Whats your favourite food? What tastes dont you like? What does a squirrel like to eat? Food is an important subject with little ones & this book looks at popular foods unpleasant tastes & how animals taste or what they eat. There is plenty to discuss in this book of creative imagery & ideas. ...

Death may be bleak but
- rest in peace
- there is nothing gloomy about this curious compendium of tales of the departed. Here

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Embark on a dreamy night-time jaunt with a young boy & the Moon. Overcoming a fear of the dark & discovering the world at night are at the heart of this poetic tale. It

Includes:: notes about the moon & plants & animals that thrive in the wee hours.

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I Took the Moon for a Walk" is ideal for shared reading or sampling the pleasures of verse & imaginative language in the classroom at key stage 1
- " Times Educational Supplement". This work is illustrated by internationally acclaimed artist Alison Jay also the illustrator of partner book " Listen Listen!" available in the same format. This work features large format text that allows parents to share this beautiful story & illustrations with the youngest children & is set in lyrical rhyme with language which will encourage reader confidence working as a story with Predictable Structure & Patterned Language for the National Curriculum."
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A Sunday Times" top-ten title in 2008 & a bestseller ever since "I Used to Know That" has continued to delight readers with its pages of forgotten facts from our school days. Now available in paperback this great gift book has been repackaged with a fresh jacket design for anyone new to the series & old fans alike. Nostalgic informative & entertaining it is an ideal & accessible buy for adults wanting to brush up on their lost knowledge. If youve forgotten the capital city of Chile; the basics of osmosis; how to solve a quadratic equation; who wrote the famous poem about daffodils; & the use of a conjunction or the number of continents in the world "I Used to Know That" is guaranteed to provide all the answers." ...

Growing up in a large Nigerian family in South London Stephen K. Amos learnt early on to find the humour in every situation. Raised by his parents & extended family of aunts & uncles I Used to Say My Mother was Shirley Bassey" tells the story of Stephens chaotic upbringing in the carnival atmosphere of the late seventies & early eighties. Stephen describes his awkward beginnings as the only black kid in his class where he told everyone his mum was Shirley Bassey to break the ice. Then as a middle child in a large family Stephen learnt stage presence by vying for attention & performing at family parties. Now a world-renowned comedian & performer regularly selling out venues like the Hammersmith Apollo Stephen looks back at his earlier life & the incidents which shaped him & continue to inspire his performances. Poignant funny & with the narrative gift Stephen is famous for "I Used to Say My Mother was Shirley Bassey" is a memoir of a life fitting in standing out & (almost) always laughing." ...

Do you remember the famous opening lines Tyger tyger burning bright? Or Shall I compare these to a summers day? But would you be able to name the poems or the poets? The English language is jam-packed with wonderful verses that weve all heard at some point but probably forgotten. I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud" will remind you of all those long-forgotten poems that you were taught at school together with mini-biographies & introductions. This title
Includes:: " The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
- Coleridge; " If"
- Rudyard Kipling; " Dulce et Decorum Est"
- Wilfred Owen; " Song of Myself"
- Walt Whitman; " Digging"
- Seamus Heaney; & " Not Waving But Drowning"
- Stevie Smith. Complete with an index of famous lines as well as authors any poetry enthusiast will love the collection of best-loved poems alongside the lively commentary. "I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud" is a perfect addition to any poetry lovers collection."






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The first day at school for Tony Ross best loved chracter -- the Little Princess! The Little Princess is tired of playing with her younger brother & is thrilled to be starting school the next day. However when her first attempts to make friends with other children fail she is left all alone. Fortunately she soon finds other children with no friends & they decide to play together sit together eat together! This fantastic new title focuses on the difficult experience of starting school & making friends. Written with insightful understanding of a childs perspective it also manages to maintain the anarchic humour that characterises this brilliant series. ...

The hilarious Little Princess returns with more tears & tantrums in this humorous picture book of good manners. I want!I want!I want. The Little Princess needs to learn some manners but several tantrums later once shes mastered please & thank you she finds that not everyone else is so polite! Shes certainly not going to give the Beastie back his dinner until he asks nicely. ...

This is a picture book debut by a rising talent that tells a cumulative tale with a cheeky twist aided by graphically simple & truly hilarious illustrations. The bear's hat is gone & he wants it back. Patiently & politely he asks the animals he comes across one by one whether they have seen it. Each animal says no some more elaborately than others. But just as it he begins to lose hope lying flat on his back in despair a deer comes by & asks a rather obvious question that suddenly sparks the bear's memory & renews his search with a vengeance. Told completely in dialogue this quirky take on the classic repetitive tale plays out in sly illustrations laced with visual humour & winks at the reader with a wry irreverence that will have kids of all ages thrilled to be in on the joke. This title comes from an exciting new author/illustrator talent previously an artist for Dreamworks Feature Animation. It features subversive humour sure to please children & adults. It is perfect as a read aloud. ...