Young Reading Series Two" is aimed at children whose reading ability is beginning to grow & helps build confidence & ability. Six popular titles in " Usborne Young Reading Series Two" are re-issued in luxurious hardback editions with ribbon markers. " The Young Reading" series is developed in consultation with Alison Kelly who is a senior lecturer in education & an early reading specialist from Roehampton University." ...

From its first publication in 1719 Robinson Crusoe has been printed in over 700 editions. It has inspired almost every conceivable kind of imitation & variation & been the subject of plays opera cartoons & computer games. The character of Crusoe has entered the consciousness of each succeeding generation as readers add their own interpretation to the adventures so thrillingly 'recorded' by Defoe. Praised by eminent figures such as Coleridge Rousseau & Wordsworth this perennially popular book was cited by Karl Marx in Das Kapital to illustrate economic theory. However it is readers of all ages over the last 280 years who have given Robinson Crusoe its abiding position as a classic tale of adventure. ...

Robinson Crusoe" is among the first novels written in English. Thanks to its extraordinary realism & drama it is easily the longest-enduring work of popular fiction in the language. The story probably based on the Pacific-island ordeal of castaway Alexander Selkirk was presented by Daniel Defoe as a true account & is utterly convincing in its topography action & character even 300 years after its first publication. " Robinson Crusoe" is a true page-turner: Dr Samuel Johnson said it was one of only three books he had read that would have been better for being longer. This new edition

Includes:: over thirty illustrations by George Cruikshank specially engraved for the 1831 edition."

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After surviving a terrible shipwreck Robinson Crusoe discovers he is the only human on an island far from any shipping routes or rescue. At first he is devastated but slowly with patience & imagination he transforms his island into a tropical paradise. For twenty-four years he lives with no human companionship
- until one fateful day when he discovers he is not alone... Puffin Classics edition has been specially abridged.
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The sole survivor of a shipwreck Robinson Crusoe is stranded on an uninhabited island far away from any shipping routes. With patience & ingenuity he transforms his island into a tropical paradise. For twenty-four years he has no human company until one Friday he rescues a prisoner from a boat of cannibals. ...

Roughly twenty years from now our technological marvels unite & turn against us. A childlike but massively powerful artificial intelligence known as Archos comes online...and kills the man who created it. This first act of betrayal leads Archos to gain control over the global network of machines & technology that regulates everything from transportation to utilities defence & communications. In the early months sporadic glitches are noticed by a handful of unconnected humans
- from a senator & single mother disconcerted by her daughters smart" toys to a lonely Japanese bachelor to an isolated U.S. soldier
- but most are unaware of the growing rebellion until it is far too late. Then in the span of minutes at a moment known later in history as Zero Hour every mechanical device in our world rebels setting off the Robot War that both decimates &
- for the first time in history
- unites humankind."



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A humorous story featuring two whacky scientists building a robot. They assemble the robot carefully with each body part but where is the head? In this simple text each body part is named as it is added & as the different parts are used a repeated reply of thank you reinforces the phrase. * Pink B/ Band 1B books offer emergent readers simple predictable text with familiar objects & actions. * Text type
- A patterned story with predictable structure * The body parts are repeated in a single labelled diagram of the completed robot on pages 14 & 15 providing opportunities for speaking listening & writing.
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Jake Cake is an ordinary kid who likes writing & illustrating stories about his adventures. He swears they're all true but no one ever believes him. In this second book of a four-book series Jake discovers the school dinner lady is a robot (and she can't cook chips!) he has goblins in his garden (they're green & they bite) & he's tricked by a really tricky witch (trouble!). This book is just perfect for readers of 7+. ...

Technology: Sorted! What's inside a laptop? How can you stuff 1 000 CDs into an mp 3 player? Who built the Internet? How smart is the world's smartest robot? How do smartphones & TV remote controls work? The answers to these & other brilliant questions about technology can be found in this funny & fascinating book. Packed to capacity with megabytes of marvellous information this book explores everything from the first simple engines to the latest gadgets computers & networks. ...

Isaac Asmiovs classic novel about the decline & fall of Solaria. Gladia Delmarres homeworld the Spacer planet Solaria has been abandoned
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