with all cards needing to show the same animal then refilling the hand to five cards As soon as seven total cards have been played or four cards of any one animal the animals move (maybe) Each animal has a distinct characteristic that players can use to their advantage The turtle always moves one space but it moves two if four of its cards were played The rabbit always moves two spaces — unless four cards are played & it&s at the head of the pack in which case it sleeps & doesn&t move The duck moves as many spaces as the number of cards played The sheep moves one more space than the number of cards played — but if it reaches grass it stops moving for the round (The track consists of eleven road cards two covered with grass) After the animals move players start a new round of card-playing A round ends when three of the four animals reach the goal after which each player scores points based on the ranking of the animals & how he bet After three rounds the player with the most points wins The original title of Royal Turtle is a homage to Reiner Knizia&s Royal Turf another betting game about animals racing (albeit horses in that game) Suggested Ages 8 Players 2-4 Playing Time 15 minutes ...

Tales & Games The Pied Piper is the sixth title in violet Brain Creations& Tales & Games series You live in Hamelin a town infested by rats The easiest way to get the rats out of your house is to send them to your neighbors Whenever too many rats are jammed into a house its occupants get desperate & move out! The player who can best keep the rats out of his house wins! Players 2-5 Suggested ages 8 Playing time 20 minutes ...

Join Fox Pig Rabbit Bear & all their friends in this must-have sticker book based on the bestselling Tales from Acorn Wood Packed with games activities & hundreds of stickers this book is perfect for birthdays rainy days & school holidays
- a great gift for any child Tales from Acorn Wood Sticker Book comes from the award-winning creators of The Gruffalo Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler
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With sturdy flaps on every spread & rhyming stories that are a joy to read aloud the Tales From Acorn Wood have been delighting both parents & toddlers for fifteen years In Tales From Acorn Wood Fox's Socks & Rabbit's Nap two of the popular lift-the-flap stories from the creators of The Gruffalo Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler are together in paperback for the first time with a beautiful foiled cover look Rabbit is trying to get to sleep but everyone is being so noisy Lift the flaps & find out who is keeping Rabbit awake Then join Fox in a hunt for his missing socks Are they in the kitchen or under the stairs? Are they inside the clock or hidden in a chest? Lift the flaps & find out! Look out for Tales From Acorn Wood Hide-&-Seek Pig & Postman Bear also available as a two-books-in-one paperback ...

With sturdy flaps on every spread & rhyming stories that are a joy to read aloud the Tales From Acorn Wood have been delighting both parents & toddlers for fifteen years In Tales From Acorn Wood Hide-&-Seek Pig & Postman Bear two of the popular lift-the-flap stories from the creators of The Gruffalo Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler are together in paperback for the first time with a beautiful foiled cover look Pig & Hen are playing hide-&-seek But where on earth could Hen be? Lift the flaps & help Pig find out where she is hiding Then join Bear as he delivers letters to his friends Frog Squirrel & Mole -- & lift the flaps to see Bear's special birthday surprise! Look out for Tales From Acorn Wood Fox's Socks & Rabbit's Nap also available as a two-books-in-one paperback ...

This great-value Tales from Acorn Wood Hide & Seek Pig Book & Jigsaw Set contains a board book edition of the bestselling lift-the-flap book Hide & Seek Pig as well as a giant twenty-piece floor puzzle that teaches you ten different colours with all your favourite characters from Acorn Wood Collect all four Tales from Acorn Wood books Rabbit's Nap Fox's Socks Hide & Seek Pig & Postman Bear by Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler the award-winning creators of The Gruffalo ...

This large-format gift book contains three of the popular Tales From Acorn Wood stories Postman Bear Hide-&-Seek Pig & Rabbit's Nap With sturdy flaps on every spread & rhyming stories that are a joy to read aloud this collection from the hugely popular pairing of Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler will delight parents & toddlers alike ...

A collection of hugely entertaining stories drawn from the rich folklore of many countries throughout Africa & brought sparklingly to life with humour & rhyme by Ghanaian author Nii Ayikwei Parkes writing under the name used for his children's work K P Kojo Find out how selfish Lion gets his comeuppance go to a Frog wedding in the Sky Kingdom discover the days when the earth's creatures were all mixed up & much more in tales which reflect the very best & the very worst of human nature
Includes: endnotes with a glossary additional information & activities that children can do to explore the stories further' Needs to be three times as long & sitting on a shelf in every school library'
- Mark Haddon

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