Teach your child about their favourite four-legged friends in Touch & Feel: Puppy. Twinkly, bumpy, hard, soft, silky & shiny touch & feel textures in a chunky package will help your child learn all about puppies. How silky are his ears? How shiny is his bowl? Let their little hands roam & discover the fluffy puppy tummies & the woolly slippers he chews. Read it together
- they'll learn as you play. These Touch & Feel chunky padded board books will help encourage your child's early learning & language. It is perfect for encouraging tiny fingers to explore & great for sensory development.
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Help your child discover all about amazing wild animals with touch & feel textures ” Touch & Feel Wild Animals” is full of furry, bumpy, scaly, silky, soft & shiny textures in a chunky book. Encourage your child to learn early concepts such as colours, shapes & patterns as they turn each page. Turn the page & see what it is...I have rough bumpy skin, I am green, what am I? A lizard of course! Perfect for encouraging tiny fingers to explore & young minds to develop. Sturdy pages with rounded corners mean ” Touch & Feel Wild Animals” will provide years of enjoyment. ...

The new board book edition of Touch the Brightest Star, the interactive bedtime story that proves nighttime isn`t scary at all. This gentle journey from sunset to sunrise shows the very youngest children the magic of the nighttime sky-and lets them make that magic happen! What happens while you`re asleep? With lush watercolors & cut-paper collage & a soothing text, Christie Matheson takes us on a comforting tour of the nighttime sky using toddler-perfect interactive elements, just as she did in her acclaimed Tap the Magic Tree. Wave good-bye to the sun, gently press the firefly, make a wish on a star, rub the owls on their heads, &.. .shhhh. No two readings of the book will be the same-no matter how many times you read it before bed. ” This exploration of the world at night should be inviting to even the very youngest children, who will also enjoy its imagination-fueled & child-powered interactivity.”-The Horn Book ...

Touch the Sky recounts the experience of Tess Burrows climb to the summit of Africa’s highest mountain. This gutsy & compassionate grandmother has spent more than a decade pushing herself to incredible limits to fulfil her dream. She has climbed the world’s highest summits & trekked to both the North & the South Poles to call out thousands of peace messages she collected from every nation on earth. On this latest journey, we share in Tess’s experiences of the vibrancy & colours of Africa & its people. & ultimately, in the challenges of her climb. A climb, where as a metaphor for people to pull together, she pulls a tyre packed with peace messages, up the famed summit of Africa s highest mountain, Kilimanjaro. More than 60 per cent of people who try fail will she? ...

A bird arrives, alights on a tree, finds a mate, & build a nest. Soon its eggs will hatch & one brave hatchling will embark on its first flight. This deceptively simple book beautifully depicts the natural cycle of life. The first narrative title in the bestselling Touch Think Learn series, featuring the hallmark production technique of glued on pieces dovetailing with die-cut openings, & add the bonus of removable--and movable--characters & scenery. The reader is invited to a multisensory participation in the story, from the arrival of the parent bird to the first tentative flight of the fledgling. ...

In June 1986 Diego Maradona, considered by many to be the greatest footballer of all time, proudly hoisted the `86 Mexico World Championship Cup in his hands. Now thirty years on from that magical game, & after a life in sports marked by controversy, Maradona tells, for the first time, the untold stories behind that one-of-a-kind World Cup. Mexico `86 was the pinnacle of Maradona`s career, & in this book he will reveal all about every game, what happened afterwards in the locker room, the months leading up to the World Cup, when the team had to go to Mexico City a month early to avoid the overthrowing of the technical director by the Argentine president, Alfonsin, the mystery behind ` El Gran Capitan` Passarella (`78 World Cup Champion), the strategies & tactics that revolutionised the game, training in a country that was recovering from an earthquake, the public`s hostility, the jerseys they went out to buy in Mexico City, the meeting in Colombia where the team really came together, his relationship to drugs: the clean World Cup, & the best goal in football history. Mexico `86 is Maradona`s World Cup & Maradona is who he is because of that World Cup. Explosive, gritty & unapologetic, Touched by God will tell the inside story of one of the greatest football victories of all time. ...

A book of adventure, wisdom & spiritual enlightenment. Touching My Father`s Soul recounts Tenzing`s son, Jamling Norgay`s treacherous climb to the world`s most forbidding summit. As retold in Krakauer`s Into This Air, the 1996 IMAX climbing expedition collided with tragedy. As the climb unfolds so too does Norgay`s inner journey. His desire to finally stand alongside his father`s soul on the summit of Everest is realised, as is an understanding of his family`s Sherpa history & a realisation of the power & significance of the Himalayas. Beautifully repackaged for the paperback edition, this is a classic. ...

In ” Touching the Void”, Joe Simpson recounts his harrowing account of his ascent of the 21, 000ft Siula Grande peak in the Peruvian Andes with his climbing partner Simon Yates. After reaching the summit in June 1995, Yates staggered into Base Camp, exhausted & frost-bitten, with news that his friend Simpson was dead. What happened to Simpson, & how the pair dealt with the psychological traumas that resulted when Yates was forced into the appalling decision to cut the rope, makes not only an epic of survival but a compelling testament of friendship. ...

The book behind the BAFTA award-winning film. Winner of the NCR Award for non-fiction & the Boardman Tasker award. Touching the Void is the heart-stopping account of Joe Simpson's terrifying adventure in the Peruvian Andes. He & his climbing partner, Simon, reached the the summit of the remote Siula Grande in June 1995. A few days later, Simon staggered into Base Camp, exhausted & frost-bitten, with news that that Joe was dead. What happened to Joe, & how the pair dealt with the psychological traumas that resulted when Simon was forced into the appalling decision to cut the rope, makes not only an epic of survival but a compelling testament of friendship. ...

Despite the determined efforts of the Dalai Lama to publicise the Tibetan cause, for many of us the country, its people, culture & traditions remain mysterious. Niema Ash was one of the first Westerners to enter the country when its borders were briefly opened. In this highly absorbing & personal account, she relates with wit, compassion & sensitivity her encounters with people whose humour, spirituality & sheer enthusiasm for life have carried them through years of oppression & suffering. This book gives a fresh insight into the real heart of Tibet. She takes us with her on a journey into this intriguing forbidden kingdom. ...