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Wallace And Gromit Grand Adventures And Glorious Inventions

Wallace and Gromit are back! In their latest adventure A Matter of Loaf and Death" our two heroes start a new bakery business and Wallace finds a new love interest - Piella Bakewell bread enthusiast. This official all-singing all-dancing book is timed to coincide with the film's release in late 2008. "Grand Adventures and Glorious Inventions" is set out as Wallace's secret invention scrapbook packed with snippets of information and personal memorabilia about his cracking contraptions and all his madcap capers with Gromit. It features all the main characters from the three previous films ("The Wrong Trousers" "A Close Shave and Curse of Were-Rabbit") and offers a taster of the new film. It uses actual stills from the films and includes an interactive element woven throughout the book in the
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Wallace & Gromit are back! In their latest adventure A Matter of Loaf & Death" our two heroes start a new bakery business & Wallace finds a new love interest
- Piella Bakewell bread enthusiast. This official all-singing all-dancing book is timed to coincide with the film's release in late 2008. " Grand Adventures & Glorious Inventions" is set out as Wallace's secret invention scrapbook packed with snippets of information & personal memorabilia about his cracking contraptions & all his madcap capers with Gromit. It features all the main characters from the three previous films (" The Wrong Trousers" "A Close Shave & Curse of Were-Rabbit") & offers a taster of the new film. It uses actual stills from the films &

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an interactive element woven throughout the book in the form of fold-out blueprints pull-tabs & practical 'how to create' suggestions. Knitting patterns " Cheese Week" magazine world-class marrows...prepare to enter the chaotic world of an amateur inventor & his dog! This book is a delight for young & old & a must for every discerning Wallace & Gromit fan. 37.6 million BBC viewers watched Wallace & Gromit over the Christmas period!"

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Rabbit - A small animal found in several parts of the world both wild and domesticated
knitting - A method for turning thread or yarn into cloth using a series of loops called stitches.
Interactive - Interaction can take place between a person and a device
World - A physical grouping, commonly used to describe earth and everything associated with ti
Trousers - An item of clothing. Trousers cover each leg individually unlike a skirt. Trousers stars at the waist and finish at persons ankle.
Set - a group of items usually related to one another. Some objects cannot function without the complete set of items.
Love - Someone who shows deep affection for someone else.
Adventure - an undertaking of an exciting challenge or experience.
Practical - Weather a task is easy to carry out and realistically succeed.
Personal - Something that belongs more to an individual due to it affecting them more by relating to them.
Cheese - A hard pale yellow food made from curds of milk.
Fan - A piece of equipment that has blades that rotate to cool the air, can be installed within other equipment,

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