8 Children’s
of the Fountain of Youth, creating deaths, how to escape from being tied up, how to loot, how to disguise your gender and how to look like a real pirate with the many faces of the Jolly Roger to hand. Plus piratical lingo, learn dozens of crucial skills. 176pp. $18.95 NOW £5
73903 CAT IN THE HAT ACTIVITY
PLACEMATS by Dr Seuss
The zany original Dr Seuss illustrations featuring all the Things, goldfish, children and crackpot machines illustrate
every page of this giant sized 36 page tear-off sheet book full of colouring fun, puzzles, mazes, dot-to-dots, word searches and more. Printed with 100% soy-based ink and safe for children to enjoy ages three and up. Tear off a few and pack for journeys! ONLY £6.50
74212 STORYTIME STICKERS: Choo Choo
Trains by Lynn Plourde ‘Strap on your overalls. Travel back in time. Ride a steam locomotive - puffing smoke, soot and grime. Whoosh along a high-speed rail. No fuel here, just electric power, sleek, quiet and streamlined, it zips along at 200 miles per hour.’ Chugga chugga choo! All aboard the train. Here are steam locos, monorails, cable cars, trolleys and trams galore and over 100 colour stickers on this fast track to fun. Very large softback. £4.99 NOW £2.50
74361 DISNEY PRINCESS
CINDERELLA: Book and CD by Disney Enterprises and Parragon
Once upon a time, in a tiny kingdom, there was a gentle and lovely girl named Cinderella. She lived with her cruel stepmother and two ugly stepsisters. They were jealous of Cinderella’s goodness and
beauty and made her work night and day. The mice and the birds were Cinderella’s only friends... The classic tale has been retold and recorded onto a CD so that young readers can read along with the book and know it is time to turn the page when you hear the chimes ring. Appealing, colourful Disney artwork, 8" x 10" hardback with padded cover. £5.99 NOW £3
74436 WITCH & WIZARD: The Fire by James Patterson and Jill Denbowski
The bestselling author’s son was a reluctant reader and this prompted James to write the Maximum Ride and Daniel X and also the Witch & Wizard series which we are thrilled to have here. Whit and Wisty Allgood have sacrificed everything to lead the Resistance against the merciless totalitarian regime that
governs their world. Its supreme leader, The One Who Is The One has banned everything they hold dear - books, music, art and imagination - but the growing strength of the siblings’ magic hasn’t been enough to stop The One’s evil rampage. Now he has executed the only family they have left. Wisty knows that the time has finally come for her to face The One before he can become truly all-powerful. The stunning third instalment of this epic series in which the consequences will change everything. Read alone and go back to your favourite second hand bookseller for the prequels. 328pp. £9.99 NOW £4.50
LOVECRAFT MIDDLE SCHOOL 74202
PROFESSOR
GARGOYLE: Tales from Lovecraft Middle School Volume One
by Charles Gilman Two-headed monsters, giant tentacles, angry
demons - Lovecraft Middle School is creepy fun! Rats are leaping from lockers, students are disappearing and the school library is a labyrinth of secret corridors. And the science teacher is acting very, very peculiarly. Robert Arthur knew that the 7th grade was going to be weird, but with the help of some unlikely new friends, he discovers there is more to Lovecraft Middle School than meets the eye. Can he uncover the secrets of the school before it is too late? Line artwork, 176pp in volume one of this very collectable series with an extraordinary 3D effect artwork on the book cover of a devilish nature! US first edition. £10.99 NOW £5
74206 THE SLITHER SISTERS: Tales from Lovecraft Middle
School Volume Two by Charles Gilman Companion to Professor Gargoyle, another US first edition in this very
collectable series with 3D cover showing the young girls with Medusa-like hair and snake eyes at one angle and looking perfectly human in the other. Looks can be deceiving! Sarah and Sylvia Price resemble ordinary Middle School students, but actually they are hideous monsters in disguise. Even worse, they are campaigning for student council with a secret plan for abducting the entire 7th grade! The only ones brave enough to stop them are 12 year old Robert Arthur and his best friends - the school bully, the school ghost, and a very hungry two-headed rat. This second novel begins right where Professor Gargoyle ended and with more outrageous monsters and adventure. 176pp. £10.99 NOW £5
73829 WACKY RACES HANDBOOK by Cali Hughes
Peter Perfect, Life According to Mutley, Dastardly Road Race Tactics, Rufus Ruffcutt and Sawtooth, the Arkansas Chugga-Bug, Lazy Luke and Blubber Bear, the Bullet Proof Bomb, Penelope Pitstop, Professor Pat Pending and the Creepy Coupé are all drawn and recollected in dastardly colour. A Hanna-Barbera handbook. 85pp. £9.99 NOW £3
73830 HOW TO BE DASTARDLY by Cali Hughes
Dick Dastardly has taken time out from catching pigeons and sabotaging race tracks with Muttley to nurture your villainous mindset. Meet some of his Hanna-Barbera characters along the way, enjoy the Corrupt Quiz, enjoy the line drawings of Anti-Yankee Doodle Flying Formations and Flying Machines, and in Wonderful Words the ACME Catchphrase Generator, get the Dastardly fashionable look, and be presented with the Order of the Knights of Naughtiness certificate on the last page! 94pp, all in colour. £9.99 NOW £3
73831 HANNA-BARBERA GUIDE TO LIFE...:
Cool Tips for Top Cats! by Carolyn Madden Pearls of wisdom from our favourite cartoon creations here are The Flintstones’ Guide to Love and Top Ten Marital No-Nos, Yogi and Food by Booboo Bear, Matters of the Heart with Dick Dastardly, Hong Kong Phooey’s Guide to Personal Training, Dastardly Words to Inspire, a 60 second interview with The Hooded Claw, Top Cat’s Guide to Staying on Top, Penelope Pitstop’s Guide to Using Your Talents, and a 60 second interview with Officer Dibble. Enjoy the anthropomorphic animals and yogic life tips and a Sarnie recipe! Colour caricatures. 94pp.
