This celebration of new life will allow for tender bedtime cuddles everywhere as the book relishes the shared family pleasure of a newborn baby. This perfect first board book will encourage children to either think about their own arrival into the world or prepare them for the arrival of a sibling as the words & pictures combine to create a world at peace with itself. ...

One of four charming board books by the best-selling creator of Percy the Park Keeper featuring toddler Sam & his six toy animal friends. Perfect books for babies & toddlers. Sam s toys love to help around the house making everyday tasks lots of fun. Croc helps watering the plants & George the gorilla scrubs the dishes. But the best fun of all is helping to make the beds...into a den! ...

Warrior priest Damien Vryce & immortal sorcerer Gerald Tarrant reunite in an uneasy alliance to combat an evil that threatens the delicate stability of life on Erna where the mysterious force known as the fae conjures monsters from the stuff of dreams. This sequel to Black Sun Rising secures Friedmans reputation both as a gifted storyteller & an innovative creator. This sequel to Black Sun Rising secures Friedmans reputation both as a gifted storyteller & an innovative creator. ...

These high quality editions of the original Milne & Shepard titles Winnie-the-Pooh The House At Pooh Corner Now We Are Six & When We Were Very Young are essential titles for every child's library. A. A. Milne's stories about Pooh & his forest friends have been loved by generations of children & their parents since the publication of the first book of stories Winnie-the-Pooh in 1926. Pooh first appeared as a character in Milne's poetry but it was the timeless tales of the Hundred Acre Wood that struck a chord with readers- & continues to do so today. ...

Winter is coming " Mother Bear said. " We must snuggle down to sleep in our den." Little Bear doesnt want to sleep! He wants to know what snow is like. His friends try to show him by making mud-balls & angels in the s&. But Little Bear knows that while hes asleep his friends will have fun in the soft white snow. Will they forget all about him?" ...

A charming reissue of a classic Judith Kerr backlist treasure with a beautifully refreshed new cover look. When Willy is told hes not allowed to bring his pets to his sisters wedding despite his promise they turn up anyway...with disastrous results! Once there was a boy called Willy. He had lots of pets & a grown-up sister. Willys sister was so grown-up that she was getting married & Willy was going to the wedding. Shall I bring my pets to the wedding?" said Willy. " No " said Willys father. " No " said Willys mother. " No " said Willys grown-up sister. " Better not old chap " said Bruce who was going to marry Willys sister. " Your pets might not like it." Despite Willys attempt to keep his beloved pets from coming to his sisters wedding they some how manage to find a way in to the church & the even the reception afterwards with disastrous results! This is a charming hilarious & beautifully illustrated story from the author of the perennial childrens classics The Tiger Who Came to Tea & Mog the Forgetful Cat." ...

David Sedariss remarkable ability to uncover the hilarious absurdity teeming just below the surface of everyday life is elevated to wilder & more entertaining heights than ever in this new book of stories. Sedaris proceeds from bizarre conundrums of daily life
- the etiquette of having a lozenge fall from your mouth into the lap of a fellow passenger or how to soundproof your windows with LP covers against neurotic songbirds
- to the most deeply resonant human truths. Taking in the parasitic worm that once lived in his mother-in-laws leg an encounter with a dingo & the purchase of a human skeleton & culminating in a brilliant account of his attempt to quit smoking
- in Tokyo
- David Sedariss sixth story collection is a fresh masterpiece of comic writing.



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This book arises from my increasing awareness that the Lord's Prayer contains all that Christians really need to know; it is the very essence of the Gospel... My prayer is that you will have a sense of the great privilege that has been granted to us of holding a precious gem in our hands of being able to delight in its radiance play with its many facets plumb its depths gain a sense of peace & security from its touch & in so doing deepen our awareness of our union with Christ.' In these Bible readings for Lent & Easter Joanna Collicutt shows how growing as a Christian is rooted in the prayer Jesus gave us. As we pray the Lord's Prayer we express our relationship with God absorb gospel values & are also motivated to live them out. As we pray to the Father in union with the Son through the power of the Spirit so we begin to take on the character of Christ. The Holy Week readings encourage us to pause watch & wait at this special season; commentary is kept to a minimum & we spend time reflecting in the light of the Lord's Prayer on Luke's description of Christ's passion & resurrection.

Includes:: questions for group discussion which can form the basis of a group study through the weeks of Lent.

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As a parent there are certain things that are guaranteed to push your buttons. You behave in ways you later regret & your child learns to manipulate you. Rather than focusing on how you can change your childs behaviour this deeply insightful & wonderfully wise book focuses on you the parent. When Your Kids Push Your Buttons shows that it is your own attitudes & perceptions rather than your childs behaviour that spark your anger
- & these are often based on your own relationship with your parents. Discover how to:* End the cycle of action & reaction between you & your child* See the hidden messages of both children & parents anger* Understand why your own hidden agendas & standards as parents might push your child to act out* Address behaviour problems not with anger but with new solutions* Break free of the past & connect with your children. Filled with anecdotes from real parents & based on hundreds of real-life situations this book is destined to become a parenting classic.
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And then there was David Bowie the uber-freak with the mismatched pupils the low-tech space face from the planet Sparkle. This was Bowies third appearance on TOTP but this was the one that properly resonated with its audience the one that would go on to cause a seismic shift in the Zeitgeist. This is the performance that turned Bowie into a star embedding his Ziggy Stardust persona into the nations consciousness. With a tall flame-orange cockade quiff (stolen from a Kansai Yamamoto model on the cover of Honey) lavishly applied make-up white nail polish & wearing a multi-coloured jump-suit that looked as though it were made from fluorescent fish skin (chosen by Ziggy co-shaper the designer Freddie Buretti) & carrying a brand spanking new blue acoustic guitar a bone-thin Bowie appeared not so much as a pop singer but rather as some sort of benevolent alien a concept helped along by the provocative appearance of his guitarist the chicken-headed Mick Ronson with both of them unapologetically sporting knee-length patent leather wrestlers boots (Bowies were red). Most people are scared of colour Bowie said later. Their lives are built up in shades of grey. It doesnt matter how straight the style is make it brightly coloured material & everyone starts acting weird. Suddenly Bowie
- a man called alias
- had the world at his nail-varnished fingertips & in no time at all he would be the biggest star in the world.

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