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saying ‘I get the point’. In resealable wallet. £4.99 NOW £2.50
73518 CHESTNUT HILL: Playing for Keeps: Book and
Necklace by Lauren Brooke Welcome to Chestnut Hill, an American boarding school where riding is every girl’s favourite subject, and loving horses puts you top of the class. All the time that Lani spends riding means her marks are suffering and her parents told her she has to change schools. She is devastated at the thought of
leaving Chestnut Hill so how can she convince her parents to let her stay? Friendship, riding and rivalry. 185 page paperback with free necklace of a pink pony in metal suspended from a two-tone pink beaded necklace. Suit ages 6+.
£4.99 NOW £3
73389 THE WILD WASHERWOMEN by John
Yeoman and Quentin Blake Leading children’s book illustrator zanily illustrates in big full page colour a tale about seven washerwomen named Dottie,
Lottie, Molly, Dolly, Winnie, Minnie and Ernestine who are all very good friends. They all sighed as they looked at the filthy sheets, grubby hankies, horrid socks, grimy nightshirts, messy tablecloths and ghastly towels. Swing on the bell ropes and plunge in the river with the ladies and find out if they ever went back to work for Mr Balthazar Tight again. Suit ages five to eight. $16.95 NOW £5
73562 LUKA AND THE FIRE
OF LIFE by Salman Rushdie ‘There was once, in the city of Kahani, in the land of Alisbay, a boy named Luka who had two pets, a bear named Dog and a dog named Bear...’ Luka is Haroun’s younger brother who must save his father from certain doom in this magic-enthused intricate story. Rashid Khalifa, the legendary storyteller of Kahani, has fallen into
a deep sleep from which no one can wake him. To keep his father from slipping away entirely, Luka must travel to the Magic World and steal the ever-burning Fire of Life. Thus begins a quest replete with unlikely creatures, strange alliances and seemingly insurmountable challenges as Luka and his enchanted companions pass through the land of the Badly Behaved Gods and reach the Fire itself. Filled with mischievous wordplay, it is a book of wonders for all ages. Tiny remainder mark and roughcut pages in US first edition. $25 NOW £7
73008 MYTHICAL
MONSTERS PACK: Book and Dragon Necklace
Featuring the scariest creatures from legends, books and films, discover the truth about the world’s
most fearsome mythological creatures which have been terrifying generations of children. There are maps and information boxes describing the background to the myth that created each monster, be it a reptoid alien, a moth man, the Jersey Devil, the Hopkinsville Goblin, the Gray Alien, werewolf, Godzilla, Frankenstein’s monster, wyvern, sphinx, minotaur or ferocious fenrir. The artwork is in colour and superbly scary and the layout clear and attractive for everyone who loves ancient legends and folklore. Suit ages seven to adult, the very large 96 page paperback alone was published at £4.99 and, best of all, included is a dragon jewel necklace in silver metal with an amber coloured stone inset and suspended from a black leather-look cord. £4.99 NOW £2.50
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73649 GIRLS’ BOOK BOXED
SET: Three Volumes by Juliana Foster, Sally Norton, Tracey Turner Comprising: How To Be The Best At Everything, How To Be The Best At Everything Again and Even More Ways To Be The Best At Everything. With the uplifting motto running through all three volumes of: ‘Beat The Rest, Be The Best’ this collection can hardly
fail to appeal to any girl worth her salt. The first volume assures readers that ‘Here is the book that every girl, young and old has been waiting for’ and guarantees hours of fun. The second is certain ‘to help you have a top time, every time’ and the third tells girls that they ‘will never have a dull moment with these brilliant ways to banish boredom’. Irresistible. Here is invaluable advice that will tide girls over any situation that can possible arise, from How to Save the Planet and How to Improve your Memory to How to Blow the Biggest Bubblegum Bubble and be the envy of your friends. There are well over 350 tips and instructions ranging from How to Paint Your Nails to How to Persuade Your Parents to Get a Pet - not to mention How to Spot Your Friend is a Werewolf. A total of 381 info-packed pages in a sturdy and attractive slip-case with line drawings. £14.99 NOW £5
73399 DISGUSTING FACTS! Over 20 Gross Things by Parragon
Calling all nose pickers, here is a book of 100 disgusting facts and a pack which includes rubbery but very realistic looking fake cockroach, five black flies, 10 creepy spiders, brown dog poo, rusty bloody nail through finger, scorpion, centipede, gecko and slimy snot. A gross fact is that a healthy person may swallow up to two cupfuls of snot a day! Use this pack to scare your friends or gross them out with the disgusting facts you have found out. Suit ages five and up. £9.99 NOW £5
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CHILDREN’S GIFT IDEAS TO SUIT ALL AGES 73007 MR MEN LITTLE MISS:
Funny Faces Sticker Book by Mr Men and Little Miss On giant fold out pages, here are 60 reusable colourful stickers featuring the Mr Men and Little Miss characters plus sticking plasters, mad fish, mobile phone, flowers, rockets, musical notes, a parrot, an umbrella and more. Simply mix and match
the stickers to make the funniest, silliest and rudest faces you can! Suit ages 3+. Huge softback. £3.99 NOW £2.75
73523 DISCOVERING AMERICAN INDIANS with
Free Feathered Headdress by Richard Platt
Native Americans have suffered over the centuries at the hands of European invaders, but finally in the 20th century their right to lands and culture achieved universal assent.
