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| "Would You Rather? by John Burningham (Paperback, 1994)" |
| "Would you rather drink snail squash or eat mashed worms? Help a witch make stew? Tickle a monkey? Or maybe - if you could really be anyone or do anything in the world - would you rather just beyou?"
Price: 5.99 |
| "Avocado Baby by John Burningham (Paperback, 1994)" |
| "The Hargraves want their new baby to grow up big and strong But the puny mite will hardly eat a thing One day Mrs Hargraves finds an avocado in the fruit bowl and the baby gobbles it up Soon the strangest things start to happen"
Price: 7.49 |
| "Zoo by Anthony Browne (Paperback, 1994)" |
| "Dad mum and two brothers spend a day at the zoo looking at the animals in the cages - or is it the animals that are looking at them?"
Price: 5.99 |
| "Eaters Of The Dead by Michael Crichton (Paperback, 1997)" |
| "The Eaters of the Dead is a brilliant stirring tale of historical adventure which deserves a place on readers bookshelves alongside Michael Crichton's bestselling techno-thrillers It is AD922 and Ibn Fadlan is sent north from Baghdad as a peaceful ambassador But before he reaches his destination he falls in with some Vikings and when they are attacked by mystical bloodthirsty creatures in the midst of a terrible fog he reluctantly agrees to become the prophesied 13th warrior in order for them to survive Later turned into a major Hollywood film Eaters of the Dead is an imaginative and breathlessly exciting retelling of the Beowulf myth that rescues the story from dry academic analysis and resurrects it as an action-packed story of adventure"
Price: 6.49 |
| "Eve Was Framed: Women and British Justice by Helena Kennedy (Paperback, 1993)" |
| "Eve Was Framed offers an impassioned personal critique of the British legal system Helena Kennedy focuses on the treatment of women in our courts - at the prejudices of judges the misconceptions of jurors the labyrinths of court procedures and the influence of the media But the inequities she uncovers could apply equally to any disadvantaged group - to those whose cases are subtly affected by race class poverty or politics or who are burdened even before they appear in court by misleading stereotypes"
Price: 7.99 |
| "Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography by Roland Barthes (Paperback, 1993)" |
| "Examining the themes of presence and absence the relationship between photography and theatre history and death these &39;reflections on photography&39; begin as an investigation into the nature of photographs Then as Barthes contemplates a photograph of his mother as a child the book becomes an exposition of his own mind"
Price: 7.49 |
| "Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as if People Mattered by E. F. Schumacher (Paperback, 1993)" |
| "Small is Beautiful is E F Schumacher's stimulating and controversial study of economics and its purpose This remarkable book examines our modern economic system - its use of resources and impact on how we live - questioning whether they reflect what we truly care about The revolutionary ideas are as pertinent inspirational and thought-provoking today as when they were first published in 1973"
Price: 7.49 |
| "The Green Ship by Quentin Blake (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "Two children find the Green Ship when they climb over the wall into what is more like a forest than a garden The ship has bushes for bows and stern and its funnels are trees; a small garden shed on an ancient stump is the wheel house and in command of the ship is the owner of the garden old Mrs Tredegar Throughout the summer she and the Bosun and the two children sail the Seven Seas visiting exotic faraway places and having wonderful adventures"
Price: 6.49 |
| "The Big Alfie Out Of Doors Storybook by Shirley Hughes (Paperback, 1994)" |
| "Alfie loves being outside and in this gorgeous collection of stories and poems he plays in the garden camps in the countryside shares a picnic on the beach splashes in the paddling pool and lots more! Full of snapshots of family life this is a book to treasure"
Price: 5.99 |
| "The Second Katie Morag Storybook by Mairi Hedderwick (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "Welcome to the Island of Struay home of one of the best-loved characters in children's books and as seen on TV - Katie Morag McColl!Discover some of the secrets of Katie Morag's island home in the many stories poems and pictures in this treasure-trove of a collection Find out if Castle McColl really is haunted discover the identity of the hairy hermit who never visits the village and join in the birthday celebrations with Grannie Island and Granma Mainland There's never a dull moment with Katie Morag!"
