A picture book designed to encourage reading in four-year-olds and upwards, this is available as part of Picture Book set D (0-7500-1221-8), or individually subject to a minimum order value. There are five sets of these picture books, graded according to reading ability and interest range.
This adaptation will not only give readers an amazing novelization of the upcoming John Carter film, but also the original text of A Princess of Mars, by Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars was the first book to feature John Carter, led to an eleven-book series featuring his adventures, and was also the basis for the 2012 movie The movie John Carter tells the story of a war-weary former m…
from the back cover: It was just a smooth round metal ball, less than a metre in diameter. Although it was still hot from its journey through the huge nothingness of space, it looked quite harmless. But what was it, exactly? A meteor, perhaps - just one of those pieces of rock from outer space that occasionally fall down on to the planet Earth. But meteors don't usually make strange hissing so…
from the back cover: Dartmoor. A wild, wet place in the south-west of England. A place where it is easy to get lost, and to fall into the soft green earth which can pull the strongest man down to his death. A man is running for his life. Behind him comes an enormous dog - a dog from his worst dreams, a dog from hell. Between him and a terrible death stands only one person - the greatest det…
from the back cover: Victor Frankenstein thinks he has found the secret of life. He takes parts from dead people and builds a new 'man'. But this monster is so big and frightening that everyone runs away from him - even Frankenstein himself! The monster is like an enormous baby who needs love. But nobody gives him love, and soon he learns to hate. And, because he is so strong, the next thin…
The Oxford School Atlas has been trusted by generations of students, researchers and general readers for its accuracy and depth of cartographic detail. This completely new 33rd edition of the atlas includes 178 clear and easy-to-understand maps with 81 thematic maps of India supported by charts and diagrams. The atlas contains detailed physical and political maps related to India, new and infor…