Early Learning 9


70073 HODD by Adam Thorpe ‘Hodd’ turns romantic legend on its head. The narrator, an elderly monk, recalls his boyhood as a minstrel in the Greenwood, following a half-crazed bandit called Robert Hodd who believed himself above God and beyond sin. But as the monk slowly reveals Hodd’s true nature as a murderous felon, he must also wrestle with his own conscience, for it was his youthful ballads that elevated the outlaw into a popular hero. A fascinating and complex novel. 307pp in paperback. £8.99 NOW £3.50


69966 BAD BOY by Peter Robinson The 19th book in the Inspector Banks series. If DCI Alan Banks had been in his office when his old neighbour came calling, perhaps it would have turned out differently. Perhaps an innocent man would still be alive. And perhaps Banks’s daughter wouldn’t be on the run with a wanted man. But Banks is on holiday, blissfully unaware of the terrible chain of events set in motion by the discovery of a loaded gun in a young woman’s bedroom, and his daughter’s involvement with the ultimate bad guy. 430pp in paperback. £7.99 NOW £3.50


EARLY LEARNING


Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore. - Ogden Nash


70470 GOLD STARS: Magnetic Key Words by Nina


Filipek and Simon Abbott Specially created to help develop early literacy skills and designed for ages four to five, this is a very popular Gold Star series with brightly coloured pictures and magnetic words to make learning both fun and easy. In the front


cover it has a fold-out magnetic board on which are three and four letter words such as Man, Bed, Zip and Dog. Open the magnetic play page on the back cover and help the child find and say the words highlighted in each exercise. The star at the foot of each page tells you which magnetic words to find and there is a page on which to record and store the words the child has learnt. There is also a magnet match game on the inside back cover for two players. 24pp in large semi-softback. £4.99 NOW £2.25


70457 CHUGGINGTON ADVENTURE PACK


Hours of fun packed into one easy- to-carry case! Join Wilson, Koko, Brewster and all your other Chugginton friends for stories, puzzles and sticker fun! Koko’s


sticker activity book lets you play along with the story as you fill in the missing bits of pictures - place the trains on their backgrounds and see the story come to life! Don’t use all of those stickers just yet though, as there’s also a fold-out Play Scene which can be used as a mini poster for your wall! You can arrange the sticker however you like on the background to create your very own Chugginton scene. Wilson’s Activity Time is packed with all of your favourite puzzles - mazes, word jumble, dot-to-dot and wordsearches, along with several pages just waiting to be coloured in. The pack even gives you four felt tip pens - yellow, black, green and red - to help you create bright and colourful pictures. Pack includes: four felt tip pens, four sticker sheets, two activity books and one play scene. For ages two and up. £6.99 NOW £3.50


Fun Time Colouring! 70463 COLOURING AND


ACTIVITY FUN PACK by Disney


Produced with the Playhouse Disney channel, join all your Disney friends and lend a hand to Handy Manny and hang out with your pals at the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. There is one giant puzzle, 12 colouring pages, six coloured pencils


and 30 stickers in this value pack. £3.99 NOW £2.25


70305 MICKEY MOUSE


CLUBHOUSE FOIL FUN SET by Disney


When we say foil, we mean big card pages, almost mirror like as they really are foil colouring boards. The book also incorporates 11 pages to colour in, ten colouring crayons with a Mickey Mouse design on the wrapper and four foil bookmarks featuring Goofy, Daffy Duck,


Disney and Minnie Mouse. Suit ages 3+. ONLY £5


70454 DISNEY PIXAR CARS


2: Copy Colour by Parragon Get ready for a wild ride! If you want to have perfect coloured pictures of Lightning McQueen, Finn and all the other cars you know from the Disney movies, now you can with your own super cool colouring book. Best of all are four double-ended large crayons stuck to


the front of this 48 page large softback of colouring fun. £3.99 NOW £2.25


68961 DISNEY MEGA-FUN BUMPER BOOK BAG by Playhouse Disney


In a big tough purple vinyl and clear plastic case, here are four books and eight coloured pencils in a pack. Meet your Playhouse Disney friends in My First Activities, Adventure Puzzles, Sticker Sleuths including Tigger and Pooh, and Colouring Fun Time with Mickey Mouse, Goofy and Daffy Duck. All softbacks. £9.99 NOW £3.50


70504 SHAUN THE SHEEP AMAZING 3D WOOLLY VISION by Egmont


A big colourful story book for which you will need to pop on the amazing 3D glasses inserted in the front cover. One lens is blue and one lens is red and Shaun the Sheep’s little face is the design in the centre. See Shaun and his friends in 3D and seek out the


hidden puzzles. There are plenty of quizzes to tackle and you can even make your own 3D pictures. Shaun and Bitzer rescued Timmy and the Naughty Pigs! Rearrange the letters to see what they used to save him and the clue is in what Shaun is holding. Hours of fun for youngsters aged 5+. Very large colour softback. £3.99 NOW £2.25


