Learn about colours shapes & numbers with this colourful 30th anniversary edition of Spot's classic educational book Spot's Big Book of Colours Shapes & Numbers". This re-issue features rescans of Eric Hill's original artwork
- perfect for toddlers & pre-school children. The fun way to find out about colours shapes & numbers! Spot & his friends make first learning easy in this big action-packed book. Whether it's finding out the colours of the rainbow learning about all sorts of shapes or counting from one to ten Spot makes it lively exciting & fun! Praise for Spot: " Spot is one of the essential experiences of childhood". (" Parents Magazine"). Eric Hill's Spot picture books have sold over 50 million copies worldwide since Spot first appeared in 1980. A range of Spot books for children through from baby to pre-school are available from Penguin including: " Spot Goes to the Farm" " Spot Goes to the Circus" " Spot's First Walk" " Spot's Baby Sister" & " Spot's Treasure Hunt"."
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Celebrate the 30th anniversary of childhood favourite Spot with this colourful brighter edition of the classic Spot lift-the-flap story Spot's Birthday Party" which features rescans of Eric Hill's original artwork
- perfect for toddlers & children learning to read. Praise for Spot: " Spot is one of the essential experiences of childhood". (" Parents Magazine"). Eric Hill's Spot picture books have sold over 50 million copies worldwide since Spot first appeared in 1980. A range of Spot books for children through from baby to pre-school are available from Penguin including: " Spot Can Count" " Spot Goes to the Circus" " Where's Spot?" " Spot's Baby Sister" & " Spot's Fun-Time Colouring Book"."
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It is a fun engaging addition to your toddler's Spot collection. This book is filled with colourful illustrations of Spot & his friends dressing up as characters that are loved by toddlers: pirate clown cowboy & fairy! The sturdy format is perfect for a toddler's hands to hold & play with. Full page flaps encourage their curiosity & dexterity as they lift the flaps to discover hidden surprises. ...

This is a fun-packed Spot colouring book with over 100 stickers. This colouring book is packed with black line images of Spot enjoying all his favourite activities from dressing up to baking a cake. Toddlers will have lots of fun finishing the pictures. In addition there are four pages of stickers which can be added to the colouring scenes or used to decorate possessions. ...

This is a collection of 30 wordsearch puzzles & fill-in-the-blank activities designed to help in the development of spelling skills. Each puzzle is based on a specific vowel or sound combination so the book can be used by teachers as part of a structured approach to spelling & to concentrate learning activity where it is needed most. The skills developed by Spotlight on Words
- Book 1 include: visual discrimination through searching for hidden words. alphabetic sequencing practice by listing the words found. following contextual clues through fill-in-the-blank exercises. use of a process of elimination by completing the more difficult blanks. use of the connection between spelling & meaning. development of the ability to spot capital letters. understanding word segmentation & syllable blending. The puzzles are most appropriate for ages 9 to 12 but they are also valuable over a wider age range including adults & those learning English as a Second Language. The clear design of the puzzles guides the reader's eye & the hidden words run only across or down making this book an excellent resource for dyslexic students. The Spotlight Series is a complete set of worksheets & activities to improve spelling skills reading accuracy grammar & phonological awareness. The series explores blends suffixes & phonics through uncluttered enjoyable exercises that are both classroom & attention friendly. The puzzles & games have been tested to engage as well as teach. Each book is deliberately non-age specific allowing simple differentiation from early structured programmes through to Key Stage 3 & on to Adult Learning. Although the books offer valuable assistance to those with speech & communication difficulties the activities are an excellent mainstream resource to promote language skills. All the worksheets in the Spotlight Series titles are photocopiable within one educational establishment & are spiral-bound for strength & ease-of-use. Guidelines for teachers are included as well as answers where appropriate to the worksheets.
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Tilly loves spots. She's spotty dotty! So when her brother Toby wakes up covered in spots Tilly decides she wants them too. But will Tilly really enjoy her very own chickenpox spots? A spectacularly spotty tale that's perfect for sharing with any child who's suffering from chickenpox. ' When chickenpox plagues your town then you need to have this book!' The Bookseller ' The perfect picture story if your children have chickenpox.' The Northern Echo ...

They were the pioneers of American hardcore forming in California in 1878 & splitting up 8 years later leaving behind them a trail of blood carnage & brutal brilliant music. Throughout the years they fought with the police record industry & their own fans. This is the bands story from the inside drawing upon exclusive interviews with the groups members their contemporaries & the groups who were inspired by them. Its also the story of American hardcore music from the perspective of the group who did more to take the sound to the clubs squats & community halls in American than any other. ...

If you were to make a list of financial topics that have grabbed the interest of the wider public over recent years then spread betting & foreign exchange trading would surely be near the top. These have both been around for decades but developments in technology & financial markets in the past five to ten years have made them extremely hot topics right now. This book starts by covering the basics of spread betting & explains why it has become such a popular method for trading a whole host of markets. Next the forex markets are explained
- cutting through the jargon to help you understand how they work what makes currency prices move second by second 24 hours a day & how you can trade forex using spread betting. Finally some trading strategies are examined
- approaches that you can put into practise straightaway using spread betting & at a level of risk that suits your own particular circumstances. If you are looking to trade forex then this book provides an expert introduction
- helping you to succeed by avoiding the most common pitfalls of this highly volatile but fascinating market.


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Finding so young & pretty a girl as Amanda wandering unattended Sir Gareth Ludlow knows it is his duty as a man of honour to restore her to her family. But it is to prove no easy task for the Corinthian. His captive in spring muslin has more than her rapturous good looks & bandboxes to aid her
- she is also possessed of a runaway imagination...
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When Lou Winter picks up a dog-eared magazine in the dentist's waiting room & spots an article about clearing clutter she little realises how it will change her life. What begins as an earnest spring clean soon spirals out of control. Before long Lou is hiring skips in which to dump the copious amounts of junk she never knew she had. Lou's loved ones grow disgruntled. Why is clearing out cupboards suddenly more important than making his breakfast her husband Phil wonders? The truth is the more rubbish Lou lets go of the more light & air can get to those painful closed-up places at the centre of her heart: the love waiting for a baby she would never have the empty space her best friend Deb once occupied & the gaping wound left by her husband's affair. Even lovely Tom Broom the man who delivers Lou's skips starts to grow concerned about his sweetest customer. But Lou is a woman on a mission & not even she knows where it will end.. . ...