A bus is a large machine with wheels that move across the ground. On country lanes, roads and motorways, buses zoom around.
A boat is a marvellous machine that moves over rivers, lakes and seas. A trip bu boat is an amazing adventure with wonderful things to see.
A crane is a very clever machine. It lifts and moves heavy things like a dream. A crane lifts a load high above the ground. then it turns around and puts the load down.
A rocket is a spectacular spacecraft that blasts off and shoots through the sky. Up and up into space it goes. Off to the moon it files.
A plane is a machine that helps us travel far and wide. All around the world, planes whizz across the sky.
From beautiful lyrics to madcap waggery, from the prime suspect in a partridge killing in ancient Greece to the medieval monk's cat Pangur Bán and encompassing odes, fables, stories, limericks, songs, nursery rhymes and more, Mark Bryant has compiled a wonderfully evocative collection of writing of all kinds on cats by those who love them. There are poems from Chaucer, Baudelaire, Emily Dic…
A tractor is a machine that helps the farmer work the land. Whatever the job, the trusty tractor is there to lend a hand.
A digger is a machine that helps us to make buildings and roads. Diggers dig deep into the ground. They also lift heavy loads.
A helicopter is a machine that lifts people into the sky. Up and up and up it goes until it's flaying high.
In this book, a picture is indeed worth a thousand words. Within its covers are 50 literary classics, deconstructed and then put back together word by word to create singularly beautiful pieces of art. The silhouettes that emerge from the text illustrate the central characters, landscapes, and themes of each story. This collection ranges across the canon, from 620 BCE to 1937. Bibliophiles will…