£9.99 NOW £3
74117 HANNA-BARBERA: Set of Three Buy all three dastardly titles and save even more. £29.97 NOW £6
73833 TIMMY TIME POCKET LIBRARY: Six Mini Books by Aardman
Timmy the Artist, Timmy’s Hiccup Cure, Timmy Steals the Show, Timmy Wants the Beret, Snapshot Timmy and Timmy Plays Football are the titles of these six eight page board books to share. In bold colour and from the Shaun the Sheep creators, watch little Timmy the sheep and friends in their adventures. Suit ages 2+. £4.99 NOW £2
73834 WORLD OF HAPPY POCKET LIBRARY:
Six Mini Books by Giles Andreae Big fun for little fingers aged 2+ here are six miniature books, each eight colourful board pages entitled Friends, Fun, Happiness, Life, Love and You and Me… Because life is FUN! Beautiful colour cartoon illus by the famous Purple Ronnie artist. £4.99 NOW £2
73841 DISNEY DOUBLE GLITTER GREETINGS
CARDS: Eight Cards with Envelopes Two each of four designs featuring Minnie and Mickey Mouse, a kneeling, blonde fairy, Snow White, and Winnie the Pooh with his friends Eeyore and Piglet. All are bearing gifts and twinkle on these quality 4½” x 6¾” cards with white envelopes. £3.99 NOW £2
73238 PRINCESS POPPY POCKETMONEY
BOOK COVERS IN 3D!
BOOK AND CD by Janey Louise Jones A brilliant Princess Poppy story with music and sound effects running time one hour 17 minutes and read by Theresa Gallagher on the accompanying CD at the back of this very pretty book. With silver star spangles on the front cover. You will find Poppy’s house, Honeysuckle Cottage, Grandpa’s house and office, Cornsilk Castle, Sage’s Vet Surgery, Beehive Beauty Salon, Bumblebees Teashop, Riverside Stables and all the other places familiar from the story. Will her money-making ideas be successful? 120pp, paperback. Suit ages 7+. £6.99 NOW £2.50
73029 STICK MAN CD
by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler A companion to The Smartest Giant in Town CD code 73025, Imelda Staunton once again brings to life this popular children’s story. Will Stick Man ever get back to the family tree? A dog wants to play with him, a swan builds her nest with him. He even ends up on a fire! Join him on his amazing adventures in this classic story from the creators of The Gruffalo. Five tracks on audio CD running time 37 minutes with the entire story alongside music, song and instrumental version. £5.99 NOW £3
72924 SEVEN VOYAGES OF SINBAD THE SAILOR retold by John Yeoman and illustrated by Quentin Blake
Most people have heard of Sinbad the Sailor but really, he was not a sailor, just a merchant and an unstoppable traveller. Stories about him first appeared in the Middle Eastern tales called The Arabian Nights. In these amazing tales of danger, shipwreck, heroism, fabulous treasures and terrifying monsters there is always an element of the truth. Our favourite is the men who flew. 119 pages 31cm x 24.5cm, amusing watercolours. £12.99 NOW £4
72962 ARTEMIS FOWL by Eoin Colfer 12 year old Artemis Fowl is responsible for every major crime of the new century. In this, the story of his first encounter with the Fairy People, you will find out how the criminal mastermind hatched a plot to restore his family’s fortune, and how he discovered a world below ground of armed and dangerous fairies, and mind- blowing technology. And you will learn how, by kidnapping Captain Holly Short of the Lower Element Police, Artemis Fowl almost triggered a cross-species war. Paperback, 280pp. £6.99 NOW £2.50
72927 SPOT’S STORY BOOK by Eric Hill With dedication page this is a beautifully produced big hardback with colour illustrations and clear text for
children who can read alone aged 4+ and ideal for reading aloud to even younger children. Spot the loveable dog introduces young readers to new words like toys in the toy box, the snow, smells, even x-ray machines in these 12 stories ending with Spot plays hide-and-seek.