70679 DRACULA’S HEIR: An


Interactive Mystery by Sam Stall


Enter freely and of your own will...the documents you are about to read contain either ingenious lies or dangerous truths. It all began


with a vampire named Dracula. In 1897, Archibald, Constable & Company published Bram Stokers Dracula, the most famous horror novel of all time. For reasons still debated by scholars, the first chapter was cut from the book just weeks before publication. Here it becomes the central clue in a spine-tingling original interactive mystery. Dracula’s Heir begins ten years after the horrific events described in the original novel. Jonathan and Mina Harker are happily married and enjoying life in Bixby. Meanwhile their friend Dr John Seward is tracking a string of crimes - a 14 year old girl sleepwalks out of her parents’ house and disappears into the night. Two ‘accident victims’ are found drained of their blood, yet there is no crime scene evidence to explain its loss. When Seward shares his discoveries with the famous vampire hunter Abraham Van Helsing, all the evidence points to Jonathan Harker. After all, Harker spent weeks imprisoned in Castle Dracula as a guest of the count - was he infected without anyone realising it? With eight removable clues including a newspaper, a death certificate, a private journal and the original first chapter to help you solve the crime and test your powers of deduction. A beautifully made publication with padded cover and woodcut illustrations. 80pp. Suit ages 11 to adult.


$24.95 NOW £6 70680 MASTER ENGINEER:


ROCKETS by Paul Back This fabulous book for children of all ages incorporates a kit for building your own five-foot high cardboard rocket, and it is also brilliantly informative on the daunting subject of rocket science. Contrary to


popular belief, the basics of rocket science are actually quite simple and they derive from Newton’s Third Law of Motion, that “for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction”. In other words, if you push something, it pushes back on you, so that the rocket’s action of pushing out hot gas propels it in the opposite direction. A lot of gas is needed to launch a craft into space. The author covers the history of rockets, starting 2000 years ago with the “Aeolipile”, and takes us into the present with X-planes, the Scramjet and the X-15. Current rockets are developed by space programmes in only seven countries, though that may change, and the book looks at space development round the world before moving on to space machines, moon rockets, personal rocket power and privately-owned rockets offering space travel to ordinary people. Now get building! 40pp, outstanding graphics and photos, easy-to-understand text, model kit. $18.95 NOW £6


70225 FIVE LITTLE MONKEYS TRAVEL ACTIVITY


KIT by Eileen Christelow With an orange plastic carry handle, unlock this travel activity kit to find three double-ended crayons, two


storybooks of the five little monkeys Sitting in a Tree or Jumping on the Bed, with both stories plus a third one on a half hour audio CD. The recordings have one with page-turning signals and one without, and the third story is Five Little Monkeys Bake a Birthday Cake. But that is not all - an activity book, a bingo game and colourful stickers. With the US equivalent of the CE safety mark. $12.99 NOW £4.50


70325 A YEAR FULL OF POEMS


by Michael Harrison and


Christopher Stuart-Clark ‘The Twelve Months: snowy, flowy, blowy, showery, flowery, bowery, hoppy, croppy, droppy, breezy, sneezy, freezy.’ - Anon. Collected month-by-month from freezing January through the warmth of August, the poems


move into the golden days of autumn and ending with December and Christmas. Here are funny poems and famous poems from authors like John Updike, William Wordsworth, Roger McGough, Walter de la Mare and others. Suit ages 10 to three score and ten! Colour illus and line art in large softback, 142pp. Published by OUP. £9.99 NOW £4


70447 BEST BEAUTY BOOK EVER by Parragon


This cutest ever book belongs to... Beauty secrets are revealed, top tips, fashion know-how and best of all there is a gorgeously glam make up bag included with the book. It is nylon, pink with a flowery design and the book itself is on a huge sturdy spiral binder. For little girls aged 10 and up there is space to fill


in your name, age, hair colour, eye colour, height, show size, star sign and best friends and to stick a photo of yourself looking totally gorgeous on the first page. Join the girls of the Best Friends Club who stick together and are friends forever and read the little note from Aliesha Roberts. There are some fab ideas for home-made beauty products, quizzes like which kind of shoes you most like wearing - trainers, strappy sandals or fluffy


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slippers - if your face is round try sunglasses that are long and narrow, routines to keep your skin clean, toned and moisturised, make up DIY, which vitamins are good for your hair, nails and skin, new hair styles depending on the shape of your face, how to shop, a chocolate body scrub, healthy hair and blow dries, pretty eyes, party time, hats and much more. Look more beautiful than you already do! £6.99 NOW £3


