Many people take for granted their annual two weeks in the sun or weekend away in a buzzing city, but how did it all happen? How did we fall in love with package holidays & are we still in love with them now? The story of how we got into the package holiday habit is a fascinating one. It`s not just about planes & resorts but also about us, as the holidays we take reflect the people we are, or aspire to be. Despite the continuous growth of the package holiday from its beginnings in the 1950s, could the golden age be over? Escalating fuel costs mean that the era of really cheap foreign holidays is over. In this unique, illustrated book featuring anecdotes, word-of-mouth accounts from the people who made package holidays happen & archive images, author Dave Richardson poses some questions about the impact of tourism on the environment & whether we could be estroying the very things we set out to experience. ...

In this interactive book, Marion Deuchars takes the broad canvas of ART & fills it with drawings & activities that let you discover what art can be, how it can be made, what it can mean for you & what it has meant for people through the ages. This book is packed with stimulating ideas to spark your creative imagination. You can complete the Mona Lisa`s smile, or design your own Jackson Pollock-inspired work with a marble, a tray, some paint & paper. There are step-by-step instructions for how to draw a bird & how to give it an expression, as well a foolproof method for drawing a bicycle. Aimed at children aged eight & older, the emphasis is on fun & making the creation of art a big part of the way you express yourself. ...

Much-loved characters from Let`s Make Some Great Fingerprint Art are featured on the brightly coloured covers & the first pages. Each notebook one plain, one lined & one squared has 48 blank pages for your sketches & doodles, making this the perfect gift set for budding artists of all ages. ...

In this interactive activity book, Marion Deuchars shows how different art effects can be achieved by using fingers & ink only. Packed with stimulating ideas to spark your creative imagination, ” Let`s Make Some Great Fingerprint Art” shows how to make letters, patterns, animals, characters & even whole works of art from your fingerprints. This follow-up to the hugely successful ” Let`s Make Some Great Art” will appeal to artists aged 6 upwards. Let the inky fingers begin. ...

Based on the bestselling ” Let`s Make Some Great Art”, Marion Deuchars has devised some fun & educational art activities to keep kids, young & old, occupied at mealtimes. Featuring 36 generously sized mats printed on art activity paper, & 9 different designs, including 3 all-new illustrations. Make up your own pasta shapes. Draw your favourite meal. Draw Mona Lisa`s smile. Draw a meal for an alien. Let`s Make Some Great Placemat Art. ...

Okido`s Lets Play a Game contains everything you need to play six re-imagined board games. The box opens to reveal six pop-out coloured counters & an integrated, numbered spinner that functions as a die. Inside a wallet are three folding double-sided games boards. The simple rules for each game are printed on the inside of the lid, & the whole is printed on durable card. Each board game is suitable for two to six players. The games are boisterous & sometimes silly but also help children (aged 4+ at pre-school, school & at home) with first maths, coordination & matching & sorting skills. ...

Two little boys build a rocket & zoom off for an out-of-this-world adventure with the aliens in space. What will happen next? Slide, turn & twist the scenes to bring this magical book by Yu-hsuan Huang to life. With mechanisms on every spread, Let`s Play Aliens in Space is the perfect book for imaginative young children with inquisitive fingers & minds. ...

In Let`s re-Great Britain, Al Murray`s Pub Landlord sets out his party`s vision for the country, & explains how politics actually works. Citizens of Hope & Glory! It`s time to bring common sense to the House of Commons. Parliament is a nest of slippery, poisonous vipers & only a bonkers, mental idiot would try to make sense of it. Yet in Let`s re-Great Britain, Al Murray, the Pub Landlord, presents his guide to British politics & a vision for a Greater Britain. In it you`ll learn & appreciate The Guv`s views & policies on: ” The jobless: Fix youth unemployment with a pyramid scheme” (literally, build some pyramids); ” Economics: Cut the deficit by borrowing more, growing a beard & leaving the country”; ” Criminal Justice: Bring back hanging if only for the sake of the rope industry”; & ” Immigration: Electrify the English Channel, a plain, common-sense vision of an impossibly complicated (&, frankly, dull) subject”, this will almost certainly be one day hailed as the new founding text of the nation
- a Magna Carta 2.0 from the Landlord of Hope & Glory.
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This series of books introduce children to environmental issues in a simple & fun way. Each book looks at a particular issue such as saving energy, & fighting pollution with the aim of relating to a young child`s world, starting in the home, progressing to school & working outward to the local community. Each title

Includes:: `before & after` illustrated spreads depicting both the current & ideal environmental situation, as well as photographic spreads that explain the issues.

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Bikes with training wheels, bikes with engines, bikes for racing & bikes for cruising
- children will love this brightly illustrated
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