In the bitter cold of an unrelenting winter Tomas & his son Peter arrive in Chust & despite the inhospitability of the villagers settle there as woodcutters. Tomas digs a channel of fast-flowing waters around their hut so they have their own little island kingdom. Peter doesn't understand why his father has done this nor why his father carries a long battered box everywhere they go & why he is forbidden to know its contents. But when a band of gypsies comes to the village Peter's drab existence is turned upside down. He is infatuated by the beautiful gypsy princess Sofia intoxicated by their love of life & drawn into their deadly quest. For these travellers are Vampire Slayers & Chust is a dying community
- where the dead come back to wreak revenge on the living. Amidst the terrifying events that follow Peter is stunned to see his father change from a disillusioned man to the warrior hero he once was. Marcus draws on his extensive research of the vampire legend & sets his story in the forbidding & remote landscapes of the 17th century. Written in his usual distinctive voice this is also the story of a father & his son of loss redemption & resolution.
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Touch feel look listen & watch dinosaurs come to life on the page in this interactive book for dinosaur loving toddlers. Look at all the things dinosaurs can do; watch a giant reach up high see a flying dinosaur in the sky look a tyrannosaur in the eye. Then press the button & just listen to the noises they make Roarrrrrrrrrrr! Join in the fun with your child as they lift flaps pull tabs touch & feel textures listen to sounds & learn all about the wonderful world of dinosaurs using all their senses. ...

Touch feel look & listen
- interactive tractor fun for everyone! Chugger-chugger-chugger. Tractors are AMAZING. Now see them come
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Collins Primary Focus: Spelling
- My Third Word Book is aimed at ages 6-7. This write-in book allows children to build up their
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Rian Malan is an Afrikaner a member of the clan that produced Daniel Francois Malan one of the master builders of apartheid & General Magnus Malan South Africas Minister of Defence. In 1977 he fled his homeland to live in America. Eight years later he returned home to face his country his tribe & his conscience & to write My Traitors Heart. ...

Clarice Beans mum & dad are going away on Important Business so Uncle Ted comes to stay. Everything goes really well at first but before long theres a guinea pig on the loose Granddads gone missing & Clarices little brother is stuck in the railings like a giant squeaking tomato. Luckily Uncle Teds around. Hell come to the rescue.. .wont he? A hilarious look at family life starring the inimitable Clarice Bean. A ticklish title & a ticklish book.
- Guardian
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Jonathan Chester & Patrick Regan's My Unflappable Mum is a loving tribute to the most rare of birds-the incredible unflappable mum." Chester's striking & intimate nature photographs of tuxedoed penguins & their young beautifully illustrate Regan's charming verse that honours those incredible unflappable mums who nurture & instil a spirit of adventure & independence in their young. While it's a mum's job to be ever watchful fiercely protective & deeply engaged in her children's lives it's also a mum's job to let go-to send her young into the big scary world-whether that means walking away without looking back on the first day nursery or nudging them gently out of the nest as young adults. In My Unflappable Mum Chester & Regan celebrate the relationship between mother & child while praising mum for being the rare bird that she is-and that's definitely something to flap about." ...

Able to ride wield a sword & throw a dagger as well as any man flame-haired Ainslee of Kengarvey is more warrior than lady. Yet even her awesome skill as a horsewoman won't help her outrace the knight who pursues her. An Anglo-Norman who has won favour with the King Sir Gabel de Amalville must prove his loyalty by crushing the rebellious Mac Nairn clan. Seizing the youngest daughter of the chief gives him a necessary advantage. But having sequestered Ainslee in his isolated castle keep he soon finds himself the prisoner of a passion he never could have foreseen. Now as the shadow of war descends upon the Highlands Gabel will follow his heart into battle
- for the love of the sensual woman who has captured him mind body & soul.
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Goolish is suffering a bit of an identity crisis. After hundreds of years of ghouls spectres vampires mummies zombies & all manner of spectral folk living happily alongside one another so-called ordinary people have started to move to the town
- attracted by the cheap houses & country life. The Fang Gang are working very hard to develop their gruesome skills in an effort to foster good relations between the new residents of Goolish & their grisly neighbours. But things dont always go as planned. With a new recruit to the gang perhaps things will go a little more smoothly. Or perhaps not as Johnathan is about to find out.
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Alex Ayliffes bright colourful characters feature as stickers in this story & activity book. The book contains a retelling of the nativity story with spaces left for children to fill with the appropriate sticker to complete the story. Accompanying the retelling are extra activities about what can be found on the page
- counting naming identifying
- for which extra stickers are supplied. The stickers come on a double page spread in the centre of the book & are grouped & numbered according to activity to make it easy to select the right sticker to complete the task.

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