The list of what foods to introduce to your child & when can be daunting especially in this day & age when everything from food safety to allergy issues dictates certain rules. Written by the UKs leading nutritionist Amanda Ursell while she was caring for her own baby & toddler everything in this book has been tried & tested by a busy working mum! It
Includes:: weaning; what to feed your child from 6 months to 1 year & year by year until 4 years; fussy eating & how to handle it; allergies & intolerances; whether shop-bought baby foods are OK; top nutrition for mums on the go; & 200 easy nutritious recipes.
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In this book Anna Del Conte has collected together the best of her delicious recipes along with tips anecdotes & reminiscences about her life in Italy & London. Packed with inspiring information from the best way to make a tomato sauce & a tiramisu to more unusual dishes such as nettle risotto & chestnut mousse each chapter is devoted to a different ingredient. As well as explaining the basics & introducing more surprising recipes Anna

Includes:: special additional chapters describing traditional regional & historical menus. So whether you want to eat tagliatelle with ham & peas or rabbit with rosemary & tomato a Roman Late Supper or a Renaissance Dinner you will find what you need here.

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This 2000 Edition of Sir Patrick Moores classic book has been completely revised in the light of changes in technology. Not only do these changes include commercially available astronomical telescopes & software but also what we know & understand about the universe. There are many new photographs & illustrations. Packs a great deal of valuable information into appendices which make up almost half the book. These are hugely comprehensive & provide hints & tips as well as data (year 2000 onwards) for pretty well every aspect of amateur astronomy. This is probably the only book in which all this information is collected in one place. ...

Gary is a sweet & decent man. Only two things would improve his life
- having children with his gorgeous wife Pauline & a lower
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Nancy Durrell has always been an enigma. To her husband Lawrence future author of the Alexandria Quartet she was his introduction to bohemian London his companion during his formative years & the inspiration for some of his finest poetry. Here at last is Nancys story. Growing up in a dysfunctional family she was the provincial schoolgirl who was transformed overnight into a young woman of haunting beauty. From the smoky pubs of 1930s Fitzrovia to the sexual mayhem of the Villa Seurat in Paris & a remote village in pre-war Corfu her story shines new light on an extraordinary group of people. ...

A fun interactive activity book based around the popular theme of magic to engage & motivate young learners. This book helps children to practise their addition & subtraction skills reinforcing what has been taught at school. The books combine fun magical characters & fantastic illustrations with National Curriculum- focused activities. * Motivating activities based on the KS1 National Curriculum * Step-by-step learning introduced by fun characters *
Includes: gold stickers to reward achievement
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A fun interactive activity book based around the popular theme of magic to engage & motivate young learners. This book helps children to practise their addition & subtraction skills reinforcing what has been taught at school. The books combine fun magical characters & fantastic illustrations with National Curriculum- focused activities. * Motivating activities based on the KS1 National Curriculum * Step-by-step learning introduced by fun characters *
Includes: gold stickers to reward achievement
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A fun interactive activity book based around the popular theme of magic to engage & motivate young learners. This book helps children to practise their addition & subtraction skills reinforcing what has been taught at school. The books combine fun magical characters & fantastic illustrations with National Curriculum- focused activities. * Motivating activities based on the KS2 National Curriculum * Step-by-step learning introduced by fun characters *
Includes: gold stickers to reward achievement
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When the Great Raven steals their Mothers precious brooch the Twins Henry & Henrietta are blamed & told that unless the brooch is returned their Birthday Party in four days time will be cancelled & that their four Animals Curd the Lion Pilgrim Crow Sweeney the Heenie (a hyena) & OFlattery the Snake will be given away to the Charity Shop. Curd the Lion who witnessed the theft leads the Animals out that night all the way to the Back of Beyond to find the Great Raven & try to rescue the brooch. Meeting first that unfathomable inflatable Professor Balloonafuss creatures they encounter include His Majesty King Much of a Muchness Nook & Cranny Queen Mumbie-Bumbee & the Dodongs. By the time they enter Holywood with its Minor-Bore knightly Sir Rush & his Kalandar their route has become so riddled with pitfalls & the talk of the beasts so twisted the Animals can hardly tell whether they are coming or going. Reaching at last the Rocks of Brimstone & the out-jutting Corbie-stone lair of the Great Raven the Animals discover both friends & foes converging on this pivotal rock. A great battle ensues. The author has included the first three chapters of a second adventure The Ineffable Emperor or Travels in the Land of Nod in the Great Sea of Slumber as an invitation to readers to ask for more. No illustrations (though there will be of course in the real book) ...

Winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is a heart-wrenching story of escape love & comic-book heroes set in Prague New York & the Arctic
- from the author of Wonder Boys. One night in 1939 Josef Kavalier shuffles into his cousin Sam Clays cramped New York bedroom his nerve-racking escape from Prague finally achieved. Little does he realise that this is the beginning of an extraordinary friendship & even more fruitful business partnership. Together they create a comic strip called The Escapist its superhero a Nazi-busting saviour who liberates the oppressed around the world. The Escapist makes their fortune but Joe can think of only one thing: how can he effect a real-life escape & free his family from the tyranny of Hitler? Michael Chabons exceptional novel is a thrilling tight-rope walk between high comedy & bitter tragedy & confirms his position as one of the most inventive & daring of contemporary American writers. In Joe Kavalier & Sam Clay he has created two unforgettable characters bound together by love family & cartoons.
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