This classic story of Sophie & her extraordinary tea-time guest has been loved by millions of children since it was first published over 30 years ago. Now a new generation will enjoy this beautiful reformatted board book edition! The doorbell rings just as Sophie & her mummy are sitting down to tea. Who could it possibly be? What they certainly don't expect to see at the door is a big furry stripy tiger! This modern classic picture book is perfect for reading aloud or for small children to read to themselves time & again. All artwork has been re-originated & a fresh design approach has been used for this reformatted edition. ...

READ BY GERALDINE MCEWAN. This classic story has been loved by millions of children since it was first published over 30 years ago. READ BY GERALDINE MCEWAN. The doorbell rings just as Sophie & her mummy are sitting down to tea. Who could it possibly be? What they certainly dont expect to see at the door is a big furry stripy tiger! This modern classic picture book is perfect for reading aloud or for small children to read to themselves time & again. All artwork has been re-originated & a fresh design approach has been used for this reformatted edition. CD: Track 1: The Tiger who came to tea with sound effects & additional material created for this audio by Judith Kerr Track 2: The Tiger who came to tea toned for read-along ...

This classic story of Sophie & her extraordinary tea-time guest has been loved by millions of children since it was first published over 30 years ago. Now a new generation will enjoy this beautiful reformatted edition! The doorbell rings just as Sophie & her mummy are sitting down to tea. Who could it possibly be? What they certainly dont expect to see at the door is a big furry stripy tiger! This modern classic picture book is perfect for reading aloud or for small children to read to themselves time & again. All artwork has been re-originated & a fresh design approach has been used for this reformatted edition. ...

Illustrated stories cover four important feelings (happiness sadness fear & anger) with a gentle & sweet approach. A happy hippo an angry tiger a sad zebra & a scared elephant allow young children to understand & learn to cope with these emotions. ...

Torey Hayden returns with this deeply-moving sequel to her first book One Child (the Sunday Times bestseller). After seven years Torey is reunited with Sheila the disturbed 6-year-old she tried to rescue. Sheila was a deeply disturbed six-year-old when she came into Torey Haydens life -- a story poignantly chronicled One Child. The Tigers Child picks up the story seven years later. Hayden has lost touch with the child she helped to free from a hellish inner prison of rage & silence. But now Sheila is back now a gangly teenager with bright orange hair -- no longer broken & lost but still troubled & searching for answers. This story of dedication & caring that began in childhood moves into a new & extraordinary chapter that tests the strength & heart of both Sheila & her one-time teacher. In The Tigers Child the skilled & loving educator answers the call once again to help a child in need through her difficult yet glorious transition into young womanhood. ...

Born in Bangalore India during the fading days of the Raj Islas early years were spent in the lush verdant hills of Kerala on a tea plantation run by her father. This warm spice-scented idyll was abruptly ended when obliged by tradition & believing there were doing the best for their daughters Islas parents sent their daughters home to baording school. Isla was not quite six years old. Home as cold gloomy post-war austerity Scotland
- a land of liberty bodices chilblains icy mornings & dank days: an alien land where for several yars she nursed an astonishing secret- of which only her sister Fiona was aware. Isla Blair writes lyricallly of her beloved India stoically of term times in Spartan British boarding schools & with great humour & vivacity of the time after school when she became one of the younges students at RADA training alongside Anthony Hopkins & others & throwing herself fully into life in London in the swinging sixties.
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Having sifted through everything I have heard about the tiger & his wife I can tell you that this much is fact: in April of 1941 without declaration or warning the German bombs started falling over the city & did not stop for three days. The tiger did not know that they were bombs... A tiger escapes from the local zoo padding through the ruined streets & onwards to a ridge above the Balkan village of Galina. His nocturnal visits hold the villagers in a terrified thrall. But for one boy the tiger is a thing of magic
- Shere Khan awoken from the pages of The Jungle Book. Natalia is the granddaughter of that boy. Now a doctor she is visiting orphanages after another war has devastated the Balkans. On this journey she receives word of her beloved grandfathers death far from their home in circumstances shrouded in mystery. From fragments of stories her grandfather told her as a child Natalia realises he may have died searching for the deathless man a vagabond who was said to be immortal. Struggling to understand why a man of science would undertake such a quest she stumbles upon a clue that will lead her to a tattered copy of The Jungle Book & then to the extraordinary story of the tigers wife.
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Rorie & Elsies parents are missing & time is running out. The mission to rescue them will take the girls on a dangerous journey deep into the nerve centre of the corporate machine that is robbing people of their identities. Can the Silk sisters reach their mum & dad before its too late? ...

When Stuart Font decides to throw a house-warming party in his new flat he invites all the people in his building & after some deliberation even

Includes:: the unpleasant caretaker & his wife. They are a disparate group of people each with their individual Rendellian psychoses & potential for violence. There are a few other genuine friends on the list but he definitely does not want to include his girlfriend Claudia as that might involve asking her husb&. The party will be one everyone remembers. But not for the right reasons. Living opposite in reclusive isolation is a beautiful young Asian woman christened Tigerlily by Stuart. As though from some strange urban fairytale she emerges to exert a terrible spell on Stuart & his guests. Mr & Mrs Font the worried parents will soon have even more cause for concern about their handsome but hopelessly naive son. Darkly humorous & piercingly observant of human behaviour Ruth Rendell has created another compelling fable of our lives & crimes.

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When Stuart Font decides to throw a house-warming party in his new flat he invites all the people in his building. After some deliberation he even

Includes:: the unpleasant caretaker & his wife. There are a few other genuine friends on the list but he definitely does not want to include his girlfriend as that might involve asking her husb&. The party will be one everyone remembers. But not for the right reasons. All the occupants of Lichfield House are about to experience a shocking change in their lives as Tigerlily casts her terrible spell...

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