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I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don’t know what I did before that. Just loafed, I suppose.
- P. G. Wodehouse
75070 BOOK OF SPACE by Buster Books
Blast off into space and discover stars, planets and rockets in a brilliant book bursting with intergalactic information. 3-2-1 lift off! If you are baffled by the Big Bang, have ever wondered if you will meet an alien, want to know the difference between Venus and Mars, all about UFOs, stargazing, life of the stars, snowballs in space, great big Jupiter, mysterious
Mercury and why gravity matters, here is a fun way to learn. 128 page paperback with line art. Ages 7 up. £5.99 NOW £3
75133 LEARN FRENCH WITH MAX ET MATHILDE: Les Jours
by Vivienne Creevey Learn les jour de la semaine as each day the children enjoy a different activity like football, cooking, tennis, swimming and playing piano. Repetition and
singing along to the enclosed CD will help careful pronunciation by repeating the phrases and reinforce to vocabulary. Max and Mathilde speak just as French children would speak to each other. Big bold colour illustrations, in Ladybird softback.
£6.99 NOW £3
75134 LEARN FRENCH WITH MAX ET MATHILDE: En Vacances
by Vivienne Creevey Published by Ladybird and with an accompanying CD, listen and learn useful phrases to have fun speaking French and singing songs with Max and Mathilde. Eat yummy ice
cream (la glace), go to the restaurant, (la plage) and let the beautiful big bold pictures guide the child. A translation appears at the back of the book rather than on the page itself to avoid word-for-word translation. All simple and fun. Large softback. £6.99 NOW £3
73536 WHO AM I? The Family Tree Explorer by Anthony Adolph
The book covers basic search techniques and sources of information, for instance censuses, parish registers, war memorials and wills. 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. Genghis Khan also makes an appearance. 208pp, softback, illus in colour. £14.99 NOW £2
73649 GIRLS’ BOOK BOXED SET: Three Volumes
by Juliana Foster, Sally Norton, Tracey Turner 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. 381 pages, slip-case. Line drawings.
£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 £5
73925 A WALK IN LONDON by Salvatore Rubbino
Join a mother and daughter on a very exciting day trip from Big Ben through beautiful St. James’s Park to meet the pelicans who were given to King Charles II in 1664 by the Russian Ambassador, through Covent Garden Piazza to St. Paul’s Cathedral and up to the Whispering Gallery via 259 steps, visit the Bank of England, the Tower of London to see the crown jewels, and did you spot the royal family’s car tucked away in the artwork on many of these glorious scenes? Big fold out panorama. 40 very big colourful pages. Ages 8+.
$16.99 NOW £4.50 74779 USBORNE
CHILDREN’S SONGBOOK by Anthony Marks and Stephen Cartwright
Froggy Went A-Courting, Cockles and Muscles, Donkey Riding, Michael Finnegan, Oh, Susannah!, I Had a Little Nut Tree, She’ll Be Coming Round the Mountain and Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush are among the 18 songs
compiled and arranged with music setting by Andrew Jones. The musical scores are specially arranged for young children’s voices. With easy accompaniments for piano or keyboard and indications for simple guitar chords, older children can use the tunes on the recorder, flute or violin. Charmingly illus, the tunes are available to listen to on the Internet. Supersized softback. £4.99 NOW £3
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74014 PILOT: Little People Shape Book
by Giovanni Caviezel In his smart blue uniform, wearing his peaked pilot’s cap, our very smart pilot stands about one foot tall. See the controls in the cockpit, the army pilot with his pressurised flying suit, helmet and oxygen mask, the turbo jet, flying helicopters and famous pilots from the past. Suit ages 4-7.
£9.99 NOW £3
73950 EYE SEE YOU: A Poster Book by Storey Publishing
The red-eyed tree frog (with matching red fingers), a family of Japanese macaques, a lemur, a lion, giraffe, polar bear, tarantula, black panther, hippo and the huge eyed Northern Saw-Whet owl are among the 30 animals who have joined the wildest staring contest! 30 close-up poster sized photos. Facts about their history and main characteristics. The posters are easily detachable. Outsized softback. Colour.
