This beautiful hardback Ladybird edition of The Princess & the Pea" is a perfect first illustrated introduction to this classic fairy tale for young readers from 3+. The tale is sensitively retold retaining all the key parts of the story beginning with the princess finding her way to the castle one stormy night through to her sleepless night on top of twenty mattresses! Other exciting titles in the " Ladybird Tales" series include " The Three Billy Goats Gruff" " Cinderella" " The Three Little Pigs" " Jack & the Beanstalk" " Goldilocks & the Three Little Pigs" " The Gingerbread Man" " Hansel & Gretel" " Little Red Riding Hood" " Sleeping Beauty" " Rumpelstiltskin " " Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs" " Rapunzel" " The Magic Porridge Pot" " The Enormous Turnip" " Puss in Boots" " The Elves & the Shoemaker" " The Big Pancake" " Dick Whittington" " The Princess & the Frog" " Chicken Licken" " The Ugly Duckling" & " The Little Red Hen". " Ladybird Tales" are based on the original Ladybird retellings by Vera Southgate with beautiful pictures of the kind children like best
- full of richness & detail. Children have always loved & will always remember these classic fairy tales & sharing them together is an experience to treasure. Ladybird has published fairy tales for over forty-five years bringing the magic of traditional stories to each new generation of children."
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Ladybird has published fairy tales for over forty-five years bringing the magic of traditional stories to each new generation of children. This classic version of The Three Billy Goats Gruff" is based on the original Ladybird retelling by Vera Southgate with beautiful new illustrations of the kind children like best
- full of richness & detail. An essential part of any child's bookshelf " Ladybird Tales" are perfect for sharing together & creating memories to treasure forever."
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Ladybird has published fairy tales for over forty-five years bringing the magic of traditional stories to each new generation of children. This classic version of The Three Little Pigs" is based on the original Ladybird retelling by Vera Southgate with beautiful new illustrations of the kind children like best
- full of richness & detail. An essential part of any child's bookshelf " Ladybird Tales" are perfect for sharing together & creating memories to treasure forever."
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Ladybirds Toddler Touch" books are the perfect follow-on from Ladybirds best-selling " Baby Touch" series stimulating your busy toddlers curiosity through simple rhyming text touch-&-feels & flaps as they begin to explore the wider world around them. Instigating a familiar routine helps to structure a young childs day & adds a sense of reassurance & stability as they begin to remember what comes next. " Toddler Touch: Bedtime" is designed to familiarise toddlers with a practical reassuring bedtime routine helping them to wind down & prepare for bed in a fun interactive way. Each page focuses on a different part of the bedtime routine from bathtime & putting on night clothes to brushing teeth putting toys away & listening to a story before being tucked up tight. The book has sturdy tabbed edges for helping to turn the pages & is full of things to touch & feel including finger trails to follow throughout holes to peek through & flaps to lift. Its great fun for an adult & child to share at the end of a busy day!" ...

Ladybird Toddler Touch: First Numbers" is perfect for young children who are starting to explore the world around them. It shows the numbers one to ten illustrated with pictures that are familiar to toddlers along with big textured numbers to touch & feel. This will help children to learn the shape of the numbers as they trace over each one with their fingers. There are also fun finger trails to guide children across each page plus flaps to lift. Perfect for parent or carer & child to look at together " Toddler Touch: First Numbers" is bright & colourful & will help toddlers to learn how to count in a fun way." ...

This extraordinary book offers intimate details of the lives that theyve never publicly revealed. They talk about the choices theyve made their relationships families frustrations & hopes. The stories include those of an exotic cabaret performer a sex worker & even a Muay Thai boxing champion. Ladyboys" will leave you amused saddened & entertained." ...

The Ladykillers is a classic black comedy; a sweet little old lady alone in her house is pitted against a gang of criminal misfits who will stop at nothing... Posing as amateur musicians Professor Marcus & his gang rent rooms in the lopsided house of sweet but strict Mrs Wilberforce. The villains plot to involve her unwittingly in Marcus brilliantly conceived heist job. The police are left stumped but Mrs Wilberforce becomes wise to their ruse & Marcus concludes that there is only one way to keep the old lady quiet. With only her parrot General Gordon to help her Mrs Wilberforce is alone with five desperate men. But who will be forced to face the music? ...

The Sunday Times bestseller! Pour the champagne light some candles lay back & prepare to laugh cry & gasp at the fully uncensored Bridget-Jones-esque world of Ollie Locke star of Made in Chelsea. Immaculately dressed fake-tanned & unstoppably cheerful Ollie Locke is the heart of Channel 4's hit show Made in Chelsea. He's done it all. & what he hasn't done he's seen. (Not in a weird way obvs.) In a nutshell that means one hell of a rollercoaster ride of trouble misadventures sexual mishaps epic cringes & embarrassing secrets that nobody was ever supposed to know. Until now. Because in Laid in Chelsea Ollie
- famously unlucky in love
- is letting it all hang out. So to speak. From developing his first crush dire first encounters terrible dates to true love
- as well as offering his unique advice on how to stay sane in the crazy world of love
- Ollie's laying it bare. & of course he reveals what really goes on behind the bedroom doors of Made in Chelsea... Witty surprising touching downright hilarious & always honest Laid in Chelsea is an exclusive insight into the mind of the modern man & a backstage pass to the secret world of Chelsea. laidinchelsea



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Meet Jack Laidlaw the original damaged detective. When a young woman is found brutally murdered on Glasgow Green only Laidlaw stands a chance of finding her murderer from among the hard men gangland villains & self-made moneymen who lurk in the citys shadows. It is winner of the CWA Silver Dagger. ...