Humphrey Hippo decides it is time to have a bath unfortunately Humphrey becomes stuck! Can his mum find help to rescue him?! Read the poem Hum-phreys Bath to find out! Humphrey Hippo also has lots of friends joining him in this book; Leo the Lion who visits the Doctor & Billy the Elephant who learns a new trick for the circus. This book has been created by Susie Ellis writing poems for children every-where & especially her grandsons. She had lots of fun drawing the illustrations herself! ...

Amazing activities & rollicking riddles from everybodys favourite hamster
- Humphrey! Dear friends I LOVE-LOVE-LOVE being the classroom
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Dear friends I Love-Love-Love being the classroom hamster of Room 26. Ive learnt lots about making friends & making them laugh along the way. So Ive decided to collect my favourite jokes together in this Ha-Ha-Ha hilarious joke book. & best of all I included your favourite jokes as well. Thank you readers for making me laugh too. Your funny friend Humphrey. ...

Record all the precious moments in your baby's life in this Humphrey's corner baby record book. Room for photographs & your own special mementoes. Record everything from pregnancy to birth & the early years.
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Set in 1482 Victor Hugo's powerful novel of 'imagination caprice & fantasy' is a meditation on love fate architecture & politics as well as a compelling recreation of the medieval world at the dawn of the modern age. In a brilliant reworking of the tale of Beauty & the Beast Hugo creates a host of unforgettable characters -- amongst them Quasimodo the hunchback of the title hopelessly in love with the gypsy girl Esmeralda the satanic priest Claude Frollo Clopin Trouillefou king of the beggars & Louis X1 King of France.? Over the entire novel both literally & symbolically broods the Cathedral of Notre-Dame. Vivid characters & memorable set-piece action scenes combine to bring the past to life in this story of love lust betrayal doom & redemption. ...

The rigid straight line is fundamentally alien to humanity life & the whole of creation". Hundertwasser applied this philosophy not only to the famous Viennese buildings for which he was renowned but all the media & art-forms he has experimented with during his wild career. Whether it be painting sculpture performance art or designing a kindergarten Hundertwassers works are multi-coloured organic & shot through with a sense of the magical or fantastic. However Hundertwassers art has always contained a political shade. He has consistently rebelled against rationalist or determinist ideas promoted ecological awareness & mantained a passionate belief in the anarchy of the imagination. In this retrospective Pierre Restany covers all the bases of Hundertwassers eclectic development as an artist from the tenant revolt & nude lecture of the early 70s through the housing projects in Vienna right up to his designs for an alternative society." ...

When Missis & Pongos puppies go missing the two Dalmatian parents know the scary Cruella de Vil has had something to do with it. After all she adores furs & the Dalmatians have such beautiful coats... The dogs pets Mr & Mrs Dearly dont understand them so it is up to Pongo & Missis to rescue their pups
- with the help of all the dogs in Engl&. This is a thrilling adventure
- will they get there in time to save the pups?

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Patrick O' Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of their beginning with Master & Commander these evocative stories are being re-issued in paperback with smart new livery. This is the nineteenth book in the series. Following the extraordinary success of The Yellow Admiral this latest Aubrey-Maturin novel brings alive the sights & sounds of North Africa as well as the great naval battles in the days immediately following Napoleon's escape from Elba. Aubrey & Maturin are in the thick of the plots & counterplots to prevent his regaining power. Coloured by conspiracies in the Adriatic in the Berber & Arab lands of the southern shores of the Mediterranean by night actions fierce pursuits slave-trading & lion hunts The Hundred Days is a masterpiece. 'O' Brian is far & away the best of the Napoleonic storytellers & The Hundred Days is one of the best of the series: a classic naval adventure crammed with incident superbly plotted & utterly gripping... This is O' Brian at his brilliant entertaining best & when he is on this form the rest of us who write of the Napoleonic conflict might as well give up & try a new career. Fans of the series will need no encouragement to buy this book but if you are new to Aubrey & Maturin then this is as splendid an introduction as you could wish for.' Bernard Cornwell ...

Every day the bus driver finishes his cup of tea puts on his jacket & sets off on his route. Every day the man with the big red tie gets on at the roundabout the lady with the pram gets on at the library & the noisy children get on at Clover Drive. But what if one day the driver turned down a new & exciting road & picked up new & exciting people? So many people that the bus simply wouldn't be big enough? Well they would only be one solution.. .A bright bold & funny book with a surprise GIANT fold-out ending. ...

Stunning reissue of an international bestseller from the author of ' The Joy Luck Club' & ' The Bonesetter's Daughter'. Olivia Yee is only five years old when Kwan her older sister from China comes to live with the family & turns her life upside down bombarding her day & night with ghostly stories of strange ancestors from the world of Yin. Olivia just wants to lead a normal American life. For the next thirty years Olivia endures visits from Kwan & her ghosts who appear in the living world to offer advice on everything from restaurants to Olivia's failed marriage. But just when she cannot bear it any more the revelations of a tragic family secret finally open her mind to the startling truths hidden in Kwan's unorthodox vision of the world. ...