As one enters Juan Rulfos legendary novel one follows a dusty road to a town of death. Time shifts from one consciousness to another in a hypnotic flow of dreams desires & memories a world of ghosts dominated by the figure of Pedro Paramo
- lover overlord murderer. Rulfos extraordinary mix of sensory images violent passions & unfathomable mysteries has been a profound influence on a whole generation of Latin American writers including Carlos Fuentes Mario Vargas Llosa & Gabriel Garcia Marquez. To read Pedro Paramo" today is as overwhelming an experience as when it was first published in Mexico nearly fifty years ago."
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Perfect for day trips & short breaks the OS Landranger Map series covers Great Britain with 204 detailed maps. Each map provides all the information you need to get to know your local area &

Includes:: places of interest tourist information picnic areas & camp sites plus Rights of Way information for England & Wales.

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OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Surveys most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities like walking horse riding & off-road cycling. Providing complete GB coverage the series details essential information such as youth hostels pubs & visitor information as well as rights of way permissive paths & bridleways. ...

This utterly enchanting lift-the-flap book has the kind of disarmingly risque humour & charming characters destined to make it a classic. Much laughter is guaranteed as you lift the flap to see whats happened in the nappy! Perfect for potty training counting (!) & giggling. It has an extra thick durable cover & pages. Mouse is tremendously curious. He has to investigate everything around him. & Mouses friends dont escape his inquisitive nature. Mouse wears a nappy & naturally he is curious about theirs So one by one Mouse asks his friends Rabbit Doggy Horse & others Whats in your nappy? Then of course they ask Mouse the same question
- but theyre in for a surprise because in Mouses nappy is nothing! Hes learnt how to use a potty & on the final spread all his friends try it too (on their own potty).
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This is a simple guessing game which features five of Beatrix Potters best-known characters including Peter Rabbit. On each page the reader must guess if Peter Rabbit is hidden behind the giant flap. Theres a little hole to peep through & a touch & feel clue to help! Where is Peter? ...

Read Peekaboo! Bedtime" with your baby for a bundle of bright surprises. Your baby will love the bright photographs & fun surprises in " Peekaboo! Bedtime". Find the sleepy toys hiding
- the rabbit with the silky bow is under a blanket & the squashy-nosed pig is behind a clock. & don't forget to keep an eye out for all four toys fast asleep beneath a bedspread! " Peekaboo! Bedtime" is a great way to get your baby interested in books & to spend special time together. Also great for developing imagination early-thinking & memory skills & perfect for reading aloud & encouraging early word recognition your baby will love the world of surprises that " Peekaboo! Bedtime" offers."
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Peeling the Onion" is a searingly honest memoir that evokes Grass modest upbringing in Danzig his time as a boy soldier fighting the Russians & concludes with the writing of his masterpiece " The Tin Drum" in Paris. Grass parents ran a corner shop but his mother whom he adored encouraged him towards books & music. Like most of his peers he joined the Hitler Youth & in 1944 when he was just 17 he was sent to the Eastern front with the Waffen SS & found himself facing Russian tanks & machine guns. Recovering from shrapnel wounds in a military hospital he had the good fortune to be taken prisoner by the Americans. In the aftermath of the war following a stint as a miner Grass survived by trading on the black market & resolved to become an artist eventually enrolling at the Academy of Arts in Dusseldorf. While living as an artist in Berlin with his first wife Anna a ballet dancer he started to concentrate on writing poetry. It was after the couple moved to Paris that the first sentence of the novel he had been determined to write & that would make his reputation came to him: Granted: I am an inmate of a mental hospital. " Peeling the Onion" is the story of a remarkable life & is without question one of Gunter Grass finest works." ...

Peenemunde: windswept corner of the Third Reich & birthplace of the space age. Otto Fischer a severely wounded Luftwaffe officer & former criminal investigator is summoned to solve a seemingly incomprehensible case: the murder of a leading rocket engineer during a devastating air-raid. With only days until the SS assume control of the production of a remarkable new weapon Fischer must find a motive & perpetrator from among several thousand scientists technicians soldiers & forced labourers. As he struggles to get the measure of a secretive brilliant world in which imagination moves far beyond the limits of technology what at first appears to be a solitary crime draws him into a labyrinth of conspiracy betrayal & treason. Mc Dermott brings skills previously honed whilst producing well-researched history books to the discipline of writing fiction creating work that is both historically accurate & evocative as well as stylish in a literary sense. ...

