Who is the most mischievous character? Who is the bravest? Stage the ultimate fairy-tale battle as you pit 30 magical characters against each other to beat your opponents. With amazing illustrations & wickedly funny descriptions of each character, create fairy tales as you play! ...

Little Green Raincape is on her way to Rapunzel`s party, deep in the wild woods. The way is long & dark, but Green is a smart girl. Smart enough to turn down apples offered by kindly old ladies, smart enough to turn down travel advice from helpful wolves, & above all, smart enough to solve a wealth of classic fairy tale problems
- not least mend a lovelorn beast`s broken heart. Once Upon a Wild Wood is a richly imagined story packed full of familiar fairy tale characters as you`ve never seen them before. Including Red Riding Hood, Thumbelina, Rapunzel, Beauty & the Beast, Cinderella, the three bears, the seven dwarfs & many more!A visual feast on every page, illustrated with warmth & humour & full of witty details to discover
- this is Chris Riddell at his picture book best!

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The letters of our alphabet work tirelessly to make words that in turn make stories, but what if there was a story for each of the letters instead? Turn the pages of this exquisite book to find out. Here you will discover twenty-six short stories introducing a host of new characters (plus the occasional familiar face). From Edmund the astronaut with his awkward fear of heights, via the dynamic new investigative duo of the Owl & the Octopus, through to the Zeppelin that just might get Edmund a little bit closer to where he needs to be, this book is packed with funny, thrilling, perilous & above all entertaining tales inspired by every letter in the alphabet. An adventure to follow from A to Z, or a treasure trove to dip in & out of, Once Upon an Alphabet is a work of exhilarating originality from artist Oliver Jeffers, the creator of much-loved modern classics such as Lost & Found & The Incredible Book Eating Boy. ...

This is the story of Maxine & Sheila Kohler, two sisters who grew up in the suffocating gentility of 1950s South Africa. When Maxine is just shy of her fortieth birthday her husb&, a brilliant & respected surgeon, drives their car off the road & kills her. Devastated, Sheila returns to the country of her birth, haunted by questions. How had she failed to protect her sister? Was Maxine`s death a matter of chance, or destiny? What lies in the soil of their troubled motherland that condemns its women to such violence? ...

Alan Duff`s groundbreaking first novel is one of the most talked about books ever published in New Zealand & now the basis of a major New Zealand film. This hard hitting story is a frank & uncompromising portrayal of Maoaris in New Zealand society. It is a raw & powerful story in which everyone ia a victim until the strength & vision of one woman transcends brutality & leads the way to a new life. ...

