Luke Thorpe is a fifteen-year-old wimp. Excellent at maths & terrible at sport hed rather keep his head down & get on with his schoolwork. Yet mysterious & uncontrollable changes in his behaviour & appearance
- patches of hair growing rapidly howling rather than singing the hymns in assembly sudden growth spurts causing his clothes to rip off
- are threatening to rocket him out of obscurity. Join Luke on a journey of discovery embarrassing mishaps & hilarity as he gets to the bottom of his werewolf roots joins a pack & finds himself en route to war against the vampires (whose number include a rather wimpy but familiar face)...

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This is a charming new novelty book featuring stars of CBeebies Abney & Teal a pair of porridge-loving friends who live on an island in the park. Come visit the island in the park & meet Abney Teal & their friends. What do they like doing? What adventures will they have today? Pop the characters in the slots to make your own story & find out! The Adventures of Abney & Teal" TV series was created & directed by celebrated author/illustrator Joel Stewart. The Abney & Teal stories help develop problem-solving through humour & adventurous play. The pop-in-the-slot format encourages children to tell their own stories & develop their imagination." ...

This is a charming new story featuring stars of CBeebies Abney & Teal
- an imaginative pair of adventure-loving friends who live
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This is a charming new story featuring stars of Cbeebies Abney & Teal
- an imaginative pair of adventure-loving friends who live
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Achilles is the son of a king & a goddess & also the best warrior in Greece. So when Prince Paris claims Helen from a Greek King & Troy declares war everyone knows that Achilles will be vital to the Greek cause. With the help of the gods can young Achilles lead his fellow countrymen to victory against the Trojans?

Includes:: two full-length CDs narrated by the authors.

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When naughty George & Harold hypnotise their headteacher they accidentally create the greatest superhero in the history of their school -- Captain Underpants! His true identity is so secret that even HE doesn't know who he is...but he's fighting for truth justice & all things pre-shrunk & cottony!! If you're a naughty villain like the diabolical Dr Diaper watch out! Captain Underpants has wedgie-power on his side & he's coming your way ...

This special CD pack contains two of Roald Dahls most famous stories full dramatised with music & sound effects. Charlie & the Chocolate Factory tells the wonderful tale of Charlie Bucket. Charlie can not believe his luck when he finds a Golden Ticket & wins the chance of a lifetime: a magical day witnessing the miraculous creation of the most delectable eatables ever made at the wonderful chocolate factory of Willie Wonka along with the infamous characters of the Oompa-Loompas Veronica Salt Augustus Gloop & many more. In Charlie & the Great Glass Elevator Charlie has now won the chocolate factory & is now on his way to take possession of it. With his parents & grandparents
- & Mr Wonka
- hes travelling by a strange new method of transport: a Great Glass Elevator! But suddenly thingsstart to go wrong. The elevator zooms higher & higher into the sky until it goes into orbit around the Earth an hilarious & exciting adventure ensues in which Charlie & his companions defend themselves against a mob of vicious space monsters.

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A Wonderful story about a hedgehog named Horatio who has moved into a new house in a pile of leaves that the wind has blown against a tree. Now all he needs is to furnish his home with items to make a cosy little dwelling. He meets up with various animals in the neighbourhood on his path who have items they no longer need & rather than throwing these away Horatio offers to take them off their paws by way of recycling for his new home resulting in a lovely warm & comfortable house. ...

If you love a good story then look no further. Oxford Children's Classics bring together the most unforgettable stories ever told. They're books to treasure & return to again & again. Join Huckleberry Finn & runaway slave Jim as they escape from their tormentors & head down the Mississippi River. They have many adventures on the voyage & trouble is always close at h&. Throughout everything their friendship remains strong but will this be enough to give Jim his freedom once & for all? ...

Mark Twain's witty satirical tale of childhood rebellion against hypocritical adult authority the Penguin Classics" edition of " The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" is edited with a critical introduction by Peter Coveney. Mark Twain's story of a boy's journey down the Mississippi on a raft conveyed the voice & experience of the American frontier as no other work had done before. When Huck escapes from his drunken abusive ' Pap' & the 'sivilizing' Widow Douglas with runaway slave Jim he embarks on a series of adventures that draw him to feuding families & the trickery of the unscrupulous ' Duke' & ' Dauphin'. Beneath the exploits however are more serious undercurrents
- of slavery adult control & above all of Huck's struggle between his instinctive goodness & the corrupt values of society which threaten his deep & enduring friendship with Jim. Based on the first edition of 1884 " The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"

Includes:: a chronology & list of further reading by Richard Maxwell. Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910) trained as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi river; ' Mark Twain' a phrase used on riverboats to indicate that the water is two fathoms deep became the pseudonym by which he was best known. After the Civil War Twain turned to journalism publishing his first short story in 1865. Dubbed 'the father of American literature' by William Faulkner Twain led a colourful life of travelling bankruptcy & great literary success. If you enjoyed " The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" you may like Mark Twain's " The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" also available in " Penguin Classics". " All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn... There has been nothing as good since." (Ernest Hemingway). " Huckleberry Finn like other great works of imagination can give to every reader whatever he is capable of taking from it." (T.S. Eliot)."


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