Peepo!" is the much-loved picture book classic by Janet & Allan Ahlberg. " Peepo!" is a modern classic that continues to delight generations of babies & toddlers & their parents. Look through the holes to spot details from the wonderful illustrations. " Peepo!" A perfect gift for new babies & parents no home should be without a copy! Here's a little baby one two three standing in his cot. What does he see? " Peepo!" has become a classic for babies & toddlers. It follows a baby through the day in a style full of wit charm & ingenuity. A series of holes peeping through to the next page leads the child on to the next stage in the day giving a hint of what is to come. Praise for " Peepo!" " The best book ever published for babies". (" Books for Your Children"). " Surely no one
- baby child or adult
- could fail to enjoy " Peepo!"" (" Sunday Telegraph"). "A book to last a lifetime.. .this is a perfect book for sharing". (" Nursery World"). Allan Ahlberg has published over 100 children's books & with his late wife Janet created many award-winning children's picture books. " The Baby's Catalogue" was inspired by their daughter Jessica. The Ahlbergs' books are nursery bookshelf standards & have been the recipient of worldwide acclaim & awards including the Kate Greenaway Medal. Look out for these other classics by Allan Ahlberg: " Burglar Bill"; " Cops & Robbers"; " The Baby's Catalogue"; " The One & Only Two Heads"; " Son of a Gun"; " The Little Worm Book"; " Two Wheels Two Heads"; " Funny Bones"; "A Pair of Sinners"; " Happy Families"; " Peepo!"; " The Ha Ha Bonk Book"; " Help Your Child to Read"; " Ten in a Bed"; " Please mrs Butler"; " Daisy Chains"; " Yum Yum"; " Playmates"; " Foldaways"; " Woof"; " The Cinderella Show"; " The Jolly Postman"; " The Jolly Christmas Postman"; " The Jolly Pocket Postman"; " The Clothes Horse & Other Stories"; " The Mighty Slide"; " Starting School"; " Heard it in the Playground"; " The Bear Nobody Wanted"; " It was a Dark & Stormy Night"; " The Giant Baby"; " Baby Sleeps"; " Blue Buggy"; " Doll & Teddy"; " See the Rabbit"; " Please Mrs Butler"; " The Better Brown Stories"; " The Boyhood of Burglar Bill"."

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Peepo!" is the much-loved picture book classic by Janet & Allan Ahlberg. " Peepo!" is a modern classic that continues to delight generations of babies & toddlers & their parents. Look through the holes to spot details from the wonderful illustrations. " Peepo!" A perfect gift for new babies & parents this board book edition is perfect for little hands. Here's a little baby. One two three. Standing in his cot. What does he see? " Peepo!" has become a classic for babies & toddlers. It follows a baby through the day in a style full of wit charm & ingenuity. A series of holes peeping through to the next page leads the child on to the next stage in the day giving a hint of what is to come. Praise for " Peepo!": " The best book ever published for babies". (" Books for Your Children"). " Surely no one
- baby child or adult
- could fail to enjoy " Peepo!"" (" Sunday Telegraph"). "A book to last a lifetime.. .this is a perfect book for sharing". (" Nursery World"). Allan Ahlberg has published over 100 children's books & with his late wife Janet created many award-winning children's picture books. The Baby's Catalogue was inspired by their daughter Jessica. The Ahlbergs' books are nursery bookshelf standards & have been the recipient of worldwide acclaim & awards including the Kate Greenaway Medal. Look out for these other classics by Allan Ahlberg: " Burglar Bill"; " Cops & Robbers"; " The Baby's Catalogue"; " The One & Only Two Heads"; " Son of a Gun"; " The Little Worm Book"; " Two Wheels Two Heads"; " Funny Bones"; "A Pair of Sinners"; " Happy Families"; " Peepo!"; " The Ha Ha Bonk Book"; " Help Your Child to Read"; " Ten in a Bed"; " Please mrs Butler"; " Daisy Chains"; " Yum Yum"; " Playmates"; " Foldaways"; " Woof"; " The Cinderella Show"; " The Jolly Postman"; " The Jolly Christmas Postman"; " The Jolly Pocket Postman"; " The Clothes Horse & Other Stories"; " The Mighty Slide"; " Starting School"; " Heard it in the Playground"; " The Bear Nobody Wanted"; " It was a Dark & Stormy Night"; " The Giant Baby"; " Baby Sleeps"; " Blue Buggy"; " Doll & Teddy"; " See the Rabbit"; " Please Mrs Butler"; " The Better Brown Stories"; & " The Boyhood of Burglar Bill"."

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