Here`s my EXCELLENT PLAN to make Dog Zombies the BEST band in the WHOLE WIDE WORLD! How hard can it be? (Very.) Right now I`m going to: 1. Write more songs. (Not about teachers.) 2. Make a SPECTACULAR music video. (Easy.) 3. Get some sleep. (Tricky when you`re being kept awake by LOUD NOISES.) 4. Annoy Delia. (Nothing to do with DOGZOMBIES but always FUN.) ...

Here`s my EXCELLENT PLAN to make Dog Zombies the BEST band in the WHOLE WIDE WORLD! How hard can it be? (Very.) Right now I`m going to: 1. Write more songs. (Not about teachers.) 2. Make a SPECTACULAR music video. (Easy.) 3. Get some sleep. (Tricky when you`re being kept awake by LOUD NOISES.) 4. Annoy Delia. (Nothing to do with DOGZOMBIES but always FUN.) ...

In the next hilarious illustrated instalment of Tom Gates, Mr Fullerman has a class assignment: a family tree! Tom`s ready to learn all about the Gates family, his friends & a furry creature (or two!). But just what *is* that squeaking sound coming from Tom`s shoes? ...

Pass your level 1 music test with Tom Gates! From Dog Zombies to Dude 3, music is a HUGE part of the Tom Gates world. Learn how to play all your favourite songs from the series with REAL notation for:
- Guitar
- Ukulele
- Piano
- Recorder & with notation for drums & tips & tricks for vocals!



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From the winner of the Roald Dahl Funny Prize, the Best Book for Younger Readers
- Red House Children`s Book Award, the Waterstones
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Thanks to his Dopamine Diet, Michelin-starred chef Tom Kerridge has shed eleven stone over the past three years. That`s the same as 70 bags of sugar. If you`re struggling with your weight & need to shift unhealthy pounds, this new approach makes it easy, & is guaranteed to make you feel happier in the process. Most people find it hard to keep to a long-term diet, but this one is different. The recipes feature ingredients that trigger the release of the `happy hormone` dopamine in your brain, so it`s a diet that will make you feel good! Tom`s `dopamine heroes` include dairy products such as double cream & yoghurt, good-quality meats including beef, chicken & turkey, & even chocolate. By ditching alcohol & starchy carbs in favour of plenty of protein, fresh fruit & veg, you will be eating meals that will help you shed the weight, whilst offering a satisfying intensity of flavour. Treats in store for Dopamine Dieters include spinach, bacon & mint soup; roasted onion salad with fried halloumi; shepherd`s pie with creamy cauliflower topping; soy glazed cod with chilli, garlic & ginger; braised beef with horseradish; Chinese pork hot pot; & chocolate mousse with sesame almond biscuits. These are recipes that don`t feel like diet food, & can be shared with friends & family. It worked for Tom & it can work for you. Give it a go! & lose weight the Dopamine Diet way. ...

The king of beautiful pub food has collected all of his best ideas into this proper cookbook, ready to warm the world on a grey day & restore the nation`s good mood. Tom Kerridge`s idea of food heaven isn`t fussy gastronomy; it`s proper `man food` with Michelin star magic, including breakfasts that keep you smiling for the whole day, indulgent long lunches, teatime temptations, seasonal snacks & heart-warming suppers. In this cookbook Tom proves that everyone can make proper pub food, & the only place he wants to see a foam is on the head of a pint of beer! Over 100 recipes reveal his secrets for making real food truly amazing, including perfected dishes from his childhood & special treats he serves at his own one-of-a-kind pub. These recipes are simply the best version you`ll ever have of the dishes everyone loves the most. This fantastic feel-good cookbook is the official accompaniment to Tom Kerridge`s Proper Pub Food TV show, featuring all the recipes from the six episodes & many, many more. With excellent photography from Cristian Barnett. ...

Following on from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) & Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884-5) Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894) became one of Mark Twain's most popular books. Again we meet his world famous characters: Tom Sawyer, ' Nigger Jim', & Huck Finn
- together now on a fantastical balloon journey across the Atlantic to meet lions & Bedouins in the Sahara & retrace something of Twain's own expedition to the Holy Land in his best-selling The Innocents Abroad (1869). Later, in Tom Sawyer Detective (1896), Twain returns us the banks of the Mississippi & a murder mystery involving identical twins & stolen diamonds. The author is back in his formative territory, the region his imagination could never leave behind. It provides him with another comedy of human foibles starring the irrepressible Tom Sawyer.
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Tom Sawyer, a shrewd & adventurous boy, is as much at home in the respectable world of his Aunt Polly as in the self-reliant & parentless world of his friend Huck Finn. The two enjoy a series of adventures, accidentally witnessing a murder, establishing the innocence of the man wrongly accused, as well as being hunted by Injun Joe, the true murderer, eventually escaping & finding the treasure that Joe had buried. Huckleberry Finn recounts the further adventures of Huck, who runs away from a drunken & brutal father, & meets up with the escaped slave Jim. They float down the Mississippi on a raft, participating in the lives of the characters they meet, witnessing corruption, moral decay & intellectual impoverishment. Sharing so much in background & character, these two stories, the best of Twain, indisputably belong together in one volume. Though originally written as adventure stories for young people, the vivid writing provides a profound commentary on provincial American life in the mid-nineteenth century & the institution of slavery. ...

The story of ” Tom-All-Alone`s” takes place in the `space between` two masterpieces of mid-Victorian fiction: ” Bleak House” & ” The Woman in White”
- overlapping with them, & re-imagining them for a contemporary reader, with a modern understanding of the grimmer realities of Victorian society. Charles Maddox, dismissed from the police force, is working as a private detective & can only hope to follow in his uncle`s formidable footsteps as an eminent thief-taker. On a cold & bright Autumn morning, a policeman calls on Charles at his lodgings with information that may be related to a case he is working on. He goes to a ruined cemetery to find a shallow grave containing the remains of four babies has been discovered. After examining them he concludes they are not related to his investigation, which is to find a young girl abandoned in a workhouse 16 years before, when her mother died. But all is not as it first appears. As he`s drawn into another case at the behest of the eminent but feared lawyer, Edward Tulkinghorn, London`s sinister underbelly begins to emerge. From the first gruesome murder, Charles has a race against time to establish the root of all evil.” Tom`s-All-Alone” is ` Dickens but darker`
- without the comedy, without the caricature, & a style all its own. The novel explores a dark underside of Victorian life that Dickens & Collins hinted at
- a world in which young women are sexually abused, unwanted babies summarily disposed of, & those that discover the grim secrets of great men brutally eliminated.


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