Teach your baby all about playtime with touch & feel textures. Stroke tickle & touch the textures together with your baby & help them discover all about playtime. Let their little hands roam & feel how cuddly the teddies are but how shiny & smooth the toy train feels. Theyll learn as you play. Twinkly bumpy scaly silky sandy sticky & shiny textures in a chunky package: perfect for encouraging tiny fingers to explore & tiny minds to develop. ...

When Ellie names her puppy Rascal she doesnt realize how right she is! Its School Sports Day & Ellie is worried shell come last at everything. But then she comes up with an excellent idea
- she can practise racing with Rascal! Will Rascal save the day? From best-selling author Holly Webb comes the latest book in her hugely successful My Naughty Little Puppy series.
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Part of the pleasure of owning a dog is the mutual fun that results from the playing of games. However these games also have a role in the development & well-being of our four-legged friends not least of which is building up our dogs' self confidence & boosting our relationships. With very little financial outlay & no previous experience any dog owner whether the dog be a puppy or an older animal can invent games using household objects. The purpose of this book is to help you discover & employ games & activities on an everyday basis that both you & your dog will enjoy & that will contribute towards his fitness & training. Amongst many other ideas you will: marvel at the super-abilities of your dog's sense of smell; make his daily walks an exciting adventure; & find enough inspiration in your living room to exercise his basic play instincts. ...

This collection of forty popular action rhymes

Includes:: firm favourites such as Tinker Tailor & The Wheels

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This is the second in our Snuggle Books series
- youve met Snuggle Bunny now heres Playtime Teddy
- a cheery little bear who

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A social comedy by the author of Just for the Summer". The illegal activities of unemployed teenagers on a London suburban council estate are giving cause for concern. There is also illegal activity among the residents of the desirable street nearby
- but these crimes are more socially-acceptable."
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This is the second children's book from academy award nominee Spike Lee & the award-winning illustrator Kadir Nelson. Filmmaker Spike Lee & wife Tonya Lee Lewis join the ranks of other celebrity kids' book writers with their sweet rhythmic read-along about the endless energy of a toddler blasting through a busy day. From moments fussy to fond Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Spike Lee & his wife present a behind-the-scenes look at the chills spills & unequivocal thrills of bringing up baby. Vivid illustrations from Kadir Nelson evoke toddlerhood & families everywhere will delight in this simple but highly effective children's tale about a little tyke that is always looking for trouble. ...

Stuart just wanted his father to love him but he was made to believe he was too naughty to be loved. Finally David Howarth was sent to prison for abusing Stuarts young sisters. Nobody knew the truth about Stuarts abuse until one fateful day when his father tried it again & Stuart fought back in the only way he knew how. Stuart Howarth spent the first thirty years of his life in mental & physical hell. After years of emotional torment & despair at the age of 32 Stuart felt an overwhelming urge to see his father (who he now knows was actually his stepfather) then living in Wales. Seeking reconciliation Stuart was only to be met by the same old abusive man. The rage pain & confusion boiled over in Stuart & he fought back killing his stepfather. When Stuarts story came to light in the courtroom it was so terrible that he received the minimum possible sentence for his crime & only served thirteen months in Strangeways prison in Manchester. But while in prison the cruel system compounded the crimes of his evil abuser & he suffered at the hands of the prison guards. What happened to him during those months led to him suing the Home Office & Strangeways on his release & winning his case. This is the story of a sweet-natured boy who grew into a brave young man & refused to allow himself to be a victim any longer. ...

Bernadette was just ten years old when her father packed her off to a convent school in Dublin. Seven gruelling years later she returned home to Liverpool at the start of the swinging sixties. Bernadette had dreamed of being a teacher ever since she was a little girl so she promptly began a course at teacher training college determined to give children the sort of education she wished shed had. Bernadette got her first job at 21 teaching five to seven year olds in a school in one of Liverpools toughest slum areas. The poverty & deprivation she saw at the school shocked her to the core. Children would frequently turn up shoeless & starving but gradually Bernadette could see she was making a real difference to their lives & found that teaching changed her own life in ways she hadnt expected... Rich in period detail Please Miss is an uplifting & moving book that opens a window onto the colourful & fascinating world of 1960s Liverpool. ...

In July 2009 former Arsenal Celtic West Ham & Wales soccer star John Hartson was diagnosed with testicular cancer which had also spread to his lungs & brain. But before his treatment even began John came to the brink of death after contracting pneumonia ceasing to breathe & undergoing emergency brain surgery. Against all the odds he pulled through & in Please Dont Go" he documents his incredible fight for life. Johns truly inspirational account of how he has managed to overcome a very aggressive form of cancer will offer hope & courage to others affected by the disease. Including the poignant recollections of his wife Sarah & sister Victoria it is a touching & ultimately uplifting insight into the bravery of the popular football hero who has fought back to full health in the face of adversity." ...