How do different animals carry their babies? In this book readers will discover through a series of photographs that some animals carry their young by the teeth some on their backs & others in a special pouch. * Lilac/ Band 0
- wordless book that gives information through pictures & is designed to develop understanding about how information books work. * Text type
- Non-Fiction * Photographs of all the animal babies (and a human baby!) included in the book are repeated on pages 14 & 15 to encourage speaking & listening.

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This is a Jeeves & Wooster collection. These marvellous stories introduce us to Jeeves whose first ever duty is to cure Berties raging hangover (If you would drink this sir...it is a little preparation of my own invention. It is the Worcester Sauce that gives it its colour. The raw egg makes it nutritious. The red pepper gives it its bite. Gentlemen have told me they have found it extremely invigorating after a late evening.) & from that moment one of the funniest sharpest & most touching partnerships in English literature never looks back... ...

For fans of the film The Big Chill" Anne Tylers " Dinner at Homesick Restaurant" & Siri Hustvedts " What I Loved" in her fourth novel " Carry the One" Carol Anshaw explores the after effects of one nights terrible trauma on three siblings over 25 years. In the early hours of the morning following a wedding reception a car filled with stoned drunk & sleepy guests accidentally hits & kills a girl on a dark country road. For the next twenty-five years the lives of those involved are subtly shaped by this tragic moment. Through friendships & love affairs marriage & divorce parenthood addiction & the modest calamities & triumphs of ordinary days " Carry the One" shows how one life affects another & how those who thrive & those who self-destruct are closer to each other than wed expect. Praise for " Carry the One": " Heres passion & addiction guilt & damage all the beautiful mess of family life. " Carry the One" will lift readers off their feet & bear them along on its eloquent tide". (Emma Donoghue). " Carol Anshaw is one of those authors who should be a household name.. .[a] fine eloquent novel". ("USA Today"). " If you love Jonathan Franzen youll love this compelling book". (" Entertainment Weekly"). Carol Anshaw is the author of " Aquamarine" " Seven Moves" & " Lucky in the Corner". She lives in Chicago." ...

NASA astronaut Michael Collins trained as an experimental test pilot before venturing into space as a vital member of the Gemini 10 & Apollo 11 missions. In Carrying the Fire his account of his voyages into space & the years of training that led up to them Collins reveals the human tensions the physical realities & the personal emotions surrounding the early years of the space race. Collins provides readers with an insiders view of the space program & conveys the excitement & wonder of his journey to the moon. As skilled at writing as he is at piloting a spacecraft Collins explains the clash of personalities at NASA & technical aspects of flight with clear engaging prose withholding nothing in his candid assessments of fellow astronauts Neil Armstrong John Glenn & Buzz Aldrin & officials within NASA. A fascinating memoir of mankinds greatest journey told in familiar human terms Carrying the Fire is by turns thrilling humorous & thought-provoking a unique work by a remarkable man. ...

The years that have passed since Neil Armstrong Buzz Aldrin & Michael Collins piloted the Apollo 11 spacecraft to the moon in July 1969 have done nothing to alter the fundamental wonder of the event: man reaching the moon remains one of the great events
- technical & spiritual
- of our lifetime. In this remarkable book Michael Collins conveys a very personal way the drama beauty & humour of that adventure. He also traces his development from his first flight experiences in the air force through his days as a test pilot to his Apollo 11 space walk presenting an evocative picture of the joys of flight as well as a new perspective on time light & movement from someone who has seen the fragile Earth from the other side of the moon.

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Now in picturebook format! This is an amazing tour of everything that moves in the magical world of Richard Scarry. This children's classic is bursting with all kinds of fun vehicles from the magical world of Richard Scarry. From tractors to trucks sports cars to unicycles & fire engines to mouse beach buggies there's lots to see & talk about on every page. ...

From 1945 to 1990 car engineers & designers behind the Iron Curtain worked not to the whims & fancies of motorists but to the plans & diktats of government bureaucrats. Cars of Eastern Europe" tells the story of the cars & vans made in Latvia Poland the former Yugoslavia the Czech Republic & Slovakia Hungary Romania Bulgaria & East Germany. In a region that stretches from the Black Sea to the Baltic the vehicles were as varied as the nations themselves. Now that eastern Europe has come in from the cold this book offers a unique & timely survey of the motor industry in this often overlooked part of the continent." ...

Collect all of the cars in Matels Disney Cars 2 series including Raoul & Lightning Mc Queen. Each car is 1:55 scale diecast metal. Unfortunately we cannot specify which car you will receive. Not suitable for children under 3 years old due to small parts which may present a choking hazard. ...

When the motor car first came to England in the 1890s it was a luxury item with little practical purpose
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Thousands will die. It is not known where or how or who is behind the threat. 007 is given carte blanche to do anything necessary to protect his country but there is no blank slate when innocent lives are at stake. The only suspects are career killers with no care for civilian victims. Bond must find out who is paying them what they plan & stop them. & he has five days to do it. ...