If you need cheering up... If you need guidance... If you want to laugh... If you need courage... Sometimes only a poem will do. In this magical new collection of our best-loved poems edited by the creators of the bestselling i F Poems app discover the joy solace & beauty of poetry with your family. Whether youre after a poem that is charming funny sad silly magical sleepy long or short theres something in here for everyone. From Lears The Owl & the Pussycat to Moores A Visit from St Nicholas to Carrolls Jabberwocky these are poems to pass down the generations. A favourite poem will stay with you for life & this beautifully illustrated collection is sure to delight & entertain for years to come. ...

It is good to see this book back in print.. .a distinguished contribution to the canon of alternate histories.
- Gary Sheffield
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Most Hollywood biographies are little more than 500-page musings on the 'when-I-met...' theme filled with famous names love affairs & cliches of a 'meteoric rise' or 'tragic fall'. Bruce Campbell's If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor is the boisterous antidote to such convention. Campbell is the ultimate 'B' Movie actor. Star of the cult Evil Dead trilogy with a CV that ranges from buddy Sam Raimi's Spider-Man through The X-Files & Xena: Warrior Princess to the less-than-glamorous Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters you've probably never heard of him. But his is one heck of a story! The popularity of Bruce the cult hero of cable TV & Hollywood's second rung is burning brighter than ever his legion of fans undiminished after over thirty years. Insightful encouraging & brilliantly funny If Chins Could Kill! is a brilliant place to start for those unfamiliar with his work. For everyone else it acts as a wonderful reminder for just why they fell in love with him in the first place. ...

Take an extraordinary journey over land beneath the oceans & across the skies & discover if dinosaurs COULD live in our world today. Incredible images of photo-realistic dinosaurs are blended with distinctive photography of modern-day animals & landscapes to create a collection of interaction scenarios that bring these amazing creatures to life & give us a totally unique understanding of their size their power their ferocity & how they lived their lives. ...

Between May 1940 & the summer of 1941 the British people expected a German invasion that had it succeeded would have enslaved them into the Nazis' racist war. This period saw an unparalleled effort to prepare the defence of the UK against invasion. Scotland's nationally important heavy industries vital Royal Navy bases & one of the UK's key ports were very vulnerable to the sort of airborne attack that had devastated the defences of Belgium. Everyone was certain that a Fifth Column of Nazi sympathisers & agents was working actively to spread rumours & despair & to aid the invasion forces & in reality the country was far from united. Although the 1939
- 45 War is the most written-about war in history there is no account of the heroic efforts made in those months to prepare Scotland for the inevitable invasion & how the defences were intended to be used. This book tells that story against the wider history of the period & its people & describes what was built & what now survives.
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If I close my eyes now I can still feel her blood on my fingers. If only I had closed my eyes then or kept my mouth shut not told anyone about our discovery by the swimming hole we could have gone back to dreaming about spaceships. A horrifying discovery by two young boys while playing in a mango plantation marks the end of their childhood. As they finally open their eyes to the adult world they see a place where storybook heroes don't exist but villains & lies do... ...

KAYLEE CAN SEE DEATH COMING. NOW SHE MUST FACE HER OWN. As a teen banshee Kaylee's blood-curdling screams are a death knell for others. Yet she never expected to see her own name at the top of a reaper's list. Scheduled to die within days Kaylee knows her magic can't change her fate. Worse on top of worrying about her own demise she needs to save mortal best friend Emma from the clutches of a deadly Netherworld creature. As Kaylee's time on earth slips away troubled banshee boyfriend Nash & his reaper brother Tod refuse to give up on Kaylee. They're ready to unearth murky family secrets to give her a last chance at life as their fight to save Kaylee becomes a battle for her love. ' Vincent is a welcome addition to the genre' Kelley Armstrong SOUL SCREAMERS The last thing you hear before you die ...

The long awaited story of one of Britain's greatest comic legends. ' Some people walk on stage & the audience warms to them. You can't explain it & you shouldn't try. It's an arrogant assumption to say you 'decide' to become a comedian. The audience decides for you.' Eric Sykes December 2001 From his early days writing scripts for Bill Fraser & Frankie Howerd through decades of British radio & television comedy
- ' Educating Archie' ' Sykes & A.. .' ' Curry & Chips' ' The Plank'
- to his present day ventures into film & theatre starring in ' The Others' with Nicole Kidman & appearing in Peter Hall's recent production of ' As You Like It' Eric Sykes has carved himself an enduring place as one of Britain's greatest writers & performers. In his much anticipated autobiography Sykes reveals his extraordinary life working alongside a generation of legendary comedians & entertainers despite being dogged by deafness & eventually virtual blindness. His hearing problems began in the early days of his career in the 1950s around the time he wrote directed & performed in the spoof pantomime ' Pantomania' for the BBC. Undeterred however Sykes learned to lip-read going on to write & appear in a number of BBC productions including ' Opening Night' & Val Parnell's ' Saturday Spectacular' the first of two shows he made with Peter Sellers a great life-long friend. From 1959 until her death in 1980 Syke's starred with Hattie Jacques in one of Britain's best loved sitcoms ' Sykes & A.. .' Throughout the two decade run of this show he continued to work alongside a host of stars including Charlie Drake Tommy Cooper Tony Hancock Spike Milligan Johnny Speight Ray Galton & Alan Simpson. Eric Sykes's comedy has always sported an essential core of warm humanity & this along with his genuine creative genius continues to prove an unforgettably winning combination.

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Im the Cat in the Hat & its time that we get to go to a place that is steamy & wet!" In this delightful book Dr. Seuss famous Cat in the Hat explains all about the rainforest to young readers. This title & others form part of a series of books that takes an off-beat look at nature & natural sciences through a fun combination of Seussian rhymes & zany illustrations. Aimed at early readers -- from four to seven year olds -- the books are designed to bridge the gap between concept books written for preschoolers & more formal non fiction titles that require fluent reading skills. By presenting the facts in a lively & rhythmic manner they provide the critical foundation upon which complex facts & ideas can eventually be built." ...

If I Ran the Zoo welcomes yong readers to the crazy world of Gerald Mc Grew who dreams of transforming his local zoo into a madcap menagerie of wierd & wonderful beasts. His New Zoo Mc Grew Zoo would be better than Noah's whole Ark" with an amazing array of animals ranging from the incredible Thwerll whose legs are snarled up in a terrible snerl to the family of Joats whose feet are like cows' but wear squirrel-skin coats! This delightful book forms part of the second stage in Harper Collins' major Dr. Seuss rebrand programme. With the relaunch of 10 more titles in August 2003 such all-time favourites as How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You? & Dr. Seuss' Sleep Book boast bright new covers that incorporate much needed guidance on reading levels: Blue Back Books are for parents to share with young children Green Back Books are for budding readers to tackle on their own & Yellow Back Books are for older more fluent readers to enjoy. If I Ran the Zoo belongs to the Yellow Back Book range." ...