Price: 5.99 |
| "Little Red Train: Faster, Faster by Benedict Blathwayt (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "Click-clack clicketty-clack whoo eee! Disaster! The fast rain to Pebblecombe has broken down Everyone on the train wants to get to the fair and enjoy a great day out but now they're all stuck on the tracks It is up to the Little Red Train and Duffy Driver to save the day Do the little Red Train speeds up and is determined to get her passengers to the fair on time As Duffy remarks at the end of the journey 'You're the Little Red Express now!' Follow the train on its speedy journey and marvel at the wealth of detail in every picture"
Price: 5.99 |
| "Hair In Funny Places by Babette Cole (Paperback, 2001)" |
| "Girls and boys are always curious and sometimes even alarmed by the behaviour of their bodies as they grow up Puberty being a particularly unsettling time Babette Cole has made this the subject of the fifth title in her bestselling series of 'family dilemmas' Who else but Babette would have the temerity to tackle this subject in a picture book and the genius to carry it off! In Hair in Funny Places her artwork is without exaggeration some of the best she has ever done it is brilliant The text takes the form of a conversation between a small girl and her teddy bear and is ingenious and funny It is the behaviour of Mr and Mrs Hormone (wonderfully depicted) which is responsible for and plays havoc with the physical and emotional states of girls and boys throughout puberty This book is bound to be controversial but Babette has never taken the conventional path and her readers love her for her outrageous approach to little mentioned topics"
Price: 7.99 |
| "My Many Coloured Days by Random House Children's Publishers UK (Paperback, 2001)" |
| "'You'd be surprised how many ways I change on different coloured days'Maybe on some days you feel sort of brown like a bear; you feel slow and low low down But then comes a yellow day and wheeeeeeeee! you feel like a busy buzzy bee Dr Seuss takes the reader on a journey through many different moods in this vibrant and highly original book"
Price: 7.49 |
| "Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut (Paperback, 1998)" |
| "According to science-fiction writer Kilgore Trout a global timequake will occur in New York City on 13th February 2001 It is the moment when the universe suffers a crisis of conscience Should it expand or make a great big bang? It decides to wind the clock back a decade to 1991 making everyone in the world endure ten years of deja-vu and a total loss of free will - not to mention the torture of reliving every nanosecond of one of the tawdiest and most hollow decades With his trademark wicked wit Vonnegut addresses memory suicide the Great Depression the loss of American eloquence and the obsolescent thrill of reading books"
Price: 7.49 |
| "Wonderful Life by Stephen Jay Gould (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "High in the Canadian Rockies is a small limestone quarry formed 530 million years ago Called the Burgess Shale it holds the remains of an ancient sea where dozens of strange creatures lived - a forgotten corner of evolution preserved in incredible detail In this book Stephen Jay Gould explores what the Burgess Shale might tell us about evolution and the nature of history The Darwinian theory of evolution is a well-known well-explored area But there is one aspect of human life which this theory of evolution fails to account for chance Using the brilliantly preserved fossil fauna of the Burgess Shale as his case study Gould argues that chance was in fact one of the decisive factors in the evolution of life on this planet and that with a flip of coin everything could have been very different indeed"
Price: 9.99 |
| "A History Of God by Karen Armstrong (Paperback, 1999)" |
| "The idea of a single devine being - God Yahweh Allah - has existed for over 4000 years But the history of God is also the history of human struggle While Judaism Islam and Christianity proclaim the goodness of God organised religion has too often been the catalyst for violence and ineradicable prejudice In this fascinating extensive and original account of the evolution of belief Karen Armstrong examines Western society's unerring fidelity to this idea of One God and the many conflicting convictions it engenders A controversial extraordinary story of worship and war A History of God confronts the most fundamental fact - or fiction - of our lives"
Price: 9.49 |
| "Dublin: Foundation by Edward Rutherfurd (Paperback, 2005)" |
| "Edward Rutherfurd's great Irish epic reveals the story of the people of Ireland through the focal point of the island's capital city The epic begins in pre-Christian Ireland during the reign of the fierce and powerful High Kings at Tara with the tale of two lovers the princely Conall and the ravishing Deirdre whose travails echo the ancient Celtic legend of Cuchulainn From this stirring beginning Rutherfurd takes the reader on a graphically realised journey through the centuries Through the interlocking stories of a powerfully-imagined cast of characters - druids and chieftains monks and smugglers merchants and mercenaries noblewomen rebels and cowards - we see Ireland through the lens of its greatest city"
