The day Mum didn't get dressed & went on strike Dad called her 'a Wild Thing' & Mum said ' Cook your own dinner' & stomped off upstairs to have a bath In this hilarious touching homage to Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are a worn-out mum finds herself floating across time & space to the place where the Wild Mums are Dazzled by her party tricks they crown her Queen of the Wild Mums & try to entice her to join their conga But Mum has just remembered who she loves best of all Lovingly illustrated by the award-winning Sholto Walker this little book is the perfect gift for baby showers new mums
- or any mum who's ever wanted to go on strike
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Read-along with the story in this book & CD edition! One night Max puts on his wolf suit & makes mischief of one kind & another so his mother calls him ' Wild Thing' & sends him to bed without his supper That night a forest begins to grow in Max's room & an ocean rushes by with a boat to take Max to the place where the wild things are Max tames the wild things & crowns himself as their king & then the wild rumpus begins But when Max has sent the monsters to bed & everything is quiet he starts to feel lonely & realises it is time to sail home to the place where someone loves him best of all ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Let the wild rumpus start! Nine-year-old Max runs away from home & sails across the sea to become king of the land Where the Wild Things Are King Max rules a wondrous realm of gigantic fuzzy monsters
- but being king may not be as carefree as it looks! Filmmaker Spike Jonze (Being John Malkovich) directs a magical visually astonishing film version of Maurice Sendak's celebrated children's classic starring an amazing cast of screen veterans & featuring young Max Records in a fierce & sensitive performance as Max Actors Forest Whitaker Catherine Keener Paul Dano James Gandolfini Catherine O' Hara Lauren Ambrose Tom Noonan Alice Parkinson Max Records Michael Berry Jr Robby D Bruce Steve Mouzakis Angus Sampson Nick Farnell & John Leary Director Spike Jonze Certificate PGYear 2009 Screen Widescreen Languages English Duration 1 hour & 41 minutes (approx)
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When Max puts on his wolf suit & makes mischief his mother calls him ' Wild Thing' & sends him to bed without any supper Alone in his room Max enters a magical world & sets sail across the sea to the place where the wild things are The wild things roar their terrible roars & gnash their terrible teeth & roll their terrible eyes & show their terrible claws But Max tames the wild things & is made their king Will he ever want to go home? ...

One night Max puts on his wolf suit & makes mischief of one kind & another so his mother calls him ' Wild Thing' & sends him to bed without his supper That night a forest begins to grow in Max's room & an ocean rushes by with a boat to take Max to the place where the wild things are Max tames the wild things & crowns himself as their king & then the wild rumpus begins But when Max has sent the monsters to bed & everything is quiet he starts to feel lonely & realises it is time to sail home to the place where someone loves him best of all ...

Maurice Sendak&s classic book Where the Wild Things Are comes to the big screen in an adventure tale for every generation Directed by innovative filmmaker Spike Jonze Where the Wild Things Are follows the adventure of Max a mischievous young boy who is sent to his room after rebelling against his mother However Max&s imagination is free to roam & it soon transports him to a thriving forest bordering a vast sea Delighted Max sets sail for the land of the Wild Things where mischief reigns & Max rules ...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDA Financial Times Book of the Year A Spectator Book of the Year A Daily Telegraph Book of the Year' Travel writing in excelsis' -Jan Morris author of Venice'A thrilling & gorgeous tale packed with meteorological wonder' -Amy Liptrot author of The Outrun Nick Hunt sets off on an unlikely quest to follow four of Europe's winds across the continent His wind-walks begin on Cross Fell the highest point of the Pennines as he chases the roaring Helm
- the only named wind in Britain In southern Europe he follows the Bora
- a bitter northerly that blows from Trieste through Slovenia & down the Croatian coast His hunt for the 'snow-eating' Foehn becomes a meandering journey of exhilaration & despair through the Alpine valleys of Switzerland & his final walk traces an ancient pilgrims' path in the south of France on the trail of the Mistral
- the 'wind of madness' which animated & tormented Vincent Van Gogh These are journeys into wild wind but also into wild landscapes & the people who inhabit them
- a cast of meteorologists storm chasers mountain men eccentric wind enthusiasts sailors & shepherds Soon Nick finds himself borne along by the very forces he is pursuing through rain blizzards howling gales & back through time itself For where the wild winds are there are also myths & legends history & hearsay science & superstition
- & occasionally remote mountain cabins packed with pickles cured meats & homemade alcohol Where the Wild Winds Are is a beautiful unconventional travelogue that makes the invisible visible




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In the summerof 1727 a group of men & boys from St Kilda are put ashore on a remote seastac to harvest birds for food No one returns to collect them Why? Surelynothing but the end of the world can explain why they have been abandoned toendure storms starvation & terror & how can they survive imprisoned onevery side by the ocean? Inspired by a true event this is abreathtaking story of nine boys & the courage it takes to survive against theodds from three-time winner of the Whitbread Costa Children's Book Award Geraldine Mc Caughrean ...

There is no more running only the need to hide Imagine not knowing the father of your child Although she is desperate for a baby that is something that Kate Powell cannot accept Then Kate meets a man who seems to be the answer to all her problems 384 pages Beckett Simon ...

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