£8.99 NOW £2.50
74467 ANHOLT’S ARTISTS ACTIVITY BOOK by Laurence Anholt
Make a funky junk sculpture with Picasso, paint a portrait with Van Gogh, make an action sculpture with Degas, a cool colourful cut-out with Matisse, work with wild, wet watercolours with Monet and design a mad marvellous machine with Leonardo. Seven fantastic projects
taught by the great masters in a graphic storybook presentation and some extra chat about art. Large softback, 48pp.
£9.99 NOW £3.75
73971 MARTHA SPEAKS ABOUT LEARNING: Boxed Set by Susan Meddaugh
Martha the dog learned to speak when she ate a bowl of alphabet soup. The letters went to her brain instead of her stomach and since then she has gone on many adventures and has a hit US TV series. The Martha Blah Blah storybook features Martha’s adventures after the owner of the local soup factory decides to cut costs by leaving half the letters out of the alphabet soup. Play the three vocabulary building computer games with animation on the CD Rom enclosed. Turn over the cards of the Concentration Game and match the word with its definition. Gab Libs Fill-In Fun Book makes learning parts of speech a doddle. The Language Arts Activity Books present a wide range of vocabulary- building activities and kids will learn about parts of speech, idioms, synonyms, understanding stories and poetry, writing and more. More than 150 colour stickers, 15" x 15" colour poster. Ages 5-8. $16.99 NOW £4
73977 OUR ISLAND STORY: A
History of Britain by H. E. Marshall First published in 1905, the text used for this 2007 edition is based on a later edition here revised for a new generation. Alongside myths and legends such as King Arthur and Canute commanding the tide, here is Queen Boadicea’s stand against the Romans, the Princes in the Tower, the Great Fire of London, the Battle of Trafalgar, William the Conqueror, Henry IV and the Battle of Shrewsbury, Edward VII, the story of a boy king, the battles of Stamford Bridge, Hastings, the story of Lady Jane Grey, Anne and how the Union Jack was made, the stories of Bonnie Prince Charlie, Flora MacDonald, the Black Hole of Calcutta and more. 30 charming illus in colour. 474pp, softback. £12.99 NOW £5.50
74472 BOY, WERE WE WRONG ABOUT DINOSAURS!
by Kathleen Kudlinski Long, long ago, before people knew anything about dinosaurs, giant bones were found in China. This big
picture book explores the many ideas about dinosaurs, sometimes right and sometimes wrong, from the clues they left behind. Did they drag their tails or did they use them for balance, were they more like birds, cold blooded or warm blooded? Full page expressionful artwork, dinosaur discovery timeline. Ages 8+. £11.99 NOW £3.50
74479 DOTTY INVENTIONS AND SOME REAL ONES TOO
by Roger McGough Have you ever wondered who invented voice-activated socks, the Frisbee or central heating for bird cages? It was Professor Dotty Dabble of course! One of her amazing ideas is bound to win the National Science Museum’s award
but her robot sidekick, Digby, is not so sure that all these amazing ideas belong to the professor. He sets out to discover whose inventions they really are. Ages 6+. Colour, large softback.
£6.99 NOW £2.25
73523 DISCOVERING AMERICAN INDIANS with Free Feathered Headdress by Richard Platt
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. Major events in the history of the American Indian are featured. 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 illus. £9.99 NOW £3.50
73373 OWL 3D PUZZLE: Wood Craft
Construction Kit by Puzzled Inc. Containing 146 plywood pieces, all to press out from the wooden boards, this rather adorable ‘feathered’ owl has layers and layers of
wooden pieces to make up his shape and little feet and when assembled stands 7" high, complete with wobbly eyes. Suit ages eight to adult and some gluing may be required to keep him together. With CE safety mark. ONLY £4.50
73531 SECRET JOURNAL OF VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN ON THE WORKINGS OF THE
HUMAN BODY by David Stewart 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 of the human body, pull-outs, padded cover. £12.99 NOW £2.50
74503 THE IMPRESSIONISTS: My Sticker Art Gallery
by Carole Armstrong and Moira Munro Solve the clues and fill the empty frames of your own sticker art gallery using the 15 reusable coloured stickers which are mini reproductions of world renowned artworks by Renoir, Monet and Degas like Les Parapluies, Young Girls at the Piano and The Floor Scrapers. Even adults who love scrapbooking and other craft projects may like this. Softback, colour.
