In Monkey Grip" Helen Garner charts the lives of a generation. Her characters are exploring new ways of loving & living
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We share about 98 percent of our DNA with chimpanzees our closest biological cousins. & never have the similarities between simians & humans been so amusingly & brilliantly captured as in Monkey Portraits by celebrity photographer Jill Greenberg. Jill has spent 15 years photographing everyone from Kelly Osbourne to Clint Eastwood but has recently focused on photographing stars of a different sort
- monkeys & apes many of whom have appeared in films or on television shows. Her intimate portraits of these animals convey a startling range of emotions & personalities. Each of these 76 amazing photographs of monkeys & apes will remind you of someone you know. These pictures will make you laugh out loud & wonder just how different we truly are.
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We share about 98 percent of our DNA with chimpanzees our closest biological cousins. Too close for comfort? Thats because the similarities have never been so brilliantly or amusingly captured! The intimate portraits in this quirky calendar based on the bestselling book Monkey Portraits " by Jill Greenberg convey a startling range of very familiar emotions & personalities." ...

There's something different about Mark the new boy. It's not just that he only speaks through a monkey glove puppet. Soon Daniel finds out that his new friend is in trouble
- but can he help him in time? * Sapphire/ Band 16 books offer longer reads to develop children's sustained engagement with texts & are more complex syntactically. * Storycards of the key events on pages 54 & 55 help children to recap what has happened. * Text type: A mystery story * Curriculum links: Citizenship: Taking part
- developing skills of communication & participation Moving on

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Poor little Monkey has lost his mum. Kindly Butterfly tries to help but somehow she keeps getting it wrong! Will Monkey ever find his mum? Children will have hours of fun assembling six favourite jigsaw scenes from the best-selling book & reading the original story. ...

This is an exciting title in this informative series containing over 100 full-colour stickers which children can match to the illustrations. This beautifully illustrated sticker book doubles as a spotters guide with accurate & simple descriptions that allow children to seek out & find a whole variety of monkeys apes & primates noting down when & where they were spotted in the spaces provided. ...

A long time ago when the world was quite new a monkey sat watching the birds as they flew. Like feathery rainbows they flashed through the air. How come theyre so pretty he thought. Its not fair! When a mischievous monkey discovers a paintbox he has a brilliant idea but things dont go quite as monkey has planned. ...

Described by Oliver Sacks as one of the best scientist-writers of our time Robert M. Sapolsky here presents the human animal in all its quirkiness & diversity. In these remarkable essays Sapolsky once again deploys his compassion & insights into the human condition to tell us who why & how we are. Monkeyluv" touches on themes such as sexuality aggression love parenting religion ageing & mental illness. He ponders such topics as our need to seek out beauty; why our preferences in food become fixed; why we are sexually attracted to one another; why Alzheimers disease tends to be a post-menopausal phenomenon; & why grandmothers buying groceries for their grandchildren are part of natures Darwinian logic." ...

This is a fantastic brand new addition to The Beginners Series" designed to provide an informative introduction to non-fiction subjects for young readers. It is a terrific reading practice for children who prefer fact to fiction. It

Includes:: information on how monkeys live what they eat & how they look after their young. It is developed with a reading expert from Roehampton University to help young readers grow in confidence. It is a great value for your money."

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This title is developed in consultation with Alison Kelly who is a senior lecturer in education & an early reading specialist from Roehampton University. Children will love finding out about the different species of monkey across the world including their habitats diets & habits. A great value quality hardback with ribbon marker guaranteed to foster pride in book ownership. ...