Follow the Zoosters as they try to get back to New York City by joining a circus! King Julien Maurice & the Penguins are all along for the ride in this awesome handbook jam-packed with activities & puzzles to complete plus profiles & stories to read. Its got everything you need
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Gustave Flauberts Madame Bovary" is one of the most influential
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Castigated for offending against public decency Madame Bovary has rarely failed to cause a storm. For Flauberts contemporaries the fascination came from the novelists meticulous account of provincial matters. For the writer subject matter was subordinate to his anguished quest for aesthetic perfection. For his twentieth-century successors the formal experiments that underpin Madame Bovary look forward to the innovations of contemporary fiction. Flauberts protagonist in particular has never ceased to fascinate. Romantic heroine or middle-class neurotic flawed wife & mother or passionate protester against the conventions of bourgeois society simultaneously the subject of Flauberts admiration & the butt of his irony
- Emma Bovary remains one of the most enigmatic of fictional creations. Flauberts meticulous approach to the craft of fiction his portrayal of contemporary reality his representation of an unforgettable cast of characters make Madame Bovary one of the major landmarks of modern fiction.
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When Jeanne-Antoinette was nine she was told by a fortune teller that she would one day become the mistress of the handsome young Louix XV
- from that day she was groomed to become a morsel fit for a King. Nancy Mitford lovingly tells the story of how the little girl rose against a backdrop of savage social-climbing intrigue excess & high drama to become the most powerful women of the eighteenth century French court Le Pompadour.
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Lydia Christopher & Natalie are used to domestic turmoil. Their parents' divorce has not made family life any easier in either home. The children bounce to & from their volatile mother Miranda & their out-of-work actor father Daniel. Then Miranda advertises for a cleaning lady who will look after & mind the children after work
- & Daniel gets the job disguised as Madame Doubtfire. This bittersweet touching & extremely funny book inspired the highly successful film Mrs Doubtfire" starring Robin Williams."
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Its winter in Paris & Madeleine is having problems at school. A new girl Mirabelle is bullying her. Then Madeleine is befriended by Madame Bonbon who runs an alluring-looking sweet shop. The sweets Madame Bonbon gives Madeleine have the most bewitching effect at first making her feel much stronger & able to confront Mirabelle. However soon they start drawing her into a strange enchanted world from which she cannot escape. Will Madame Pamplemousse & Camembert be able to rescue Madeleine? ...

Its winter in Paris & Madeleine is having problems at school. A new girl Mirabelle is bullying her. Madeleine is too ashamed to ask for help from her friends Madame Pamplemousse & Camembert but shes befriended by a woman called Madame Bonbon who runs an alluring-looking sweet shop. The sweets Madame Bonbon gives Madeleine have the most bewitching effect at first making her feel much stronger & able to confront Mirabelle. However soon they start drawing her into a strange enchanted world from which she finds she cannot escape. Madame Bonbon is really someone else in disguise
- an old enemy from Madame Pamplemousses past who has come to Paris seeking her revenge.. .
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In Paris there is a cafe elegantly furnished with polished wooden tables & an awning of striped gold & green whose walls are filled with vinatge posters advertising drinks such as Green Fairy Liqueur Mermaid Madeira & Red Devil Lemonade. & sitting on the bar is a large silver steam-powered espresso coffee machine. The cafe is owned by Monsieur Moutarde & Monsieur Moutarde has made the most extraordinary discovery. With the help of his friend Madame Pamplemousse he has created a time-travel machine (for that is what the espresso coffee machine is). Very special highly flavoured intense ingredients are fed into the machine where they are subatomically blended with quantum froth & space-time foam. The resulting liquid looks like a small black coffee but in fact transports the drinker through time & space. But this is a dangerous invention. For who knows what would happen if it fell into the wrong hands? Before long Monsieur Moutarde Madame Pamplemousse her cat Camembert & her friend Madeleine are on the run through space & time to capture a T. rexs freshly caught drool & the tears of the rare sphinx
- vital ingredients for a tonic that will both save them & revive the ailing spirit of Paris. A magical romp that will charm & delight.
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In Paris there is a cafe elegantly furnished with polished wooden tables & an awning of striped gold & green whose walls are filled with vintage posters advertising drinks such as Green Fairy Liqueur Mermaid Madeira & Red Devil Lemonade. & sitting on the bar is a large silver steam-powered espresso coffee machine. The cafe is owned by Monsieur Moutarde & Monsieur Moutarde has made the most extraordinary discovery. With the help of his friend Madame Pamplemousse he has created a time-travel machine (for that is what the espresso coffee machine is). Very special highly flavoured intense ingredients are fed into the machine where they are subatomically blended with quantum froth & space-time foam. The resulting liquid looks like a small black coffee but in fact transports the drinker through time & space. But this is a dangerous invention. For who knows what would happen if it fell into the wrong hands? Before long Monsieur Moutarde Madame Pamplemousse her cat Camembert & her friend Madeleine are on the run through space & time to capture a T. rexs freshly caught drool & the tears of the rare sphinx
- vital ingredients for a tonic that will both save them & revive the ailing spirit of Paris. This is a magical romp that will charm & delight.
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Sullen-eyed & broken-hearted fourteen-year-old Catherine de Medici arrives in Marseilles to marry Henry of Orleans second son of the King of France. On the promise of a dowry fit for a king Catherine has left her true love in Italy forced into trading her future for a stake in the French crown. Amid the glittering fetes & banquets of the most immoral court in sixteenth-century Europe the reluctant bride becomes a passionate but unwanted wife. Humiliated & unloved Catherine spies on Henry & his lover the infamous Diane de Poitiers. & tortured by what she sees Catherine becomes dangerously occupied by a ruthless ambition destined to make her the most despised woman in France: the dream that one day the French crown will be worn be a Medici heir.. . ...