How much of the planet does it takes to make your stuff? How much water does it take to grow the cotton for your t-shirt? Why do we need to find greener types of energy? What does it matter if the rainforests are being cut down? Global warming, pollution, water shortages, ice caps melting.. . What does it all mean? Pull the tabs, lift the flaps & open up the amazing pops & discover the answers to these questions & more. Find out what you can do to help our planet stay green. ...

This unique `big history` wallbook

Includes:: a 2 metre-long fold-out timeline containing more than 1, 000

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A hilarious, inventive book packed with plenty of things to see. While the text introduces readers to a cast of curious characters, including knobbly-kneed Norris & Fiona the fussy fidget, the illustrations suggest that something monstrous & pretty clever might be going on... ...

` The hills only come back the same: I don`t mind.. .` begins Kirsty Gunn`s ” The Big Music”, a novel that takes us to a new understanding of how fiction can affect us. Presented as a collection of found papers, appendices & notes, ” The Big Music” tells the story of John Sutherland of ` The Grey House`, who is dying & creating in the last days of his life a musical composition that will define it. Yet he has little idea of how his tune will echo or play out into the world
- & as the book moves inevitably through its themes of death & birth, change & stasis, the sound of his solitary story comes to merge & connect with those around him. In this work of fiction, Kirsty Gunn has created something as real as music or as a dream. Not so much a novel as a place the reader comes to inhabit & to know, ” The Big Music” is a literary work of undeniable originality & power.
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This is an irresistible anthology on our feline friends, from the greatest magazine in the world. After the wonderful The Big New Yorker Book of Dogs comes the equivalent for cat lovers. From the greatest magazine in the world, The Big New Yorker Books of Cats is an irresistible anthology of long-form essays, short humour pieces, poems, fiction, & cartoons. For both fans of the New Yorker & fans of cats, this anthology is a real treasure &

Includes:: prestigious contributors such as John Updike, Ted Hughes & Roald Dahl. With a bold, beautifully designed package, this is the must-have book for cat lovers of every persuasion.

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Take to the skies with DK`s The Big Noisy Book of Planes, filled with exciting flight facts for young children. Discover every type of plane imaginable in this fun, informative visual guide, from jumbo jets & fighter jets to stunt planes & crop-sprayers. Kids will find out all about how planes work & learn about the fastest jet in the world, while the annotated high-resolution photographs show them in stunning detail everything there is to know about aircraft. Fully updated to include the latest breakthroughs in the world of aviation, DK`s The Big Noisy Book of Planes is the perfect book for any child who has ever asked the question ”how does a plane fly?”. ...

When Peter Minuit bought Manhattan for $24 in 1626, he showed his shrewdness by also buying the oyster beds off tiny, nearby Oyster Isl&, renamed Ellis Island in 1770. From the Minuit purchase until pollution finally destroyed the beds in the 1920s, New York was a city known for its oysters, especially in the late 1800s, when Europe & America enjoyed a decades-long oyster craze. In a dubious endorsement, William Makepeace Thackeray said that eating a New York oyster was like eating a baby. Travellers to New York were also keen to experience the famous New York oyster houses. While some were known for their elegance, due to a longstanding belief in the aphrodisiac quality of oysters, they were often associated with prostitution. In 1842, when the novelist Charles Dickens arrived in New York, he could not conceal his eagerness to find & experience the fabled oyster cellars of New York City`s slums. ” The Big Oyster” is the story of a city & of an international trade. Filled with cultural, social & culinary insight
- as well as recipes, maps, drawings & photographs
- this is history at its most engrossing, entertaining & delicious.

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` Fascinating`
- Brian Cox, Mail on Sunday Books of the Year Where are we? Who are we? Do our beliefs, hopes & dreams hold any
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Once upon a time.. .a king & queen discover, among their flowers, the teensiest, tiniest princess. Such a charming, sweet little thing! They are instantly taken with her
- she becomes the daughter they never had, the child they had always dreamed of. The Queen immediately sets about finding her a perfect-sized bed & only a tiny ring box will do. But, in no time at all, the princess grows too big for her miniature bed. In fact, with each passing day, the princess grows bigger & BIGGER. Soon, she is taller than her parents, taller than her bedroom.. .and the princess keeps growing until her HEAD pokes through the top of even the TALLEST tower! Can the King figure out how to break the spell & save his beloved princess before his castle crumbles & falls?
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