Play peekaboo with your baby & hear them giggle in delight as they discover animals under flaps & hear five amazing sounds! Read together & lift the giant flaps to reveal noisy animals. Where's puppy hiding? Lift the flap & he'll go woof. & where's donkey? Lift the flap to hear a heew-haaw! Find all the animals as they are waiting to say peekaboo! This is an award-winning series for babies perfect for developing imagination early-thinking & memory skills. ...

This lovely big board book with an attached sound panel full of animal noises is perfect for sharing with small children. Little children will have great fun pressing the buttons to make the noises of the animals they see in each vibrant scene including cockatoos parakeets hamsters kittens rabbits a snake & puppies. It is illustrated by Lee Wildish. ...

This classic flap book in the See Inside" series is brought to life with a new sound panel. Venture onto the high seas in this illustrated book that explores the history of the pirates & bloodthirsty buccaneers of the 18th century. Sounds help bring the pictures to life. Children wont be able to resist pushing the buttons to hear the noises including cannons being fired a sword fight on deck a ship on fire pirates cackling a tavern brawl a sinking ship & a spooky ghost-pirate laugh to end on. The book contains over seventy flaps which children can lift to delve further into the world of pirates parrots pieces of eight & barrels of rum. In addition to being hugely entertaining this book is also immensely informative & is packed with accurate historical information." ...

Its nearly Christmas & Santa is on his way. Children will love the magical sounds sparkly pages & feeling the fur trim on Santas lovely red Christmas coat. The sound panel brings each scene to life with Santas jolly laugh his sleigh speeding through the sky his boots crunching in the snow the ticking of clocks & a rendition of Jingle Bells. Simple picture tabs on each page allow children to find their favourite scenes quickly & easily. ...

This lovely big board book is perfect for sharing with small children who will love pressing the buttons to make the noises of Apple Tree Farms train adventure. It features a simple story about the train with cues for the child to press the appropriate button. Children will have great fun making the train toot toot the dog bark the cow moo & the horse neigh. It is illustrated by Stephen Cartwright one of Usbornes most popular artists. Strong tabs allow scenes to be located quickly & easily whilst also making the book look & feel more luxurious. ...

Rene Redzepi has been widely credited with re-inventing Nordic cuisine. His Copenhagen restaurant Noma was recognized as the best in the world by the San Pellegrino Worlds 50 Best Restaurant awards in 2010 & received the unique Chefs Choice award at the same ceremony in 2009. Redzepi operates at the cutting edge of gourmet cuisine combining an unrelenting creativity & a remarkable level of craftsmanship with an inimitable & innate knowledge of the produce of his Nordic terroir. At Noma which Redzepi created from a derelict eighteenth-century warehouse in 2003 after previously working at both el Bulli & The French Laundry diners are served exquisite concoctions such as Newly-Ploughed Potato Field or The snowman from Jukkasjarvi all painstakingly constructed to express their amazing array of Nordic ingredients. Redzepis fascination with giving his diners a real taste of their foods environment extends to serving dishes on pebbles found in the same fields as his produce. His search for ingredients involves foraging amongst local fields for wild produce sourcing horse-mussels from the Faroe Islands & the purest possible water from Greenl&. Redzepi has heightened the culinary philosophy of seasonally & regionally sourced sustainable ingredients to an exquisite level & in doing so has created an utterly delicious cuisine. ...

Sibella Court sees the world differently. In her latest book the stylist & bestselling author of Etcetera" shows us how to bring our travels home with us in the most unexpected of ways. The globetrotter & treasure hunter travelled to Syria Mexico Italy India & Japan to be inspired by everything from door knobs & street signs to roadside shrines & household brooms
- things that most of us wouldnt even notice. In " Nomad" the ideas photographs & mementos she collected are used to inspire room settings illustrating simple practical & surprising ways to be reminded of your travel experiences. Sibellas approach is not about recreating a whole look but about adding & subtracting rearranging & recycling transforming & rethinking to make interior spaces that reflect your personality experiences & lifestyle. " Nomad" will help open your eyes to whats around you & fuel your imagination long after the suitcase is unpacked. Key points include: room settings are shot in private homes rather than a studio to show that any decorative background can be restyled with travel inspirations; Sibella Courts philosophy is an organic & sustainable one encouraging recycling & creatively re-using rather than consuming new resources. This title

Includes:: a list of Sibellas favourite shops & a list of the unique hotels she stayed in while researching the countries in this book."


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This guide to 11+ success will help you to assess your current non-verbal reasoning skills & target those that you need to practise & build so that you can sit your 11+ selection tests with complete confidence. * Covers all the skills & key question types that could appear on the commonly used 11+ non-verbal selection test papers. * Accurately reflects the level of difficulty of the actual tests. * Helps build essential problem solving skills. * Plus a section on writing skills to help prepare for any writing tests individual schools might set. ...

A unique revision programme to consolidate skills & focus revision in the countdown to the 11+ selection tests incorporating a placement test to target the areas where further revision is most needed with straight-to-the point revision material & progress tests to quickly build skills & maximise marks. * A placement test to target the areas where further revision is most needed * Each topic starts with a clear summary of the skills that the child needs to master * Straight-to-the point explanations * Worked examples based on the most challenging 11+ questions * Skills practice questions for active revision * End of section tests to check understanding with links back to the relevant revision material. ...

Eight tests to help assess & build aptitude in problem solving & processing visual information which will underpin learning in subjects like maths science & design technology. * 8 papers to help build non-verbal reasoning skills * Test questions that assess a child's problem solving skills & their ability to work with abstract concepts * Guidance from experienced teachers of getting the best out of test practice * A helpful chart to track progress ...