Topographic coverage of mainland Spain at 1:50, 000 in the MTN50 (Mapa Topográfico Nacional) series from the Centro Nacional de Información Geografica, the country’s civilian survey organization. The maps have contours at 20m intervals, enhanced by relief shading, plus colouring and/or graphics to show different types of terrain, vegetation or land use. Boundaries of national parks & other protected areas are marked. In addition to all the usual information featured on topographic mapping at this scale, detailed presentation of the road & rail networks, rural tracks & paths, etc, the maps also show campsites & mountain refuges. On more recent editions some GRs, the official long-distance hiking routes, are also marked (although not as clearly as on hiking maps from other publishers). Each map covers 29.5x 18.5 km (with adjustments in the border or coastal areas). The maps have a 1-km UTM grid, plus margin ticks for latitude & longitude at 1` intervals. Map legend is in Spanish only.HOW TO CHOOSE THE RIGHT 50K MAP: all the titles in CNIG’s 200K Provincial Road Maps series at 1:200, 000 are overprinted with the grid for the 1:50, 000 maps & can be used to see the area covered by each 50K title. TO SEE THE LIST OF TITLES IN THIS SERIES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK.PLEASE NOTE
- MAP TITLES: the grids shown on our website serve both the civilian & the military 1:50, 000 topographic series. Although the areas covered by maps in both series are identical (apart from some border or coastal sheets), occasionally map titles differ – only one title is shown on the grid, usually the military one. In Galicia, the Basque country & in the Catalan speaking areas the tendency now is to use local place names rather than the often better known Castilian ones. Where possible, both versions are included in our titles. Map titles listed on our website are based on information received by us at the time of publication, but sometimes maps arrive showing a completely different title! As long as the map number is as ordered, the correct map has been supplied.
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WINNER OF THE YA BOOK PRIZE 2016 WINNER OF THE CARNEGIE MEDAL 2016 WINNER OF THE CBI BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2016 Grace & Tippi don`t like being stared & sneered at, but they`re used to it. They`re conjoined twins
- united in blood & bone. What they want is to be looked at in turn, like they truly are two people. They want real friends. & what about love? But a heart-wrenching decision lies ahead for Tippi & Grace. One that could change their lives more than they ever asked for... This moving & beautifully crafted novel about identity, sisterhood & love ultimately asks one question: what does it mean to want & have a soulmate? The ONE book you have to read this summer! The phenomenal new novel from Carnegie-shortlisted author Sarah Crossan; incredibly moving & extraordinarily crafted, it explores the unbreakable bond & love between sisters. Shortlisted for The CILIP Carnegie Medal in 2016
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In August 1995 Alison Hargreaves became the fifth woman & the fifth Briton to climb the 28, 250-feet-high K2. The winds that she battled with on her descent were vicious, & it is likely that she was blown to her death from the summit ridge to a depression of snow more than 3000 feet below. This tribute to Hargreaves's courage is her husband's account of his trip to the base camp of K2 with his two young children, to see Mummy's last mountain & say a last goodbye. The book accompanies a BBC1 documentary. ...

1960, & Sister Conchita, the young nun with a flair for detection, has been forced to leave her beloved Malaita & assume reluctant command of a run-down mission in the lush, primitive Western District of the Solomon Islands. The group of three elderly sisters currently there are rumoured to have `gone native` & Conchita tries to grapple with these eccentric, tough-mind insurgents & the secrets they are keeping when an American tourist is murdered in their mission church but perplexingly, the colonial authorities want nothing to do with this bizarre crime. Help is at hand for Sister Conchita in the shape of her friend Sergeant Ben Kella, the local police officer but also the aofia, the traditional law-bringer of the islands. Together, the idealistic young nun & practical witch doctor set out to solve the mystery. In the process they discover links to a local independence organisation, a powerful international logging company, &, most puzzling of all, to John F. Kennedy, a former wartime US naval officer in the area but now, thousands of miles away, about to become the 35th president of the USA. Praise for ” Devil-Devil”: ” The mystery takes a back seat to [ Kent`s] knowledge of the exotic location & the combustible chemistry of his protaganists (the oddest couple since ” The African Queen”), which add immensely to his story`s charm.” (” Kirkus Review”). ...

One Breath is a gripping & powerful exploration of the strange & fascinating sport of freediving, & of the tragic, untimely death of America`s greatest freediver Competitive freediving-a sport built on diving as deep as possible on a single breath-tests the limits of human ability in the most hostile environment on earth. The unique & eclectic breed of individuals who freedive at the highest level regularly dive hundreds of feet below the ocean`s surface, reaching such depths that their organs compress, light disappears, & one mistake could kill them. Even among freedivers, few have ever gone as deep as Nicholas Mevoli. A handsome young American with an unmatched talent for the sport, Nick was among freediving`s brightest stars. He was also an extraordinary individual, one who rebelled against the vapid & commoditized society around him by relentlessly questing for something more meaningful & authentic, whatever the risks. So when Nick Mevoli arrived at Vertical Blue in 2013, the world`s premier freediving competition, he was widely expected to challenge records & continue his meteoric rise to stardom. Instead, before the end of that fateful competition Nick Mevoli had died, a victim of the sport that had made him a star, & the very future of free diving was called into question. With unparalleled access & masterfully crafted prose, One Breath tells his unforgettable story, & of the sport which shaped & ultimately destroyed him. ...