With his unique combination of hilarious stories & riotous rhymes Dr. Seuss has been delighting young children & helping them learn to read for over fifty years. Here are four of his classic favourites for the first time on CD read by the zany Adrian Admondson. Ranked among the UKs top ten favourite childrens authors Seuss is firmly established as a global best-seller. The four classic favourites on this exclusive CD are: The Cat in the Hat The Cat in the Hat Comes Back Green Eggs & Ham Fox in Socks Complete with WILD music & CRAZY sound effects! ...

To accompany the release of the live action movie of The Cat in the Hat starring Mike Myers Harper Collins are proud to present Dr. Seuss's original tale of feline anarchy pink snow & all-round mayhem! When the Cat in the Hat comes back Sally & her brother know it's going to mean trouble. & guess what? They're right! The Cat in the Hat is one of the most popular characters in children's fiction & this book is ideal for budding readers to tackle on their own. ...

This fabulous sequel to the classic The Cat in the Hat is now in picture book format with an audio CD. When the Cat in the Hat comes back hes soon up to his old tricks ably assisted by a team of tiny helpers that he keeps in his hat! Adrian Edmondson reads a crazy classic with wild music & mad sound effects! This is a wonderful addition to the Dr. Seuss shelves. ...

Packed with all the zany humour & bizarre characters that make Dr. Seuss so popular with young readers this wacky dictionary will keep children laughing all the way from A to Z. Containing over 1000 everyday words arranged in alphabetical order The Cat in the Hat Dictionary takes a typically Seussian approach with a host of crazy animals & potty people doing some of the strangest things -- from crocodiles nursing babies & goats playing horns to dogs eating noodles & bears playing marbles. None the less the book has a serious purpose in that it teaches young children aged three upwards fundamental dictionary skills without them even realising it. While they laugh at the pictures & look at the words they are also learning about word & picture association alphabetical order word searching word usage & alliteration not to mention learning to read. All that from one book! ...

Come on a wild adventure with Nick sally & the Cat in the Hat! Follow the gang to Bamwamabooboo where Zhu Zhu the Panda will teach you all about his favourite thing in the world: bamboo! You will learn that bamboo is not only a panda's favorite food but it's an amazingly strong lightweight & flexible kind of grass
- like the stuff on your lawn
- that's good for building all sorts of things that humans like too.

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There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music & cats.
- Albert Schweitzer. Cats seem to go on the principle that
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Verity adores her cat Mabel & is desperately sad when she dies. Remembering her recent school lessons about the Ancient Egyptians Verity decides to mummify Mabel & keep her hidden. Verity's dad & grandparents can't bear to talk about death having lost Verity's mum several years ago
- but when they eventually discover what Verity has done the whole family realises it's time to talk. A superb handling of bereavement in Jacqueline Wilson's uniquely accessible & enjoyable style for younger readers.
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Start Reading is a new series of highly enjoyable books for beginning readers at KS1. They have been carefully graded to correspond to the Book Bands now widely used in schools. This enables readers to be sure that they choose books that match their own ability. There is very careful & gentle graduation from Band to B&. The books can be shared with an adult or read independently. They promote the enjoyment of reading through reading real satisfying stories with a beginning a middle & an end. This is a series of 4 books at band 3 of the Start Reading programme. Pips Pets is about Pip & his pets- Coco the cat Digby the Dog Sid & the snake & the perfect pet. ...

Cat O Nine Tales" is the sixth collection of irresistible short stories from the master storyteller illustrated by the internationally acclaimed artist Ronald Searle creator of " Molesworth". These twelve yarns are so satisfying because they are ingeniously plotted include richly drawn characters & have deliciously unexpected conclusions. They feature the mad the bad & the dangerous to know as well as some more poignant & telling characters. Many of these stories came to Archer while he was incarcerated for two years in five different prisons & so they have a prison theme. Others were inspired since he was released but all in all they confirm his position as one of the best storytellers alive today. Stylish witty & constantly entertaining.. . Jeffrey Archer has a natural aptitude for short stories.
- " The Times"."
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Following the award-winning The Diamond of Drury Lane" here we present the sea-faring volume from our famous feisty heroine Cat Royal... Cat O' Nine Tails. Cat becomes an unlikely recruit for the British Navy takes passage to America & navigates her way through a fiendish plot to do away with Lord Francis heir to a dukedom. From the grand Assembly Rooms of Bath to the wilds of a new frontier Cat finds she is for once quite out of her depth. All aboard Cat's going abroad." ...