This Little Footballer" is a delightful rhyming touch-&-feel book from Ladybird with a different little footballer to talk about & a big touchy-feely item to explore on every double page. From a leathery ball & rough goalkeeper gloves to a silky shirt & shiny trophy each football-themed tactile area helps to stimulate sensory awareness in older babies & toddlers & teach them the difference between smooth rough bumpy shiny & so on. Learn each little footballers name & what they are doing by reading the rhymes then choose a name for the last little footballer at the end! With a ladybird to also look for & spot on each page " This Little Footballer" is perfect for sharing with all young fans of the beautiful game as their attention span & curiosity about books grows." ...

Toddlers & young children will love interacting with the friendly touch-&-feel monkeys in this sturdy board book from Ladybird". This book lets you to have fun reading the rhymes together & finding the feely areas on the monkeys each time. Feel squishy ears or stroke a fuzzy tummy as each little monkey is different. Then think of a name for the last little monkey at the end! This is a perfect first touch & feel book for all young monkey fans. " This Little Monkey" helps to develop sensory & language awareness in preschool children." ...

Ladybird's This Little Potty" is a sturdy board book that is great for encouraging toddlers & young children to use the potty. Each chunky double-page spread has a jaunty rhyme introducing a young child & their potty plus a big touch-&-feel area such as a glittery book shiny potty silky hair or soft bear. Freddie is using the potty for a wee along with his teddy Lou is doing a poo & Rory is sitting on his & reading a story! Can YOU use your potty too? " This Little Potty" is perfect for sharing with your child as a gentle pressure-free introduction to potty training." ...

No parent teacher or nursery group should be without this classic treasury. There are songs rhymes & games for every occasion all chosen for their proven popularity with young children. Collected from all over Britain the contents reflect the cultural diversity of the nation making it an outstandingly rich & stimulating collection. Since the first edition of This Little Puffin" was published over thirty years ago it has been revised & updated allowing it to remain the most invaluable book of its kind." ...

This is a very sweet Christmassy touch-&-feel book from Ladybird. Toddlers & young children will love interacting with the festive touch-&-feel snowmen in this sturdy board book. Have fun reading the rhymes together & finding the feely areas on the snowmen each time. Stroke a soft woolly scarf or feel a ridged carrot nose as each little snowman is different. Then think of a name for the last little snowman at the end! A perfect first Christmas touch-&-feel book for all young snowman fans This Little Snowman" helps to develop sensory & language awareness in preschool children." ...

WINNER of the Irish Book Awards Childrens Book of the Year 2012. An exquisite new book featuring a boy & his moose from internationally bestselling multi-prize-winning picture book creator Oliver Jeffers. Wilfred owned a moose. He hadnt always owned a moose. The moose came to him a while ago & he knew just KNEW that it was meant to be his. He thought he would call him Marcel." Most of the time Marcel is very obedient abiding by the many rules on How to Be a Good Pet. But one dark day while deep in the woods someone else claims the moose as their own... Is Marcel really Wilfreds pet after all? An beautifully-illustrated witty & thought-provoking story exploring the concept of ownership." ...

SMALL WELL APPOINTED FUTURE. SEMI DETACHED. If the end of the world is nigh then surely its only sensible to make alternative arrangements. Certainly the Earth has its points but what most people need is something smaller & more manageable. Of course there are those who say thats planetary treason but who cares what the weirdos & terrorists think? Not Nathan. All he cares is that his movie gets made & that theres somebody left to see it. In marketing terms the end of the world will be very big. Anyone trying to save it should remember that. ...

Heddy Partridge was never my friend. I have to start with that. Heddy Partridge was never my friend because I was pretty popular clever & blonde & my friends were pretty popular clever & generally blonde too. Heddy Partridge was none of these things. Laura Hamley is the woman who has everything: a loving & successful husband two beautiful children an expensive home & a set of equally fortunate friends. But Lauras perfect world is suddenly threatened when she receives an unwelcome phone call from Mrs Partridge mother of Heddy
- the girl Laura & her friends bullied mercilessly at school. Heddy has been hospitalized following a mental breakdown & Mrs Partridge wants Lauras help to get her released. As Laura reluctantly gets drawn back into the past she is forced to face the terrible consequences of her cruelty. But as her secrets are revealed so too is another even more devastating truth & the perfect world Laura has so carefully constructed for herself begins to fall apart. This Perfect World" is the debut novel from a brilliant dark new voice. See Judys Review See Richards Review See Suzanne Bugler talk about her book Reading Group Questions Read our exclusive Q&A with Suzanne Bugler Write a Review for This Perfect World Judys Review Suzanne Bugler writes about psychological & physical bullying
- well lets call a spade a spade: its torture really
- so forensically & so darkly one wonders if she was once a victim of it herself. Your heart bleeds for poor Heddy so efficiently belittled & tormented by the golden girls in her class. I went to an all-girl High School & I thank God I didnt witness
- or experience
- anything like this. Even as Laura agrees to try & undo the damage shes wreaked shes hard as nails. Heddy Partridge was never my friend she tells us bluntly. Thats because I was pretty popular clever & blonde & my friends were pretty popular clever & generally blonde too. Nice. But there is a mystery at the heart of this arresting story a puzzle that slowly plays itself out as Laura tries to undo the terrible damage she has caused. She was the ringleader of the nasty little gang after all; it behoves her to make amends. But why did her parents
- in particular her father
- try so hard to force her to be friends with Heddy while the girls were growing up? What was the hidden connection between Lauras middle-class parents & the working-class Partridges? Why did Lauras father become incandescent with rage when she refused point-blank to allow Heddy into her charmed schoolgirl circle? The answer comes in a shocking twist. & the way the chaos & poison in Heddys life begins to seep into Lauras perfect world is shocking too. There is little comfort for bullies to be found in these pages & even less for the bullied. Richards "






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It is 1964. Red Road is rising out of the fields. To the families who move in it is a dream & a shining future. It is 2010. The Red Road Flats are scheduled for demolition. Inhabited only by intrepid asylum seekers & a few stubborn locals the once vibrant scheme is tired & out of time. Between these dates are the people who filled the flats with laughter life & drama. Their stories are linked by the buildings; the sway & buffet of the tower blocks in the wind the creaky lifts the views & the vertigo. This Road is Red is a compelling & subtle novel of Glasgow. ...

On a bitter winters day in 1916 deep below the streets of New York a group of men is working in one of the huge pressurized tunnels that will make up the subway system. Suddenly a tiny hole appears in the roof of the tunnel & the air rushes in sucking the men up through the bed of the Hudson to be suspended on a spume of water high above the river. Almost 90 years later Treefrog a homeless man stumbles through the same corridor under the twirling flakes of snow to his makeshift home under the city. A love story in three generations this is also about hope & despair & survival. ...