One bright February afternoon on a beach in Cornwall Gavin Pretor-Pinney took a break from cloudspotting & started watching the waves rolling into shore. Mesmerised he wondered where they had come from & decided to find out. He soon realised that waves dont just appear on the ocean they are everywhere around us & our lives depend on them. From the rippling beats of our hearts to the movement of food through our digestive tracts & of signals across our brains waves are the transport systems of our bodies. Everything we see & hear reaches us via light & sound waves & our information age is reliant on the microwaves & infrared waves used by the telephone & internet infrastructure. From shockwaves unleashed by explosions to torsional waves that cause suspension bridges to collapse from sonar waves that allow submarines to see with sound to Mexican waves that sweep through stadium crowds...there were waves it seemed wherever Gavin looked. But what he wondered could they all have in common with ones we splash around in on holiday? By the time he made the ultimate surfers pilgrimage to Hawaii Gavin had become a world-class wavewatcher although he was still rubbish at surfing. & while this fascinating funny book may not teach you how to ride the waves it will show you how to tune into the shapes colours & forms of lifes many undulations. ...

READ BY PAUL MCGANN. Shining star Oliver Jeffers is back with this star spangled inter-galactic adventure tale in space! One day a boy finds an aeroplane in his cupboard. Up up up & away he flies high into the sky. Whizzing past clouds stars & planets until suddenly he runs out of petrol! Miles from earth the boy crashes into the moon & waits. Just as he is beginning to get cold & lonely a friendly martian appears from the darkness also with a broken aircraft. Together they come up with a super plan to float the boy back down to earth to collect his toolbox. Can the boy find his way back home safely & will he ever make it back up to the moon to rescue his friend? ...

Enjoy Oliver Jeffers' intergalactic adventure tale in space! Now available in toddler-friendly board book edition. One day a boy finds an aeroplane in his cupboard. Up up up & away he flies high into the sky. He whizzes past clouds & stars until suddenly phut phut phut the plane runs out of petrol... Miles from earth the boy crash lands on the moon. Just as he is beginning to get cold & lonely a Martian appears from the darkness
- could this be the start of an unlikely friendship? & will the boy ever manage to get home again?
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Shining star Oliver Jeffers is back with this star spangled inter-galactic adventure tale in space! One day a boy finds an aeroplane in his cupboard. Up up up & away he flies high into the sky. Whizzing past clouds stars & planets until suddenly he runs out of petrol! Miles from earth the boy crashes into the moon & waits. Just as he is beginning to get cold & lonely a friendly martian appears from the darkness also with a broken aircraft. Together they come up with a super plan to float the boy back down to earth to collect his toolbox. Can the boy find his way back home safely & will he ever make it back up to the moon to rescue his friend? ...

READ BY PAUL MCGANN. An exciting intergalactic adventure from shining star Oliver Jeffers creator of Lost & Found. One day a boy finds an aeroplane in his cupboard. Up up up & away he flies high into the sky. Whizzing past clouds stars & planets until suddenly he runs out of petrol! Miles from earth the boy crashes into the moon & waits. Just as he is beginning to get cold & lonely a friendly martian appears from the darkness also with a broken aircraft. Together they come up with a super plan to float the boy back down to earth to collect his toolbox. Can the boy find his way back home safely & will he ever make it back up to the moon to rescue his friend? ...

The alliance has failed. There is a dark full moon on mid-winters day
- sign that the foretelling has come to pass. Karan is held
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Its night & the dark is filled with strange sounds as Shane makes his way home. On a fence he finds a stray cat that at first growls & spits at him. But Shane talks & strokes the kitten to calmness & decides to take the Spitfire Kitten Number One home with him. No gang of boys or avenue of dense traffic or fierce dog can stop Shane carrying his new found friend to the place he calls home. Greg Rogers sensitive use of charcoal & pastel create Shane & his cat in splendid city-at-night time scenes. ...

Everyone knows that Lord Sugar has strong opinions & is not afraid to share them
- no matter how controversial they may be. His
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Everyone knows that Lord Sugar has strong opinions & is not afraid to voice them
- no matter how controversial they may be. His
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Stanley Matthews was the most popular footballer of his era the man who epitomised a generation of legendary players: Tom Finney Nat Lofthouse Billy Wright & many more. He was the first footballer ever to be knighted the first European Footballer of the Year (at 41) & he played in the top division until he was 50
- & he will be forever remembered for his performance in the Matthews FA Cup final of 1953 when he inspired Blackpool to victory over Bolton. THE WAY IT WAS is a the fascinating memoir of a great footballer & the remarkable story of an extraordinary life written in the last months of his life.
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