Its a very busy day on the railway! The simple push or pull of a tab in this chunky interactive board book can cause all sorts of amazing things to happen: guard rails go up & down trains go in & out of tunnels & smoke pops out of the chimney! Full of delightful detail & magical mechanisms this is the perfect book for keeping busy hands & busy minds entertained for hours. ...

Get ready for a busy day in town. There's so much to do! You can ride on the bus feed the ducks in the park & do some shopping before heading home to bed. Full of delightful detail & magical mechanisms this is the perfect book for keeping busy hands & busy minds entertained for hours. ...

This title helps follow Builder Barney as he works on the busy building site. From checking the plans & laying foundations to mixing cement & building walls there is always so much for a busy builder to do. All busy toddlers will love exploring this bright lift-the-flap board book from Ladybird. With simple rhyming text robust flaps to lift labelled pictures & a ladybird to spot on every page there is plenty to keep young children entertained. ...

Find out how even the busiest of busy girls can whip up impressive homemade treats in next to no time! Ruth Clemens finalist on the original series of The Great British Bake Off shares her secrets in creating quick but gorgeous cakes bakes & biscuits. Choose from 25 beautiful projects to make in under an hour in an afternoon or over a weekend & be amazed at what you can achieve! This book is all about cake decorating without the fuss the palaver & sometimes the tears too! The projects are split into three sections. The Evening Whip-Ups (one-hour projects) are perfect when you have very little time & are easy to throw together one evening after work. The Half-Day Delights (two-hour projects) are for when you have an afternoon to spare. Finally the Weekend Wonders (three- to four-hour projects) are for when you've got a bit more time available in your schedule! In cake-decorating terms all of the above are tiny amounts of time
- large intricate projects take professional cake decorator's days if not weeks of work. We busy girls don't have the time or the patience to create those kinds of works of art but this book contains stunning projects that can be achieved in next to no time. In addition to the projects Ruth talks you through all the equipment & ingredients you need shows you how to line a cake tin gives her tried-&-tested recipes for fruit cake sponge cake & chocolate cake as well as cupcake recipes cookie recipes & frosting recipes. She shows you how to pipe with royal icing & buttercream piping techniques & how to cover a cake with marzipan how to cover cakes & boards with sugarpaste how to trim a cake board with ribbon how to colour fondant to your desired shade how to stack cakes using dowels & some wonderful creative embellishment techniques. The Busy Girl's Guide to Cake Decorating
- the perfect place to start your foray into the world of cakes.

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This is a fabulous new storybook with four embedded tracks & a pull-back helicopter toy that little children can enjoy from again & again. Place the helicopter on the tracks & watch it zoom around as its crew rescues a skier in the mountains boys from rocks at the seaside collects an injured oil rig worker & then returns to its base at a hospital. It is a fantastic gift guaranteed to delight & entertain young children. ...

Provide food for breakfast fill the children's lunchboxes stock the fridge with after-school snacks cook everyone's supper day in day out...every week. Weekends mean more shopping cooking baking
- & there are always teenagers hungry partners & friends who might want a snack. Ready-meals takeaways & fast food are fine on the odd occasion but especially in these purse-stretched times families need tasty & healthy meals. In this practical cookbook Mary Gwynn shows the working mum what foods to buy that will last the week & how to have delicious easy-to-make & nutritious meals ready in a trice with no wastage.
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All busy toddlers will love exploring this bright lift-the-flap board book from Ladybird. Looking at the pictures together & talking about what is happening will help your child to develop observation & early language skills. Follow the bus driver as she goes about her day driving around the busy town. From the bustling shops of the high street to the train station & bus depot there are so many places to visit. With simple rhyming text robust flaps to lift (up to four per page!) labelled pictures & a ladybird to spot on every page there is plenty to keep young children entertained too! ...

This is a wonderful lift-the-flap Busy Book from Ladybird: Busy Zoo". All busy toddlers will love exploring this bright lift-the-flap board book from Ladybird. Looking at the pictures together & talking about what is happening will help your child to develop observation & early language skills. Follow Keeper Katie as she works in the busy zoo. From scrubbing the elephants to feeding the penguins there is always so much for a busy zookeeper to do. With simple rhyming text robust flaps to lift (up to four per page!) labelled pictures & a ladybird to spot on every page there is plenty to keep young children entertained too! Look out for other Busy Books from Ladybird: " Busy Farm"; " Busy Building Site"; " Busy Zoo"; & " Busy Town"." ...

Lester Young fading away in a hotel room; Charles Mingus storming down the streets of New York on a too-small bicycle; Thelonius Monk creating his own private language on the piano... In eight poetically charged vignettes Geoff Dyer skilfully evokes the embattled lives of the players who shaped modern jazz. He draws on photos & anecdotes but music is the driving force of But Beautiful & Dyer brings it to life in luminescent & wildly metaphoric prose that mirrors the quirks eccentricity & brilliance of each musicians style. ...

Beetles Bugs & Butterflies is Lola's absolute favourite book ever in the whole wide world. So naturally she is distraught when it's not at the library. Someone else has borrowed it! Charlie tries everything he can think of to placate her but nothing is ever going to beat Beetles Bugs & Butterflies. That is until Charlie finds Chimps & Chimpanzees & then Lola has a new best book ever! ...