Collins Primary Focus: Spelling
- My First Word Book is aimed at ages 4-5. This write-in book allows children to build up their
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Have hands-on fun teaching your toddler first words with this tabbed board book from My First". With lots of fun-filled pictures simple questions & things to name your toddler will love learning first words using this colourful board book. Read it together & help them turn the pages using the intriguing picture tabs; identify the goldfish teddy & car & even encourage them to choose their favourite pet! It makes teaching your toddler first words as easy as a b c." ...

Latifa was born into an educated middle-class Afghan family in Kabul in 1980. She dreamed of one day of becoming a journalist she was interested in fashion movies & friends. Her father was in the import/export business & her mother was a doctor. Then in September 1996 Taliban soldiers seized power in Kabul. From that moment Latifa just 16 years old became a prisoner in her own home. Her school was closed. Her mother was banned from working. The simplest & most basic freedoms
- walking down the street looking out a window
- were no longer hers. She was now forced to wear a chadri. My Forbidden Face provides a poignant & highly personal account of life under the Taliban regime. With painful honesty & clarity Latifa describes the way she watched her world falling apart in the name of a fanatical interpretation of a faith that she could not comprehend. Her voice captures a lost innocence but also echoes her determination to live in freedom & hope. Earlier this year Latifa & her parents escaped Afghanistan with the help of a French-based Afghan resistance group.

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Collins Primary Focus: Spelling
- My Fourth Word Book is aimed at ages 7-9. This write-in book allows children to build up their
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This is a classic tale of the American plains & one boys belief in a horse. Ken was entranced to watch Flicka
- the speed of her
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Like many small children James has a special soft-toy friend. Hes an elephant called Harry. He & James go everywhere together
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These are one of a series of delightfully humorous award-winning tales for beginner readers from an internationally acclaimed author-illustrator. Gerald is careful. Piggie is not. Piggie cannot help smiling. Gerald can. Gerald worries so that Piggie does not have to. Gerald & Piggie are best friends. In My Friend is Sad" Gerald is sad. How can Piggie be happy if Gerald is sad? Told entirely in speech bubbles with a repetitive use of familiar phrases this highly original book is perfect for children just learning to read. It is a vibrant new edition with bright colours that will appeal to young readers. It is a Theodor Seuss Geisel Award-winning series for the most distinguished books for beginner readers." ...

While in rehab James Frey finds a father figure in a shady mafia boss called Leonard. When Leonard returns to his dubious prosperous life in the criminal underworld of Las Vegas he promises James his support on the outside. Tragedy strikes the day James is released & his world seems set to implode. Unsure where to turn he calls Leonard. Paradoxically it is in Leonards lawless underworld that James discovers the courage & humanity needed to rebuild his life. ...

Summer 1941. For Peter the war is a long way away being fought by a faceless enemy marching across places he's never seen. Unil the night it comes to him. A German plane is shot down over the woods that his Dad looked after before he went off to fight. Peter rushes to the crash site to find something exciting to keep. But what he finds instead is some- one: a young & injured German airman. The enemy. Here. & in trouble. Suddenly helping him seems like the right thing to do. ...

Living with a ghost can have its difficulties I discovered even if he is your friend. Remember Sir Walter Raleigh who laid his cloak in a puddle so that Queen Elizabeth I could walk across? Well Bess meets his ghost & finds out he's an ancestor! How will Bess explain Sir Walter to her family? Especially when he breaks her brother's fishing rod steals a horse & smokes cigars in her room! A charming & hilarious story of friendship between different eras. ...