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| "The Story of Flying" |
| "The history of man-made flight for children growing in reading confidence From Da Vinci to the Wright Brothers find out how people dreamed of taking to the sky in complex flying machines before inventions such as hot-air balloons airships helicopters and of course aeroplanes made it all possible Usborne Young Reading has been developed with reading experts from Roehampton University"
Price: 5.49 |
| "Robinson Crusoe" |
| "The classic story re-told for children growing in reading confidence Follows the adventures of Robinson Crusoe who survives a shipwreck only to find himself stuck of a desert island! How will he manage alone? Part of the Usborne Reading Programme developed with reading experts at the University of Roehampton"
Price: 5.49 |
| "Aesop's Fables (Young Reading (Series 2)) (3.2 Young Reading Series Two (Blue)) Hardcover" |
| "A collection of eight of Aesop&39;s best-loved fables retold for children growing in reading confidence Sly foxes thirsty storks and greedy dogs all feature in these fun stories each with its own moral at the end Usborne Young Reading has been developed with reading experts from Roehampton University"
Price: 5.49 |
| "Aesops Fables" |
| "A collection of eight of Aesop's best-loved fables retold for children growing in reading confidence Sly foxes thirsty storks and greedy dogs all feature in these fun stories each with its own moral at the end Usborne Young Reading has been developed with reading experts from Roehampton University The audio CD includes a dramatic listen-along recording with music and sound effects followed by a read-along version with prompts for page turns"
Price: 5.99 |
| "That's Not My Teddy" |
| "A delightful touchy-feely book with simple repetitive text and bold illustrations suitable for babies and toddlers"
Price: 6.99 |
| "That's Not My Pirate" |
| "A touchy-feely board book with simple repetitive text tactile patches and bold illustrations suitable for babies and toddlers A little white mouse appears on every page for children to spot"
Price: 5.99 |
| "The Sun and the Wind" |
| "These are four new titles in the fantastic First Reading series aimed at children who are beginning to read Luxurious hardback editions foster pride in book ownership and enthusiasm for reading Each of these four exciting new stories is a classic story or fable retold with simple text to delight and inspire any child who is just beginning to read This key series was developed in conjunction with reading expert Allison Kelly from the University of Surrey a reading specialist Every title has clear and compelling text that allows children to build their burgeoning reading skills and is accompanied by charming and highly appealing illustrations"
Price: 5.49 |
| "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" |
| "This is a new title in the fantastic First Reading series aimed at children who are beginning to read Sam should be looking after his sheep but instead he can't help but play cruel tricks on the villagers by crying wolf Will Sam soon be caught out by his own joke? This title provides clear and compelling text accompanied by vibrant original illustrations by Mike Gordon It is developed in consultation with Alison Kelly who is a senior lecturer in education and an early reading specialist from Roehampton University It is a great value quality hardback with ribbon marker guaranteed to foster pride in book ownership"
Price: 4.99 |
| "Robin Hood" |
| "This is a brand new addition to Usborne Young Reading Series 2 which is aimed at children whose reading ability is beginning to grow and helps build confidence and ability Robin Hood along with his band of Merry Men robs from the rich to give to the poor But when the cruel Sheriff of Nottingham threatens the throne of King Richard can Robin save the kingdom and win the heart of the fair Maid Marian? It is evocatively illustrated by Alan Marks who also illustrated the Young Reading titles Moonfleet and The Railway Children It is developed in consultation with Alison Kelly who is a senior lecturer in education and an early reading specialist from Roehampton University"
Price: 5.49 |
| "Greek Myths and Legends" |
| "This is a new edition of this detailed introduction to the most famous gods and goddesses in Greek mythology and their exploits Fully illustrated throughout this title helps the reader to understand the stories of the Greek gods and the way in which they were worshipped A full index and 'Who's Who' section at the back of this book make it a must for those studying mythology or researching for a project"
Price: 7.49 |
| "See Inside : Space" |
