Now you can write your own bestseller! With The Wimpy Kid Do-It-Yourself Book, you're the author, illustrator, and main character. Filled with loads of interactive pages and plenty of space to write your own life's story, this book is all you need to create your masterpiece. Whatever you do, make sure you put it someplace safe after you finish. Because when you're rich and famous, this thing…
Tells the story of the major faiths from their earliest beginnings to their present-day impact. Explaining the core ideas of each, and complemented by iconic images and significant quotataions, this is a fascinating introduction to the beliefs of Jews, Christians, Mulims, Hindus, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Sikhs, among many others.
BBC Radio2 DJ Mark Radcliffe looks back on some of the best and worst days of his life in this love letter to music.
Golden-shielded, silver-sworded, man-loving, male-child slaughtering Amazons,' is how the fifth-century Greek historian Hellanicus described the Amazons, and they have fascinated humanity ever since. Did they really exist? For centuries, scholars consigned them to the world of myth, but Lyn Webster Wilde journeyed into the homeland of the Amazons and uncovered astonishing evidence of their hist…
Growing up on Long Island, Shelby Richmond is an ordinary girl until one night an extraordinary tragedy changes her fate. Her best friend's future is destroyed in an accident, while Shelby walks away with the burden of guilt. What happens when a life is turned inside out? When love is something so distant it may as well be a star in the sky? Faithful is the story of a survivor, filled with emot…
Every kid has them, and every parent, or kid-caretaker, has had to deal with them - those meltdown-tantrum-pitching-a-fit moments! Peter Panda has them - when it's time to leave the playground, when some other child has the book he wants, when Mama insists he eat some broccoli. When this happens: Uh-oh. Here it comes. Here comes that frown. Peter Panda melts dowwwnnn! Presented with humor and u…
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"Find Out About Series" books are the ideal introduction to information in a variety of different ways and at a number of different levels. They have wonderfully clear and well-labelled full-color photographs and illustrations. The text and language level are carefully designed for very young children.
When special education teacher Torey Hayden wrote her first book One Child thirty-five years ago, she created an international bestseller. Her intensely moving true story of Sheila, a silent, profoundly disturbed little six-year-old girl, touched millions. From every corner of the world came letters from readers wanting to know more about the troubled child who had come into Torey Hayden's clas…
From Nelson Mandela to Bob Geldof - inspiring answers on life's most important questions.
In a world that is so often challenging, with events that cause us all to wonder what is going on, Tim Costello takes us on a journey through the notion of faith and how we all need to believe in something greater than ourselves, no matter what religious background we are from. In this thoughtful and provocative book Tim explores some of the world's most challenging issues, including refugees…
Four travelers meet in Bolivia and set off into the heart of the Amazon rainforest, but what begins as a dream adventure quickly deteriorates into a dangerous nightmare, and after weeks of wandering in the dense undergrowth, the four backpackers split up into two groups. When a terrible rafting accident separates him from his partner, Yossi is forced to survive for weeks alone against one of th…
Samar Yazbek was well-known in her native Syria as a writer and a journalist but, in 2011, she fell foul of the Assad regime and was forced to flee. Since then, determined to bear witness to the suffering of her people, she revisited her homeland by squeezing through a hole in the fence on the Turkish border. Here she testifies to the appalling reality that is Syria today. From the first innoce…
At the age of thirteen, I knew that I was destined to marry John Travolta. One day he would arrive on my North London doorstep, fall madly in love with me and ask me to marry him. Then he would convert to Islam and become a devoted Muslim.' Shelina is keeping a very surprising secret under her headscarf--she wants to fall in love and find her faith. Torn between the Buxom Aunties, romantic come…
A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past."--Fidel Castro From revolutionary and symbol of strength to Cold War adversary, Fidel Castro was one of the world's most controversial leaders, and perhaps its most enduring. As Cuba's towering and charismatic president for nearly fifty years, Castro's influential leadership captivated allies and enemies alike. By virtue of passionate …
Einstein the class hamster is from a long line of class hamsters. He knows lots of cool facts about science, art, and history―maybe even more than their sleepy teacher, Ms. Moreno. The class has a chance to compete in a trivia game show contest. But how can they get ready for the contest if Ms. Moreno keeps taking naps instead of teaching? More important, how can Einstein help the class prepa…
Sam loves building things, especially robots. His robots are all very good at helping out, but when they start going wrong it's clear that Sam needs to take his robots on holiday for a rest! Read it yourself with Ladybird is one of Ladybird's best-selling series. For over thirty five years it has helped young children who are learning to read develop and improve their reading skills. Each…
Introduces readers to the tricks that animals use to hide from predators, from changing their skin colour to blend into the background to pretending to be dead. Ages 4-8+.
On our own we're special, And we can chase our dream. But when we join up, hand in hand, Together we're a team. Celebrate the power of love and friendship in this beautiful book by award-winning illustrator and author Britta Teckentrup. With vibrant artwork and peek-through pages, this is a picture book to treasure.
A selection of fine art paintings featuring a variety of modes of transport, from horse to hot-air balloon. Each of the colour plates provides a new canvas for children to explore as they look at the various ways to travel. There is a selection of artists from around the world.
This beautiful hardback Ladybird edition of Sleeping Beauty is a perfect first illustrated introduction to this classic fairy tale for young readers from 3+. The tale is sensitively retold, retaining all the key parts of the story beginning with Sleeping Beauty's birth through to the day she pricks her finger on her 15th birthday and falls asleep for one hundred years. Other exciting titles …