There’s hours of fun to be had with this bumper collection of activities featuring your favourite characters from Apple Tree Farm! From egg toppers to bouncing snowmen you’ll find activities for each season complete with easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions.
Everyone’s favourite antisocial prankster, Bart Simpson returns in another collection of hilarious adventures. Amongst the 16 different comic strips competing for laughs, you’ll come across Lisa as she learns ‘The Three Stages of Teaching’ the hard way and Nelson as he and Bart cause handcuffed havoc… Laugh-out-loud stuff from the inhabitants of Springfield!
The Other Hand was one of the most memorable novels to come out in 2008. Beautifully written, topical, thought-provoking and powerful. A beautiful hardback edition here - a book you’ll want to keep on your bookshelf for years to come.
Abandoned at the age of four, Skye learnt to fend for herself from an early age. Fearless and impulsive, Skye’s curiosity took her all over the world - from the Paris fashion world, on to Holland where she became a diamond smuggler and then to Hollywood where she worked as a stunt woman. Life took a different turn when she moved to Thailand, adopted four children - Angelina Jolie-style - and sponsored another three. The runaway child had found a reason to stop running…
Bob Flowerdew is a leading authority on organic gardening. With his vast experience, he takes you through essential gardening skills and the common pitfalls and shows you how to help your garden to fix itself with natural solutions like bird boxes and companion planting. Approachable, practical and a pleasure to read, this is a must for all modern gardeners.
In How to Cheat at Cooking, Delia has sourced a range of pre-prepared foods (from tins, chill cabinets, freezers and store cupboards) to help you short circuit cooking times and techniques. Readily available from supermarkets, delis, online food shops and farmers markets and of the very best quality, these recipes using instant time savers will allow you to create fabulous food without the faff. How to Cheat at Cooking is for people who don’t want to cook, who think they can’t cook, or simply don’t have the time to cook.
The magic and joy of Toy Town comes to life as never before in this series of colourful stories starring Noddy, Big-Ears and their many friends. Based on the original stories by Enid Blyton, the books have been brought completely up to date with the help of CGI images, ensuring they will appeal to a whole new generation of Noddy fans.
Now in its 70th year, Penguin continues its tradition of publishing some of the world’s most exciting and engaging fiction. Here, the world-famous publisher has produced a special selection of Penguin Celebrations, honouring its heritage and celebrating the fresh new voices that will live on to become the classics of the future. From Marina Lewycka’s surprise best-selling tale of two Ukrainian sisters raised in England to Meg Rosoff’s astonishing and powerful debut novel, this delightful collection offers a feast of surprising, exciting, entertaining, amusing and irresistible fiction.
This new edition of Britain’s best-selling secondary school atlas is divided into sections with each page colour-coded for ease of use. Satellite imagery, incredibly detailed mapping of the British Isles, 74 pages of world topographical maps and 30 pages of world thematic maps combine to create an unbeatable atlas that’s ideal for home and school, right up to GCSE level.
This is a thrilling face-to-face encounter with the intimate lives, elaborate displays and extraordinary behaviour of animals in their own environment. Internationally renowned zoologist and presenter of TV’s Animal Planet, Charlotte Uhlenbroek, leads a compelling study that brings the animal kingdom to vivid life. Illustrated with astonishing wildlife photography and action sequences, every aspect of animal life and behaviour is explored and explained - from courtship rituals and birth to hunting and death.
Mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish and invertebrates - thousands of all kinds are featured. How the animal kingdom is organized, and how animals’ bodies function are all explained, while outstanding action sequences bring key behavioural traits to life, critical conservation issues are also considered. From the fleeting life of a mayfly to the 10-year courtship of the manikin, this is the animal kingdom laid bare in all its awe-inspiring glory and detail.