With knitting touted as the new yoga it comes as no surprise that everyone is picking up a pair of needles
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Key Words with Peter & Jane" uses the most frequently met words in the English language as a starting point for learning to read successfully & confidently. The Key Words reading scheme is scientifically researched & world renowned. In book "7b" Peter & Jane show all the games they like to play in 68 new words including holiday woman along & back. Once this book has been completed the child moves on to book "7c". " The Key Words with Peter & Jane" books work because each of the key words is introduced gradually & repeated frequently. This builds confidence in children when they recognise these key words on sight (also known as the look & say method of learning). Examples of key words are: the one two he. There are 12 levels each with 3 books: a b & c. " Series a": gradually introduces new words. " Series b": provides further practise of words featured in the a series. " Series c": links reading with writing & phonics. All the words that have been introduced in each a & b book are also reinforced in the c books." ...

Get ready for more girly games giggles & gossip in this bestselling series featuring a group of girls brought together by the boys & bunk warfare fun & sun of one cool summer camp. Jenna is thrilled when all her camp friends come to stay at her familys lake house for Memorial Day weekend. Theres always a huge carnival & fab picnic by the lake & with her friends there to share in the fun it looks like this years going to be unforgettable. Unfortunately Jenna hasnt reckoned on her brother inviting David
- Jennas former crush & her friend Sarahs new boyfriend. Looks like things could start to get awkward. Girls will be lining up to share all the latest secrets in the next batch of Summer Camp Secrets which are sure to attract new fans everywhere!
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This quirky collection of celebration cake designs showcases the unique but easily achievable sugar modelling skills of internationally renowned cake designer & sugercrafter Maisie Parrish. Each of these creative cake designs has true character & charm & is ideal for a celebration with a difference. The book opens with advice on how to make sugarpaste with a quick sugarpaste recipe to save time or you can use ready-made sugarpaste. There is also full guidance on working with fondant to create modelling paste for sugar modelling including colouring sugarpaste painting on sugarpaste & storing sugarpaste. Maisie guides you through all the sugar modelling equipment you need & shows you how to make fondant figures & sugar characters. The recipes section gives you a rich fruit cake recipe & Madeira cake recipe as well as mini cake & cupcake recipes. All the recipes you need to make the cool cake designs in this book are included including how to make buttercream & an edible glue recipe. There is advice & photos to show you how to cover a cake with marzipan & how to cover cakes & cake boards with sugarpaste as well as clear photos showing how to stack cakes using dowels. Finally a useful section gives advice on storing cakes how to cut a cake & transporting a cake. The eight fondant cake designs that follow are simply a delight & each feature character cake toppers on a different popular theme. Choose from cute Easter bunnies to a glamorous hippo a feline bride & groom a good luck pony adorable baby bears dogs ducks & even penguins. Using these designs you can make birthday cake designs as well as cake designs for Mother's Day new arrivals Christmas cake designs & more. Each project is accompanied by quick-to-make cupcakes & mini cakes to complement the main cake or to make when time is short. With simple sugar modelling techniques & clear photographs breaking down each step to its basic parts Maisie demystifies the art of creating beautiful cakes & makes it all so easy & fun. ...

This quirky collection of children's cake designs showcases the unique but easily achievable sugar modelling skills of internationally renowned cake designer & sugercrafter Maisie Parrish. Each of these creative cake designs has true character & charm & is ideal for a child's birthday party with a difference. The book opens with advice on how to make sugarpaste with a quick sugarpaste recipe to save time or you can use ready-made sugarpaste. There is also full guidance on working with fondant to create modelling paste for sugar modelling including colouring sugarpaste painting on sugarpaste & storing sugarpaste. Maisie guides you through all the sugar modelling equipment you need & shows you how to make fondant figures & sugar characters. The recipes section gives you a rich fruit cake recipe & Madeira cake recipe as well as mini cake & cupcake recipes. All the recipes you need to make the cool cake designs in this book are included including how to make buttercream & an edible glue recipe. There is advice & photos to show you how to cover a cake with marzipan & how to cover cakes & cake boards with sugarpaste as well as clear photos showing how to stack cakes using dowels. Finally a useful section gives advice on storing cakes how to cut a cake & transporting a cake. The seven fondant cake designs that follow are simply a delight & each feature character cake toppers on a different popular theme. Choose from musical dragons farmyard characters a whimsical fairy ballerina mice a spooky witch Santa's elves & cute kids. Using these designs you can make birthday cake designs as well as cake designs for Halloween Christmas christenings & more. Each project is accompanied by quick-to-make cupcakes & mini cakes to complement the main cake or to make when time is short. With simple sugar modelling techniques & clear photographs breaking down each step to its basic parts Maisie demystifies the art of creating beautiful cakes & makes it all so easy & fun. ...

Key Words with Peter & Jane" uses the most frequently met words in the English language as a starting point for learning to read successfully & confidently. The Key Words reading scheme is scientifically researched & world renowned. In book "4b" Peter & Jane meet the animals at a farm in 41 new words including work thanks stop & horses. Once this book has been completed the child moves on to book "4c". " The Key Words with Peter & Jane" books work because each of the key words is introduced gradually & repeated frequently. This builds confidence in children when they recognise these key words on sight (also known as the look & say method of learning). Examples of key words are: the one two he. There are 12 levels each with 3 books: a b & c. " Series a": gradually introduces new words. " Series b": provides further practise of words featured in the a series. " Series c": links reading with writing & phonics. All the words that have been introduced in each a & b book are also reinforced in the c books." ...

This Fun Craft Set contains 100s of pieces for busy fingers including 65 pom poms 10 pipe cleaners 36 wiggle eyes 1 non-wired pipe cleaner a bag of beads & other embellishments 20 feathers 30 craft sticks 2 doll pegs with stands 1 adhesive magnetic strip 2 glitter laces & 2 clasps. Suitable for children ages 5 years + ...

Fun for Movers Students Book provides full-colour preparation material for the Cambridge Young Learners English Test: Movers. Fun activities balanced with exam-style questions practise all the areas of the syllabus in a communicative way. The material is specifically designed to focus on those areas most likely to cause problems for young learners at this level. An Audio CD available separately

Includes:: listening material to accompany the Students Book. A Teachers Book is also available. The website to accompany the series

Includes:: interactive versions of some activities from the Students Books.



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Acts as a bridge between Tunes for Ten Fingers" & " More Tunes for Ten Fingers" & consists of 21 pieces in five-finger position. This work is accompanied by verses & illustrations & there are lots of puzzles & games interspersed amongst the pieces." ...

One of the most eagerly anticipated graphic memoirs of recent years Fun Home" is a darkly funny family tale pitch-perfectly illustrated with Alison Bechdels sweetly gothic drawings. Like Marjane Satrapis " Persepolis" its a story exhilaratingly suited to graphic memoir form. Meet Alisons father a historic preservation expert & obsessive restorer of the familys Victorian home a third-generation funeral home director a high-school English teacher an icily distant parent & a closeted homosexual who as it turns out is involved with his male students & the family babysitter. Through narrative that is alternately heartbreaking & fiercely funny we are drawn into a daughters complex yearning for her father. & yet apart from assigned stints dusting caskets at the family-owned fun home as Alison & her brothers call it the relationship achieves its most intimate expression through the shared code of books. When Alison comes out as homosexual herself in late adolescence the denouement is swift graphic & redemptive." ...