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). ...

If you have a Wild Unruly or Undisciplined Daugher two Ladies of Genteel Birth offer to Bring Out said Daughter & Refine what may have seemed Unrefinable. We can make the Best of the Worst. When Amy & Effie Tribble two charming but impoverished spinster sisters lose out on an inheritance they place this advertisement in The Morning Post" & hire themselves out as professional chaperones. Vowing to prepare even the most difficult misses for marriage the Tribble sisters will spend a London season on each client educating them in their School for Manners. Maria Kendall is seemingly a dream client
- beautiful impeccably mannered effortlessly graceful & extremely well dowered. In short she doesnt seem to need the Tribbles help at all. But then the sisters meet her parents & realise that they do have a problem on their hands
- not with the perfect Maria but with her overweening gauche & socially over-ambitious parents!"

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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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Whether you want to lose weight or find a diet that chimes with your body type to bring you optimum health Anjums Ayurvedic Diet is for you. Its scarcely believable that Anjum Anand could ever have had a weight problem but in her early 20s she was overweight & a serial dieter. She eventually lost all the weight but it took a while to discover the diet she should follow both to lose & to maintain weight loss. Finally she found the solution not from modern Western science or diet experts but in the Indian system of Ayurveda
- the oldest & most holistic medical system on the planet. Translating as the science of living wisely & well Ayurveda teaches us how to maintain optimum health & harmony both within ourselves & with nature. It recognises three body types & once youve established your basic body type you can not only find the diet that will best suit you (and get your body back into shape) but also correct any imbalances to resolve eating & digestive disorders sleep problems & many other illnesses. In this groundbreaking new diet book Anjum shows how to work out your body type the foods you should eat (or avoid) & how to combine them into delicious recipes for every meal. Uniquely this Ayurvedic cookbook

Includes:: recipes from East & West as well as complete food charts stating which foods are best for each dosha. For anyone purely interested in healthy eating the 75 recipes are all low fat & healthy but each is labelled according to its suitability for each body type. Good eating hints & tips a range of meal plans & advice on recommended exercise & lifestyle for each body type complete the book.


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