Charlie Evans is a highly experienced artist. His exuberant personality & unique gift for explaining his techniques in clear & simple terms make him a highly popular & well-liked tutor & demonstrator & he spends his life travelling thoughout the UK running art classes & appearing in his long-running TV series. In this book he passes on his knowledge & expertise in his own accessible style giving the reader the confidence & know-how to produce beautiful evocative watercolour paintings of their own. It

Includes:: tips on everything from choosing which colours & brushes to buy to how to paint skies water texture & buildings. The tips are clearly explained & illustrated using both step-by-step demonstrations & finished paintings. They will help unravel the mysteries of the watercolour medium for those new to painting & also for more experienced watercolourists on the lookout for tips from a master.

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On a wild & windy day all the washing blows away. Socks & vests a woolly hat & far worse than all of that
- Charlie's Superhero
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It is Charlottes first night at boarding school. But when she wakes up the girl in the next bed is not the person who was sleeping there the evening before. & the new building outside her window seems to have metamorphosed into a huge dark cedar tree! Somehow Charlotte has slipped back forty years. ...

It all starts with a girl.. . (because yes there's always a girl...) Jason Priestley (not that one) has just seen her. They shared an incredible brief fleeting moment of deep possibility somewhere halfway down Charlotte Street. & then just like that she was gone
- accidentally leaving him holding her old-fashioned disposable camera chock full of undeveloped photos... And now Jason
- ex-teacher ex-boyfriend part-time writer & reluctant hero
- faces a dilemma. Should he try & track The Girl down? What if she's The One? But that would mean using the only clues he has which lie untouched in this tatty disposable... It's funny how things can develop...


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The Petal Fairies have a very important job
- together with their magic petals they help to make sure that flowers grow & bloom
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Charlotte's Web is the classic children's story by E B White. The tale of how a little girl named Fern with the help of a friendly spider saved her pig Wilbur from the usual fate of nice fat little pigs. E. B. White was born in New York in 1899 & died in 1985. He kept animals on his farm in Maine & some of these creatures crept into his books such as Stuart Little which was recently made into a blockbusting film. He received many awards including the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal in 1970 an award given every five years to authors who have 'made a substantial & lasting contribution to literature for children'. Also by E B White: Charlotte's Web; Stuart Little; & The Trumpet of the Strong. ...

New Read & Respond" is back by popular demand & ready for the 21st Century. The completely new text provides teachers with everything they need to teach these classic children's books. Notes & activities reflect the way that teachers teach now & include shared texts guided reading notes reading activities speaking & listening activities writing projects & assessment guidance. Over a third of each book is filled with invaluable photocopiables
- all illustrated by the original children's book illustrators. It

Includes:: everything the teacher needs to teach a classic book. It is based on best-selling children's books. It contains speaking & listening activities. It offers assessment guidance & photocopiable pages. The new " Read & Respond: Charlotte's Web" provides teachers with all the resources they need to teach " Charlotte's Web" by EB White. " Charlotte' Web" is a popular choice for teachers because it can support the NLS at Key Stage 2 as a classic an animal story a story by an established writer & a story that raises issues."


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Charlton Athletic Miscellany collects together all the most vital information you never knew you needed to know about the Addicks. In these pages you will find irresistible anecdotes & the most mindblowing stats & facts
- Heard the one about Edwardian fans brandishing fishes on sticks at Haddocks matches? Or the League Liner away trip whose price included a dolphins football match between Brighton & Charlton? What about the 1965 match when the referee & captains agreed to mime the toss-up? Do you know when The Valley hosted its record attendance of 75 031? Or a striptease stag night to boost a midfielders testimonial fund? Or which manager turned down the club to run a sweetshop? All these stories & hundreds more appear in a brilliantly researched collection of trivia
- essential for any fan who holds the riches of Charlton Athletics history close to their heart.

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Holly O' Neill knows that every charm bracelet tells a story. Many years ago she was sent one with just a single charm attached. The charms have been appearing ever since often at challenging times as if her mysterious benefactor knows exactly when she needs a little magic in her life. As a result Holly's bracelet is her most prized possession. So when she finds someone else's charm bracelet she feels she has to try to reunite it with its owner. Even if the only clues she has to follow are the charms themselves. On a search that will take her all over New York City at Christmas Holly becomes ever more determined to piece together the details of this other charmed life. But what she doesn't know is that her quest may also lead her somewhere she never ever expected.. . ...

Anastasia Donovan knew that her gift marked her as different special
- perhaps even dangerous. She had spent years hiding herself
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