Grandpas are special, grandpas are great, grandpas are amazing in so many different ways
Finally, early-learning concept books with pages that children can turn all by themselves! Created with the help of child development experts, this unique format is designed to keep the pages from sticking together and eluding little fingers. Combining sweet illustrations with real photographs, this book helps children learn to recognize the basic shapes that make up the world around them.
Using a magnifying glass, find over 2000 objects -- ranging from simple to challenging -- and play travel games that will entertain even the most restless of travelers! Each spread contains its own amazing, detailed world created with timeless, quirky, whimsical images -- some real, others almost real, and all of them crazily imaginative! Each picture features clever visual puns on common sayi…
from the back cover: 'I turned on the light, but there was nobody there. Then I saw something in the corner that made my blood turn cold. Scudder was lying on his back. There was a long knife through his heart, pinning him to the floor.' Soon Richard Hannay is running for his life across the hills of Scotland. The police are chasing him for a murder he did not do, and another, more dangerou…
from the back cover: When men find gold in the frozen north of Canada, they need dogs - big, strong dogs to pull the sledges on the long journeys to and from the gold mines. Buck is stolen from his home in the south and sold as a sledge-dog. He has to learn a new way of life - how to work in harness, how to stay alive in the ice and the snow . . . and how to fight. Because when a dog falls …
from the back cover: Every town should have a 'card' - someone who gets talked about, someone who does mad and wonderful things, someone who makes you laugh. Bursley in the Five Towns has a 'card': Edward Henry Machin (Denry for short). Denry begins life in a poor little house where the rent is twenty-three pence a week. But before he's thirty, he's made a lot of money, and had more adventu…