Play hide and seek on every page with this surprise pop-up book filled with colourful toys You and your toddler will enjoy finding the toy elephant hiding throughout Little Hide and Seek Colours . Help your child turn the pages as they solve riddles and spot fun surprises. Your child will want to return to the book again and again as they try to find the colourful toys and help them get back to their owners. With five themed hide-and-seek scenes and a different coloured item hiding from their toy owner on each page, your toddler will love learning about colours. Blue doggy has lost his blue spoon! Help him find his spoon and more of his missing items. The sturdy, compact format is perfect for preschoolers to hold as they read and learn about colours. Look, learn and play together with Little Hide and Seek Colours .
Award-winning artist Sylvia Long and author Dianna Hutts Aston have teamed up again to create this gorgeous and informative introduction to seeds. Poetic in voice and elegant in design, the book introduces children to a fascinating array of seed and plant facts, making it a guide that is equally at home being read on a parent's lap as in a classroom reading circle.
Walter the Baker has a pretzel twist of a problem in this Ready-to-Read edition of a favorite from the creator of The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Walter the Baker is famous for his breads, rolls, cookies, tarts, and pies. The Duke and Duchess especially love his warm sweet rolls, delivered fresh to their castle every morning. But one day the cat spills the milk, and Walter is forced to serve the Duke and Duchess rolls made with water. After one bite the Duke throws down his roll in disgust and summons Walter to the castle. He threatens to banish the baker unless he can take the same dough and make a good-tasting roll that the rising sun can shine through three times. Will Walter succeed in his task, or will he have to leave his town forever? With good humor and the vibrantly colored paper collages that are known and loved the world over, Eric Carle has concocted a delicious book that kids will savor as much as they love eating...shhh...pretzels!
In the world of Erdas, four children are about to discover if they have a spirit animal, a rare bond between human and beast that gives great powers to both. Separated by vast distances, Conor. Abeke Meilin, and Rollan each see a flash of light... and then the animals emerge.
The Third Wheel is the hilarious next book in the brilliant, bestselling and award-winning Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. Available here as 2 x unabridged CDs. Perfect for readers of 8+ and all the millions of Wimpy Kid fans. Also now a box office-busting major motion franchise with the third Wimpy Kid movie, Dog Days released in the UK in August 2012! Love is in the air, but what does that mean for Greg Heffley? A Valentine's Day dance at Greg's school has turned his world upside down. As Greg scrambles to find a date, he's worried he'll be left out in the cold on the big night. His bestfriend, Rowley, doesn't have any prospects either but that's small consolation. Then an unexpected twist gives Greg a partner for the dance and leaves Rowley the odd man out. But a lot can happen in one night, and in the end, you never know who's going to be lucky in love . . . Share in the hilarious adventures of everyone's favourite wimpy kid, Greg Heffley, in the highly-anticipated seventh book in the Diary of a Wi
Big Nate. He thinks big. He talks big. He acts big. And the Big Nate: I Can't Take It, featuring our mischievous middle-school hero, is big fun. The second collection of all-color Sunday Big Nate cartoons! Life can be stressful for Nate Wright. At school, Mrs. Godfrey makes every day a nightmare. At home, he's stuck between Ellen, his incredibly annoying older sister, and Dad, perhaps the most clueless parent of all time. And don't get him started on Gina, the ultimate teacher's pet, or Artur, the unassuming exchange student who bests him at every turn. It's enough to make even a can-do kid like Nate scream: "I CAN'T TAKE IT!"
Jeff Bussey walked briskly up the rutted wagon road towardFort Leavenworth on his way to join the Union volunteers. It was1861 in Linn County, Kansas, and Jeff was elated at the prospect offighting for the North at last. In the Indian country south of Kansas there was dread in the air;and the name, Stand Watie, was on every tongue. A hero to therebel, a devil to the Union man, Stand Watie led the CherokeeIndian Na-tion fearlessly and successfully on savage raids behindthe Union lines. Jeff came to know the Watie men only toowell. He was probably the only soldier in the West to see the Civil Warfrom both sides and live to tell about it. Amid the roar of cannonand the swish of flying grape, Jeff learned what it meant to fightin battle. He learned how it felt never to have enough to eat, toforage for his food or starve. He saw the green fields of Kansasand Okla-homa laid waste by Watie's raiding parties, homes gutted,precious corn deliberately uprooted. He marched endlessly acrossparched, hot
For John Borne's family, hunting has nothing to do with sport or manliness. It's a matter of survival. Every fall John and his grandfather go off into the woods to shoot the deer that puts meat on the table over the long Minnesota winter. But this year John's grandfather is dying, and John must hunt alone. John tracks a doe for two days, but as he closes in on his prey, he realizes he cannot shoot her. For John, the hunt is no longer about killing, but about life. 对于John Borne的家人来说，狩猎与运动或男子气概无关。 这是生存问题。 每年秋天，约翰和他的祖父都会去森林里拍摄那只在明尼苏达州长的冬天把肉放在桌子上的鹿。 但今年约翰的祖父正在死去，而约翰必须独自追捕。 约翰追踪母鹿两天，但当他关闭他的猎物时，他意识到他不能射杀她。 对于约翰来说，狩猎不再是关于杀戮，而是关于生命。
Out, damned spot! A brilliant retelling of this classic taleof witches, murder and madness. With Notes on Shakespeare and theGlobe Theatre and Evil in Macbeth.
