The Girls' Book of Crafts & Activities is full of 150 girly projects, ideas and activities. From making button bracelets, baking gingerbread, sewing a phone sock for your mobile or designing your own fashion collection, it's got it all. Set out in clear step-by-step instructions, you can pick short 10 minute projects to those that will occupy you for a whole day! Not just a craft book, a cookery book or a sewing book — The Girls' Book of Crafts & Activities is all of the best bits rolled into...
The Hogwarts Classics box set contains two essential wizarding works no Muggle home should be without. Regularly consulted by students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Quidditch Through the Ages is an indispensable and comprehensive guide to the popular wizarding sport. The Tales of Beedle the Bard is a collection of five fairy tales loved by generations of wizarding families, accompanied by wise, witty and learned notes from the esteemed Professor Albus Dumbledore. Both titles include illustrations from J.K. Rowling. A handsome addition to any magical library, these gorgeous,...
Brand new edition of this collection of classic fairy tales from the wizarding world — an irresistible read for all Harry Potter fans. J.K. Rowling's original text, with gorgeous jacket art by Jonny Duddle and line illustrations throughout by Tomislav Tomic. Published in aid of Lumos (wearelumos.org), an international children's charity founded by J.K. Rowling. The Tales of Beedle the Bard have been favourite bedtime reading in wizarding households for centuries. Full of magic and trickery, these classic tales both entertain and instruct, and remain as captivating to...
A classic children's book collection from Rupert the Bear as part of the stunning new Egmont Heritage range. This beautiful book contains two classic Alfred Bestall stories: Rupert & The Mare's Nest and Rupert & The Lost Cuckoo. Rupert and the Mare's Nest "What's a Mare's nest?" Rupert asks his father when he reads the words in a book. They don't exist, says Mr Bear — but Rupert is determined to find one, and his search takes him to many exciting places! Rupert & The Lost Cuckoo The cuckoo is...
This award-winning graded readers series is full of original fiction, adapted fiction and factbooks especially written for teenagers. London is a special city with a fascinating past and an exciting present. Read about Shakespeare and shopping, the River Thames and red buses, the Great Fire of 1666 and the Olympics of 2012, haunted Tube stations and bloody murders. Meet Londoners past and present and find out how London started and what drives this amazing city today. This paperback is in British English. Download the complete audio recording of this title and additional classroom resources...
Travels of Zephyr is based on the fictional notes and sketches of a fictional explorer James Mac Killian (1889-1978), an eccentric explorer who traveled the world extensively. This book tells the stories of his homemade hot-air balloon, the Zephyr. It had a heated cockpit so that Mac Killian could explore Arctic lands. The goal of his expeditions was to visit different ethnic groups and discover traditions that dated back to the dawn of time. After he died Caroline Mac Killian, his goddaughter and niece, inherited his recordings and sketches of the rituals he had observed after he died. She...
From 1 shirt to 100 ants, this book offers a fun way to count up everyday objects-and then match the numbers to the pictures with the interlocking two-piece puzzle cards. Charmingly illustrated in simple cartoon drawings with bold outlines and colors, this board book and card set presents numbers and vocabulary for prereaders. Youngsters can pair the interlocking top and bottom halves of 24 laminated cards-imprinted with numbers, words, and pictures from the book-or turn the cards over and try memory-matching...
Paul Auster's Sunset Park is set in the sprawling flatlands of Florida, where twenty-eight-year-old Miles is photographing the last lingering traces of families who have abandoned their houses due to debt or foreclosure. Miles is haunted by guilt for having inadvertently caused the death of his step-brother, a situation that caused him to flee his father and step-mother in New York seven years ago. What keeps him in Florida is his relationship with a teenage high-school girl, Pilar, but when her family threatens to expose their relationship, Miles decides to protect Pilar by going...
After their narrow escape from the Platters' attic in The Borrower Aloft, Pod, Homily, and Arrietty Clock return to their miniature village. But it is no longer a safe refuge, and so once again the Borrowers must go looking for another place to live. But finding a new home is hard when you're running for your life. The villainous Platters will not rest until they recapture the tiny family, and they hound the Clocks' every move. When the Borrowers finally do set up house under a window seat in an old rectory, it seems they have found safety at last — until the...
"Coraline discovered the door a little while after they moved into the house. . . ." When Coraline steps through a door to find another house strangely similar to her own (only better), things seem marvelous. But there's another mother there, and another father, and they want her to stay and be their little girl. They want to change her and never let her go. Coraline will have to fight with all her wit and courage if she is to save herself and return to her ordinary life. Celebrating ten years of Neil Gaiman's first modern classic for young readers, this...