| "A flap book of astronomical proportions packed with facts and information about the stars planets and the universe Fabulous double-page topics show our solar system the Milky Way how scientists think the universe was created and the latest space travel technology"
Price: 7.49 |
| London |
| "How did London become the big bustling city it is today? When was the Underground built and what was the Great Fire of London? These and other questions are answered with vivid full colour photographs and short informative text Usborne Beginners are exciting books for children who are beginning to read on their own"
Price: 5.49 |
| "Dangerous Animals by Rebecca Gilpin (Hardback, 2008)" |
| "Usborne Beginners are colourful information books for children beginning to read on their own Vivid full colour illustrations and photographs on every page accompanied by short informative text"
Price: 5.49 |
| "Rainforests by Catriona Clarke (Hardback, 2008)" |
| "From the tops of the trees to the forest floor this book is full of some of the weird and wonderful things that live there But the world's rainforests are in danger - find out why and what will happen if people don't change the things they do With fabulous photos and simple text shows some of the weird and wonderful things that live in rainforests and describes the dangers facing them Developed with reading experts at the University of Roehampton"
Price: 5.49 |
| "Beowulf by Rob Lloyd Jones (Hardback, 2009)" |
| "This is the classic story written over a thousand years ago and retold for children ready to tackle longer and more complex stories Fearsome monsters stalk the moors of ancient Denmark murdering anyone they catch But then a warrior comes from overseas His name is Beowulf He kills monsters Each scene is atmospherically brought to life with Victor Tavares&39; illustrations Part of the Usborne Reading Programme is developed with reading experts at the University of Roehampton"
Price: 5.49 |
| "Illustrated Stories from Grimm by Gill Doherty, Ruth Brocklehurst (Hardback, 2010)" |
| "This is a wonderful collection of stories from the famous collectors of fairytales The Brothers Grimm Stories include The Frog Prince Rapunzel Hansel and Gretel Little Red Riding Hood The Bremen Town Musicians Tom Thumb The Elves and the Shoemaker Sleeping Beauty Snow White and the Seven Dwarves Rumpelstiltskin The Goose Girl The Bear and the Wren The Twelve Dancing Princesses and Snow White and Rose Red It also includes a short biography of the brothers themselves"
Price: 10.99 |
| "The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd (Paperback, 2003)" |
| "Sue Monk Kidd's internationally bestselling first novel THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES has delighted many millions of readers around the world 'Charming funny moving' The Times; 'A wonderful book by turns sad full of incident and shot through with grown-up magic reminiscent of Joanne Harris' Daily TelegraphLily has grown up believing she accidentally killed her mother when she was four She not only has her own memory of holding the gun but her father's account of the event Now fourteen she yearns for her mother and for forgiveness Living on a peach farm in South Carolina with her father she has only one friend Rosaleen a black servant whose sharp exterior hides a tender heart South Carolina in the sixties is a place where segregation is still considered a cause worth fighting for When racial tension explodes one summer afternoon and Rosaleen is arrested and beaten Lily is compelled to act Fugitives from justice and from Lily's harsh and unyielding father they follow a trail left by the woman who died ten years before Finding sanctuary in the home of three beekeeping sisters Lily starts a journey as much about her understanding of the world as about the mystery surrounding her mother"
Price: 6.99 |
| "After You'd Gone by Maggie O'Farrell (Paperback, 2001)" |
| "AFTER YOU'D GONE is the groundbreaking debut novel from the Costa-Award winning Maggie O'Farrell author of THIS MUST BE THE PLACE and I AM I AM I AM It is a stunning best-selling novel of wrenching love and griefA distraught young woman boards a train at King's Cross to return to her family in Scotland Six hours later she catches sight of something so terrible in a mirror at Waverley Station that she gets on the next train back to LondonAFTER YOU'D GONE follows Alice's mental journey through her own past after a traffic accident has left her in a coma A love story that is also a story of absence and of how our choices can reverberate through the generations it slowly draws us closer to a dark secret at a family's heart"
Price: 6.49 |
| "The Tortilla Curtain" |
