A charming retelling of the traditional fairytale with simple text & delightful illustrations When mum's house becomes too small it's time for Pinky Percy & Poppy Pig to build houses of their own But will they chose their materials wisely & escape the Big Bad Wolf? ...

The classic fight between pigs & wolves as you've never seen it before! A subversive & hilarious take on the well-loved fairy tale The three little wolves erect first a solid brick house The big bad pig comes along & when huffing & puffing fails to work he uses a sledgehammer to bring the house down Next they build a home of concrete The pig demolishes it with his pneumatic drill The three little wolves choose an even stronger design next time round They erect a house made from steel barbed wire armor plates & video entry system but the pig finds a way to demolish it too It is only when the wolves construct a rather fragile house made from cherry blossoms daffodils pink roses & marigolds that the pig has a change of heart A great read for children who enjoyed The Wolf's Story by Toby Forward Kids aged 5 & up will enjoy this hilarious subversive & brilliant read aloud picture book Eugene Trivizas's text for The Three Little Wolves & the Big Bad Pig is perfectly complemented by Helen Oxenbury's watercolour illustrations Eugene Trivizas has written over 100 books & is the winner of more than twenty national & international prizes & awards His work has been adapted for stage screen & radio Helen Oxenbury's warm & witty illustrations have charmed children & adults alike for many years Her version of Alice in Wonderland published by Walker Books won the 2001 Kate Greenaway Award which she first won in 1969 for The Quangle Wangle's Hat She has also won the Smarties Book Prize three times ...

USA Today bestselling author Jenny Holiday gives us the next book in her fun & flirty Bridesmaids Behaving Badly contemporary romance series 368 pages Holiday Jenny ...

Harper Collins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved essential classics Melanctha Herbert was always seeking rest & quiet & always she could only find new ways to be in trouble' In Bridgepoint USA people get trapped into lives they didn't choose without means of escape Anna a sweet but intimidating German housemaid; Melanctha a troubled young woman whose passion threatens to tear her apart; & Lena a timid girl bullied into work & marriage In this ground-breaking collection Stein depicts the interior lives of these women struggling to find happiness in an unkind world Gertrude Stein was a pioneering figurehead of Modernism & a mentor to writers like Ernest Hemingway & F Scott Fitzgerald Written in 1909 Three Lives captures the artistic styles of Picasso Cezanne & Matisse & uses them to create heart-breaking portraits of working-class women ...

Lope de Vega (1562-1635) widely regarded as the architect of the drama of the Spanish Golden Age was known by his contemporaries as the 'monster of Nature' on account of his creativity as a playwright Claiming to have written more than a thousand plays he created plots & characters notable for their energy inventiveness & dramatic power & which in contrast to French classical drama combine the serious & the comic in their desire to imitate life Fuente Ovejuna based on Spanish history & revealing how tyranny leads to rebelliion is perhaps his best-known play The Knight from Olmedo is a moving dramatization of impetuous & youthful passion which ends in death Punishment without Revenge Lope's most powerful tragedy centres on the illicit relationship of a young wife with her stepson & the revenge of a dishonoured husband These three plays grouped here in translations which are faithful to the original Spanish vivid & intended for performance embody the very best of Lope's dramatic art 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 ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Three carefree & self indulgent bachelors find their designer lives turned upside down with the arrival of a baby girl on their penthouse doorstep Chaos ensues as they all slowly come to terms with fatherhood & the nightmare of feeding bathing & clothing the tiny cherub ...

A comic masterpiece that has never been out of print since it was first published in 1889 Jerome K Jerome's Three Men in a Boat



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Introduced & Annotated by Cedric Watts MA Ph D Emeritus Professor of English University of Sussex Three Men in a Boat is a comic classic When it first appeared in 1889 it became a best seller & has remained popular ever since This motley novel has not only been translated into many languages but has also been staged filmed televised & imitated The adventures & misfortunes on the Thames of the three English friends & their pugnacious dog Montmorency provide rich humour shrewd observations lyrical reflections & predominantly genially ironic perceptions of human fallibility The sequel Three Men on the Bummel reunites the three friends for their Bummel' (roaming or wandering') through Germany The results vary from the seductively titillating to the outrageously farcical; & subsequent history has laden the narrative with ironies ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Laurence Harvey David Tomlinson & Jimmy Edwards star in Ken Annakin&s adaptation of the Jerome K Jerome novel Three Englishmen decide it would be fun to go on a boating holiday along the Thames for a fortnight However these gents& boating skills are notable only for their absence which leads to all kinds of riverbound mayhem especially when they meet up with the lovely ladies Sophie Primrose & Bluebell ...

Three Men on a Diet is the hilarious & brutally honest story of three mighty men with nothing to gain & so much to lose a diet book with a difference 224 pages Courtauld George ...