The Puffin Book of Stories for Seven-year-olds edited by Wendy Cooling is a perfect selection of loved stories for all 7 year olds! Fifteen exciting stories from some of our best-loved authors including Philippa Pearce Rudyard Kipling & Francesca Simon This brilliant collection is full of magic mayhem & adventure! Find out how the camel got his hump how Jimmy learnt to vanish & what Horrid Henry got up to on holiday Perfect for seven-year-olds to share or read alone With a gorgeous cover illustrated by Nick Sharratt Wendy Cooling was educated in Norwich & then spent time travelling the world On her return to England she trained as a teacher & taught English in London for many years She left teaching to work on the promotion of books & reading as Head of the Children's Book Foundation (now Booktrust) & later founded Bookstart the national programme that helps to bring books to young readers ...

Selected for children of around six-years-old this is a terrific collection of stories It contains funny tales like the tale of the tortoises picnic the story of how Anna-Magdalena overcame her fear & a great many more unforgettable characters which will keep young listeners entertained for hours & hours This wonderful compendium of stories myths & magical tales is perfect for bedtime listening or sharing with friends ...

The Puffin Book of Stories for Six-year-olds edited by Wendy Cooling is essential reading for all six-year-olds! Fourteen brilliant stories from some of our best-loved authors including Geraldine Mc Caughrean Philippa Pearce & Penelope Lively With a Martian in a supermarket a monkey in trouble & a magic pearl tree there's something for everyone to discover in this special collection Perfect for six-year-olds to share or read alone With a gorgeous cover illustrated by Nick Sharratt Wendy Cooling was educated in Norwich & then spent time travelling the world On her return to England she trained as a teacher & taught English in London for many years She left teaching to work on the promotion of books & reading as Head of the Children's Book Foundation (now Booktrust) & later founded Bookstart the national programme that helps to bring books to young readers ...

An utterly brilliant collection of the very best poems from Puffin Books A celebratory anthology of the best of Puffin poetry publishing including poems by Roger Mc Gough Michael Rosen Charles Causley Benjamin Zephaniah Jackie Kay Spike Milligan John Agard Brian Patten Allan Ahlberg & Kit Wright Each poet's work is illustrated by a different artist such as Emma Chichester Clark Fritz Wegner & Korky Paul Brian Patten came to public attention with the publication of THE MERSEY SOUND in 1967 He is a very popular performance poet always in demand for conferences & school visits Collections of his own poetry are published in Puffin & he is the editor of the PUFFIN BOOK OF TWENTIETH CENTURY VERSE Brian lives in London This collection features poems & illustrations from Spike Milligan; Kit Wright; Michael Rosen; Charles Causley; Roger Mc Gough; Benjamin Zephaniah; Brian Patten; Jackie Kay; John Agard; Allan Ahlberg; Emma Chichester Clark; Korky Paul; Alison Jay; Lydia Monks; Ali Chatterton; David Mostyn; Sue Williams; Sheila Moxley; Fritz Wegner ...

From elaborate Victorian cat funerals to a Regency era pony who took a ride in a hot air balloon Mimi Matthews shares some of the quirkiest & most poignant animal tales of the eighteenth & nineteenth centuries Meet Fortune the Pug who bit Napoleon on his wedding night & Looty the Pekingese sleeve dog who was presented to Queen Victoria after the 1860 sacking of the Summer Palace in Peking The four-legged friends of Lord Byron Emily Bront & Prince Albert also make an appearance as do the treasured pets of Alexander Pope Samuel Johnson & Charles Dickens Less famous but no less fascinating are the animals that were the subject of historical lawsuits scandals & public curiosity There s Tuppy the purloined pet donkey; Biddy the regimental chicken; & Barnaby & Burgho the bloodhounds hired to hunt Jack the Ripper Wild animals also get a mention in tales that encompass everything from field mice & foxes to alligators & sharks lurking in the Thames Using research from eighteenth & nineteenth century books letters & newspapers Mimi Matthews brings each animal s unique history to vivid life The details are sometimes humorous sometimes heartbreaking but the stories are never anything less than fascinating reading for animal lovers of all ages ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play The Punch & Judy Man is a British comedy from 1963 directed by Jeremy Summers (Crooks In Cloisters) It was Tony Hancock&s second film in a starring role following The Rebel (1961) Hancock plays Wally Pinner the unhappily married Punch & Judy Man Wally & the other beach entertainers are socially unacceptable to the town&s snobbish elite Wally&s wife Delia (Sylvia Syms) runs a seaside shop below their flat She&s desperate to have Wally invited to entertain at the official reception for Lady Jane Caterham (Barbara Murray) who she sees as her ticket to a rise in the social ladder At the Mayoress& suggestion the Reception Committee invites Wally to entertain During the dinner events degenerate & a food fight begins when one of the drunken guests begins heckling Wally When Lady Jane vents her anger at Wally for ruining the evening Delia floors her with a punch her dreams of social acceptance shattered Actors Tony Hancock Sylvia Syms Ronald Fraser Barbara Murray & John Le Mesurier Director Jeremy Summers Certificate Universal Suitable for All Year 1963 Languages English ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Appearing in his second feature film-starring role comedy legend Tony Hancock gives a memorable performance in this bittersweet comedy of small-town snobbery & one-upmanship Co-starring Sylvia Syms & featuring Barbara Murray Ronald Fraser John Le Mesurier & Hugh Lloyd The Punch & Judy Man is presented here as a br&-new High Definition restoration from the original camera negative in its original theatrical aspect ratio Content to scratch out a living in the faded seaside town of Piltdown puppeteer Wally Pinner is unhappily married to Delia a gift-shop owner with social pretensions When Wally is invited to perform at the town&s anniversary gala reception however Delia senses a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to raise the couple&s social standing Langauge English Number of discs 1 ...

Kotobukiya's latest Fine Art Statue is none other than one of the most popular vigilante Punisher! Sculpted in fine detail by Erick Sosa Frank Castle aka Punisher is seen in his iconic skull imprinted shirt with combat trousers Punisher comes with two different swappable head parts as well as various hand parts & weapons for multiple display options ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Ruthless vigilante Frank Castle returns After Castle hideously disfigures Mob boss Billy Russoti the gangster sets out for vengeance under a new alias Jigsaw Castle is forced to fight for his life & stand up to the army that Jigsaw is sending in his direction ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-Ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-Ray player in order to play The avenging angel of Marvel Comics fame comes brilliantly to life in this searing action-adventure thriller! Dolph Lundgren stars as Frank Castle a veteran cop who loses his entire family to a mafia car bomb Only his ex-partner (Louis Gossett Jr) believes Castle survived the blast to become THE PUNISHER a shadowy invincible fighter against evil who lives for total revenge on his mob enemies Lashing out from a labyrinth of subterranean sewers THE PUNISHER leads a heavily armed raid into a world of brital crime & savage retribution A world where only one this is certain… the guilty will be punished Actors Dolph Lundgren Louis Gossett Jr Jeroen Krabbe Kim Miyori Directors Mark Goldblatt Classification 15 Run Time 85 minutes ...