Play i-spy with your toddler & they'll learn all about animals. Hunt for favourite pets, farm animals & many more with your toddler
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Help! Some of the animals are hiding! Can you find them & return them to their proper homes? It is a fun seek & find book, full of animals from all around the globe, beautifully illustrated by Charlene Man. It offers a wonderful first introduction for children of 3+ to animals around the world & where they live. ...

OH NO. THERE`S A ZOO ON THE MOVE! Is that a gorilla riding a train? Is that an elephant on the building site? & look
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Cuddle up with Kipper! This playful & funny Kipper story is reissued for a new generation of children. A little squeaky mouse comes running across the page & hides himself inside the `foldy bit` in the middle of the book. Will the cat find him? Not if Kipper can help it! ` You simply cannot fail to win smiles with a new book about Kipper` Daily Mail ` The charmingly comical Inkpen, as always, hits the spot.` Guardian ...

If you`re looking for a phrase book that goes way beyond textbook French, this best-seller will fit the bill. It`s packed full of the language really spoken by young people today
- & it`s definitely not the French you learned in school. Learn the lingo on: Love, Sex, Extreme Sports, Video Games, Fashion, Body & Gross Bodily Functions, Internet, Text Messaging, Gossip, Entertainment, & Partying. Also exposed in Hide This French Book are hilarious language mishaps, social trends, & cultural idiosyncrasies. Icons indicate how ”hot” language is, so you know when an expression is totally offensive, completely inappropriate, but really worth knowing! Listen to the foreign language online, or download the audio to your iPod[registered] or MP3 player. Entertaining as well as enlightening, this is one French book users will want to read from cover to cover!
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In Esther Freud`s Hideous Kinky, two little girls are taken by their feckless young mother to Morocco on a `60s pilgrimage of self-discovery. & while she immerses herself in the Sufi religion, her children seek something more solid & stable amidst the shifting desert sands? Bea insists on going to school while the five-year-old narrator dreams of mashed potato. The girl`s explorations & discoveries of Marrakech vividly describe the sights, smells & sounds of Morocco. Their perception & understanding of the different culture, local rituals & customs, diverging from their mother`s quest for personal fulfilment & flight from the grinding conventions of English life. Esther Freud`s vocabulary & tone veer easily from the childlike to the more sophisticated, particularly when she recounts speeches or circumstances beyond a child`s comprehension, & she escapes sentimentality through simplicity. Hideous Kinky is a cheerful autobiographical novel as much about family as about an exotic country seen through an innocent`s eyes. & while the author may not have invented her subject, she has re-created it with a light touch & delicate irony. ...

We are all so familiar with the picture-postcard, well-known beauty spots dotted around the coastline that we often ignore the most eye-catching hideaways. Robin Whitcomb`s new guide to England & Wales` hidden gems unearths more stunning locations, some of which he first glimpsed while putting together his last book, Home Sweet Home. Travelling through Cornwall with his excitable chocolate Labrador Coco, Robin found himself in the diminutive Porthgwarra, a remote fishing cove used as one of the main locations in the TV series Poldark. The South West coastline supplies several of the most picturesque hidey holes at the beginning of the book, as Robin, his dog & his motorhome wander unknown havens in one of Britain`s most popular holiday destinations. Hidey Holes takes in North Devon, Pembrokeshire, & the castles that line the rugged Northumbrian coastline, before Robin heads back to South Devon to visit Agatha Christie`s home at Greenway House. Robin`s photography & light-hearted account of his journey, accompanied by landscapes by local painters, will delight readers who love local history, art & the British coast. ...

Hierro, map No. 1105/1108 in the topographic coverage of the Canary Islands at 1:50, 000 from the Instituto Geográfico Nacional
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This is the work of a man who has known & loved the Scottish Cairngorms for more than 30 years. Jim Crumley marries a poet`s instincts to an uncompromising passion for the Cairngorm`s arctic character, & for those wildlife tribes which thrive there. He marks nature`s rhythms with thoughtful observations of bird & beast, flower & landscape. In the process he strives for a purer empathy with the wilds, seeks out the nourishing bond of man & landscape. Ultimately, the book asserts that the Cairngorms are nature`s place. Crumley proposes a radical solution to safeguard the mountains from a threatening array of forces ranged against them. In his conclusion he invokes what Seton Gordon called ”the spirit of the high & lonely places”. ...

This anthology, devoted to climbing on the world's two highest mountains, spans the years 1933 through 1996. It describes the development of climbing these two peaks, reminds us that Everest & K2 are among the world most dangerous places, & explains why the world's best climbers cannot stay away from them. The book

Includes:: prose about mountaineering's ultimate challenges by writers such as Jon Krakauer, David Roberts & Chris Bonington. Matt Dickinson tells what it is like for an amateur to climb a swaying aluminium ladder on Everest's North Col route; Jim Haberl waits high on K2's Abruzzi Ridge for sunrise over China to warm his extremities; Maria Coffey mourns the loss of her beloved who died on Everest's unclimbed Northeast Ridge; & Doug Scott summits Everest via the difficult Southwest face.

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