Aspiring fairies should grab their dancing shoes and get ready to move! These seven titles in the Rainbow Magic series take their fans into the world of dance… From salsa to ballet, disco to rock’n'roll, the Rainbow Magic fairies will sweep all dance-mad children off their feet and onto the dance floor!
Published to accompany the BBC’s landmark television series, this book is a compilation of the most stunning images and computer simulations from the series and charts Britain’s natural history, its industry & transport systems, its natural heritage and archaeology. Set to be one of the most breathtaking series, this book celebrates and depicts Britain as you’ve never seen it before.
Whether you’re struggling with insomnia or the kids have eczema, this book could have the answer… With easy recipes designed to help relieve common conditions, ethnobotanist James Wong shows you how to make simple creams, salves, teas and much more from the stuff growing in your window box, local garden centre or in the hedgerows.
Long before modern medicines became so widely available, families treated everyday illnesses with home-made remedies. Reused and refined year after year, they were handed down through the generations. In Grandma’s Remedies Cherry Chappell brings together a beguiling collection of them. Surprisingly simple and surprisingly effective, this book will deal out a healthy dose of common sense.
Looking good enough to eat, this utterly delicious little book offers a feast of cold treats for the summer. From the classic favourites, including vanilla and choc chip, to fresh fruit flavours, sorbets and ideas for more exotic and unusual ices, this book proves once and for all that homemade ice cream need not be complex or time-consuming. In fact, it does the opposite - proving the point that ice cream can be just as much fun to make as it is to consume!
Glow-Worms from Oxford Reading Tree are lively, themed poems that children can enjoy reading for themselves. Compiled by the UK’s leading anthologist, the collections have been carefully chosen to include topics that are perfect for 4 to 7 year olds. With fun and varied content and a range of themes that children will really enjoy, this set will encourage an early love of poetry.
There’s more to Lauren Child than Charlie and Lola… and they’re all here to meet you! There’s Clarice Bean, a sassy, confident and utterly delightful school-aged girl and her brother Kurt who’s intent on saving trees. There’s the frightfully rich Hubert Horatio who needs to help sort out his parents’ mad spending habits; and a homeless rat, with no shame, who wants to find the perfect home. And of course you can’t forget Charlie and Lola, the fabulous siblings who add wit and hilarity to even the most domestic of scenes.
If you’re fully intending to spend a good part of your summer holiday lying in the sun with your nose firmly in a good book, then look no further! Take the strain out of your packing with these 10 brilliant summer reads designed to provide you with a wide range of styles and subjects while ensuring that each and every one will justify its place in your suitcase.
The London Encyclopedia is the most comprehensive book on London ever published. In its first new edition in over ten years, it comprises of some 5000 entries and is illustrated with over 500 drawings, prints and photographs. Everything that is important in the history and culture of England’s capital is documented and the text is warm and accessible. This is a book you’ll find yourself turning to again and again.
Sheila Hancock continues her story in this moving, honest and charming account of life without husband John Thaw. In this latest chapter of her life she faces down burglars and EasyJet staff, makes friends with waiters and taxi drivers, unearths secrets in Budapest and gets arrested in Thailand. Just Me is a book about moving on, but it is also about looking back, and looking anew. Honest, insightful and wonderfully down-to-earth this is the story of a woman seizing the future with wit, gusto and curiosity.