Contains lots of different activities for young children including mazes dot-to-dots & doodling. This title features wipe-clean pages so that the activities can be done again & again. It offers an useful way to help practise pen control. It also

Includes:: a wipe-clean pen.

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Each year hundreds of people set out across North America determined to set a new record in a spectacularly competitive event. Is it tennis? Golf? Racing? Poker perhaps? No its bird-watching & a contest known as the Big Year
- a grand gruelling expensive (and occasionally vicious) 365-day marathon to identify the most species. The Big Year" is the rollicking chronicle of the 275 000-mile odyssey of three unlikely adventurers who take their bird-watching so seriously it nearly kills them. From Texas in pursuit of the Rufus-capped Warbler to British Columbia in search of Xantus Hummingbird these obsessive enthusiasts brave roasting deserts storm-tossed oceans infested swamps & disgruntled lions (not to mention some of the lumpiest hotel mattresses known to man) as they vie to become North Americas number one bird-watcher in what would prove to be the biggest Big Year of them all... This captivating tour of human & avian nature of courage & deceit of passion & paranoia reveals the extremes to which Man will go to pursue his dreams to conquer & to categorize..."
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Ben & Bella are off on another adventure & of course all the animals want to join them! The destination this time is Australia & the digger digs & judders as Moose Zebra Rhinoceros Mole & lots of other animals all clamber on. Even Little Roo jumps up & gets delivered safely back to his his mummy. Everyone stops for a barbie a dance with the digeridoo & then it's time to head for home again. Join the fun on an adventure that gets better & better! ...

How does a sunflower grow? This title unfolds each stage in the life-cycle
- from seed to seedling to fully grown plant. It features
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In April 2006 Mary Turner Thomson received a call that blew her life apart. The woman on the other end of the line told her that Will Jordan Marys husband & the father of her two younger children had been married to her for fourteen years & they had five children together. The Bigamist" is the shocking true story of how one man manipulated an intelligent independent woman conning her out of GBP200 000 & leaving her to bring up the children he claimed he could never have. Its a story we all think could never happen to us but this shameless con man has been doing the same thing to various other women for at least 27 years spinning a tangled web of lies & deceit to cover his tracks. How far would you go to help the man you love? How far would he go to deceive you? & what would you do when you found out it was all a lie?" ...

OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Survey's most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities like walking horse riding & off-road cycling. Providing complete GB coverage the series details essential information such as youth hostels pubs & visitor information as well as rights of way permissive paths & bridleways. ...

This title is part of the My First Picture Book" series: perfect for every toddler to help encourage language skills understanding enjoyment & sharing. These books are a bridge between board books & picture books; printed on toddler-tough card with rounded corners. Big lorry quarry lorry splish spash Muck. Quarry lorry Big lorry slip slide stuck! So begins a disastrous day at the quarry as lorry truck & little digger all find themselves stuck in the mud. Can Bigger Digger save the day? This is a tongue-twisting rhyming romp that will have little readers shouting out the words." ...

In this remarkable book a record of a decade of private conversations with art critic Martin Gayford David Hockney reveals via reflection anecdote passion & humour the fruits of his lifelong meditations on the problems & paradoxes of representing a three-dimensional world on a flat surface. These conversations are punctuated by wise & witty observations from both parties on numerous other artists & enlivened by shrewd insights into the contrasting social & physical landscapes of California where Hockney spent so many years & Yorkshire the birthplace to which he has returned. Some of the diverse people he has encountered along the way from Henri Cartier-Bresson to Billy Wilder make entertaining entries into the dialogue. ...

In this electrifying autobiography Rik stands naked in front of his vast legions of fans & disciples & invites them to take communion with the blood he has spilled for them during his thirty year war on show business. He invented alternative comedy with The Young Ones he brought down the Thatcher administration with The New Statesman & he changed the face of global culture with his masterpiece Bottom. Not only was his number one single Living Doll the saviour of rock n roll but he also rescued the British film industry with the vast revenues created by his legendary movie Drop Dead Fred. In 1998 he survived an assassination attempt & spent five days in a coma before he literally came back from the dead. Having completed countless phenomenal feature films TV series live extravaganzas & radio voice-overs since then Rik Mayall is now poised on the brink of a whole new epoch-shattering revolution. For the first time ever Rik reveals in print the deep inner truth behind his gargantuan ascent to the pinnacle of international light entertainment
- the mental hospitals he has broken out of the television executives he has assaulted the drugs he has definitely not taken the charities he has bankrupted the countless pregnancies he has engendered & so much more.
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The irrepressible hysterical puntastical Tim Vine star of stage & screen treats all of us here in his first joke book. Packed full of zingers & hilarious illustrations if this doesn't put a smile on your face nothing will. What's not to like: The other day someone left a piece of plasticine in my dressing room. I didn't know what to make of it. I'm against hunting. I'm actually a hunt saboteur. I go out the night before & shoot the fox. I saw this bloke chatting up a cheetah. He was trying to pull a fast one. Black holes. I don't know what people see in them. So I fancied a game of darts with my mate. He said ' Nearest the bull goes first.' He went ' Baah' & I went ' Moo'. He said ' You're closest.' Velcro. What a rip-off. Black Beauty. He's a dark horse. I've got a sponge front door. Hey don't knock it. ...