The perfect Christmas gift for sending to a friend, family member or even just as a treat for yourself. Simply push out the parts & slot together to create your own Christmas Decoration. Each decoration comes with a beautifully designed greetings card along with a red Ribbon & A6 envelope for postage. ...

This book offers a joyful contemplation of mathematical patterns has long been part of the human experience, from the philosophers of Ancient Greece to the artists of the Renaissance, via Islamic design & Hindu mandalas. Now, Alex Bellos, the bestselling author of Alex`s Adventures in Numberl&, takes you on a calming & colourful journey into the magical world of mathematics. Snowflake, Seashell, Star is full of intricate & divinely beautiful illustrations, using patterns such as loops, waves & spirals, created by Alex Bellos in collaboration with his friend & mathematical artist, Edmund Harriss. Stretch your artistic talents & embrace mathematics` aesthetic & conceptual exquisiteness. In 80 glorious images Alex will teach you how to convey the wonder of mathematics through colour & design. Snowflake, Seashell, Star is an incredible celebration of the overlaps between mathematics & art, learning & play, concentration & calm. ...

Mia has come to live with her Grandma in a land of forests & snow. It isn`t at all like her old life in the city, & at first she feels very different from the new children she sees. But when she watches the snow falling around her one night, Mia realises that she is just like one of the snowflakes
- unique & perfect in her own way. A beautiful story about new beginnings & making friends by CBeebies presenter Cerrie Burnell.
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The beautifully spellbinding & critically acclaimed story of a thousand magical worlds from the author of A Girl Called Owl & A Far Away Magic. When daydreamer Clementine discovers a mysterious house standing in the middle of town that was never there before, she is pulled towards it by the powerful sense of a mother she never knew. The place is full of snowglobes, swirling with stars & snow & each containing a trapped magician, watched over by Gan, the bitter keeper of the house. One of these is Dylan, a boy who teases her in the real world but who is now desperate for her help. So Clem ventures into the snowglobes, rescuing Dylan & discovering her own powerful connection to the magic of these thousand worlds. Vowing to release the magicians from the control of their enchantments, Clem unknowingly unleashes a struggle for power that will not only put her family, but the future of magic itself in danger.` One of the most purely original & imaginative children’s books I have read this year` Piers Torday, author of The Lost Magician` Beautiful prose, a wholly original premise & filled to the brim with fairytale magic. Perfect reading as the colder nights draw in` Abi Elphinstone, author of Sky Song`A spellbinding adventure in a magical & darkly beautiful world... utterly captivating` Sophie Anderson, author of The House with Chicken Legs ...

A young Englishman visits Cold War Leipzig with a group of students & falls for an East German girl who is only just beginning to wake up to the way her society is governed. Her situation touches him, but he is too frightened to help. He spends decades convincing himself that he is not in love until one day, with Germany now reunited, he decides to go back & look for her. But who was she, how will his actions have affected her, & how will her find her? All he knows of her identity is the nickname he gave her
- Snowleg. Snowleg is a powerful love story that explores the close, fraught relationship between England & Germany, between a man who grows up believing himself to be a chivalrous English public schoolboy & a woman who tries to live loyally under a repressive regime.
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Snowmotion: Snowdonia by Tube / Eryri drwy'r Tiwb, another lovely poster from Peter Burgess published by Tubular Fells, presenting the mountains in a diagrammatic format best associated with the London Underground network. Following the success of his presentation of the Lakeland Fells & the Scottish Munros, Peter Burgess has applied his clever design to the Snowdonia National Park. Mountains are grouped into nine lines: Cadair Idris, Moel Hebog, Rhinogau, Arengis, etc. Nine more routes show the railway lines & another eight hiking trails, including the Cistercian Way, Glyndwyr ...

Men & women of passion & action live, fight, love & die in scenes of dramatic intensity. From haunting tragedy on the snow-capped peak of Kilimanjaro to brutal sensationalism in the bullring; from rural America with its deceptive calm to the heart of war-ravaged Europe, each of the stories in this classic collection is a feat of imagination, & a masterpiece of description. The Snows of Kilimanjaro is one of the best known & loved collections of stories by one of the greatest literary novelists of the twentieth century. ...

Celebrating 25 years, this classic Kipper title is reissued for a new generation of children. Kipper loves the snow & when he sees great white flakes tumbling down one morning, he can`t wait to be out enjoying himself. Kipper`s friend Tiger isn`t nearly as good at snow games as Kipper is, because of his silly, woolly clothes
- but they still manage to build a wonderful snowdog. A joyful book with a wintry theme
- snuggle down & read it together. ` The charmingly comical Inkpen, as always, hits the spot.` Guardian ` You simply cannot fail to win smiles with a new book about Kipper.` Daily Mail

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Snowy Mountains
- Kosciuszko National Park, one of five maps designed to cover in greater detail the most popular national parks
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that a policeman taking a holiday would barely have had time to open his suitcase before he finds his first corpse. Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch is on holiday in the pleasant & innocent countryside, but not for him a mere body in the wardrobe. There are many, many bodies
- & an ancient crime more terrible than murder. He is out of his jurisdiction, out of his depth, out of bacon sandwiches, occasionally snookered & out of his mind. But never out of guile. Where there is a crime there must be a finding, there must be a chase & there must be a punishment. They say that in the end all sins are forgiven. But not quite all... Winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction
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