Price: 7.99 |
| "Salt by Mark Kurlansky (Paperback, 2003)" |
| "Homer called it a divine substance Plato described it as especially dear to the gods As Mark Kurlansky so brilliantly relates here salt has shaped civilisation from the beginning and its story is a glittering often surprising part of the history of mankind Wars have been fought over salt and while salt taxes secured empires across Europe and Asia they have also inspired revolution - Gandhi's salt march in 1930 began the overthrow of British rule in India From the rural Sichuan province where the last home-made soya sauce is produced to the Cheshire brine springs that supplied salt around the globe Mark Kurlansky has produced a kaleidoscope of world history a multi-layered masterpiece that blends political commercial scientific religious and culinary records into a rich and memorable tale"
Price: 8.99 |
| "A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "Hemingway's memories of his life as an unknown writer living in Paris in the twenties are deeply personal warmly affectionate and full of wit Looking back not only at his own much younger self but also at the other writers who shared Paris with him - James Joyce Wyndham Lewis Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald - he recalls the time when poor happy and writing in cafes he discovered his vocation Written during the last years of Hemingway's life his memoir is a lively and powerful reflection of his genius that scintillates with the romance of the city"
Price: 5.99 |
| "Black Boy by Richard Wright (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "'In Black Boy I found expressed for the first time in my life the sorrow the rage and the murderous bitterness which was eating up my life and lives of those around me Richard Wright's work was an immense liberation and revelation for me He became my ally and my witness and alas! my father' - James BaldwinAt four years of age Richard Wright set fire to his home; at five his father deserted the family; by six Richard was - - temporarily - an alcoholic Moved from home to home from brick tenement to orphanage he had had by the age of twelve only one year's formal education It was in saloons railroad yards and streets that he learned the facts about life under white subjection about fear hunger and hatred Gradually he learned to play Jim Crow in order to survive in a world of white hostility secretly satisfying his craving for books and knowledge until the time came when he could follow his dream of justice and opportunity in the north"
Price: 7.49 |
| "Mummy Laid An Egg! by Babette Cole (Paperback, 1995)" |
| "Just how are babies made? Erm Wellthey're delivered by dinosaurs squidged out of tubes and found under stones! In this story the kids put their embarrassed parents straight and dispel the myths surrounding baby-making growth and birth Babette Cole careers through the facts of life with her no-nonsense text and funny illustrations"
Price: 6.49 |
| "Guns, Germs And Steel by Jared M. Diamond (Paperback, 1998)" |
| "'A book of big questions and big answers' Yuval Noah Harari bestselling author of SapiensWITH A NEW AFTERWORD FROM THE AUTHOR Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe?In his Pulitzer Prize-winning book Jared Diamond puts the case that geography and biogeography not race moulded the contrasting fates of Europeans Asians Native Americans sub-Saharan Africans and aboriginal Australians An ambitious synthesis of history biology ecology and linguistics Guns Germs and Steel remains a ground-breaking and humane work of popular science"
Price: 8.99 |
| "The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton (Paperback, 1995)" |
| "Five prominent biophysicists give the United States government an urgent warning sterilisation procedures for returning space probes may be inadequate to guarantee uncontaminated re-entry to the atmosphere Two years later Project Scoop sends seventeen satellites into the fringes of space in order to 'collect organisms and dust for study' Then a probe falls to the earth landing in a desolate area of northeastern Arizona A little while later in the nearby town of Piedmont bodies are discovered heaped and flung across the ground faces locked in frozen surprise But the terror has only just begun because when they try to find the cause of death the scientists don't realise just what kind of unearthly danger they are dealing with Brilliantly filmed by Robert Wise in 1971 The Andromeda Strain was the first book to introduce Michael Crichton's audacious combination of believable plots and white-knuckled excitement to a wide audience"
