How des a tadpole grow from an egg in a blob of jelly into a leaping croaking frog? Its one of natures miracles! This book tells you the life story of a tadpole through the eyes of three nature-exploring children & their mum. There are notes for parents & teachers as well as suggestions for learning activities that will reinforce the information in the book. ...

Whats your number one Christmas wish? Bryonys daughter has put a dad on her Christmas list. That leaves Bryony with one month to find the perfect man so this year shes wishing for a miracle! While shes looking for love her best friend Helen is doing the opposite. Her Christmas wish is to forget all about the white dress hanging in her wardrobe
- & her faithless rat of a fiance. Helen & Bryonys festive cheer definitely needs a boost so its lucky that once upon a Christmas wishes really do come true...
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These extraordinary memoirs give us a rare view into what the Arab-Israeli conflict has meant for one Palestinian family over the generations. Nusseibeh also interweaves his own story with that of the Palestinians as a people always speaking his mind & apportioning blame where he feels it due. Hated by extremists on both sides his is a rare voice. This autobiography carries the passion that might embolden ordinary Israelis & Palestinians to bypass the politicians & establish the peace that all but the armoured men desperately want." The Independent " Nusseibehs formidable achievement leaves a drop of despair because of how exceptional it is." New York Times" ...

Robbery was never a choice for Jimmy but a way of life. The characters & criminals he met along the way coloured his experience of a lifestyle many would condemn a lifestyle he strives to explain within these pages. His personal accounts of felonies including heists on banks jewellers & security vans give a unique insight into the workings of a criminal mind driven by desperation. Yet his crimes are only half the story as Jimmy also reveals the motivations that lay behind his chequered past. Failed relationships & questionable friendships abound but these are the aspects of life that pushed him slowly but surely back towards an honest path. Now Jimmy shares his tale of triumph over adveristy & enforces his opinion that it really is never too late to change. ...

From school girl to spy girl
- all this is in a days work for wannabe secret agent Jazmin Dawson! Jazmin Dawson would love to be
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The classic books on a timeless subject -- for a new generation." In 1975 Alona Frankel wrote & illustrated her first book especially for her son Michael on how to use the potty. Thirty-two years later Once Upon a Potty -- Boy & Once Upon a Potty -- Girl are the classic books on potty training & have sold more than four million copies worldwide. These children's books help parents everywhere deal successfully with an often vexing challenge for the whole family. Thanks to their timeless words & beloved images Once Upon a Potty -- Boy & Once Upon a Potty -- Girl are being discovered & used by a new generation of parents. These two books with their phenomenal staying power target & meet the needs of an obviously perpetual market." ...

The ideal popular guide to the key Spaghetti Westerns
- mainly the good but also the bad & the ugly
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When Lyra is studying at Oxford University she comes across the story of Lee Scoresby & Iorek Byrnissons first meeting many years ago along with much evidence of the adventure that brought them together. When a young Texan balloonist Lee Scoresby comes down to earth in the harbour of an Arctic town in the North little does he realise that he is about to be embroiled in an out-&-out political brawl. Lee & his daemon Hester find themselves the target of political factions trying to take over the running (and oil) of the town. & also resident in the town are huge arctic bears ignored & patronised by the people & treated like second-class citizens. When Lee & Iorek first meet they cement a friendship that will continue throughout their lives as the tensions & pressure in town lead to a deadly conclusion... Another wonderful tale from a master story-teller giving us more extraordinary insight into the world of His Dark Materials.

Includes:: a thrilling board game!

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In Storybrooke Maine Emma Swan & Mary Margaret Blanchard are friends & roommates. They're united in their mission to make life better for Henry Emma's young son who has been raised by Storybrooke's vicious mayor Regina Mills. However things are not as they seem for all those in Storybrooke are fairy-tale characters exiled from their enchanted land by an evil curse. ...

It was an ordinary morning when the ordinary boy woke up & it was an ordinary journey to school
- but then Mr Gee bounced into
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