This fascinating big book for children provides a detailed account of the American Indian way of life, with a different topic on each double spread attractively illustrated in colour with imaginative reconstructions of day-to-day life in the Indian heartlands. Among the topics covered are going on the warpath, smoke signals, medicine and shelter. Varieties of houses include a tipi made with hide, a wigwam of bark and an igloo made from snow, while the bigger Iroquois longhouse uses a mixture. Transport was by canoe, kayak and bullboat, with dogs dragging sledges over land. Major events in the history of the American Indian are featured, for instance Custer’s Last Stand in 1876, a heroic but doomed attempt to tame this brave and independent people. At the bottom of each page there is a verse from a poem telling the story of Fearless Wolf, who leads his people against the settlers but is killed by a rifle bullet. 32 big pages 30 x 26cm, attractive feathered headdress, colour illustrations. £9.99 NOW £5
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73524 DISCOVERING EGYPTIANS with Free
Pharaoh’s Mask by Richard Platt
Topics include arts and crafts, clothing, transport, religion and temples. A poem at the bottom of each page tells a story from the life of an ancient Egyptian girl. 32 big pages, fully illustrated in colour,
Tutankhamen-style mask included. The ancient Egyptians are fascinating to children of all ages, with their mysterious mummies and secret chambers concealed deep in the pyramids. Pharaohs were regarded as gods and initiated huge building programmes so that they would enter the after-life in the style to which they had been accustomed in their kingdoms. Housing and everyday life are covered here, together with fascinating details such as the medicinal use of crocodile dung and the fact that priests shaved their eyelashes. Children learnt a trade at an early age, with only a few being able to read and write, usually those destined for a career as a scribe. Up to their teenage years children wore their hair shaved all over except for a single plait down one side. £9.99 NOW £5
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73531 SECRET JOURNAL OF
VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN: ON THE WORKINGS OF THE HUMAN BODY by David Stewart
Victor Frankenstein is a fictional mad scientist who creates a live monster using limbs and body parts from corpses, and recently he has been impersonated on stage by no less an actor than Benedict Cumberbatch. This fully illustrated
book for children will appeal to their love of monsters, zombies and eccentric human beings, while also giving interesting information about life sciences in the 17th century, when the fictional Frankenstein plied his grisly trade. The “diary” incorporates numerous cross sections of the organs of the human body. Set in Ingolstadt, a small town in Bavaria with a famous medical school, the story shows Frankenstein in his desperate quest for knowledge as he gets caught up the practice of grave- robbing to supply anatomy lessons in medical schools. Frankenstein’s imagined diary is reproduced in colour, with pull-out sections and envelopes purporting to be documents and newspaper reports from the time. Superb diagrams of the heart, digestive system, mouth, ears, head, skin and other organs make this an enjoyable and unusual way of learning biology and anatomy. 40 unnumbered pages, colour drawings, pull- outs, padded cover. £12.99 NOW £5
73536 WHO AM I? The
Family Tree Explorer by Anthony Adolph
Designed to help children and young people explore their family history, this book is full of fascinating insights into how we became who we are. The book covers basic search techniques and sources of
information, for instance censuses, parish registers, war memorials and wills. Family members will be able to supply a starting point through their memories, and elderly relations can come up with fascinating information about the past, for instance the days of outside loos, tin baths, no cars or television and a very different style of schooling. There are lots of suggestions for practical activities and children can enjoy creating their own coat of arms and plotting their family history on a chart showing major world events. As an inspiration, there is Frodo Baggins’s family tree with its complicated alliances of Tooks and Brandybucks. Genghis Khan also makes an appearance and finally we
£14.99 NOW £4 73783 LEARN TO DRAW
ANIMALS by Emma Surry A book and etch-a-sketch style doodle board set you can draw on and just wipe clean and start again! Magic! There are ten simple pictures to copy and complete. Draw a cat then colour it in, ducks, pigs, an elephant, lion, dog and a fish in six easy stages. Suit ages 3+.
