From Dr Gareth Moore, the author of the bestselling Buster Brain Games series for Clever Kids, comes a new collection of puzzles

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Conveniently compact for travelling, this book is perfect for bright young wordsearch enthusiasts & is sure to keep kids engaged & entertained.

With four sections of increasing difficulty, children can puzzle their way to the top.

There are over 150 themes of wordsearches to conquer so the puzzles never get boring, & kids might even learn a new word or two.

Product Information:
• ISBN: 9781780553078
• Format: Paperback
• Author: Dr Gareth Moore
• Publisher: Buster Books
• Dimensions: 20 x 13 x 1.5cm












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Feel grateful for all things in your life, big & small, with this fun wordsearch book!  Each wordsearch is accompanied by an inspirational"e, intended to inspire thoughts of things you can be grateful for, from funny people & cakes to birds & wildflowers. Interspersed are gratitude exercises designed to help you put your new thankful mindset into action.   Product Information:  •†ISBN:† 9781839409059 •†Author:   Eric Saunders •†Publisher:   Arcturus •†Format:   Paperback •†Pages:† 192 •†Dimensions:†15.3 x 23.4 x 1.3 cm ...

This vivid historical & political novel by Dickens is centred on the infamous ' No Popery' riots, instigated by Lord George Gordon, which terrorised London in 1780. Dickens targets are prejudice, intolerance, religious bigotry & nationalistic fervour, together with the villains who exploit these for selfish ends. HIs intense account of the riots is interwoven with the mysterious tale of a long-unsolved murder & with a romance involving forbidden love, treachery & heroism. Barnaby Rudge abounds in memorably strange, comic & grotesque characters. Furthermore, recent historical events have renewed its political topicality. ...

Dickens wrote of David Copperfield: ' Of all my books I like this the best'. Millions of readers in almost every language on earth have subsequently come to share the author's own enthusiasm for this greatly loved classic, possibly because of its autobiographical form. Following the life of David through many sufferings & great adversity, the reader will also find many light-hearted moments in the company of a host of English fiction's greatest stars including Mr Micawber, Traddles, Uriah Heep, Creakle, Betsy Trotwood, & the Peggotty family. Few readers, arriving at the end of David Copperfield, will not wish to echo Thackeray's famous praise, having read the first monthly part
- ' Bravo Dickens'.
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Unusually for Dickens, Hard Times is set, not in London, but in the imaginary mid-Victorian Northern industrial town of Coketown with its blackened factories, downtrodden workers & polluted environment. This is the soulless domain of the strict utilitarian Thomas Gradgrind & the heartless factory owner Josiah Bounderby. However, human joy is not excluded thanks to ' Mr Sleary's Horse-Riding' circus, a gin-soaked & hilarious troupe of open-hearted & affectionate people who act as an antidote to all the drudgery & misery endured by the ordinary citizens of Coketown. Macaulay attacked Hard Times for its 'sullen socialism', but 20th century critic such as George Bernard Shaw & F.R. Leavis have praised this book in the highest terms, while readers the world over have found inspiration & enjoyment from what is both Dickens' shortest completed novel & also one of his important statements on Victorian society. ...

Little Dorritt is a classic tale of imprisonment, both literal & metaphorical, while Dickens' working title for the novel, Nobody's Fault, highlights its concern with personal responsibility in private & public life. Dickens' childhood experiences inform the vivid scenes in Marshalsea debtor's prison, while his adult perceptions of governmental failures shape his satirical picture of the Circumlocution Office. The novel's range of characters
- the honest, the crooked, the selfish & the self-denying
- offers a portrait of a society about whose values Dickens had profound doubts. Little Dorrit is indisputably one of Dickens' finest works, written at the height of his powers. George Bernard Shaw called it 'a masterpiece among masterpieces', a verdict shared by the novel's many admirers.

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Martin Chuzzlewit is Charles Dickens' comic masterpiece about which his biographer, Forster, noted that it marked a crucial phase in the author's development as he began to delve deeper into the 'springs of character'. Old Martin Chuzzlewit, tormented by the greed & selfishness of his family, effectively drives his grandson, young Martin, but also for his grandfather & his grandfather's servant, Mary Graham, with whom young Martin is in love. The commercial swindle of the Anglo-Bengalee Company & the fraudulent Eden Land Corporation have a topicality in our own time. This strong sub-plot shows evidence of Dickens's mastery of crime where characters such as the criminal Jonas Chuzzlewit, the old nurse Mrs Gamp, & the arch-hypocrite Seth Pecksniff are the equal to any in his other great novels. Generations of readers have also delighted in Dickens' wonderful description of the London boarding
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- ' Todgers'.

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Following the success of Pickwick Papers & Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby was hailed as a comic triumph & firmly established Dickens as a 'literary gentleman'. It has a full supporting cast of delectable characters that range from the iniquitous Wackford Squeers & his family, to he delightful Mrs Nickleby, taking in the eccentric Crummles & his travelling players, the Mantalinis, the Kenwigs & many more. Combining these with typically Dickensian elements of burlesque & farce, the novel is eminently suited to dramatic adaptation. So great was its impact as it left Dickens' pen that many pirated versions appeared in print & on stage before the original was even finished. ...

Dickens had already achieved renown with the Pickwick Papers. With Oliver Twist his reputation was enhanced & strengthened. The novel contains many classic Dickensian themes
- grinding poverty, desperation, fear, temptation & the eventual triumph of good into he face of great adversity. Oliver Twist features some of the author's most enduring characters, such as Oliver himself (who dares to ask for more), the tyrannical Bumble, the diabolical Fagin, the menacing Bill Sykes, Nancy & 'the Artful Dodger'. For any reader wishing to delve into he works of the great Victorian literary colossus, Oliver Twist is, without, an essential title.
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