Developed & designed especially for children aged 2 years this fun-to-learn jigsaw puzzle is made from super-thick double laminated card With 16 large sturdy pieces (just right for the age group) the bright vibrant & fun illustration shows The Hungry Caterpillar & some of the pieces of fruit he eats during his journey to become a wonderfully colourful butterfly As in the book we can see that he&s eaten his way through 1 red apple 2 green pears 3 violet plums 4 red strawberries & 5 oranges This simple yet colourful puzzle is a great way of introducing key pre-school activities just as colour identification & simple counting skills Puzzle & box FSC accredited A fun-to-learn jigsaw puzzle Bright colourful scene inspired by Eric Carle&s wonderful book Cut into 16 pieces in super thick card Finished puzzle measures 493 x 362cm Lovely introduction to jigsaw puzzles ...

This is a wholly pleasing book which offers a tasty side dish to anyone exploring the narrative history of the British Empire' Max Hastings Sunday Times The glamorous daughter of an African chief shares a pineapple with a slave trader Surveyors in British Columbia eat tinned Australian rabbit Diamond prospectors in Guyana prepare an iguana curry In twenty meals The Hungry Empire tells the story of how the British created a global network of commerce & trade in foodstuffs that moved people & plants from one continent to another re-shaping landscapes & culinary tastes To be British was to eat the world The Empire allowed Britain to harness the globe's edible resources from cod fish & salt beef to spices tea & sugar By the twentieth century the wheat to make the working man's loaf of bread was supplied by Canada & his Sunday leg of lamb had been fattened on New Zealand's grasslands Lizzie Collingham takes us on a wide-ranging culinary journey charting the rise of sugar to its dominant position in our diets & locating the origins of the food industry in the imperial trade in provisions Her innovative approach brings a fresh perspective to the making of the Empire uncovering its decisive role in the shaping of the modern diet & revealing how virtually every meal we eat still contains a taste of empire ...

A student cookbook with a difference The Hungry Healthy Student offers a choice of more than 200 quick cheap & easy recipes meaning more money in your pocket & more time to play! All the recipes have a healthy focus which means increased brain power & more energy to enjoy student life to the full There are also indispensable tips on healthy habits mood boosters free ways to get fit & takeaway alternatives With chapters dedicated to Breakfast & Lunchbox; Healthy & Hearty; Good Grains Beans & Pulses; Super Salads Snacks & Sides; Make it Light & Sweet Alternatives there are recipes whether you want food on the go for impromptu parties or just comfort food & delicious treats for a night in All the recipes in this book are balanced for a healthy diet & they each have an affordability stamp to help with budgeting as well as detailed instructions to make them accessible to even the most novice cook Forget the textbooks this is the only book you&ll ever need to get through your first year! ...

With the Great War still raw in the memory & life in the 1920s mining village of Whitton Grange hard & dangerous Louie Kirkup dreams of a better future But with a sick mother & a large family of pitman brothers & father the daily burdens fall heavily on her young shoulders She fears becoming a spinster drudge until she sets eyes on ' Red' Sam Ritson
- hard muscled & a natural leader
- climb into the boxing ring at the Durham Miners' Gala & determines to marry him But Sam wedded to his battle for his fellow miners against the ruthless mine owner Seward-Scott is no ideal husband As tensions increase & the General Strike looms Louie's brother Eb begins an affair with Eleanor the mine owner's wife With the miners locked out of work Louie fears for the fate of her village & her unborn child As the strain takes its tragic toll loving & loyal Louie must stay strong for them all Written with compassion humour & a vivid immediacy The Hungry Hills is an unforgettable saga of two very different families living through the dramas of 1920s Britain The Hungry Hills was shortlisted for The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award & is the first in the Durham Mining Trilogy

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Never mind essays & exams
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A student cookbook with a difference The Hungry Student Vegetarian not only gives more than 200 quick & cheap meat-free recipes that are so tasty even hardened carnivores will keep turning up for dinner There are also indispensable tips on budgeting lunchbox ideas healthy eating & how to get creative with leftovers With chapters dedicated to Bring on Brekky Comfort Food Roasted & Baked Made in a Flash & All the Carbs there are opportunities for impromptu parties end of the month budget creations & comfort foods for one All the recipes in this book are balanced for a healthy vegetarian diet & they each have an affordability stamp to help with budgeting as well as detailed instructions to make them accessible to even the most novice cook Forget the textbooks this is the only book you'll ever need to get through your first year! ...

Fom the author of The Glass Palace the widely-acclaimed bestseller The Hungry Tide is a rich exotic saga set in Calcutta & in the vast archipelago of islands in the Bay of Bengal An Indian myth says that when the river Ganges first descended from the heavens the force of the cascade was so great that the earth would have been destroyed if it had not been for the god Shiva who tamed the torrent by catching it in his dreadlocks It is only when the Ganges approaches the Bay of Bengal that it frees itself & separates into thousands of wandering strands The result is the Sundarbans an immense stretch of mangrove forest a half-drowned land where the waters of the Himalayas merge with the incoming tides of the sea It is this vast archipelago of islands that provides the setting for Amitav Ghosh's new novel In the Sundarbans the tides reach more than 100 miles inland & every day thousands of hectares of forest disappear only to re-emerge hours later Dense as the mangrove forests are from a human point of view it is only a little less barren than a desert There is a terrible vengeful beauty here a place teeming with crocodiles snakes sharks & man-eating tigers This is the only place on earth where man is more often prey than predator & it is into this terrain that an eccentric wealthy Scotsman named Daniel Hamilton tried to create a utopian society of all races & religions & conquer the might of the Sundarbans In January 2001 a small ship arrives to conduct an ecological survey of this vast but little-known environment & the scientists on board begin to trace the journeys of the descendants of this society ...

At her father&s deathbed Orla Roche came face to face with the age-old myth of The Sluagh; a group of soul-stealing spirits so evil that not even hell would take them Years later & with the belief that her father&s soul is still trapped in some form of the netherworld she goes looking for answers
- beginning a journey that leads her down a path to discover what really happens to us after we die Collecting in one volume the critically acclaimed horror series by authorillustrator Colin Lorimer (Harvest)
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The third book in the Devil's Isle series following on from The Veil & The Sight From the New York Times bestselling author of the Chicagoland Vampires Novels-the hunter becomes the hunted in a New Orleans devastated by a Paranormal war When bounty hunter Liam Quinn discovered that Claire Connolly was a Sensitive & infected with magic he should have turned her in to be locked up in the prison district known as Devil's Isle Instead he helped her learn to control her power & introduced her to an underground group of Paranormals & humans who know the truth about the war & those who fought it Now the weight of Liam's own secrets has forced him into hiding When a government agent is killed & Claire discovers that Liam is the prime suspect she races to find him before the government can But she'll discover proving his innocence is no simple matter Their enemies are drawing closer & time is running out To find out more visitwwwchloeneillcom Facebook authorchloeneill Twitter chloeneill ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play The Hunt the new landmark BBC series captures the dramatic encounters of predator & prey in an entirely new light Featuring the extraordinary strategies of a huge range of predators from cheetahs & African wild dogs to killer whales & polar bears these images & stories will revolutionise what you thought you knew about life in the wild Whether through speed stamina or complex subterfuge each creature’s strategy is honed to its environment – & remarkable adaptations mean that the hunted often can & do outwit their hunters It’s a life-or-death duel where each animal’s skills are stretched to the very limit From the producers of Frozen Planet & Planet Earth ¬ The Hunt reveals in astonishing detail the most surprising & significant events in the natural world ‘ The duels between hunters & hunted are as dramatic as any event in the natural world’ David Attenborough ...