The stunning bestseller by Benji Davies now in a cased board format! Noi & his father live in a house by the sea his father ...

A follow-up to the best-selling The Storm Whale winner of the 2014 inaugural Oscar's First Book Prize in association with the Evening Standard It's winter time & Noi's island is covered in a blanket of snow Even the sea is icing over Noi is worried about the little whale he saved last summer Can he survive the harsh conditions? Little does Noi know that it's the little whale's turn to save him A magical & touching story about a lasting friendship A truly beautiful work packing a real emotional punch ...

Witty heartbreaking shocking satirical the short story can excite or sadden entice or repulse The one thing it can never be is dull Now Victoria Hislop has collected 100 stories from her favourite women writers into one volume Here are Man Booker Prize-winners & Nobel Laureates feminists & famous wits national treasures & rising stars all handpicked by one of the nation's best-loved novelists Featuring an all star cast of authors including Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Angela Carter Margaret Drabble Penelope Fitzgerald Miranda July Doris Lessing Katherine Mansfield Alice Munro Dorothy Parker & Virginia Woolf The Story is the biggest & most beautiful collection of women's short fiction in print today ...

The stories that shape our children's lives are too important to be left to chance With The Story Cure bibliotherapists Ella Berthoud & Susan Elderkin have put together the perfect manual for grown-ups who want to initiate young readers into one of life's greatest pleasures There's a remedy for every hiccup & heartache whether it's between the covers of a picture book a pop-up book or a YA novel You'll find old favourites like The Borrowers & The Secret Garden alongside modern soon-to-be classics by Michael Morpurgo Malorie Blackman & Frank Cottrell-Boyce as well as helpful lists of the right reads to fuel any obsession
- from dogs or dinosaurs space or spies Wise & witty The Story Cure will help any small person you know through the trials & tribulations of growing up & help you fill their bookshelves with adventure insight & a lifetime of fun
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Elliott is a boy who likes to find things & one day he stumbles across a machine At first he can't work out what the machine is for
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This along with The Tale of Miss Moppet was intended for very young children It is a simple tale of what befalls a rude little rabbit that doesn't say'please' before he takes something that belongs to someone else The Story of A Fierce Bad Rabbit is number 20 in Beatrix Potter's series of 23 little books the titles of which are as follows 1 The Tale of Peter Rabbit 2 The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin 3 The Tailor of Gloucester 4 The Tale of Benjamin Bunny 5 The Tale of Two Bad Mice 6 The Tale of Mrs Tiggy-Winkle 7 The Tale of Mr Jeremy Fisher 8 The Tale of Tom Kitten 9 The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck 10 The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies 11 The Tale of Mrs Tittlemouse 12 The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes 13 The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse 14 The Tale of Mr Tod 15 The Tale of Pigling Bland 16 The Tale of Samuel Whiskers 17 The Tale of The Pie & the Patty-Pan 18 The Tale of Ginger & Pickles 19 The Tale of Little Pig Robinson 20 The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit 21 The Story of Miss Moppet 22 Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes 23 Cecily Parsley's Nursery Rhymes ...

A moving uplifting & life-enhancing story with a strong environmental theme Luis Sepulveda's instant children's classic has been a worldwide best-seller & is presented here with new drawings by acclaimed illustrator Satoshi Kitamura 128 pages Sepulveda Luis ...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARDThis is the secret history of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Wonderland is part of our cultural heritage But beneath the fairy tale lies the complex history of the author & his subject Charles Dodgson was a quiet academic but his second self Lewis Carroll was a storyteller innovator & avid collector of child-friends' Carroll's imagination was to give Alice Liddell his 'dream-child' a fictional alter ego that would never let her grow up This is a biography that beautifully unravels the magic of Alice It is a history of love & loss innocence & ambiguity It is the story of one man's need to make a Wonderland in a changing world ...

Exquisite cloth-bound edition of the classic art-history text
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If you love elephants you will love Babar & Celeste writes A A Milne author of Winnie-the-Pooh in his preface to The Story of Babar & if you have never loved elephants you will love them now After his mother is killed by a hunter Babar avoids capture by escaping to the city where he is befriended by the kindly Old Lady He becomes educated & cultured & upon his return to the great forest is crowned King of the Elephants Jean de Brunhoff's tales of Babar have charmed readers around the world for 80 years His stories have followed the king of the elephants as he builds a city founds a family & even meets Father Christmas Tested by difficult trials
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- he always comes out on top with the help of patience determination & on one memorable occasion a flight of winged elephants One of the most iconic series of animal books in history Babar has become a household name both as a character in children's books & on TV Beautifully illustrated this edition is an ideal gift for children aged 3 & up Also look out for The Babar Collection & Babar the King Jean de Brunhoff is considered to be one of the greatest picture book authors in history Born in Paris de Brunhoff was the fourth & last child of a successful publisher He managed to produce a total of seven Babar books before his death at the age of 37 Since then millions & millions of Babar books have been sold all around the world

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