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. ...

Fun at the Fair" is a colourful & entertaining storybook based on the award-winning Nick Jr. television character Peppa Pig. Read this story at playtime preschool or even tucked up in bed & join Peppa & George on their exciting adventure at the fairground! Peppa Pig is the most popular pre-school licensed character; the Peppa Pig range of books are fun interactive & educational ideal for encouraging children to start to read by themselves. Titles available from Ladybird include: " Peppa Pig Little Library" " Dentist Trip" " Peppa Goes Swimming" & " Peppas Space Trip". You can star in your own Peppa Pig book at website." ...

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 + ...

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." ...

Two fantastic books in a box: the ultimate rainy-day collection with 220 exciting step-by-step projects shown in over 3000 photographs This title features two wonderful practical books brimming with hundreds of stimulating & fun activities that will help children discover new things & learn about the world. It features paint crafts science experiments cooking gardening magic tricks music & party games with projects suitable for children of all ages from 3-12. You can make a feather head-dress wooden spoon puppets & a printed T-shirt; conduct simple experiments about light sound & water; learn magic tricks & juggling; play fabulous party games; & do creative face painting. All the projects use easy safe materials & equipment you will find around the home & all the techniques are clearly explained with step-by-step photographs & lively finished pictures to inspire & delight. These two books are packed full of exciting ideas & activities for children. 100 Fantastic Things to Make Do & Play" for children aged 3-8 explains how to make musical instruments grow flowers in the garden design stationery & bake a cake & " The Really Big Book of Amazing Things to Make & Do" for children aged 7-12 shows how to make friendship bracelets do face painting make necklaces & learn juggling
- to name a few of the hundreds of projects. With over 3000 photographs illustrating 220 projects step-by-step this boxed set will help children learn & find out more about the world as well as keeping them entertained & delighted every day."
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Andrew Loomis is revered amongst artists
- including comics superstar Alex Ross
- for his mastery of drawing. His first book

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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. " Book 8c" provides the link with writing for the words used in Readers "8a" & "8b". Once this book has been completed the child can move on to book "9a". " 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." ...