The Petal Fairies have a very important job
- together with their magic petals they help to make sure that flowers grow & bloom
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Are you carrying a monkey on your shoulder? Pippi is! Have you ever caught an escaped tiger? Pippi has! Do you know of a tree that grows chocolate bars? Pippi does! Pippi Tommy & Annika have the best time together
- going to the circus buying ALL the sweets in the sweet shop & getting shipwrecked for the weekend. But when Pippis long-lost father comes to visit will Pippi sail away to sea with him & leave Tommy & Annika behind?
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Have you ever given a shark a good telling-off? Pippi has! Do you know what a squeazle is? Pippi does! Can you carry your Dad on your shoulders? Pippi can! Pippi Tommy & Annika are off on their greatest adventure yet
- a trip to the Canny Canny Islands where Pippis father is king. They explore secret caves play marbles with real pearls & luckily the pirates & sharks they meet are no match for Pippi!
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Have you performed at the circus? Pippi has! Can you wiggle your toes while you're sleeping? Pippi can! Are you going to be a pirate when you grow up? Pippi is! Pippi lives in a house with a horse a monkey a suitcase full of gold & no grown-ups to tell her what to do. She's wild & funny & her crazy ideas are always getting her into trouble! ...

Pippi Longstocking is nine years old. She has just moved into Villa Villekulla where she lives all by herself with a horse a monkey & a big suitcase full of gold coins. The grown-ups in the village try to make Pippi behave in ways that they think a little girl should but Pippi has other ideas! She would much rather spend her days arranging wild exciting adventures to enjoy with her neighbours Tommy & Annika or entertaining everyone she meets with her outrageous stories. Pippi thinks nothing of wrestling a circus strongman dancing a polka with burglars or tugging a bulls tail. Generations of children have fallen in love with Pippi Longstocking. Just like Tommy & Annika readers are instantly charmed by her warmth & sense of fun. Astrid Lindgrens childrens classic first appeared in 1945. Astrid once commented I write to amuse the child within me & can only hope that other children may have some fun that way too. When she was growing up Lauren Child loved Astrid Lindgrens books. She remembers: I discovered Pippi when I was about eight years old & found her completely inspiring. Known & loved as the creator of some equally feisty little girls
- notably Clarice Bean & Lola
- Lauren has brought her own inimitable style to this beautifully-illustrated edition of Pippi Longstocking.

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Pippi Longstocking is nine years old. She has just moved into Villa Villekulla where she lives all by herself with a horse a monkey & a big suitcase full of gold coins. The grown-ups in the village try to make Pippi behave in ways that they think a little girl should but Pippi has other ideas. She would much rather spend her days arranging wild exciting adventures to enjoy with her neighbours Tommy & Annika or entertaining everyone she meets with her outrageous stories. Pippi thinks nothing of wrestling a circus strongman dancing a polka with burglars or tugging a bulls tail. Generations of children have fallen in love with Pippi Longstocking. Just like Tommy & Annika readers are instantly charmed by her warmth & sense of fun. Astrid Lindgrens childrens classic first appeared in 1945. Astrid once commented I write to amuse the child within me & can only hope that other children may have some fun that way too. When she was growing up Lauren Child loved Astrid Lindgrens books. She remembers: I discovered Pippi when I was about eight years old & found her completely inspiring. Known & loved as the creator of some equally feisty little girls
- notably Clarice Bean & Lola
- Lauren has brought her own inimitable style to this beautifully-illustrated edition of Pippi Longstocking.

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Follow this simple instruction text with clear photographs of each stage to learn how to plant your own pips. * Pink/1B
- A simple
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Now fully revised & updated The Piranha Club is the first serious study of Formula Ones most fascinating & influential figures
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Simon Gray is the newly-appointed & much harassed Chief Executive of Aldertons a large company that has known better days. When his boss offers him the use of a chauffeur for one day each month he is as pleased as Punch
- until George Willis turns up as pristine as his Bentley immaculately mannered & full of philosophical advice that Simon just does not want to hear. But as Willis drives his boss to various meetings
- not to mention up the wall
- a tentative friendship forms between the two men & Simon is gradually forced to admit that some of the chauffeurs ideas from strategy & account management to leadership skills & fostering team spirit could be the saving of Aldertons
- & of Simon himself. But is George Willis really who he appears to be?



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Ambushed by a gang of hardened sea robbers headed for the South Sea Hector Lynch pirate & fugitive is obliged to navigate their vessel on a nightmarish journey through the stormy seas off Cape Horn & when his ruthless shipmates abandon him in Peru he learns that Maria the young Spanish woman who stole his heart & whose false testimony saved him from the gallows is now living on the remote Ladrones the Thief Islands on the far side of the Pacific Ocean. His epic voyage to reach her will bring him face to face with a Japanese warlord who submits trespassers to his island to a deadly duel & with a naked Stone Age tribe who file their teeth to sharp points & sail boats that outpace the fastest galleon. In Pirate: Sea Robbers" Tim Severin takes the reader on an enthralling adventure through the seventeenth-century world of the seafarers who risked scurvy shipwreck & drowning in hopes of reaping fortunes in spice & treasure." ...