Diggers are good at did dig digging. They can work all day! This noisy busy bestselling book with fun rhyming text & bright bold artwork is jam-packed with diggers tractors rubbish trucks fire engines cranes & other favourite machines. Perfect for machine-mad little ones! ...

Its difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a home-grown tomato. Lewis Grizzards Wise Words for Gardeners": The World War Two slogan is still pertinent in these thrifty times as more people than ever are turning to self-sufficiency & growing their own fruit & vegetables. This little compendium is packed with tips & hints on how to make the most of your garden along with witty"ations to help you dig for victory." ...

Introduce preschool children to the happenings on a busy building site with Ladybird's" " Dig it! Build it!" This informative big noisy book has eight different realistic sounds that really bring the noises of a working building site to life. Follow Builder Ben as he & his team of jolly builders begin work on a new house. From clearing the site to digging foundations laying walls putting on the roof & fitting out the interiors each different stage of building is clearly laid out with additional labels that pick out interesting features or builders' equipment to talk about together & a ladybird to spot on every page. Children will love pressing the colourful sound buttons to join in with the story & making the noises of a whirring drill chugging digger banging hammer sloshing cement mixer & more! " Dig it! Build it!" is a fun & educational sound book for all young children interested in builders diggers & what happens on a building site." ...

Mr Middleton was the Alan Titchmarsh of his day; the first & most resonant in a long line of media gardeners. His audience was the embattled British nation hanging onto his every word during his wartime BBC broadcasts on gardening. It was Mr Middleton who exhorted us to dig for victory dig for dear life & as in this book advised us that an allotment is like the army. The first month is the worst: after that you begin to enjoy it. Dig On for Victory is a facsimile reissue of the original 1945 guide & is follow-up to Mr Middletons classic text Digging for Victory. Covering all seasons Mr Middletons All-Year-Round Gardening Guide offers tips on growing everything from celeriac to strawberries. This book also features fascinating period advertisements for Mushrooms as a War Food Crop & The value of Cloches for as Middleton advises us Available food will have to be shared with a starving Europe which may mean even greater sacrifices for us." Sage gruff touching & especially relevant to these new times of thrift Dig On for Victory is the perfect companion for the modern gardener." ...

And Grimma said We have two choices. We can run or we hide. & they said Which shall we do? She said We shall Fight. A Bright New Dawn is just around the corner for thousands of tiny nomes when they move into the ruined buildings of an abandoned quarry. Or is it? Soon strange things begin to happen. Like the tops of puddles growing hard & cold & the water coming down from the sky in frozen bits Then humans appear & they really mess everything up. The quarry is to re-opened & the nomes must fight to defend their new home. But how long will they be able to keep the humans at bay
- even with the help of the monster Jekub?
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Diggety Dog is looking for a bone. But no matter how far he digs he only seems to manage to uncover trouble! Children will love this fun rhyming story by Michaela Morgan. * Yellow / Band 3
- A humorous rhyming story * Text type
- Fiction * The focus phonemes in this book are y (ugly) o-e ea & i-e. * The map of Diggety's hole on the final spread allows children to discuss the characters the dog met along the way.

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The archaeology of Tyneside & the origins of the people who have lived there from the earliest days to the Middle Ages is revealed by Tyne & Wears County Archaeologist. Unfold the layers of history from Bronze Age boats to Roman settlement & from Saxon graves to the violent past of the Castle Keep. ...

Do you know your dinosaurs? Dan does. He & his dog Bouncer are digging down to see if they can find the Tyrannosaurus Rex that could swallow a boy in just two bites the gigantic Brachiosaurus that was taller than the tallest trees & the Coelophysis that had knife sharp teeth & sometimes ate its own young. Dan finds a pin & a scrunched up tin & an old plate & a key to a gate & a stone that looks like an odd sort of bone. He doesn't think anything of the odd shaped stone until his mum drags him to the museum (which he's sure is going to be boring & musty) where he spies that the awesome Ty Rex skeleton has a tooth missing
- just like Dan! He knows that dinosaurs grew new teeth when the old ones got broken...and the tooth gap looks just the right shape & size for it to be...the odd shaped stone!
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Modern research methods
- archaeological historical forensic
- have transformed our view of the past. This is especially true

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Friday August 15th 1997. Two tiny Korean babies are delivered to Baltimore to two families who have no more in common than this. Every year on the anniversary of Arrival Day their two extended families celebrate together with more & more elaborately competitive parties as little Susan & Jin-ho take roots & become American. Full of achingly hilarious moments & toe-curling misunderstandings Digging to America is a novel about belonging & otherness pride & prejudice young love & unexpected old love families & the impossibility of ever getting it right... ...