Fanny Mc Bride was a large cheerful indomitable Tyneside widow with a large cheerful family. When she reached her fifties she began to feel for the first time in her life a little lonely. All but one of her sons & daughters had married & left home leaving her with spare time on her hands. Being a woman of resource Fanny took on a job at the local Ladies which was to prove a surprisingly stimulating experience. Another new interest was the arrival of some rather odd neighbours at Malhattans Hall the tenement block which was Fannys home. Then there was her long-standing feud with Mrs Flannagan the problem of the favourite childs unsuitable marriage & the puzzle of Fannys one unmarried son who was far from being a typical Mc Bride... ...

This set contains everything needed to create stunning sketches from impressionistic landscapes to portraiture. Set

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GOOD JUST ISN'T ENOUGH. BE FANTASTIC Good is just average. Who wants to just be 'good' anymore? Most people are good & you can't afford to be just the same as everyone else. Would you want to employ someone who is just good at their job? Would you buy a product that's just average? Nowadays everything needs to be better. To stand out in business & in life you have to be fantastic. Alan Austin-Smith knows how to get there & he's developed the ' Fantastic theory' to show us all how. Fantastic people share seven characteristics. Passionate; Creative; Delighting people; Performers; Alive Inside; Always Learning; Have Fun. How many do you have? Make it all of them. Push your business to shine. Make it fantastic! * A full-colour highly visual book with real impact in motivating you to be Fantastic! in all that you do * Straightforward advice that anyone can apply in their work or life or in running their own business * Covers perennial selling topics such as motivation confidence creativity & communication ...

As featured in the first year set texts reading list in Harry Potter & the Philosopher's Stone Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them is an extensive introduction to the magical beasts that exist in the magical non-Muggle world. Some of the animals featured in the A-Z you will have already met in the existing Harry Potter books: for example Hippogriff Flobberworm Kappa
- others you certainly won't: read on to find out exactly what a Chizpurfle is or why one should always beware of the sinister Lethifold.. . As Albus Dumbledore says in his introduction this set text book by Newt Scamander has given the perfect grounding to many a Hogwarts student. It will be helpful to all Muggles out there too.. . On reading the book you will also find that Harry Ron & (in one instance) Hermione
- couldn't resist grafittiing the book & adding their own personal h&-written opinions.

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Here is a collection of fabulously funny poems put together by John Foster & illustrated with creative genius by Korky Paul. There are poems by a range of authors about all kinds of football matches
- including meteorite footballs football on the moon a witches versus wizard's football match the goalie with expanding hands & the Stone Age man who invented football. Guaranteed to delight this is a perfect introduction to poetry either at home or at school.
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Just how did Roald Dahl get into writing? Where did he get his ideas from? What ingredients in his life turned him into the kind of writer he was? Michael Rosen
- poet broadcaster & former Children's Laureate comes up with some of the answers to these key questions in his lively biography of the world's Number 1 storyteller. Full of stories & funny anecdotes from Roald Dahl's school days & family life Michael Rosen's fascinating observations creates a vivid picture of one of the most famous writers of all time.
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Fantastic Mr Fox" is the legendary tale of the most cunning fox in the world by Roald Dahl. Every time Mr Fox steals a chicken from the farm Farmers Boggis Bunce & Bean grow wild with rage! They're the nastiest crooks in the valley & they've concocted a cunning plan to dig him out of his hole once & for all. But it never occurs to them that Mr Fox has a fantastic plan of his own..."A true genius... Roald Dahl is my hero" (David Walliams). With an exciting look into Roald Dahl's world. Roald Dahl the best-loved of children's writers was born in Wales of Norwegian parents. After school in England he went to work for Shell in Africa. He began to write after "a monumental bash on the head" sustained as an RAF pilot in World War II. Roald Dahl died in 1990. Quentin Blake is one of the best-known & best-loved children's illustrators & it's impossible now to think of Roald Dahl's writings without imagining Quentin Blake's illustrations." ...

Fantastic Mr Fox" is the legendary tale of the most cunning fox in the world by Roald Dahl. Now with Quentin Blake's illustrious illustrations in magnificent full colour! Every time Mr Fox steals a chicken from the farm Farmers Boggis Bunce & Bean grow wild with rage! They're the nastiest crooks in the valley & they've concocted a cunning plan to dig him out of his hole once & for all. But it never occurs to them that Mr Fox has a fantastic plan of his own.. ."A true genius.. . Roald Dahl is my hero". David Walliams with an exciting look into Roald Dahl's world. Roald Dahl the best-loved of children's writers was born in Wales of Norwegian parents. After school in England he went to work for Shell in Africa. He began to write after "a monumental bash on the head" sustained as an RAF pilot in World War II. Roald Dahl died in 1990. Quentin Blake is one of the best-known & best-loved children's illustrators & it's impossible now to think of Roald Dahl's writings without imagining Quentin Blake's illustrations." ...

Boggis Bunce & Bean are just about the nastiest & meanest three farmers you could meet. & they HATE Mr Fox. So they lie in wait outside his hole ready to shoot starve or dig him out. But clever Mr Fox has other plans! Find out what those plans are in this hilarious story wonderfully brought to life by Martin Jarvis. ...