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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Each book contains over 1000 stickers. Bold, eye-catching design, with interiors printing in eye-catching green pantone. Activities to complete with the stickers, plus extra stickers for fun too! Following on from My Big Pink & My Big Blue Activity books, creating a series of 4 activity titles. Front cover prints with 100% shiny red foil, with text overprinting ...

This revelatory volume brings together significant works in translations from nearly fifty Chinese writers. It

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It`s great detective work that`s needed now. Bill, Peter & Joe are falsely accused of setting boats adrift & the whole river is against them. Only Dick, Dorothea & Tom Dudgeon are there to stand by their friends & they soon set to work to investigate the crimes & trap the real criminals ...

` Why shouldn`t we be detectives too?` When Dick & Dorothea arrive in the Norfolk Broads all set for a blissful summer on the river, they find their friends the Death & Glories in a very bad situation. Accused of setting boats adrift, sabotage & theft, the boys are under suspicion by everyone on the river. & in the meantime, the real culprits are still at large. There`s no choice but to form a crime-busting team: The Big Six. As the evidence stacks against them, can they solve the mystery & trap the real criminals?

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Material: In ` The Backstory` find out about birds, boats & fish & put your own detective skills to the test! Vintage Children`s Classics is a twenty-first century classics list aimed at 8-12 year olds & the adults in their lives. Discover timeless favourites from The Jungle Book & Alice`s Adventures in Wonderland to modern classics such as The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas & The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.



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Raymond Chandler created the fast talking, trouble seeking Californian private eye Philip Marlowe for his first great novel The Big Sleep in 1939. Marlowe`s entanglement with the Sternwood family
- & an attendant cast of colorful underworld figures
- is the background to a story reflecting all the tarnished glitter of the great American Dream. The detective`s iconic image burns just as brightly in ” Farewell My Lovely”, on the trail of a missing nightclub crooner. & the inimitable Marlowe is able to prove that trouble really is his business in Raymond Chandler`s brilliant epitaph, ” The Long Goodbye”.

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