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. ...

A new paperback edition never before published in the UK written & illustrated by the one & only Dr. Seuss. This Hilarious book tells the story of a bored indecisive boy who is urged by a string of Hunches
- that come in the guise of bizarre furry creatures
- first to do this & then to do that until finally he follows the Munch Hunch & goes for lunch!

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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." ...

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. ...

Packed with fascinating & enthralling historical information this book shows how the village of Bisley in Surrey has been endowed with a remarkably long & eventful history all the more surprising for it remains one of the smallest civil parishes in the county. Each chapter covers a specific aspect of the village in a way that the reader will find so much more absorbing than a chronological series of events. Who can fail to be allured by the tale of Bisley Detached for example (which is completely isolated from the rest of the village) or the inside-out" building the Grade Two Listed hole in the ground the witchcraft trial or the bird bath used at baptisms? Some of the village folk are no less interesting: The miscreants benefactors indolent hard-working & the poverty-stricken
- their stories are all here. Even the title of the book is taken from a chapter which records that this disparaging epithet was made on more than one occasion."
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Divided Houses" is a tale of contrasting fortunes. In the last decade of his reign Edward III a senile pathetic symbol of Englands past conquests was condemned to see them overrun by the armies of his enemies. When he died in 1377 he was succeeded by a vulnerable child who was destined to grow into a neurotic & unstable adult presiding over a divided nation. Meanwhile France entered upon one of the most glittering periods of her medieval history years of power & ceremony astonishing artistic creativity & famous warriors making their reputations as far afield as Naples Hungary & North Africa. Contemporaries in both countries believed that they were living through memorable times: times of great wickedness & great achievement of collective mediocrity but intense personal heroism of extremes of wealth & poverty fortune & failure. At a distance of six centuries as Jonathan Sumption skilfully & meticulously shows it is possible to agree with all of these judgments." ...