From pigeons & elephants to parachuting dogs
- millions of animals helped in both world wars. This non-fiction book with fascinating
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Farthing Wood is being bulldozed & a drought means the animals no longer have anywhere to live or drink. Fox Badger Toad Tawny Owl Mole & the other animals band together & leave their ancestral home & set off to move to a far-away nature reserve. Their journey is full of adventure & fraught with disasters: a fire a storm a treacherous river crossing & a hunt. The animals must unite in adversity & in doing so they learn about each other's habits & limitations. This is a story about tolerance cooperation survival & friendship. Both heart-wrenching & heart-warming this classic story continues to appeal & capture children's imaginations. ...

This is a new title in this exciting & informative series containing over 100 full-colour stickers which children can match to the illustrations. This beautifully illustrated sticker book doubles as a spotters' guide with accurate & simple descriptions that allow children to seek out & identify a variety of species. Space is allocated to each illustration so that details of when & where each subject was spotted can be inserted. It also contains a glossary of relevant words. The small size allows the books to fit neatly into a pocket so children can spot on the go. ...

This is a fresh new animal book with charming illustration & wonderful tactile features. Come pet the lovely animals feel their lovely fur & feathers! Stroke the lions mane & tickle the monkeys tummy but beware the snapping crocodile! This is a touch & feel animal book with stylish & endearing illustrations. It is one of twenty new exciting books in the Baby Walker" series. It features charming contemporary artwork to stimulate & excite your babys Imagination. This is a perfect introduction to animals." ...

Bridging digital technologies & traditional play Animatazz gives children of all ages the chance to use their imaginations & unlock their own creativity through the magic of animation whilst learning & having fun at the same time. Characterise the poseable figures with modelling clay to make your characters. Video guide & articulated figures. Upload your movies to youtube myspace i-pod or mobile phone. Requires digital camera (camera / phone / web cam) & windows or mac pc (not supplied). ...

The art. The craft. The business. Animation Writing & Development takes students & animation professionals alike through the process of creating original characters developing a television series feature or multimedia project & writing professional premises outlines & scripts. It covers the process of developing presentation bibles & pitching original projects as well as ideas for episodes of shows already on the air. Animation Writing & Development

Includes:: chapters on animation history on child development (writing for kids) & on storyboarding. It gives advice on marketing & finding work in the industry. It provides exercises for students as well as checklists for professionals polishing their craft. This is a guide to becoming a good writer as well as a successful one.

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Animation is one of the hottest & most creative areas of film-making today. During his more than 40 years in the business Richard Williams has been one of the true innovators & serves as the link between the golden age of animation by hand & the new computer animation successes. In this book based on his sold-out Animation Masterclass in the United States & across Europe" Williams provides the underlying principles of animation that very animator
- from beginner to expert classic animator to computer animation whiz
- needs. Using hundreds of drawings Wiliams distills the secrets of the masters into a working system in order to create a book that has become the standard work on all forms of animatiion for professionals students & fans. This new Expanded edition

Includes:: more on animal action invention & realism with sophisticated animation examples."



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A guide to drawing Japanese animation. Step-by-step Christopher Hart demonstrates how to draw anime characters from a wide selection of styles: high-tech cyber punks who live in the world of the future; teen characters with troubled relationships at school home & on the street; & mighty monsters fantasy warriors & giant robots. Aspiring animators will find chapters on animes special effects; the role of storyboarding in anime; sketching & the art of character design; & a mini-course in perspective. Examples & exercises are included. The book concludes with interviews with Scott Frazier an American anime director working in Japan & Mahiro Meada a Japanese animation director. ...

This new 2008 edition of this popular course has been fully revised to support the new specifications. This Grammar Workbook & CD is ideal for improving students listening & speaking skills & contains a variety of authentic listening activities including interviews reports dialogues & discussions. ...

The debut novel from the award-winning screenwriter of Bhaji on the Beach. The story of nine-year-old Meena growing up in the only Punjabi family in the Black Country mining village of Tollington. It's 1972. Meena is nine years old & lives in the village of Tollington 'the jewel of the Black Country'. She is the daughter of Indian parents who have come to England to give her a better life. As one of the few Punjabi inhabitants of her village her daily struggle for independence is different from most. She wants fishfingers & chips not chapati & dhal; she wants an English Christmas not the usual interminable Punjabi festivities
- but more than anything she wants to roam the backyards of working-class Tollington with feisty Anita Rutter & her gang. Blonde cool aloof outrageous & sassy Anita is everything Meena thinks she wants to be. Meena wheedles her way into Anita's life but the arrival of a baby brother teenage hormones impending entrance exams for the posh grammar school & a motorcycling rebel without a future threaten to turn Anita's salad days sour. Anita & Me paints a comic poignant compassionate & colourful portrait of village life in the era of flares power cuts glam rock decimalisation & Ted Heath. It is a unique vision of a British childhood in the Seventies a childhood caught between two cultures each on the brink of change.
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