70486 LET’S MAKE CARDS by Sue Hunter-Jones Our need for cards is endless - whether it be for birthdays, Halloween, Valentine’s Day, Christmas, thank you notes or weddings. This fun book, designed for children, but just as useful for the creative adult, shows you how to make your own personal cards


for all your friends and family, whatever the occasion. Follow the simple step-by-step instructions, with both photographs and enlightening illustrations, to create of 30 fabulous cards. Each design is categorised by skill level, ranked from one star to three stars, making their difficulty clear. It also includes ideas for appropriate messages to write - ideal for those moments of writer’s block. With over 250 stickers and press-out templates, you can make cards that everyone will love to receive. We’re certainly looking forward to receiving some copies of our reader’s ‘Granma’s Cat Card’ design on page 10! 3+ years, 47 pages, with an additional two pages of templates and one page of stickers. £5.99 NOW £3


70515 MY WONDERFUL WEEK: Wall Planner and Storybook by Winnie the


Pooh and A. A. Milne There is a magical story to read on the reverse side of a beautiful long wall planner which pulls out in card pages from this book. There are over 80 colourful stickers to help you plan your week with Winnie the Pooh, Tigger, Eeyore and


friends, all from the Disney series and based on the drawings by E. H. Shepard. For Sunday - Today I am going to Learn something new, make my bed, help my parents and…I am going to sleep at… and then a note of what the best thing that happened today was. Read about Pooh’s first day at school and fun in the school playground. A unique and colourful design. £4.99 NOW £2.50


70640 LIAR! LIAR! PANTS


ON FIRE! by Jan Payne If you believe that stinky farts come from eating smelly foods, an aquarium in Japan has installed a toilet for the fish, that you can’t go kayaking down a river in a pumpkin, that a cockroach can run around without a head, and that a Venus fly trap can spit out bugs it doesn’t like, you may do very well with spotting the truth among the


lies in this terrific puzzle book. As you go through the book decide which of the incredible statements are false and which are true and discover something curious on every single page. With space to add up your score at the back. 128pp with cartoon illus, suit ages 10 to adult. £7.99 NOW £3.50


70671 DIARY OF A CASTLE ADVENTURE


by Nicholas Harris


Josh and Maisie are two adventure- loving kids who discover a mysterious small door at the back of their grandpa’s bookcase. As they squeeze through the doorway, they travel back in time. Read about their amazing escapades as they


help a brave knight and his army capture a castle. Lift the flaps, find maps, charts, booklets, letters and other exciting attractions. An interactive adventure tale with a dramatic colour poster inside. First of all there is a letter addressed to the dear reader for you to open from an actual envelope. Then if you turn the pages there are stuck down cards, a who’s who booklet to unfold, rules of the joust, a guide to heraldry, siege weapons and how they work, castle defences, alongside the ‘handwritten’ style text and even a fabric dragon stuck down onto the page. $14.99 NOW £6


70484 LAUGH-OUT-LOUD


JOKE BOOK by Dick Crossley In the traditional Ladybird design, here is a mini book to help you laugh your hooves off! What game do mice like best? Hide and squeak! What do you give a poorly budgie? Tweetment! With zany fun illustrations, two or three jokes per page in slim Ladybird original style hardback with dedication page. £1.99 NOW £1


69458 CORIOLANUS: Oxford School


Shakespeare edited by Roma Gill An Oxford University Press large paperback suitable for students of all ages in a well established series which provides the complete and unabridged text of William Shakespeare’s great play together with an extensive range of students’ notes. These include detailed explanations of difficult words and passages, a synopsis of the plot and summaries of individual scenes, and notes on the main characters. The action of Coriolanus takes place around 500BC. The last of the kings who have ruled over Rome has been expelled and Rome is now a republic with power in the hands of noble families. In the first scene of the play, the Roman citizens are ‘resolved rather to die than to famish’ which gives eloquent voice to their Elizabethan English counterparts and the troubles of the poor in Shakespeare’s time. 170pp, line art.


