THE SCARECROWS' WEDDING is the eagerly awaited new picture book from the creators of THE GRUFFALO & STICK MAN now available as a chunky board book with hardback cover Written in Julia Donaldson's glorious rhyme & illustrated in glowing colour by Axel Scheffler THE SCARECROWS' WEDDING is a fabulous love story with drama humour originality
- & a happy ending! Two scarecrows Betty O' Barley & Harry O' Hay are planning the perfect wedding But wicked scarecrow Reginald Rake has other ideas & almost ruins their special day Harry must become a hero before he & Betty can have the wedding of their dreams
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Written in Julia Donaldson's glorious rhyme & illustrated in glowing colour by Axel Scheffler THE SCARECROWS' WEDDING is a fabulous love story with drama humour originality
- & a happy ending! The bestselling book is now available with a high-quality audio CD brilliantly performed by award-winning actress Imelda Staunton The CD contains the full story with music The Scarecrows' Wedding Listening Game & the br&-new Scarecrows' Wedding Song which was written specially for this CD by Julia Donaldson
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THE SCARECROWS' WEDDING is the bestselling picture book from superstar duo Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler This Early Reader edition contains the complete classic story & pictures in a pocket-book format & with an extra-clear font & layout to support children who are gaining confidence in reading A fabulous love story full of drama humour & originality; it tells the story of two scarecrows as they plan the best wedding ever the best wedding yet The wedding that no one will ever forget Betty O' Barley & Harry O' Hay know just what they need for the perfect wedding day a goose-feather dress; two wedding rings & lots of pink flowers! But as they search the farm to find everything on their list things don't quite go to plan & the scarecrows' special day is almost ruined by wicked scarecrow Reginald Rake ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play The Scarlet & The Black is an entertaining & inspirational true story of courage & ingenuity During the German occupation of Rome in 1943 an athletic Irish priest Monsignor Hugh O (Gregory Peck) devotes all the time he can spare from his work at the Vatican to hide Allied POWs from the Nazis risking his life in the process ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play English Civil War adventure starring Lionel Jeffries & Oliver Reed After King Charles I (Robert Rietty) is captured by Roundhead supporters Col Judd (Jeffries) & Captain Sylvester (Reed) it falls to a small group of local supporters of the King to mount a rescue attempt The daunting task is soon lessened however by the involvement of Judd&s daughter Claire (June Thorburn) who goes behind her father&s back to secretly help the locals with their plans ...

Harper Collins is pround to present its new range of best-loved essential classics' Ah but let her cover the mark as she will the pang of it will be always in her heart'A tale of sin punishment & atonement The Scarlet Letter exposes the moral rigidity of a 17th-Century Puritan New England community when faced with the illegitimate child of a young mother Regarded as the first real heroine of American fiction it is Hester Prynne's strength of character that resonates with the reader when her harsh sentence is cast It is in her refusal to reveal the identity of the father in the face of her accusers that Hawthorne champions his heroine & berates the weakness of Society for attacking the innocent ...

The classic American novel rejacketed with a new foreword by Tom Perotta & introduction by Hawthorne scholar Robert Milder Set in the harsh Puritan community of 17th century Boston this is a tale of an adulterous entanglement that results in an illegitimate birth The mother of the child Hester Prynne is publicly disgraced & ostracized but emerges as the first true heroine of American fiction ...

' Thou & thine Hester Prynne belong to me' With these chilling words a husband claims his wife after a two-year absence But the child she clutches is not his & Hester must wear a scarlet 'A' upon her breast the sin of adultery visible to all Under an assumed name her husband begins his search for her lover determined to expose what Hester is equally determined to protect Defiant & proud Hester witnesses the degradation of two very different men as moral codes & legal imperatives painfully collide Set in the Puritan community of seventeenth-century Boston The Scarlet Letter also sheds light on the nineteenth-century in which it was written as Hawthorne explores his ambivalent relations with his Puritan forebears The text of this edition is taken from the Centenary Edition of Hawthorne's works the most authoritative critical edition ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more ...

Introduction & Notes by Henry Claridge Senior Lecturer School of English University of Kent at Canterbury This is a troubling story of crime sin guilt punishment & expiation set in the rigid moral climate of 17th-century New England The young mother of an illegitimate child confronts her Puritan judges However it is not so much her harsh sentence but the cruelties of slowly exposed guilt as her lover is revealed that hold the reader enthralled all the way to the book's poignant climax ...

Hester Prynne is a beautiful young woman She is also an outcast In the eyes of her neighbours she has committed an unforgivable sin Everyone knows that her little daughter Pearl is the product of an illicit affair but no one knows the identity of Pearl's father Hester's refusal to name him brings more condemnation upon her But she stands strong in the face of public scorn even when she is forced to wear the sign of her shame sewn onto her clothes the scarlet letter 'A' for ' Adulteress' ...