| "When Delaney Mossbacher knocks down a Mexican pedestrian he neither reports the accident nor takes his victim to hospital Instead the man accepts 20 and limps back to poverty and his pregnant 17-year-old wife leaving Delaney to return to his privileged life in California But these two men are fated against each other as Delaney attempts to clear the land of the illegal immigrants who he thinks are turning his state park into a ghetto and a boiling pot of racism and prejudice threatens to spill over"
Price: 6.49 |
| "Emotional Intelligence: Why it Can Matter More Than IQ Mass Market Paperback" |
| "The groundbreaking bestseller that redefines intelligence and success Does IQ define our destiny? Daniel Goleman argues that our view of human intelligence is far too narrow and that our emotions play major role in thought decision making and individual success Self-awareness impulse control persistence motivation empathy and social deftness are all qualities that mark people who excel whose relationships flourish who are stars in the workplace With new insights into the brain architecture underlying emotion and rationality Goleman shows precisely how emotional intelligence can be nurtured and strengthened in all of us"
Price: 7.99 |
| "The Gift of Fear : Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence" |
| "In this empowering book Gavin de Becker the man Oprah Winfrey calls the US' leading expert on violent behaviour shows you how to spot even subtle signs of danger - before it's too late Shattering the myth that most violent acts are unpredictable de Becker whose clients include top Hollywood stars and government agencies offers specific ways to protect yourself and those you love including how to act when approached by a stranger; when you should fear someone close to you; what to do if you are being stalked; how to uncover the source of anonymous threats or phone calls; the biggest mistake you can make with a threatening person; and more You can learn to spot the danger signals others miss It might just save your life"
Price: 8.99 |
| "Cave in the Snow : A Western Woman's Quest for Enlightenment" |
| "The story of Tenzin Palmo an Englishwoman the daughter of a fishmonger from London's East End who spent 12 years alone in a cave 13000 feet up in the Himalayas and became a world-renowned spiritual leader and champion of the right of women to achieve spiritual enlightenment Diane Perry grew up in London's East End At the age of 18 however she read a book on Buddhism and realised that this might fill a long-sensed void in her life In 1963 at the age of 20 she went to India where she eventually entered a monastery Being the only woman amongst hundreds of monks she began her battle against the prejudice that has excluded women from enlightenment for thousands of years In 1976 she secluded herself in a remote cave 13000 feet up in the Himalayas where she stayed for 12 years between the ages of 33 and 45 In this mountain hideaway she faced unimaginable cold wild animals floods snow and rockfalls grew her own food and slept in a traditional wooden meditation box three feet square - she never lay down In 1988 she emerged from the cave with a determination to build a convent in northern India to revive the Togdenma lineage a long-forgotten female spiritual elite"
Price: 7.49 |
| "The Princess Bride (Paperback, 1999)" |
| "Beautiful flaxen-haired Buttercup has fallen for Westley the farm boy and when he departs to make his fortune she vows never to love another So when she hears that his ship has been captured by the Dread Pirate Roberts - who never leaves survivors - her heart is broken But her charms draw the attention of the relentless Prince Humperdinck who wants a wife and will go to any lengths to have Buttercup So starts a fairytale like no other of fencing fighting torture poison true love hate revenge giants hunters bad men good men beautifulest ladies snakes spiders beasts chases escapes lies truths passion and miracles"
Price: 7.99 |
| "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Book 1) Hardcover â Large Print" |
| "Harry Potter is an ordinary boy who lives in a cupboard under the stairs at his Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon&39;s house which he thinks is normal for someone like him who&39;s parents have been killed in a &39;car crash&39; He is bullied by them and his fat spoilt cousin Dudley and lives a very unremarkable life with only the odd hiccup (like his hair growing back overnight!) to cause him much to think about That is until an owl turns up with a letter addressed to Harry and all hell breaks loose! He is literally rescued by a world where nothing is as it seems and magic lessons are the order of the day Read and find out how Harry discovers his true heritage at Hogwarts School of Wizardry and Witchcraft the reason behind his parents mysterious death who is out to kill him and how he uncovers the most amazing secret of all time the fabled Philosopher&39;s Stone! All this and muggles too Now what are they?"
