Watching from the windows of their zebra-striped all-terrain bus a group of happy children arrives at the wildlife park. Theyre joining in the catchy refrain that the wheels on the bus go round & round encouraging readers to do exactly the same! As the bus drives the children all around the park its the animals who take centre-stage allowing this much-loved rhyme to enter new territory steered by Jan Ormerods fresh & lively interpretation of the song. So with the established rhythm of the song put in motion by the bus children can join in as the antelopes spring so high in the air the otters in the pool float paw in paw & the llamas in the field go trot trot trot. & of course there are actions inspired by the animals antics too. Lindsey Gardiner has created colourful collage illustrations bursting with expressive & energetic animals that children just wont be able to resist wanting to copy as they leap splash & roll over the pages! So its a book for more than reading: its a book for climbing aboard singing along to & joining in with.. .all.. .day.. .long! ...

' The wheels on the bus go round & round Round & round round & round The wheels on the bus go round & round All day long.' Push the button & sing along with this bright & lively picture book from Britta Teckentrup. With die-cut shapes that reveal more & more as the pages are turned colourful art different animals to recognise & a little mouse character to follow as he tries to catch the bus this book will become a favourite for young children. This edition comes complete with a push-button sound chip that plays ' The Wheels on the Bus' tune. ...

With foul air filthy water rising temperatures & encroaching deserts China is already suffering an environmental disaster. Now it faces a stark choice: either accept catastrophe or make radical changes. Traveling the vast country to witness this environmental challenge Jonathan Watts moves from mountain paradises to industrial wastelands examining the responses of those at the top of society to the problems & hopes of those below. At heart his book is not a call for panic but a demonstration that
- even with the crisis so severe & the political scope so limited
- the actions of individuals can make a difference. Consistently attentive to human detail Watts vividly portrays individual lives in a country all too often viewed from outside as a faceless state. No reader of his book
- no consumer in the world
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Peter Godwin an award-winning writer is on assignment in Zululand when he is summoned by his mother to Zimbabwe his birthplace. His father is seriously ill; she fears he is dying. Godwin finds his country once a post-colonial success story descending into a vortex of violence & racial hatred. His father recovers but over the next few years Godwin travels regularly between his family life in Manhattan & the increasing chaos of Zimbabwe with its rampant inflation & land seizures making famine a very real prospect. It is against this backdrop that Godwin discovers a fifty-year-old family secret one which changes everything he thought he knew about his father & his own place in the world. Peter Godwins book combines vivid reportage moving personal stories & revealing memoir & traces his familys quest to belong in hostile lands -- a quest that spans three continents & half a century. Heartbreaking.. . Godwin plainly loves Africa & he captures the baffling wayward contradictions of its people their cruelties & unexpected kindnesses their nobility of spirit in the face of appalling conditions with humour & grace Daily Mail A wonderful book.. .beautifully written packed with insight & free of rancour Literary Review A strong heroic book... too vivid to bear & too central to our concerns to ignore Edmund White ...

This exciting & appealing picture book contains everything you need to know about making an elephant's first day at nursery school fun & happy. Packed full of useful tips about an elephant's behaviour in a classroom setting this is a perfect book for any child who has ever dreamed of making more unusual friends during their nursery school day... ...

Remember a time when boxing ruled the sporting world? When the great & the good of the fight game were the biggest stars of their day & when a major bout was a global event that captivated & enthralled people on almost every continent
- when the main event was the event? When Boxing Was Boxing is a photographic celebration of the sports heyday. Its a beautifully illustrated tribute to an age when the noble art was a little more dignified & a little less preoccupied with money & the politics of sport. Its about a time when there werent quite so many governing bodies nor multiple world champions viewed only by tiny audiences on pay-per-view channels; a time when boxing was once regarded as the pinnacle of professional sporting endeavour & not just a lucrative arm of the leisure & entertainment business. This is no whitewash of boxing history. As the chapters show the toughest game has an often murky past. But in its portrayal of the great pugilists & their finest bouts the famous arenas & the colourful characters When Boxing Was Boxing brings to vivid life the atmosphere raw spectacle & sheer excitement of this most brutal yet compelling of sporting theatre. With special features on the sports grassroots its particular customs culture & curiosities & its more lighthearted moments this is an affectionate & wonderfully nostalgic look at a time when boxing really was boxing.
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A nation that forgets its past has no future
- Winston Churchill. When Britain went to war everyone in the country was involved
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If Beardy Ardagh is to be believed the trouble begins when a monkey escapes from the grubtown old folks home or when the sun-ripe raisin man decides to give up shrivelled dried grapes & to grow vegetables instead. Whatever the beginning it all ends up with far too many bunny rabbits & a serious problem with paper aeroplanes. Philip Ardagh shows just what it is that would make any sane-minded person avoid visiting Grubtown for business or pleasure at all costs & excactly why fun-loving readers (of all ages) should head straight for a shelf of Grubtown Tales."" ...

China will replace the United States as the world's dominant power. In so doing it will not become more western but the world will become more Chinese. Jacques argues that we cannot understand China in western terms but only through its own history & culture. To this end he introduces a powerful set of ideas including China as a civilization-state the tributary system the Chinese idea of race a very different concept of the state & the principle of contested modernity. First published in 2009 to widespread critical acclaim
- & controversy
- When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World & the Rise of a New Global Order" has sold a quarter of a million copies been translated into eleven languages nominated for two major literary awards & has been the subject of an immensely popular TED talk. In the three years since the first edition was published the book has transformed the debate about China worldwide & proved remarkably prescient. In this greatly expanded & fully updated paperback edition with nearly three-hundred pages of new material backed up by the latest statistical data Martin Jacques renews his assault on conventional thinking about China's ascendancy showing how its impact will be as much political & cultural as economic thereby transforming the world as we know it."

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With this novel Sharon Penman moves to a new set of characters & to 12th Century England & the early civil war between Stephen & his cousin The Empress Made
- A long fight to won the English throne. Stephen was handsome unreliable & beguiling. Maude was courageous beautiful & insanely arrogant. They fought for twenty years & devastated Engl&. Their flair for dramatic events & immense catastrophes made sure that they were never boring.
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