Gerald is careful. Piggie is not. Piggie cannot help smiling. Gerald can. Gerald worries so that Piggie does not have to. Gerald & Piggie are best friends. In Theres a Bird on Your Head! Gerald discovers that there is something worse than a bird on your head
- two birds on your head! Can Piggie help her best friend? Told entirely in speech bubbles with a repetitive use of familiar phrases this highly original book is perfect for children just learning to read.
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A wave of modern atheists have taken center stage & brought the long-standing debate about the existence of God back into the headlines. Spearheaded by Richard Dawkins Sam Harris & Christopher Hitchens this 'new atheism' has found a powerful place in today's culture wars. Although this movement has been billed as 'new ' the foundation of its argument is indebted to philosopher Antony Flew & his groundbreaking paper Theology & Falsification " the most widely reprinted philosophical publication of the last five decades. Flew built his highly acclaimed academic career publicly debunking the existence of God. But now the renowned philosopher has arrived at the opposite conclusion & officially joined the other side. With refreshing openness to argument & an absence of the anger & hostility that have been hallmarks of the 'new atheism ' Flew shows how his commitment to following the argument wherever it leads resulted to his own astonishment in his conversion to belief in a creator God. Certain to be read & discussed for years to come " There Is a God" will forever change the debate about the existence of God." ...

There Is No Dog is the new astonishing novel by Meg Rosoff. In the beginning there was Bob. & Bob created the heavens & the earth & the beasts of the field & the creatures of the sea & twenty-five million other species including lots & lots of gorgeous girls. & all of this he created in just six days. Six days! Congratulations Bob! No wonder Earth is such a mess. Imagine that God is a typical teenage boy. He is lazy careless self-obsessed sex-mad
- & about to meet Lucy the most beautiful girl on earth. Unfortunately whenever Bob falls in love disaster follows. Let us pray that Bob does not fall in love with Lucy. Praise for There Is No Dog: My top choice for summer it's an astounding crossover novel". (The Times). " One must simply revel in the joyful singularity of Rosoff's latest masterpiece". (The Guardian). " Genius". (Anthony Horowitz). Meg Rosoff became a publishing sensation with her first novel How I Live Now which won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize & the Branford Boase Award. Her second novel Just in Case won the Carnegie Medal in 2007 & What I Was her third novel was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal & was highly acclaimed. Meg lives in London with her husband & daughter. Also by Meg Rosoff: How I Live Now; Just In Case; What I Was; The Bride's Farewell; & There is No Dog."
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This book reveals the origin of self-hate how self-hate works how to identify it & how to go beyond it. It provides examples of some of the forms self-hate takes including taking blame but not credit holding grudges & trying to be perfect & explores the many facets of self-hate including its role in addiction the battering cycle & the illusion of control. After addressing these factors it illustrates how a meditation practice can be developed & practised in efforts to free oneself from self-hating beliefs. ...

A woman finds herself filling a pit in the forest in the middle of the night; a family lock each other in their bedrooms to battle a strange plague; a wizard punishes two beautiful ballerinas by turning them into one hugely fat circus performer; a colonel is warned not to lift the veil from his dead wifes face; & a distraught father brings his daughter back to life by eating human hearts in his dreams. In these blackly comic tales of revenge disturbing deaths & haunting melancholy Ludmilla Petrushevskaya blends miracles & madness in the darkest of modern fairy tales. ...

From the legendary author of Things Fall Apart comes this long-awaited memoir recalling Chinua Achebe's personal experiences of & reflections on the Biafran War one of Nigeria's most tragic civil wars. Chinua Achebe the author of Things Fall Apart was a writer whose moral courage & storytelling gifts have left an enduring stamp on world literature. There Was a Country was his long-awaited account of coming of age during the defining experience of his life: the Nigerian Civil War also known as the Biafran War of 1967-1970. It became infamous around the world for its impact on the Biafrans who were starved to death by the Nigerian government in one of the twentieth century's greatest humanitarian disasters. Caught up in the atrocities were Chinua Achebe & his young family. Achebe already a world-renowned novelist served his Biafran homeland as a roving cultural ambassador witnessing the war's full horror first-h&. Immediately after the war he took an academic post in the United States & for over forty years he maintained a considered silence on those terrible years addressing them only obliquely through his poetry. After years in the making There Was a Country presents his towering reckoning with one of modern Africa's most fateful experiences both as he lived it & eventually came to understand it. Marrying history & memoir with the author's poetry woven throughout There Was a Country is a distillation of vivid observation & considered research & reflection. It relates Nigeria's birth pangs in the context of Achebe's own development as a man & a writer & examines the role of the artist in times of war. Reviews: No writer is better placed than Chinua Achebe to tell the story of the Nigerian Biafran war... The book makes you pine for the likes of Achebe to govern... We have in There Was a Country an elegy from a master storyteller who has witnessed the undulating fortunes of a nation". (Noo Saro-Wiwa Guardian). " Chinua Achebe's history of Biafra is a meditation on the condition of freedom. It has the tense narrative grip of the best fiction. It is also a revelatory entry into the intimate character of the writer's brilliant mind & bold spirit. Achebe has created here a new genre of literature". (Nadine Gordimer). " Part-history part-memoir Achebe's moving account of the war is laced with anger but there is also an abiding tone of regret for what Nigeria might have been without conflict & mismanagement". (Sunday Times). About the author: Chinua Achebe was born in Nigeria in 1930. He published novels short stories essays & children's books. His volume of poetry Christmas in Biafra was the joint winner of the first Commonwealth Poetry Prize. Of his novels Arrow of God won the New Statesman-Jock Campbell Award & Anthills of the Savannah was a finalist for the 1987 Booker Prize. Things Fall Apart Achebe's masterpiece has been published in fifty different languages & has sold more than ten million copies. Achebe lectured widely receiving many honors from around the world amongst them the Nigerian National Merit Award Nigeria's highest award for intellectual achievement. In 2007 he won the Man Booker International Prize. He died in March 2013." ...

The defining experience of Chinua Achebe's life was the Nigerian civil war also known as the Biafran War. For more than forty years Achebe was silent on those terrible years until he produced this towering reckoning with one of modern Africa's most fateful events. A marriage of history remembrance poetry & vivid first-hand observation There Was a Country is a work of wisdom & compassion from one of the great voices of our age. ...

Forty years after its first publication this much-loved Child's Play classic is as popular as ever. Ingenious die-cut holes bring this iconic nursery rhyme to life & Pam Adams' fabulous illustrations lend humour & vibrancy to the proceedings. Bouncy images innovative die cutting & favourite rhymes make Books with Holes a must for every child. Available in three formats suitable for babies toddlers pre-schoolers & the nursery or classroom. ...

Forty years after its first publication this much-loved Child's Play classic is as popular as ever. Ingenious die-cut holes bring this iconic nursery rhyme to life & Pam Adams' fabulous illustrations lend humour & vibrancy to the proceedings. Bouncy images innovative die cutting & favourite rhymes make Books with Holes a must for every child. Available in three formats suitable for babies toddlers pre-schoolers & the nursery or classroom. ...

Thirty-five years after the publication of the much-loved classic ' There was an old lady who swallowed a fly' comes ' There was an old lady who swallowed the sea' a fantastic prequel to the original title. Here the old lady swallows more & more creatures from the sea to try & catch the initial fish. ...