Price: 6.49 |
| "The Little Red Train: The Runaway Train by Benedict Blathwayt (Paperback, 1997)" |
| "The first charming tale in The Little Red Train series which will appeal to all little boys and girls obsessed with engines trains and things that go!Oh no! Duffy has forgotten to put on the brake and the Little Red Train has set off down the track without its driver! Can Duffy catch up with the runaway train?Maybe with a little help from his friends"
Price: 5.99 |
| "Mrs Armitage on Wheels by Quentin Blake (Paperback, 1999)" |
| "Mrs Armitage sets off for a quiet cycle with her faithful dog Breakspear but she just can't help thinking of ways to improve her bicycle Before very long she has added three very loud horns a bucket of water to wash her hands a complete tool kit And by the time she has also added a seat for Breakspear two umbrellas a cassette player and a mouth-organ Mrs Armitage is riding a very eye-catching contraption But it is when she finally adds the mast and sail that Mrs Armitage really runs into trouble"
Price: 6.49 |
| "Where The Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "One night Max puts on his wolf suit and makes mischief of one kind and another so his mother calls him 'Wild Thing' and sends him to bed without his supper That night a forest begins to grow in Max's room and an ocean rushes by with a boat to take Max to the place where the wild things are Max tames the wild things and crowns himself as their king and then the wild rumpus begins But when Max has sent the monsters to bed and everything is quiet he starts to feel lonely and realises it is time to sail home to the place where someone loves him best of all"
Price: 5.99 |
| "For Every Child by Random House Children's Publishers UK (Paperback, 2002)" |
| "'Whoever we are wherever we liveThese are the rights of every child under The sun and the moon and the stars'In November 1989 the United Nations formally adopted 54 principles which make up the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child From the right to a name and a nationality to the right to education and play and special protection for disabled children the fourteen rights most pertinent to young children have been carefully chosen and interpreted here in simple language 191 of the world's 193 countries have ratified the Convention making themselves legally bound to comply with its obligations There is a wonderful international cast of acclaimed illustrators from Britain Shirley Hughes Babette Cole John Burningham and Peter Weevers; from the US Jerry Pinkney and Rachel Isadora; from Ireland PJ Lynch; French artist Philippe Dumas Chilean illustrator Claudio Munoz; from Germany Henriette Sauvant; Indian artists Amrit and Rabindra K D Kaur Singh; from Japan Satoshi Kitamura; Zimbabwe-born Ken Wilson Max; from China a brilliant new young artist Yang Twesi-yu Each has illustrated a different right with an outstanding double page spread making a powerful and moving book that is both an important souvenir and a stunning picture book to be treasured"
Price: 5.99 |
| "Mr Gumpy's Outing by John Burningham (Paperback, 2001)" |
| "One day Mr Gumpy decides to take a trip along the river in his boat but the children the rabbit the cat the pig and lots more friends decide to join him Everyone's having a lovely time until the animals start kicking bleating hopping and flapping and the boat starts to rock"
Price: 7.49 |
| "The Queen's Knickers by Nicholas Allan (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "It's a busy year for the Queen - she has lots of important events to attend Meanwhile a little girl is wondering what knickers Her Majesty will choose to wear on a school visit! Will they be her 'at home' knickers - adorned with corgis - or her 'garden party' knickers or perhaps her woolly Balmoral ones?Both children and adults will love this very special and endearing insight into a child's imagination from the best-selling author-illustrator of Father Christmas Needs A Wee and Jesus' Christmas Party Recently the Queen visited a nursery in Norfolk and enjoyed a display based on the bookjust to make it special there was one element that was not quite so traditional pants These were not just any pants either They were the Queen's Knickers and at Dersingham Infant and Nursery School in Norfolk they were put on special display in honour of their royal visitor Valentine Low The Times"
Price: 5.49 |
| "The Sign And The Seal by Graham Hancock (Paperback, 1993)" |
| "After nine years investigating the exact location of the ultimate religious icon the Ark of the Covenant British researcher and investigative journalist Graham Hancock reveals his status-quo shattering discoveries Part mystery thriller part true adventure and part travel book this gripping piece of historical research challenges society's principal religious preconceptions and takes the reader on a rollercoaster ride through ancient history"
Price: 8.99 |
