* Great fun with hilarious monsters & a message about working together * Vibrantly illustrated with masses to look out for on every page by the illustrator of Jasper Ffordes The Last Dragonslayer * Wonderful text to read aloud When a boy & his Dad build an amazing monster-making machine all sorts of monsters come tumbling out
- big ones small ones funny ones & even ever-so-slightly scary ones. The monsters love to have fun & spend the days playing until they discover that other monsters live in an amazing land far away. Once again it is time to make an amazing machine this time a flying one to take them to the land of the monsters. Approx. 400 words/ Age range: 3-6 years.
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Saving the world isnt going very well for Elf Girl & Raven Boy. Theyve left Fright Forest & crossed a huge plain to the worryingly named Monster Mountains where they find a sign telling them to Turn Back. They really shouldnt have ignored it! Its not the strange wailing noises they hear in the dark or the gigantic yeti who wants to eat them for breakfast that they find alarming so much as the crazy wizard Jeremy who seems intent on adding Elf Girl & Raven Boy not to mention Rat to his collection of all too life-like stone statues. ...

The Monster of Florence which was shortlisted for the prestigious CWA Gold Dagger Award for Non Fiction in 2010 is a true account of brutal serial murder in idyllic Florence. After settling in Italy in 2000 Douglas Preston discovered that the olive grove in front of his family's new home had been the scene of one of the most infamous double-murders in Italian history committed by a serial killer who had never been found & was known only as the Monster of Florence. Preston intrigued met Italian journalist Mario Spezi who had followed the case since the first murders in 1974 to learn more. This is the true story of their search for
- & identification of
- the man they believe committed the crimes & their chilling interview with him. It's also the story of how Preston & Spezi themselves became embroiled in the case. Like one of Preston's bestselling thrillers The Monster of Florence tells a gripping & harrowing story of murder mutilation suspicion & ruined lives
- & at the centre of it two brave writers trying to uncover the truth at all costs. This latest edition

Includes:: an explosive afterword about the much-publicised murder of a British student Meredith Kercher & its connection to the monster case.




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A blob of stinky slime is on the loose slurping up everything in its path. Nothing is safe. Especially not Measle Stubbs! The slippery slobbery Slitherghoul has gobbled up a gaggle of wrathmonks & in doing so has also swallowed their hatred of Measle. Now the blubbery blob is after him & nothing can stop it! Can Measle gulp down his fear & beat the Slitherghoul.. .before the Slitherghoul gulps him down? The fourth instalment of the fantastic Measle Stubbs Adventures. ...

This is a collection of poems about one of children's favourite subjects
- monsters. Korky Paul's lively illustrations to life
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One morning at school Natalie is very bored. Then she has a big surprise
- there is a tiny monster at the window waving at her!
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The preferred method of torture of Vlad Dracul 15th-century prince of Wallachia was to attach a horse to each of the victim's legs as a sharpened stake was gradually forced into his body; Vlad also enjoyed scalping skinning & boiling alive. The 14th-century Mongol warlord Tamerlane once ordered the building of a pyramid of 70 000 human skulls from those that his army had beheaded... In 101 World Heroes Simon Sebag Montefiore selected his ultimate heroes & heroines. Now he offers his readers the other
- darker
- side of the coin. Monsters presents in chronological order grimly fascinating profiles of 101 notorious & profoundly sinister individuals whose actions have one thing in common
- they have had a baleful & blood-soaked impact on the annals of world history. From Attila the Hun to Basil the Bulgar Slayer from Pedro the Cruel to Ivan the Terrible & from Richard III to Saddam Hussein Monsters is a devilishly compelling gallery of history's greatest ghouls including: Caligula Richard III Adolf Eichmann Joseph Stalin Pol Pot Charles Manson Herman Cortes Adolf Hitler Al Capone Laventi Beria Lucrezia Borgia Nicolae Ceausescu Vlad the Impaler Saddam Hussein Simon de Montfort Pablo Escobar Ivan the Terrible Genghis Khan Idi Amin Attila Josef Mengele Heinrich Himmler Mao Zedong Osama bin Laden Kim Il Sung Slobodan Milosevic Empress Cixi Tomas de Torquemeda.


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This book explores monsters through the ages & throughout the world. With a brilliant set of bizarre & fantastical illustrations Monsters" provides a dark yet engrossing visual history of fearsome beasts from every age & culture. Christopher Dell investigates what the existence of monsters even if only in our heads says about humankind & explores such questions as how monsters have survived the millennia; why they are universal; & why we find the same one-eyed giants in Japan & in ancient Greece or the same dragons in Europe & China." ...

This is a marvelous medley of old & new monsters to colour from micro beasties no bigger than a bee to mighty monsters the size of skyscrapers. There are munchy monsters midnight feasting & bogeymonsters under the bed; attic monsters alien monsters & murky monsters from a slimy swamp. Meet terrible trolls & howling werewolves as well as Frankensteins monster Nessie & other monster celebrities of myth & legend. Doodling activities include designing monsters naming monsters drawing monsters step-by-step writing a mini-monster tale escaping the Minotaurs maze & discovering lots of interesting monster stuff along the way. ...

Be afraid be very afraid...a century of cinema nightmare with John Landis. From B-movie bogeymen & outer space-oddities to big-budget terrors Monsters in the Movies" by horror film maestro John Landis celebrates the greatest monsters ever to creep fly slither stalk or rampage across the Silver Screen. Feast your eyes on a petrifying parade of voracious vampires flesh-eating zombies & slavering werewolves as Landis explores the historical origins of archetypal monsters. Filled with the authors own fascinating & entertaining insights into the world of movie-making along with contributions from some of the worlds leading directors actors & special-effects wizards this book is stunningly illustrated with over 1 000 movie stills & posters from the unrivalled archives of the Kobal Collection to keep you entertained right until the curtain comes down. Get ready to sit on the edge of your seat
- " Monsters in the Movies" is coming soon..."
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