12 Early Learning carrying the carefully wrapped bone when a hit man
attempts to kill them. Hammer comes to their rescue, though it is only the beginning of their troubles. The plot is fantastical and the pace careers along. 274pp in paperback.
£7.99 NOW £4 70193 NEMESIS by Jo Nesbo
Grainy CCTV footage shows a man walking into a bank and putting a gun to the cashier’s head. He tells her to count to 25. When he doesn’t get his money in time, she is executed. Detective Harry Hole, still mourning the death of his police partner, is assigned to the case. While his girlfriend is away in Russia, an old flame gets in touch but when he goes to dinner at her house, he wakes up back at home with no memory of the past 12 hours. That same morning, the girl is found shot dead in her bed and shortly after Harry begins to receive threatening emails. Is someone trying to frame him? 706pp, paperback. £7.99 NOW £3
72937 THE HEADHUNTERS by Jo Nesbo Roger Brown has it all - he is clever and wealthy and at the top of his game as a headhunter. Life never gets dull and he has his sideline as an art thief to keep him busy. At a gallery opening, his wife introduces him to Clas Greve. Not only is Greve the perfect candidate for a position that Brown is recruiting for, he is also in possession of one of the most sought-after paintings in modern art history. Roger sees his chance to become rich beyond his wildest dreams, and starts planning his biggest ever theft. But it’s not long before the hunter becomes the hunted. 376pp in paperback. £7.99 NOW £3.50
74123 DAY OF THE LIE
by William Brodrick An extraordinarily moving crime novel which was the winner of the CWA Gold Dagger award. A brilliant monk Father Anselm in present day Cambridge receives a visit from an old friend with a dangerous story to tell - the story of a woman in Eastern Europe in the icy grip of the Cold War. She was brave, brilliant and betrayed by someone close to her, someone
still unknown. What became of this woman and the dark secret she kept? No one can be trusted and nothing is as it seems. Before more blood is spilt, Anselm must peel back years of history, decades of secrets and a half- century of lies in order to expose a secret so shocking that some would rather die than see it revealed. 378pp in paperback.
£7.99 NOW £3.50
71217 A GRAVE IN THE COTSWOLDS by Rebecca Tope
Thea Osborne and her loyal spaniel Hepzie are still pursuing their occupation as house-sitters, despite the disastrous incidents of the past. At the moment they are staying in the late Greta Simmonds’ house which is currently between ownership. But when a body is discovered in a nearby field, Thea finds herself embroiled in a murder investigation. After befriending the undertaker Drew Slocombe, she soon finds she has aligned herself with the police’s only suspect. A classic English village mystery set in Gloucester. 413pp in paperback.
£7.99 NOW £3
71580 DECEPTION IN THE COTSWOLDS by Rebecca Tope
In the wake of a series of unfortunate house-sitting experiences, Thea Osborne, accompanied by her spaniel Hepzibah, is perhaps over-optimistic about the English summertime and the possibilities of her latest assignment in the secluded Cotswold village of Cranham. Despite the ease with which her new job looking after Harriet Young’s reptiles begins, she soon finds a dark side to the characters she encounters. From the elderly Donnie Davis to the enigmatic figure of Edwina, it soon becomes clear that Harriet’s beloved geckoes are not the only cold-bloodied creatures in the village. 413pp in paperback.
£7.99 NOW £2.75
72003 SWEET HEART by Peter James After Charley and her husband Tom move into Elmwood Mill, sinister memories of a previous existence start to haunt her. She has a strange feeling when she sees the lake and the swirling mill stream and her feelings turn to certainty as the memories become increasingly vivid and terrifying. She is persuaded to undergo hypnosis, but in searching deep into her past, Charley unwittingly opens a Pandora’s Box of evil. 335pp, paperback. £6.99 NOW £3.50
72012 ZERO DAY by David Baldacci War hero John Puller is known to be the top investigator in the US Army’s CID. So when a family with military connections is brutally murdered in a remote area of West Virginia, Puller is called in to investigate and soon suspects the case has wider implications. As the body count rises, he teams up with local homicide detective Samantha Cole. When the web of deceit is revealed, it becomes apparent that there is much more to this case and nothing can be taken at face value. The pair discover a dangerous situation in the making. In a race against time, Cole fears for the community in which she was raised. In the end, you can’t kill what you can’t see coming. 612pp in paperback. £7.99 NOW £4
72054 LOSS by Tony Black
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Michael Dury is found dead with a bullet hole beneath his heart. His brother Gus is a washed-up hack who has been living on a knife-edge, but he has turned the most unexpected corner and is off the Edinburgh streets and back with his wife Debs. He has promised her he won’t get involved in any more dodgy cases which the police can’t or won’t solve and above all he is off the drink. But with Michael’s death, Gus’s life beings to unravel all over again. Strong language. 277pp, paperback. £7.99 NOW £2
EARLY LEARNING
The test of a good teacher is not how many questions he can ask his pupils that they will answer readily, but how many questions he inspires them to ask him which he finds it hard to answer.