£9.99 NOW £6
73802 WILD ALPHABET: An A to Zoo Pop-Up Book by Mike Haines and Julia Fröhlich
We at Bibliophile unashamedly adore pop-ups and this is a particularly well crafted masterpiece of publishing with its cutaways and moving parts. Open here to meet the two tonnes killer dinosaur
Utahraptor. With some rebus-style typography, each of the 26 animals is described from the antelope of the African plains, the bison and the chinchilla, the dolphin and the elephant to the bright scarlet ibis, the really cool jaguar, blood-sucking mosquito who pops up from the double page, the elegant ‘unicorn of the sea’ the narwhal, the cunningly striped tiger represented in black and orange, the bird with the sweet tooth the xantes, to the stripy zebra on the final page. Find out what the animals look like, where they live and what they eat in a book to suit ages three to adult. Apologies for remainder mark.
$19.99 NOW £6.50 73051 10,000 ZOMBIES: Create More Than
10,000 Zombies and 10,000 Stories by Alexander Cox
The split-page format divides the figures at the neck and waist, so that Zombie heads, torsos and legs can be chopped and changed at will. Flip the top and you have a ghoul with his eye hanging out. Lift the middle and reveal its skeleton body and bloody stomach. Every time you turn a page a new story is revealed, since the text is completely interchangeable, and every time you flip part of a picture, a new zombie is created. You can do this 10,000 times. Tough cardboard in a spiral-bound cover.
£10.99 NOW £4
73222 DISNEY PUZZLE MANIA by Disney
Enterprises and Pixar A chunky spiral bound softback with blue gel pen attached, this is a fun packed activity book bursting with Disney magic with characters from Toy Story, Winnie the Pooh, The Little Mermaid, 101 Dalmatians,
Pinocchio, Bambi and more. Try Buzz Lightyear mazes, Pooh word searches and Pirates of the Caribbean crosswords and if you are a HUGE Disney fan, test your knowledge in the Awesome Quiz with 317 questions. 192pp in softback. £3.99 NOW £1.75
72881 WOBBLY EYED PIG NOTEBOOK by Robert Frederick Ltd
Bold colourful design on the front page of this lined notebook features a big pink piggy whose eyes really wobble inside his head! 6" x 8½” on sturdy spiral binding, the reverse cover shows the piggy from behind with his wiggly tail! Suit all scribblers aged four to 94 who love a bit of piggy fun. 48 lined pages. ONLY £3
70552 PUGWASH AND THE
GHOST SHIP by John Ryan The famous Black Pig, home to Captain Pugwash and his crew, is in desperate need of a spring clean. But what begins as a simple exercise in painting and decorating soon leads to a plot so dastardly that it looks as thought the Captain’s days are finally up.
Luckily young Tom the cabin boy has a brainwave and so Pugwash, the most famous pirate of all, survives again to sail the Seven Seas. Based on the 1962 original with colour witty cartoon illus and large pages. £11.99 NOW £3
70553 PUGWASH AND THE SEA MONSTER by John Ryan
Cut-Throat Jake and his ugly crew are busy celebrating on Cactus Island, surrounded by their stolen treasure. So they are caught off guard when Captain Pugwash and his men arrive disguised as a sea monster. But more surprises follow for all the pirates when the real sea monster turns up to investigate. Luckily Tom the quick-thinking cabin boy is on hand once again to save the day. Based on the 1976 original cartoon illustrations, big bold and funny in this new quality hardback reprint. £11.99 NOW £3
70551 PUGWASH ALOFT by John Ryan
Welcome aboard the Black Pig for an exciting adventure with Captain Pugwash and his loyal crew. Cut- Throat Jake and his band of rebels lurk dangerously nearby. Disaster strikes! Jake and his men board the ship and capture the crew which sends Captain Pugwash scuttling up the nearest mast for safety. How
will he ever get out of this one? Fortunately Tom the cabin boy has a clever plan and the crew can finish their singing practice after all - with a rousing victory song. Reprint of the 1958 original with big bold colour cartoons.
