Growing up in a large Nigerian family in South London, the author learnt early on to find the humour in every situation. He is now a world-renowned comedian & performer, regularly selling out venues like the Hammersmith Apollo. In this book, he tells th ...

A collection of favourite half-remembered lines & phrases from school days The Times Featuring poets from Chaucer to Shakespeare, Auden to Plath, the book

Includes:: all the 'greatest hits' Guardian.co.uk Once you dip in & start you won't be able to stop...a wonderful anthology Tribune Sampson's enlightening collection offers a wide variety of poems, each enhanced by background material that lends useful context. From Shakespeare to Shelley, Blake to Brooke, anyone who loves poetry or appreciates the inherent richness of the English language will find much to relish The Good Book Guide This is an excellent collection of all those poems that you perhaps only half remember. Not only are there some of the most important poems in the language, but also potted biographies & an index of famous lines for those post-prandial 'guess the poem' quizzes. The perfect stocking filler Choice Magazine If you have a favourite poem you'll probably find it in I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, which contains some of the nation's best-loved offerings. The book also contains lots of interesting facts about poets & there's an index to help you search by a poem's most famous line Co-Operative Magazine Poetry fans will love I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud... dip into this treasure-trove of the nation's best loved poems & read about the writers behind them Bon Marche

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A collection of poems that reminds you of all those long-forgotten poems that you were taught at school, together with mini-biographies & introductions. It
Includes:: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner; If; Dulce et Decorum Est; Song of Myself; Digging; & Not Waving But Drowning.
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Where is my dummy? I WANT MY DUMMY!shrieks the Little Princess when the royal dummy mysteriously disappears, yet again. Wherever the King, Queen & courtiers hide her dummy, she always finds it even in the strangest of places.. . Will she ever give it up? ...

The Little Princess is putting on a puppet show in her new puppet theatre. But as she goes about making the tickets & the refreshments, she doesn't notice her puppets getting more & more tangled. It's only as the curtain is about to raise that she sees what a state they're in. ...

Tottering her way through the history of women's footwear, the author writes ' Shoes possess magic powers, ' & wonders why it is that women love their shoes so much. She also has plenty of advice on choosing the right heel for your physique, how to keep shoes lasting long & how to judge a man by his footwear. ...

A bright, bold, pick-up-able board book that is very big in size & big on fun!

Find out what its like to be a ballerina,

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By mastering a few simple techniques, many seriously 'grown-up' items are well within the grasp of budding young chefs. In I Want to Be a Chef: Baking, the aim of the game is spectacular cakes, desserts & cookies as well as light-as-air sweet & savoury pastries. With more than 100 recipes to choose from. ...

On the turn of every page, discover make-believe monsters. 

With wonderful illustrations, key first words & images,

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A bright, bold, pick-up-able novelty board book that is very big in size & big on fun!

Find out what its like to be a

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