Tormented every morning by leopard & bullied by crocodile the clever little chameleon decides to play a trick on them. He manages to get the better of his two oppressors without them even knowing how he did it! This is the story of why Crafty Chameleon changes colour & hides when he hears you coming. ...

Impress your friends & loved ones with your cake-decorating skills by using this fun & fabulous collection of ingenious cupcakes. Ideal for a wide range of celebrations the 30 unique cupcake projects cover a vast range of popular themes. No prior knowledge is needed as all the basic techniques are fully explained & beginners will be amazed by the fantastic professional-looking results they can achieve with the help of the step-by-step colour photographs featured throughout. Learn how to make basic cupcakes shape & make models from sugarpaste make buttercream & royal icing & use a variety of piping techniques amongst other things. ...

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This great book contains 28 quick fun things for 2-5s to make grouped into three categories: Farm Animals Sea Creatures & Trucks/ Trains/ Planes. All the projects use things easily found around the house eg. wool stickers paper plates tissue paper foil etc. Grown-ups read out the simple instructions & do any cutting or preparation. Toddlers look at the finished article pictured in the book & then create their own masterpieces experiencing a real sense of achievement in the process. The activities help develop hand/eye co-ordination & motor skills. Extension activities are included so older children can join in the fun. Because of the collaborative nature of the projects the book encourages parents to spend quality time with their children. ...

One night George Duncan
- decent man a good man
- is woken by a noise in his garden. Impossibly a great white crane has tumbled

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Part of Penguins" beautiful hardback " Clothbound Classics" series designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith these delectable & collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. Gaskells best known work is set in a small rural town inhabited largely by women. This is a community that runs on cooperation & gossip at the very heart of which are the daughters of the former rector: Miss Deborah Jenkyns & her sister Miss Matty. But domestic peace is constantly threatened in the form of financial disaster imagined burglaries tragic accidents & the reappearance of long-lost relatives." ...

This is the Penguin English Library Edition" of " Cranford" by Elizabeth Gaskell. Just at this moment he passed us on the stairs making such a graceful bow in reply to which I dropped a curtsey
- all foreigners have such polite manners one catches something of it. " Cranford" is an affectionate & often moving portrait of genteel poverty & intertwined lives in a nineteenth-century village. One of Elizabeth Gaskells most beloved works it centres on a community dominated by women & governed by old-fashioned ways. The formidable Miss Deborah Jenkyns & the kindly Miss Mattys days revolve around card games tea thriftiness & an endless appetite for scandal until change comes into their world
- whether it is the modern ideas of Captain Brown a bank collapse rumours of burglars or an unexpected reappearance from the past. " The Penguin English Library" contains 100 editions of the best fiction in English from the eighteenth century & the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War."

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The thriving Cheshire town of Cranford is on the brink of momentous change with the imminent arrival of the railways & the threat it brings to the established way of life. In this glorious book Sue Birtwistle & Susie Conklin explain how Elizabeth Gaskells timeless stories were interwoven to create their dramatisation; then join Miss Matty & her friends for a guided tour round their bustling neighbourhood before discovering how the production team recreated the costumes landscapes & decor of an 1840s town. This beautifully illustrated volume is redolent with the attention to detail that has won Cranford so many awards. ...

CRANIUM is the outrageously fun award-winning board game packed with something-for-everyone fun! Whether you're an aspiring actor artist data hound or wordsmith CRANIUM gives everyone a chance to shine. Features 600 all-new cards for outrageous fun & new 3-in-1 foldout game board lets you choose how long you play! Contents include: 600 cards covering 14 fun activities a 10-sided CRANIUM die 2 tubs of CRANIUM Clay a timer CRANIUM pads pencils & 4 CRANIUM play pieces. ...

Kristina Georgia Snow is the perfect daughter: a gifted student quiet never any trouble. But on a trip to visit her absentee father Kristina disappears & Bree takes her place. Bree is a total opposite to Kristina
- she's fearless. Through a boy she meets Bree is introduced to the monster: crank. & what begins as a wild ecstatic ride turns into a struggle through hell for her mind her soul & ultimately her life.
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