£11.99 NOW £3
are shown the human family tree, going back to our African origins. 208pp, softback, illustrated in colour on every page.
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Number one Harry Potter fan here at Bibliophile recommends…
73355 HARRY POTTER: A Pop-Up Book by Lucy Kee and Bruce Foster A collectable pop-up book which brings the Harry Potter wizarding world depicted in the films to life in a rather dynamic new way. Featuring original artwork by Andrew Williamson, concept artist for all eight Harry Potter films, the magical pop-ups include Dumbledore’s desk, Diagon Alley, Hogwart’s Castle, scenes from the Triwizard Tournament, Hedwig in her cage to Harry facing the Hungarian Horntail. Hogwart’s School literally rises from the pages and points into the sky. There are smaller pop-ups to open in little booklets along the way including an interview with readers in which J. K. Rowling described her vision of Hogwarts as ‘A huge, rambling, quite scary- looking castle, with a jumble of towers and
battlements.’ And so it is here. Magical creatures and legends, games and sports and the dark arts finish this rare import which we have in limited stock. Includes three amazing Harry Potter posters. $34.95 NOW £12
71334 UNCOVER A CROCODILE by Paul Beck and Susan Hernday Is this a book or a model or both? It is a three- dimensional look inside a Nile crocodile. Flip the book over onto the back to see his skin and the final finished model. Start from the front to understand each layer of his body - skull and jaws, the skeletal system, the digestive system, his nervous system and see that his brain is divided into sections for different jobs, muscular systems with the bright red plastic model showing sections to better understand what works and how. Ages 8 to adult. $18.95 NOW £5
73035 TOY STORY: Book and CD
by Disney, Pixar
After the bedroom door is closed, your toys come to life! Woody, Buzz Lightyear, Mr Potato Head and Slinky Dog are legends in the toy world and if you want to share in their fantastical adventures, read and listen along to this classic tale
of friendship and adventure again and again. Dedication page, big colour illus. from the film in rather glamorous 48 page hardback. £4.99 NOW £2.50
72177 EQUESTRIAN: Little
People Shape Books by Giovanni Caviezel Dressed in scarlet blazer, riding boots, jodhpurs and black riding hat, the little girl equestrian stands about one foot high and open her out and she is a board book packed with fun information. We are introduced to different types of horse like the Bay, Black Horse, Sorrel, Dapple Grey, English purebred and pony. Learn all about feeding, cleaning and training, the horse brush and curry comb, riding
gear, and legends like the Wild West and Amazons before we take off to the riding school. Colour. $10.99 NOW £3
72843 MAGIC TIMES TABLES by Arcturus Publishing
Use your spyglass to reveal the hidden answer. Follow the numbers of the two times table in the correct order and use your spyglass to check the right path. For your three times table check that the correct players have a number on their tops and shorts. Insects, hungry horses, carrots, apples, party balloons, meet Simon squirrel who eats 11 nuts a day through to tremendous 12, matching the bees with their honey pots. 25 clever big board pages, all in colour. Suits the new school curriculum for under 5s.
£7.99 NOW £4.50
72178 EXPLORE WITHIN AN EGYPTIAN MUMMY by Lorraine Jean Hopping
Peel away layer after layer of the big board pages of this book to reveal a glittering high priest’s coffin with the most ornate artwork. Learn about the myth of Isis and Osiris, golden burial masks used to hide someone’s identity and how it was made, when souls meet (Ka meets Ba), amulets for an underworld journey, wrapping a mummy from head to toe, mummifying the body, the canopic jars like the Jackal guarding the stomach, and the baboon or Hapi which lords over the lungs and sacred organs. On each page a figure is literally suspended to give a 3D view of each element. Suit ages eight to adult. $21.95 NOW £5
72844 MEERKAT MAZES
by Kate Overy and Samantha Noonan Mr and Mrs Meerkat, Grandad Maurice, Aunty Myrtle, Matt who loves to play sports and games, Mickey who loves to explore and Milly, the fearless. Spot-the- difference and mazes, we are taken to scenes like Mount Olympus, on holiday, under the sea and a fine feast. The Meerkats become pirates for a day, get chased by Egyptian mummies and visit the Meerkat Robots of the future. Cartoon colour illus, 96pp in large softback. £6.99 NOW £3
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