£9.99 NOW £3.50
72838 3-D CHILLERS: Zombies: Includes 3-D Glasses by Deborah Kespert
Here are tales of re-animated corpses, zombie-like creatures, Icelandic Draugrs and Arabian ghouls, voodoo terror and what to collect in your zombie survival kit which might mean the difference between life and death! Pop on the 3-D glasses to make these colour pictures come into focus, come to life, and scare you to bits! Suit ages 6-9. Large softback. £3.99 NOW £1.50
72837 3-D CHILLERS: Vampires: Includes 3-D Glasses by Deborah Kespert
Slip on the 3-D glasses with bat and castle colour design and learn about the Manananggal, female vampires from the Philippines, blood-sucking creatures from ancient mythology like the Hindu goddess Kali, the frightening Asambosam from the forests of Africa, Dracula, Lord of Darkness, useful tools to keep in your vampire hunter kit. Ages 6 to adult. Large softback. £3.99 NOW £1.50
72560 ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND
by Lewis Carroll, Illustrated by Willy Pogány Willy Pogány, a prolific Hungarian-born artist, created these striking drawings in 1929. His intricate black and white images retain the story’s playful spirit while injecting a zesty modern air to depictions of the White Rabbit, the Queen of Hearts, the Mad Hatter and a rather elegant looking 20s Alice with tartan short skirt, long white socks and a sleek blonde bob haircut. This restoration of Pogány’s long out-of-print illustrations is for all collectors of book illustration, whatever age. Original typography also restored, facsimile paperback reprint, 192pp.
£7.99 NOW £2.50
72171 CLASSIC FAIRY TALES: Five Favourite Stories
This gorgeous box set is beautifully retold and illustrated - contemporary interpretations of timeless classics. The Pied Piper of Hamelin by Michael Morpurgo and Emma Chichester Clark illustrating, Hansel and Gretel by the same duo, a spellbinding book in words and pictures, Cinderella retold by Max Eilenberg and illustrated by Naimh Sharkey in modern appealing brightly coloured art works, Beauty and the Beast also told by Max Eilenberg and illustrated by Angela Barret in a more classical haunting Victorian style, dreamy and delicate illustrations, and last but not least The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen retold by Naomi Lewis and exquisitely illustrated by Christian Birmingham with evocative imagery. Collectable authors and illustrators, ages 4+. Five softbacks in sturdy slipcase. $39.95 NOW £8.50
72168 CHARLIE AND LOLA MY COMPLETELY
BEST STORY COLLECTON: Five Stories and CD by Lauren Child
Charlie has his little sister Lola. She is small and very funny. Based on the popular TV series and here presented in a lovely slipcase from Puffin Books are ‘Snow Is My Favourite and My Best’, ‘I’ve Won, No I’ve Won, No I’ve Won’, ‘Whoops! But It Wasn’t Me’, ‘My Wobbly Tooth Must Not Ever Never Fall Out’ and ‘We Honestly Can Look After Your Dog’. Marv says ‘Definitely no taking him off the lead.’ The irresistibly comic duo take us on an adventure with a rocket, playing games, in the snow and more and the CD features the original voice recordings, music and sounds from the BBC TV show. Colour illus. £34.95 NOW £9
72320 MOBY-DICK: A Pop-Up Book by Sam Ita
Herman Melville’s epic saga Moby Dick is brought vividly to life in this abridged three dimensional graphic novel adaptation, the first of its kind, by a celebrated paper engineer. Trace Captain Ahab’s obsessive quest for the white whale in comic book-style panels, speech balloons and spectacular colour illustrations that rise dramatically off the page. Open the doors, lift the flaps and open pockets, pull tabs to make the scenes move and swirl the disc to see how the concentric circles seize the lone boat. Ages six to adult pop-up collector. $24.95 NOW £7
71326 PETER RABBIT WRITING SET by Beatrix Potter and Robert Frederick Each sheet measures just over 6" wide by 8" tall and is decorated with two Beatrix Potter bunnies running across a meadow full of flowers and butterflies. The paper itself is of good quality, ten sheets of writing paper with ten large white envelopes of the same size. Perfect for encouraging letter writing for youngsters or for nostalgic adults.
