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. ...

Shortlisted for the British Sports Book Award In its first 20 years the Premier League has moved football from a state of unprecedented crisis against a backdrop of recession strikes & hooliganism to a global sport of unimaginable riches. To mark this anniversary Ian Ridley takes stock of a phenomenon that has changed English football & English society forever. Taking in the game at all levels & across the country Theres A Golden Sky is a full picture of the game today with all its glitz & glamour rags & riches. From Hackney Marshes clinging on in the shadow of the Olympic park to the vastness of Old Trafford; from Doncaster Belles womens team to the rebirth of Cornish football in Truro through to the modern games relationship with Sky & the big bucks of Abramovich Ridley takes us on a journey through the English game from grassroots to the topflight. Ian Ridley took a long hard look at the game back in the early 1990s when it was beset by problems both on & off the pitch & seen as the epitome of all that was wrong with our society. Theres a Golden Sky examines just how far the game has come since those dark days sucking in players & money from around the globe & providing fame fortune & hours of pleasure in return. ...

Im the Cat in the Hat & were off to have fun. Well visit the planets the stars & the sun!" & so Dr. Seuss famous Cat in the Hat whisks young readers off on a fun-filled tour of the solar system. This title & others form part of a series of books that takes an off-beat look at nature & natural sciences through a fun combination of Seussian rhymes & zany illustrations. Aimed at early readers
- from four to seven year olds
- the books are designed to bridge the gap between concept books written for preschoolers & more formal non fiction titles that require fluent reading skills. By presenting the facts in a lively & rhythmic manner they provide the critical foundation upon which complex facts & ideas can eventually be built."

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He has never scored a goal lifted a trophy worn the captains armband or even played for the club
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When sixteen-year-old Sally is evacuated to the English south coast she is terrified by what lies ahead of her. All she knows are the sights & sounds of London's East End
- but Sally swallows her tears as they leave the familiar landmarks behind knowing that she has to be a Grown-Up Girl & play mother to her six-year-old brother Ernie. Playing mother is nothing new for Sally
- their real mother Florrie a good-time girl hasn't even come to the station to wave them off & Ernie crippled at an early age by polio is used to depending on his older sister. When they arrive in Cliffehaven they're taken to live at the Beach View Boarding House where they're welcomed by the open-hearted Reilly family headed up by warm loving Peggy & life begins to improve. Sally gets a job in a uniforms factory to help pay her way
- & to pay for Ernie's expensive medicines
- but then Florrie arrives in Cliffehaven bringing disaster with her. & Sally is forced to work out where her true loyalties lie...



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Give me a dollar or I'll spit on you." That's Bradley Chalker for you. He is the oldest child in the class. He tells enormous lies. He picks fights with girls & the teachers say he has "serious behaviour problems." No one likes him
- except Carla the new school counsellor. She thinks Bradley is sensitive & generous & she even enjoys his far-fetched stories. Carla knows that Bradley could change if only he weren't afraid to try. Sometimes the hardest thing in the world is believing in yourself."
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There's a house inside my Mummy Where my little brother grows or maybe it's my little sister No-one really knows. A gentle & tender story of a little boy waiting for his little brother or sister to arrive. Told with humour & a simple rhyming text this is the perfect picture book for all expectant brothers & sisters! ...