£4.99 NOW £2.75


69558 DIARY OF AN EGYPITIAN QUEST by Nicholas Harris


An interactive adventure tale which includes a dramatic colour poster in the wallet at the end of the book. Josh and Maisie are two adventure-loving kids who discover a mysterious small door at the back of their grandfather’s


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bookcase. As they squeeze through the doorway they travel back in time. Read about their exploits as they uncover a plot to steal the Pharaoh’s treasure and join in their fun as you lift the flaps, find maps, charts, booklets and letters and other items attached to the pages. A guide to hieroglyphs in colour, even a letter to the reader at the beginning, the big card pages reveal historical facts for youngsters aged 10+. $14.99 NOW £5


69615 WIPE-CLEAN ACTIVITY: Times Tables by Igloo Books


A brightly illustrated wipe clean book. Children will have lots of fun learning their times tables, following outlines and arrows help children practise writing with the help of appealing illustrated characters and objects. All the activities reinforce learning before being wiped off for the fun to begin all over again. Slim large softback, colour, special pen included. Suit ages 3+. £4.99 NOW £2.50


70169 WALLACE AND GROMMIT’S WORLD OF INVENTION Gadgets, Contraptions and


Inventions of the Past, Present and Future by Penny Worms


Britain’s favourite duo, Wallace and Gromit, introduce you to an amazing world of invention. Here is mayhem, danger, robots, spaceships and teasmades all crammed into six exciting chapters. Many chapters boast a Featured Inventor as well as descriptions of inventions that never got off the drawing board. Among the latter are, improbably, Einstein’s fridge and living underwater termite houses. The list of contents alone is irresistible. How about Seeing with your Tongue, Bomb-Detecting Bees or Carnivorous Robots? There is even a Magnus Effect car experiment, using a plastic lemon, that youngsters aged 8-12 may like to try out. 193 large pages packed with colour and b/w photos. £12.99 NOW £4


ENTERTAINMENT


Gypsy Rose Lee, the strip-tease artist, has arrived in Hollywood with twelve empty trunks.


- Henry V. Wade


70376 LIFE by Keith Richards and James Fox Probably Dartford’s most famous son, Keith Richards was born during an air raid on 18 December 1943 - perhaps it was an omen. As well as being one of the most successful musician/songwriters ever, he is a modern medical miracle how he has lived to tell this story with his staggering intake of narcotics, both legal and otherwise, and the physical demands that decades of relentless touring with The Rolling Stones, probably the biggest rock’n’roll band in the world must impose, makes for an enthralling read. His elegantly wasted features also make his one of the most instantly recognisable faces on the planet, and here he tells how he got every wrinkle, scar and hospitalisation - not to mention every good time! What you would probably expect from Keef is a high-octane blast of full-on hedonism, full of more sex, drugs (especially the drugs!) and rock’n’roll than you can shake a guitar at, and he does not disappoint. What makes this memoir so much more than a vaguely-recalled tale of extreme excess are the moments when Richards recalls the suffocating drabness of postwar suburbia, and how his and Mick Jagger’s escape from it was the listening to and replication of imported rock’n’roll and raw blues, how a particular chord progression works and why, and how he loves his guitars with an ardour approaching the erotic are all revealed. Now a tax exile, a granddad, almost 70 and still appearing in the planet’s highest grossing shows, what matters, above all, is that he is still here. With a superb 32 page collection of colour and b/w photos, 564pp.


£29.99 NOW £7


70496 MR S: LAST WORD ON FRANK SINATRA by George


Jacobs and William Stadiem If you really would like to know all the juicy details about Frank Sinatra’s racy showbiz life, then you can do no better than this compilation by an award-winning writer together with the man who worked as Mr S’s valet and confidant from 1953, when Ava Gardner had just left him, until the


end of his short-lived marriage to Mia Farrow in 1968. Here, in all its tacky glory, is the intimate story of one of the longest and most outrageous midlife crises ever. The Daily Mail called it ‘a unique warts-and-all insight into the insane world of mega-stardom’ and that just about sums it up. As his valet, George Jacobs had access to Mr S at his most vulnerable, and the detailed captions under the photos reveal as much as does the spicy text. Allegedly, Sinatra was ‘like a hyperkinetic kid’ who just had to have all-night female company, from big stars through starlets to hookers, and who could not resist sending his valet to purchase explosives and fireworks which he would set off in his friends’ shoes, in their toilets, under their beds and wherever they would least expect them. Here is the low-down on Ol’ Blue Eyes and his entourage that you will never forget. 260 paperback pages with b/w archive photos. £7.99 NOW £4


70692 ASTAIRE AND ROGERS: A Movie Book by Edward Gallafent


Of all the images conveying the richness of the film world of the 1930s, that of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers dancing is one of the happiest. This star couple seemed to exude a sense of ease or accessibility. The first two chapters deal with the nine films made by the couple at RKO between 1933 and 1939. The grace and charm of their dancing in such films as Top Hat and Swing Time are typical of their films which are much more than the sum of their numbers - they account for about one third of the films’ running time. The context and the meaning for the song and dance is provided by dialogue, plotting and crucially the audience’s perception of this striking professional couple. Our book looks in detail how the Astaire-Rogers musicals, which were produced and originally viewed as a series, relate to one another. Their tenth and last film together was The Barkleys of Broadway. Gallafent provides an


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