ONLY £4
72155 COMPLETE ALICE SLIPCASE by Lewis Carroll, illustrated by Helen Oxenbury
Only published in November 2012, we are thrilled to have this £99 box set measuring 21.6 x 15.6 x 13.4cms. Pull the pale blue satin tie and open the little doors in the front of the slipcase to discover a library of 22 volumes including Who Stole the Tarts?, The Lobster Quadrille, Pig and Pepper, Advice from a Caterpillar, Down the Rabbit-Hole, Alice’s Evidence, Queen Alice, Humpty Dumpty, Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee and The Garden of Live Flowers among them. The award winning classic words of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Alice through the Looking Glass in 22 wee volumes each of approximately 20 pages brought to a new generation by virtue of Helen Oxenbury’s brightly animated illustrations, in colour and gorgeous line art. Alice is modernised in a little blue mini dress, white plimsolls and her long flowing blonde hair. £99 NOW £30
74395 LITTLE MISS STUBBORN: The Wrong Advice by Roger Hargreaves
Little Miss Stubborn does not like to listen to others, but when she talks to Little Miss Sunshine, will she see a change in her fortunes? She took Little Miss Scatter- Brain’s advice on directions to the beach, always opened umbrellas indoors and walks under ladders, but what trouble she brings upon herself being so stubborn! Big boldly coloured softback 8" x 9". £5.99 NOW £2.50
74396 MR GREEDY IS HELPFULLY HEAVY by Roger Hargreaves
There aren’t many advantages to being Mr Greedy - he breaks things all the time and when he gets into the bath the water jumps out! Having trouble fitting everything in your suitcase? Then call Mr Greedy, the expert suitcase squasher! Big colourful softback, 8" x 9". £5.99 NOW £2.50
74397 MR SMALL: A Big Day Out by Roger Hargreaves
Being Mr Small can be very difficult indeed! But when an unhappy Mr Small makes a little wish to grow and grow, unexpected things begin to happen when he meets Mr Uppity, Mr Strong, Mr Noisy and his other Mr Men friends. Big bold colourful softback in this ever popular series. 8" x 9". £5.99 NOW £2.50
74398 MR TOPSY-TURVY: The Round Way Wrong by Roger Hargreaves
SALE FOR HOUSE - Mr Topsy-Turvy is looking for a new home but everything is back to front! Even his meals seem messy affairs as he didn’t pour out the cornflakes, oh no, he poured the milk into the packet! Will he find a new home? Big bold colourful drawings in this collectable series. 8" x 9" softback.
£5.99 NOW £2.50 74588 MR MEN AND LITTLE MISS: Set
of Four by Roger Hargreaves Buy all four softbacks and save more. £23.96 NOW £7.50
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
10833 PUCK OF POOK’S HILL by Rudyard Kipling
When Dan and Una stage a performance of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ in a fairy ring, they are astonished by the appearance of Puck in person. He explains that he is the last of the People of the Hills, who started as gods before descending into this world. Puck leads the two children in a series of extraordinary historical adventures in which they meet, Romans and Crusaders, Saxons and Vikings. Kipling’s charming songs and verses, including the famous Smuggler’s Song are placed between each thrilling story. The book is beautifully illustrated by H.R. Millar. 224pp. Paperback. ONLY £2
73407 MICHAEL FOREMAN’S THE
WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ by L. Frank Baum
For the past 113 years, children and adults alike have delighted in his enchanted and enchanting story of a Kansas farm girl called Dorothy who - with her little dog Toto - is swept away by a cyclone to the magical world of Oz. On the way,
she is joined by a fantastical cast of characters - the cowardly Lion, the silly Scarecrow, the kindly Tin Woodman and, of course, the devious Wicked Witch of the West. Baum wrote a musical version, which was a stage hit in 1902 and, in 1939, MGM’s classic film immortalized his name. In this latest version, Michael Foreman’s whimsical watercolours capture the magical essence of Baum’ s much loved story. 160 pages 30.5cm x 14cm with lovely watercolours. £14.99 NOW £5.50
73406 MICHAEL FOREMAN’S TREASURE ISLAND by Robert Louis Stevenson
Perfect for the young reader who has yet to experience Jim Hawkins, Long John Silver, Blind Pew et al, or for those of us whose copy has long since disappeared. The story is here related in full and is embellished with over 50 of Foreman’s marvellous watercolours, many in full- and double-page spread. From the spectral Blind Pew feeling his way through the fog outside the Admiral Benbow to Jim Hawkins cast adrift in a coracle on mountainous seas or gunning down an climbing attacker from atop the mast with two flintlocks while the screaming gulls wheel around him. Foreword by Michael Morpurgo. Jacket design is ‘water splattered’. 226pp, 9½”×12".
£14.99 NOW £7.50
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