Chuggetty chuggetty clickety-clack a train is coming along the track Monkey is driving
- hear him say Who wants a trip on my train
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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. ...

Its the first day back at school for four very different children. Lee Lloyd Billy & Angela are expecting just an ordinary day.. .but all that changes when MARTIN zooms in from outer space! Join Lee Lloyd Billy Angela.. .and Martin for a first day of term thats out of this world! ...

The perfect introduction to philosophy for children (P4C) But Why? Provides everything you need to introduce philosophy into your classroom. & for those who are already doing P4C it will provide a welcome source of fresh inspiration & new ideas. Why do philosophy in school? This work clearly has a very positive impact on children's work across the curriculum giving them the confidence to speak & discuss ideas to a high level.
- Ofsted report P4C has far-reaching benefits that touch all parts of the curriculum & every aspect of school life by: creating a climate for learning increasing motivation developing communication skills boosting creativity & imagination teaching moral citizenship developing confidence self-esteem & emotional identification. Why But Why? But Why? offers a tried-&-tested approach that uses the character of Philosophy Bear to make philosophy accessible to even the very youngest children. As well as this manual the teaching pack (sold seperately)
Includes:: a mini Philosophy Bear four beautifully illustrated picture books written specifically for use in P4C. The manual is a highly practical guide that
Includes:: how to run a successful P4C session using stories & other stimuli for P4C strategies that will lead to fruitful thinking inspiring case studies & examples a bank of games & activities integrating philosophy into the school involving parents.


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Suzannes journey of self-discovery is anything but typical; her attitude towards sex & relationships even more unusual. The Butcher The Baker The Candlestick Maker is a story that is shocking & heart-warming in equal measure. Freed from the restraints of marriage & monogamy Suzanne takes pleasure without commitment & tells her story without a trace of shame. Shes not looking for Prince Charming anymore but fun. & she finds it. ...

When I was a young lad twenty or thirty or forty years ago I lived in a small town where they were all after me on account of what I done on Mrs Nugent". So speaks Francie Brady the narrator & anti-hero of THE BUTCHER BOY. When the story begins Francie is a bit of a scamp full of curiosity & mischief. Then an unpleasant encounter with Mrs Nugent on the subject of her son's missing comic books propels Francie to the brink of madness & beyond. Mc Cabe's depiction of small-town Irish life & of one boy's deterioration into madness & despair is surprisingly one of the most raucous earthy & horrifically hilarious stories of all time. Dark & gothic funny & tragic starring a child who retains the pathos of a grubby urchin even as he evolves into a monster THE BUTCHER BOY is an absolute treasure." ...

Thomas Chaloner just returned from a clandestine excursion to Spain & Portugal on behalf of the Queen finds London dank & grey under leaden skies. He finds many things changed including the Government slapping a tax on printed newspapers. Handwritten news reports escape the duty & the rivalry between the producers of the two conduits of news is the talk of the coffee houses with the battle to be first with any sort of intelligence escalating into violent rivalry. & it seems that a number of citizens who have eaten cucumbers have come to untimely deaths. It is such a death which Chaloner is despatched to investigate; that of a lawyer with links to 'the Butcher of Smithfield' a shady trader surrounded by a fearsome gang of thugs who terrorise the streets well beyond the confines of Smithfield market. Chaloner doesn't believe that either this death or the others are caused by a simple vegetable but to prove his theory he has to untangle the devious means of how news is gathered & he has to put his personal safety aside as he tries to penetrate the rumour mill surrounding the Butcher of Smithfield & discover his real identity. ...