Price: 17.99 |
| "Love That Dog" |
| "Slowly Jack learns the pleasures of writing poetry as Miss Stretchberry encourages him to tell his own story through verse What emerges is a moving and memorable story about a boy and his dog and his growing passion for poetry"
Price: 4.99 |
| "The House on Mango Street" |
| "Told in a series of vibrant vignettes The House On Mango Street is the story of Esperanza Cordera a young girl growing up in the Hispanic quarter of Chicago For Esperanza Mango Street is a desolate landscape of concrete and run-down tenements where she discovers the hard realities of life - the fetters of class and gender the spectre of racial enmity and the mysteries of sexuality Capturing her thoughts and emotions in poems and stories Esperanza is able to rise above hopelessness and create for herself a house all of my own quiet as snow a space for myself to go in the midst of her oppressive surroundings"
Price: 6.99 |
| "Coraline Paperback" |
| ""Sometimes funny always creepy genuinely moving this marvellous spine-chiller will appeal to readers from nine to ninety" - "Books for Keeps" "I was looking forward to "Coraline" and I wasn&39;t disappointed In fact I was enthralled This is a marvellously strange and scary book" - Philip Pullman "Guardian" "If any writer can get the guys to read about the girls it should be Neil Gaiman His new novel "Coraline" is a dreamlike adventure For all its gripping nightmare imagery this is actually a conventional fairy story with a moral" - "Daily Telegraph" Stephen King once called Neil Gaiman &39;a treasure-house of stories&39; and in this wonderful novel which has been likened to both "Alice in Wonderland" and the "Narnia Chronicles" we get to see Neil at his storytelling best"
Price: 5.49 |
| "Stanley Yelnats Survival Guide to Camp Green Lake" |
| "Imagine your misfortune if like Stanley Yelnats you found yourself the victim of a miscarriage of justice and interned in Camp Green Lake Correctional Institute How would you survive? Thoughtfully Louis Sachar has learnt his knowledge and expertise to the subject and created this wonderful quirky and utterly essential guide to toughing it out in the Texan desert Spiced with lots of information about the characters in Holes as well as lots of do's and don'ts for survival this is an essential book for all those hundreds of thousands of Holes' fans"
Price: 5.49 |
| "Tuck Everlasting" |
| "Doomed to - or blessed with - eternal life after drinking from a magic spring the Tuck family wanders about trying to live as inconspicuously and comfortably as they can When ten year old Winnie Foster stumbles on their secret the Tucks kidnap her and explain why living forever at one age is less than a blessing that it might seem 'Intense and powerful exciting and poignant Tuck Everlasting will last forever - in the reader's imagination' Amazoncom 'Someone ought to start spreading the word that Natalie Babbitt is not only a children's writer the style is so fine and subtle that grownups too will take real pleasure 'Tuck Everlasting' is one of the best books ever written - for any age' Anne Tyler New York Times Featured in Elle Hot 100 This refreshing and original story throws up all sorts of moral dilemmas not least the question of whether one would like to live forever Children in Year 4 and above will find much to ponder here Times Educational Supplement Babbitt's economy of style is such that she can use a single gesture or detail to convey great swathes of meaning She understands perfectly the sense of powerlessness felt by children and her message is whether your name is Harry Potter Frodo Baggins or Winnie Foster young people with courage and a sense of rightness can 'make a difference' Herald (Glasgow) 'A welcome reissue of a book previously published in 1977 Long regarded as an American masterpiece Natalie Babbitt's novel deals with a weighty subject - everlasting life no less - with a lightness of touch and a simplicity that never descends to the pedantic or the condescending Sounds fanciful but is told with all the cool sharp clear-eyed 'realism' that represents the best of American writing And don't be influenced in any way by the fact that a Disney version is in production - just read it It's breathtaking' Chris Stephenson Carousel 'This novel is both lyrical and provocative and a timeless"
Price: 5.49 |
| "Hamish the Highland Cow" |
| "Hamish is a Highland cow and VERY hairy He hates having baths and NEVER cuts his hair Why should he when his shaggy coat is the perfect place to keep his favourite sweet - toffees! But one day his friends get fed up with the increasingly smelly Hamish and they hatch a plan that involves a hairdresser and yes toffees! An exuberant story with bold bright illustrations from a very talented artist 'Russell's bright-eyed cast including sheep with coloured rinses is full of character and her text is deftly delivered - it's a gift to read aloud' Scottish Sunday Herald"
Price: 6.99 |