- Alice Wellington Rollins
74323 POOH’S YUMMY COOKBOOK by Parragon and
Disney Enterprises Based on the Winnie the Pooh works by A. A. Milne and E. H. Shepard, with wipe-clean pages, wonderful little stories and recipes for yummy treats to make and bake, here is the ideal mini bake off
for youngsters. Rabbit planned a lovely picnic for everyone with delicious treats they all love - especially Tigger! Use the record space and fill in what your pancakes are made of, the best thing about the recipe, the hardest thing, one thing I would do differently and who helped me. Perfect Pancakes, Fruit Smoothies, Carrot Cake Squares and Banana Cake are among the treats. Suitable for youngsters learning to cook ages five and up. Colour. £8.99 NOW £4
73901 I WISH I KNEW THAT GEOGRAPHY by James Doyle
Take a journey along the ocean floor, learn how GPS works, where the Seven Wonders are, a rocky history of the Rocky Mountains, wonderful waterfalls, were to see cacti and the world’s oldest tree (Sweden), go to the desert, the Great Rift Valley, learn about fault lines, reading maps, pressure points and earth-shattering effects and how complicated our climate is. Designed for ages 8+ in a gift book of 144pp. £9.99 NOW £5
74324 BEST FRIENDS
FOREVER JOURNAL by Sue Mongredien Friends and friendships are so important they deserve this special book in which you can write all the crucial stuff. Fill in pages for best parties and sleepovers, quizzes for getting to know your pals, oodles of pages for oodles of doodles, A-Z addresses and birthday databank,
your top ten lists of everything, fab beauty and health tips so you can keep a check on how many chocolate bars, packets of crisps, ice creams and burgers you eat each week and how many portions of fruit and vegetables each day. List your cuddly toys, don’t feel sad by remembering what cheers you up most and set your fitness goals for six months. In a lovely plastic, spiral bound casing, cute colour illus. £4.99 NOW £2.50
74183 HEAD TWISTERS by Helene Hovanec For children of all ages who love word searches, criss- crosses, mazes, crosswords and puzzles based on silly riddles to make you giggle and smile. Follow the directions before each person and go through the book at your own pace, getting help if necessary and even peeking at the answer - all good ways to learn and exercise your brain. Break this code: VIBS CP ZNT DBKK UXN. Answer the question What do you get if you cross a wolf and a rooster? Fun US import, 96pp in paperback.
£4.99 NOW £2 73169 YOU’RE IT! A Hop, Skip and Jump
Through Childhood Games by Katie Hewitt Included here is all you need to play those wonderful, almost forgotten games of Hopscotch, Bulldog, Dodge Ball, Hide and Seek, What’s the Time Mr Wolf? Marbles, French Skipping, Rounders, and many more. Have fun! 127 pocket-sized pages illus in colour with Top Ten Playground Rhymes. £5.99 NOW £2
73233 MIKE MULLIGAN AND HIS STEAM
SHOVEL: Travel Activity Kit by Virginia Lee Burton
Along with the 60pp softback story book the kit also offers a 24 page activity booklet with puzzles, colouring, quizzes and much more, four Mary Anne postcards, two sheets of stickers, three double-ended non-toxic wax crayons (six colours) and a one hour audio CD with three stories: Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel (two versions, one with page-turn signals and one without), Katy and the Big Snow, about a lovable snowplough, and Maybelle the Cable Car from San Francisco. Lovely stories and plenty to do. $12.99 NOW £3.50
44604 PAINT WITH WATER
There are six colours (green, red, yellow, aubergine, blue and orange) on a pallet across the top of each page. All youngsters need do is wet the brush, choose a colour and begin to paint the black and white outline large drawing beneath. There are traditional scenes with children, food, flowers and animals, eight per book, beautifully designed so each is detachable and could be framed. Large softback. ONLY £1.25
72049 IF YOU LOVE A MERMAID TALE illustrated by Susanna Lockheart The oval cutaway on each page slides to reveal a new exciting picture in the tale of the pretty little mermaid, the youngest of six princesses. She sang so beautifully that the puffer fish puffed themselves up to listen, and even the secretive oysters opened their shells. See the handsome young man standing on the deck. Surely he is a prince? ‘Pop-up’ treasury of two classic tales The Little Mermaid and The Magic Shell retold by Alice Peebles. Delicate watercolours. 16" x 12". Ages 5+. $18.99 NOW £3.50
73346 COLOURS by Jan Pienkowski A beautiful big rainbow in Pienkowski’s signature bold colours and a title page ‘This book belongs to:’ begins this big bold introduction to the primary colours and more. Red, orange, green with a cheeky little frog looking over his shoulder, purple with a plum, black with a scaredy cat and pink with an oinky pig. Small square hardback and one of a set from Walker Books. £4.99 NOW £3.50
73352 FACES by Jan Pienkowski In lovely clear lettering, we see faces like happy which is then shown as grandpa lifts a little child high into the air; sad with a tear drop and then on the right side the little girl looks out through a rainy window; angry, tired, shy, cheeky, jealous, scared and so on. In his signature bold primary colours Jan Pienkowski makes a wonderful introduction to the sensory world for tiny tots. £4.99 NOW £3.50
73372 NUMBERS by Jan Pienkowski In his bold primary colours and unique artworks, Jan Pienkowski introduces numbers - one leopard, two cows, three witches, four ducks, five sheep up to ten apples then asks how many peas are there on the plate, but in graphic form. Ends with a little abacus and tiny tots will love counting with these fun images. Small square hardback.
