This is the sixth thrilling magical adventure starring Charlie Bone! Charlie Bone has finally found his father but he's disappeared again. However this time Charlie knows where he is
- on a second honeymoon with his mother. But there's no time to miss them for there's a strange salty mist in the air & chilling howls in the night. & someone has been searching Charlie's house. What are they looking for? & could Dagbert the new boy with pale lips & cold aquamarine eyes have something to do with it? The new boy with the power of harnessing water whose father has Cook so rattled she's threatening to leave the school. The new boy who sticks so closely to Charlie his friends are almost driven away. Something is going on
- & the Bloors have to be behind it. Charlie & his friends must find the creature who howls so desperately. But will they be in time?

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These days watching television is like sitting in the back of Travis Bickles taxicab staring through the window at a world of relentless churning shod.. . Cruel acerbic impassioned gleeful frequently outrageous & always hilarious Charlie Brookers Screen Burn" collects the best of the much-loved Guardian Guide columns into one easy-to-read-on-the-toilet package. Sit back & roar as Brooker rips mercilessly into " Simon Cowell" " Big Brother" " Trinny & Susannah" " Casualty" " Davina Mc Call" " Michael Parkinson".. .and almost everything also on television. This book will make practically anyone laugh out loud." ...

The classic story of A Charlie Brown Christmas" is one of the most well-known & best-loved of all of Charles M Schultz Peanuts animations. Who can forget Charlie Browns search for the true meaning of Christmas & the pathetic little Christmas tree which he chooses for the school nativity play. This irresistible kit

Includes:: a small sad Charlie Brown Christmas tree one red bauble to decorate it Linus blanket to wrap around the trees roots & a full-colour mini edition of "A Charlie Brown Christmas". For the millions of Peanuts fans & collectors this heart-stirring Christmas package is bound to be the best-loved of all the stocking-stuffers."

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He was very fat indeed yet he walked with the light dainty step of a woman. His cheeks were as chubby as a baby's his skin ivory tinted his black hair close-cropped his amber eyes slanting.' A family secret leads to murder in a house without locks... Someone is prepared to kill to procure a valuable set of pearls & a parrot fluent in Chinese knows too much...A Scotland Yard Inspector is about to close his final case but someone is prepared to kill to keep the mystery unsolved... Three very different crimes with one thing in common... He's Honolulu's greatest detective
- prepare to savour the wisdom of Charlie Chan. From Hawaii to San Francisco no crime is too baffling no clue too insignificant for Charlie. Long out of print Charlie Chan's first three cases The House Without a Key The Chinese Parrot & Behind That Curtain have been collected in one volume for your entertainment & bafflement.
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Charlie Cook is reading a book about a pirate captain who is reading a book about Goldilocks who is reading about a knight who is reading about a frog.. . From kings & queens to aliens & ghosts theres something for everyone in Charlies amazing book! Entertaining & original -- another winner from the best picture book team in the world. The picture book of the season The Bookseller Both the words & the illustrations are full of fun & jokes.. .above all it proves that reading is irresistible Sunday Times ...

At the end of his fifth journal Charlie Small rocketed out of the strange & dark Underworld over desert sands & a snowy white mountain range. With a table cloth over his head & a cushion strapped round his bottom Charlie parachuted right into the middle of a small swampy isl&. Clutching a mainly blank map that's supposed to help him find the infamous Jakeman he sets off for the next island only to find himself face to face with a slimy stinking roaring swamp monster.. . Will Charlie manage to slip through its gloopy claws? ...

Prepare to be utterly amazed by the latest instalment of Charlie Small's incredible yet 100% true adventures. On his way to Jakeman's factory Charlie is grabbed by Tristram Twitch who sends him off on three dangerous errands. Charlie must find a pearl from the giant oyster beds of the Pangaean Ocean a diamond-encrusted tiara from a mummified corpse & a gold quill from the back of the extremely rare golden porcupine of Mayapazan. & he has to befriend his old enemy Thrak the gorilla along the way! If he doesn't succeed Jakeman will be fed to a man-eating barracuda
- & Charlie will NEVER get back home...!
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In the fifth journal found by us the lucky & smug publisher we learn that Charlie Small has become embroiled in an underworld from his nightmares.. . Previously Charlie had bumped into the infamous Jakeman
- but when the mad professor was dragged down into the Underworld Charlie had to follow
- otherwise how would he discover how to get back to his mum & dad? This latest adventure takes him into an unreal darkened world where anything is possible. But will Charlie Small ever find a way out or will he be trapped underground forever?

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FIRST PUBLISHED AS: THE PERFUMED PIRATES OF PERFIDY No one knows the full story of Charlie Small. At least not yet. His original battered journal was found washed up on a remote windswept shore in the north of Engl&. This second volume was found encased in ice high on a glacial plateau in the Himalayas. It details even more remarkable deeds & thrilling acts aboard the Betty Rae with the dastardly lady-pirates of perfidy
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FIRST PUBLISHED AS: THE PUPPET MASTER No one knows the full story of Charlie Small. At least not yet. His original battered journal was found washed up on a remote windswept shore in the north of Engl&. Now a third instalment has been tracked down & salvaged from beneath the seat of a bus shelter in Pimlico. Having finally escaped from the perfidious pirates Charlie travels through icy waters & hair-raising mountains & encounters man-eating bats a wolf whose bark is worse than his bite & ultimately finds himself ensnared by the evil Puppet Master a figure of pure unadulterated evil. Will Charlie manage to escape his clutches or will he remain a puppet for ever never to adventure again? ...