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...? ...

The Historical House is a unique trilogy of novels by three highly regarded authors. Each novel charts the life & times of the house at 6 Chelsea Walk London & the girls who lived there through three important periods of history. Synopsis When 13-year-old Polly befriends two suffragettes in the top floor flat at 6 Chelsea Walk she finds herself questioning the views of those around her. The Votes for Women campaign strikes a chord with Polly & she becomes determined to join the suffragettes protest march even if it means clashing with her family... ...

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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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. ...

In Jilly Coopers third Rutshire chronicle we meet Ricky France-Lynch who is moody macho & magnificent. He had a large crumbling estate a nine-goal polo handicap & a beautiful wife who was fair game for anyone with a cheque book. He also had the adoration of fourteen-year-old Perdita Mac Leod. Perdita couldnt wait to leave her dreary school & become a polo player. The polo set were ritzy wild & gloriously promiscuous. Perdita thought shed get along with them very well. But before she had time to grow up Rickys life exploded into tragedy & Perdita turned into a brat who loved only her horses
- & Ricky France-Lynch. Rickys obsession to win back his wife & Perditas to win both Ricky & a place as a top class polo player take the reader on a wildly exciting journey
- to the estancias of Argentina to Palm Beach & Deauville & on to the royal polo fields of England & the glamorous pitches of California where the most heroic battle of all is destined to be fought
- a match that is about far more than just the winning of a huge silver cup...


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This is the perfect introduction to the worlds grandest
- & arguably most entertaining
- sport. Who knows one day you may end

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