£4.99 NOW £3.50 73807 NUMBERS, FACES AND COLOURS: Set
of Three by Jan Pienkowski Buy all three hardbacks and save even more. £14.97 NOW £9
73412 HOW TO DRAW HORRIBLE SCIENCE by Tony de Saulles
If you want piles of steaming dung, diseased or severed body parts, gruesome creatures and flatulence galore then you know where to look. Here is how to become a Horrible artist, a step-by-step guide to drawing faces, body bits, creatures, sound effects, colour, light and shade, speech and lettering, perspective, cropping, humour, cartoon strips, stories, animation, greetings cards and much more. Colour, spiral-bound and utterly hilarious. 96pp, 9½”×11". £12.99 NOW £5
73414 ANNE BOLEYN AND ME: The Diary of Elinor Valjean, London 1525-1536 by Alison Prince
Here is a most unusual twist on the tale of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, recorded in the diary of the daughter of the court jester, starting when she is 11 and continuing until she is 22. Her mother came from a titled Spanish family and she and Queen Catherine were childhood friends so she, her husband and children live as members of the royal court. He wants her to be his mistress, but she is determined to be his wife and will settle for nothing less. He has found a passage in the Bible that says it is unlawful for a man to marry his brother’s wife. Little does he know the problems and tragedies that lie ahead. 255 paperback pages, illus, timeline. Ages 10 to 14. £5.99 NOW £2.50
73659 OUT OF THIS WORLD: All the Cool Bits
About Space by Clive Gifford This book will tell you everything you have ever wanted to know about space, from the edge of Earth’s atmosphere to the edge of the Universe, if there is one. See the sights of the Solar System, including stars and giant galaxies, take a trip around the Milky Way, explore Earth’s neighbourhood and the Universe from beginning to end. 128 pages, cartoons and diagrams. Ages 8+. £7.99 NOW £3
73436 GOOD SHEPHERD AND THE LITTLE
LOST LAMB by Allia Zobel-Nolan Little ones will love this indestructible book which tells the Bible story of the Parable of the Good Shepherd and follows a little lamb who leaves the flock, gets lost and is finally brought home by his loving master. The listener can interact by placing Little Lamb through the openings on every page so that the Good Shepherd cannot see him. He might be in some tall grass or behind a tree. When the reading is over, Little Lamb can be stored in the special holder inside the book. 12 very tough pages 27cm x 20.5cm, lovely bright colours. £6.99 NOW £3
74179 DINOSAUR HUNTERS Discover the Incredible Lost World of Dinosaurs
by Jen Green and Dr Neil D. L. Clark Both children and adults will love this exciting book. It has been checked and approved by the experts at the Natural History Museum in London and is not only a teaching aid but lots of fun too. Now you too can join the dinosaur hunters as they search for the ferocious rulers of the prehistoric world. Discover the facts about these awesome, powerful creatures. Lift the flaps on the super interactive spreads and find the button that opens the secret drawer to disclose a wealth of dinosaur treasures, such as stickers, a model, a postcard and much more. A breathtaking text brings dinosaurs to life, with stunning artwork plus a fold-out landscape. Key dinosaur finds are featured throughout. There are labels and textured fossils to help you, and even a ferocious- looking, easy-to-assemble Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton. Here are all the facts you could ever wish to know about the giant and tiny predators, the plant-eaters, the marine and flying reptiles, their group life, their eggs, their nests and their young. 32 pages
31cm x 24cm in realistic colour. Dinosaur timeline.
