Born in 1911 into a close-knit family Mary Rebecca Chambers (known to all as Polly) spent her formative years in the heart of the East End. This vivid account of life is told with passion & humour & is brimming with stories of how Londoners & Pollys family in particular lived through two world wars & the Great Depression. Polly was a natural storyteller & this is a compilation of her heart-warming stories arranged in chronological order to tell the tale of life as she witnessed it through adversity & danger excitement & fun. The captivating anecdotes poignant & entertaining are suffused by the sights sounds & smells of the East End in the first half of the twentieth century. This is a wonderful evocation of a bygone age & her affectionate memoirs will entrance anyone who reads them. ...

I had been looking forward to going to France in the Easter holidays for weeks. Admittedly it meant going with Mum & her annoying yuckily young French boyfriend Almond. But I knew we would be staying at Almond's parents' place: a chateau! Everyone knows 'chat' means 'cat' in French
- so I couldn't wait...2 whole weeks in a houseful of cats! I love animals! Tragically things never work out as you expect. Instead of a houseful of cats it turned out to be a houseful of Almond's annoying totally weird French family. Before I had time to squeak 'murder ' I was on the ghastly trail of a heartless criminal. Could I Polly Price uncover the truth? Well
- not if I was the chief suspect. & not if I starved to death trying to find my way through long murky corridors to breakfast. I knew I was in a race against time. & I didn't even have a watch."

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Meet Polly Price owner of the world's most embarrassing mother: actress & all-round airhead Arabella Diamonte. Who has just been cast in a touring production of a new play meaning Polly is heading to San Francisco for what may well turn out to be the craziest summer holiday of her life... Read Polly's wonderfully funny diary as she records the mishaps & mayhem backstage before all of a sudden the spotlight is on her! ...

Polly Price didn't think it was possible for her actress mother Arabella Diamonte to be any more embarrassing than on the trip to San Francisco last summer. That is until she agrees to take part in a television programme called Celebrity Home Watch" & a camera crew arrives at their home to film. Her mother lacks volume control at the best of times so this is truly a reality tv nightmare
- with no escape for Polly! Dee Shulman has created a real hit for young readers with her charming full-colour illustrations & interactive concept."
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It's Queen Titania's & King Oberon's 1000th jubilee & the seven Party Fairies are in charge of making the celebratory party extra-special! However naughty Jack Frost has decided to sabotage the celebrations by hosting his own party & in order to make his bigger & better than the kings & queen's he has sent his naughty goblins to steal each of the seven Party Fairies' magical party bags...if he succeeds the Fairyland celebrations will be ruined! Can Kirsty & Rachel help Polly the Party Fun Fairy to rescue her party bag so that the celebrations will be full of magical fun & games...? ...

This is a fantastically funny perfectly pink picture book about a little girl called Polly & her beloved pink pyjamas. Polly loves her pink pyjamas
- she wears them all day long! But she cant wear them to Freds party so her friends Poppy Clara Henry & Sally all lend her something of theirs. Finally Polly is ready to go
- but she looks so funny in her borrowed outfit that she cant go after all! Things are looking bad
- until her friends reveal that the party is after all a pyjama party! Sue Heaps picture book How To Be A Baby" reached number 9 on the " New York Times" bestseller list & has had fantastic reviews both in the UK & in the US."


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Polly doesnt like shopping with Baby Jim. He is always throwing things about. One day when they are out shopping with Mum Jim throws Pollys toy puffin straight into the hood of a duffle-coated gentleman & sparks off a hectic chase through the town. Can Polly & Mum find the myserious man & get her puffin back? A new edition of a classic story by the much-loved author/illustrator Sarah Garl&. Perfect for long-suffering older siblings & their mischievous little brothers & sisters. Sarah Garlands charming text & illustrations convey all the happy chaos of family life. Also available: Pass it Polly ...

It is 1936 & Polly's guardian angel has to work overtime when her large family is forced to move from the countryside they love into central Liverpool. Money is desperately short & with her mother working & her father sick Polly is easily led astray by a new pal the handsome idle Sunny Anderson. But soon war looms & Sunny joins the navy to train as a signaller. After the horrors of the May blitz Polly too decides she wants to help her country & goes into the WRNS. She hears that an old pal Tad Donoghue from the Dublin slums is now in the Royal Air Force. Tad hopes to be reunited with his Polly but she's in love with Sunny...isn't she? Polly's Angel is another wonderful compelling story by one of Britain's most popular saga authors with over two million book sold nationwide. ...

As soon as Pollyanna arrives in Beldingsville to live with her strict & dutiful maiden aunt she begins to brighten up everybodys life. The glad game she plays of finding a silver lining in every cloud transforms the sick the lonely & the plain miserable
- until one day something so terrible happens that even Pollyanna doesnt know how to feel glad about it.
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When Pollyanna Whittier goes to live with her sourtempered aunt after her fathers death things seem bad enough but then a dreadful accident ensues. However Pollyannas sunny nature & good humour prove to have an astonishing effect on all around her & this wonderful tale of how cheerfulness can conquer adversity has remained one of the worlds most popular childrens books since its first publication in 1913. In Pollyanna Grows Up the only sequel written by Porter herself Pollyanna finds that that despite being cured of her health problems adulthood brings fresh challenges to be overcome. ...