Accurate illustrations and photographs create a visual factfinder packed with essential information on the people, places and events that shape our world.
Accurate illustrations and photographs create a visual factfinder packed with essential information on the people, places and events that shape our world.
Polly has made her picnic and she is going down to the field to enjoy her tasty snacks. But before she knows what is happening her picnic is being shared by some very pushy and uninvited animal guests. Poor Polly! But no sooner is she quietly resting in the sun than a new picnic is being whisked into shape - this time with more than a little help from her mother - and those pesky pets.
This colourful board book is packed with noisy vehicles from the building site. Pre-school children will love turning the chunky shaped pages and discovering a big bulldozer, a busy digger, a tall crane, a spinning cement mixer and noisy dumper. With bright illustrations, simple rhyming text that is perfect for reading aloud, and easy-to-turn pages, this is an ideal first book for toddlers. Par…
Mind the gap. Something odd is going on in the basement of an old house in London. An inexplicable gap has formed, a gap in time that links the present to the past. And twelve-year-old Tom, who discovers the gap while on a visit to his grandmother, is torn between both worlds. Lured by a mysterious voice, Tom leaps into the early eighteenth century, to a time when circus “freaks” like…
The covenant that was meant to keep the wizard wars at bay has been stolen, and the sanctuary of Trinity must prepare for attack. Seph monitors the Weirwalls, while Jack and Ellen train their army of ghosts to face an onslaught of wizards. Even Anaweir Will and Fitch are setting traps around the town's perimeter. To Jason Haley, it feels as though everyone but him has a role to play. Then he fi…
I should probably mention something right now, before this story goes any further: my name is Theodora Grumman, and I am a liar. It's hard for Thea to wite four truths a day in the notebook her mother gave her for the summer. Especially when her grandparents' house on the Jersey Shore is even more packed with family than usual, and her cousin Jocelyn won't leave her alone. Jocelyn is the world…