£16.99 NOW £7.50
73413 MY AMAZING YEAR: My Record of the Year by Heather Morris
This book belongs to... stick your own photo here and use the book’s headings and spaces to write a diary entry, a poem, a list, a message, a description of something, stick in interesting cuttings or pictures, do your own drawings, include your own photos,
record funny events or jokes. When you have completed the book at the end of the year, keep it in a safe place until 2050 when you can show it to your own grandchildren! Big bright colour illus, nicely organised with space for holidays, sporting achievements, best and worst moments and much more. 64 page large softback.
£4.99 NOW £2.50
73450 OH DEAR! A Lift-the-Flap Book by Rod Campbell
A sturdy white plastic egg cup with a yellow chicken and the book’s title printed on is presented in a pack alongside a sturdy board book version of Oh Dear! Buster went to stay with Grandma on the farm. Grandma asked Buster to fetch the eggs. So he went to the barn and asked the… no eggs here! Oh dear! Open the farmyard doors by using the two flaps on the board book, peep behind to see… Moo! Cow. The horse go neigh! And so on as Buster travels around the farmyard. Ages 2-4 will love peeling back the flaps. £8.99 NOW £4.50
73451 OLLY AND ME 1.2.3 by Shirley Hughes
Learning to count is fun and really easy with Katie and her little brother Olly. They count each other, their cat, their friend Norah’s cat and her four kittens, their dog Buster, the little girls who do ballet, Grandma and Grandpa, their hats and their bricks. On the way, they discover that having five fingers on
each hand is very useful. 24 pages 27cm by 22cm in bright colours with FREE counting wall frieze. £10.99 NOW £3.50
73520 THE VIKING CODEX: The Saga of Leif Eriksson by Fiona MacDonald
With lift-up panels and simplified maps which make it easy for a child to identify places, it tells the tale of two great Viking explorers: Erik the Red and his son, Leif the Lucky. Together they led sailors and settlers across the wild Atlantic Ocean to new homes in faraway lands. Erik was born in Norway around AD 940, but his family had to leave quickly, in disgrace. They escaped to Iceland. Around AD 1200, their adventures were written down in sagas. Words like: saga, distaff, hearth, runes, smithy, adze, and many more, that might not be in a child’s vocabulary are explained. 33 pages 28cm x 20.5cm in gorgeous colour, beautiful padded cover. £12.99 NOW £4
73527 KINGS AND QUEENS OF THE BIBLE by Mary Hoffman
Young readers can meet, for the first time, the all- powerful Rameses II of Egypt, the Israelite kings David and Solomon, the fabulous, jewel-laden Queen of Sheba, the treacherous Phoenician Queen Jezebel, Belshazzar of Babylon and Queen Esther of Persia. After many generations of exile, the Israelites followed their leader, Moses, who led them through the desert for 40 years in search of their Promised Land. King David was one of the good kings, who was selected by God himself to be the ruler of the Jews. Their tales are retold in modern, easy-to-follow language. 37 pages 26cm x 25.5cm in dazzling colour. £11.99 NOW £3.50
73813 CAPTAIN SCOTT: A Ladybird
Adventure from History by L. du Garde Peach A facsimile edition of the 1963 Ladybird Book which tells the story of Captain Scott’s journey to the South Pole. The North Pole was reached in 1909, but no one had succeeded in the more difficult march to the South Pole until 1911. Then two different parties set out at the same time, one led by a Norwegian named Amundsen, and other from Cardiff led by an Englishman, Captain Scott, in a little ship called the ‘Terra Nova’, an old Scottish whaler. With coloured maps on the endpapers, 52pp, each right hand page is a beautiful artwork by John Kenney. £4.99 NOW £2
72889 WHERE’S WALLY? THE ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL
With a dedication page, this Ladybird book celebrates Wally’s fantastic journeys across continents, through the ages, into space and back again. There are 25 special party guests to locate, plus a head spinning bounty of hidden kit to hunt for listed on pages 8, 20 and 61. In the centre pages there is a jam-tastic scene. Take a look for Wally. Woof, Wenda’s camera, Wizard White Beard’s scroll and Odlaw’s binoculars, Woof’s bone and don’t forget about Wally’s lost key. Large colourful pages, mazes and quizzes. 62pp. £7.99 NOW £2.75
72846 ANCIENT EGYPT: Pop-Up Game by Claire Bampton and David Hawcock
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Play the Pyramid Game by unfolding the huge, 3D pop- up at the back of the book to make a real board game with spinning arrow in the corner and enjoy a fact packed book to give you the knowledge to play the game and find the hidden mummy. Describes making mummies, weighing the heart, the after life, the figurines called Shabtis, an Egyptian word search to find you specialist words like hieroglyphs and scarab and learn about the temples and gods, kings and queens of Ancient Egypt along the way. With a special document wallet to store the beautifully made playing-style cards with multiple choice questions and stand up figurines to play the board game. Ages 7 to adult. £12.99 NOW £9
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