£5.99 NOW £2.50
74519 UNO, DOS, TRES: My First Spanish Rhymes Book and CD
by Yanitzia Canetti A host of characters, people, animals and birds, illustrate over 25 simple and well known rhymes and songs which young children will
enjoy learning and speaking Spanish. Key words are labelled and illustrated, and the CD helps beginners listen to and practise correct pronunciation and intonation. Let’s - travel, go to the country, go to the farm, eat, study, play, go home and go to sleep. 18 big colourful pages and CD.
£11.99 NOW £3
73008 MYTHICAL MONSTERS PACK: Book and Dragon Necklace
There are maps and information boxes describing 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. 7 to adult, 96 page paperback, includes a dragon jewel necklace in silver metal with an amber coloured stone. Colour. £4.99 NOW £1.75
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! Ages 5+.
£9.99 NOW £3.50
73374 PIPE CLEANERS: Caterpillar Colours by Lizzie Rockwell
In bright lime green through to darker green, here are 36 super extra plush pipe cleaners for all crafts people, three, six, nine and ten mm respectively. Because they have sharp points, they are only suitable for ages eight to adult. Make your caterpillar by following the clear instructions like sliding the thorax coil onto the tail and up to the head.
ONLY £2
73375 PIPE CLEANERS: Sea Star Colours by Lizzie Rockwell
Four shades of very attractive pink, purple and white, here are 36 super extra plush pipe cleaners, three each per colour of three, six, nine and ten mm respectively. Because of the sharp points they are only suitable for ages eight to adult. Use the 36 pipe cleaners to get you started making a doggy. Fold the ends of the arm piece for paws and press into the back of the body coil. Your dog can now sit! ONLY £2
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. Housing and everyday life are covered here, such as the medicinal use of crocodile dung and the fact that priests shaved their eyelashes. £9.99 NOW £2.50
74784 THAT’S NOT MY COLOURING BOOK: Holiday
illustrated by Rachel Wells That’s not my... sun hat, ice cream, seagull, beach ball, boat, spade, kite - for each there is a big colourful picture on the left hand page and a black and white outline for you to colour in on the right. With 68
colourful stickers of birds, shells and everything you would see on holiday and by the beach. Ages 3+, large colourful softback.
£4.99 NOW £3 ENTERTAINMENT
The stage is actor’s country. You have to get your passport stamped every so often or they take away your citizenship.
- Vanessa Redgrave
74724 LIFE BEYOND MEASURE: Letters to My
Great-Granddaughter by Sidney Poitier
Sidney Poitier was the first African- American to win the Academy Award for best actor. He has starred in over 40 films, directed nine and written four. He is one of the most revered actors in the history of Hollywood and, among many other accolades, has been presented with the Life
Achievement Award for an outstanding career and humanitarian accomplishment. In this moving book, he draws upon the perspective and wisdom gained from his memories as a poor boy in the Bahamas, his experience of racism and breaking the race barrier in theatre and film during the Civil Rights Era, then, after achieving stardom and success, becoming a diplomat and humanitarian. Here, he reflects on the deepest questions and the significant passages in his life, the virtues that helped him through the tough times, and the sense of purpose and history that strengthened him. Poitier emphasises the importance of the role of faith in a technological age, as well as our responsibility to the earth and future generations. Throughout, the book is enhanced by stories about the people of courage the actor has met along the way, and the meaning of life in the face of death. What a role model. 285 pages with b/ w archive photos and family tree. $25.95 NOW £6.50
74987 RIN TIN TIN: The Life and Legend of the World’s
Most Famous Dog by Susan Orlean
September 1918 and Corporal Lee Duncan was sent into the ruins of a German camp to see what could be used. There was a bunker used for housing military dogs - German Shepherds - which had taken a hit from a shell and contained over 20 dead animals and one nursing
female with five puppies, amazingly still alive. Duncan kept one of the puppies, brought it back to California and the legend of Rin Tin Tin was born. Between then and his death in 1932 he starred in 27 films and would certainly have won an Oscar if it was not a humans- only award. RTT Jnr. was not as talented as his father and made fewer films, and RTT III made just one film. In 1953 and on his uppers, Duncan, by now with RTT IV, got his lucky break and got a TV show for his canine sidekick. As it turned out the dog was no performer, but no matter, there were plenty of understudies, notably Flame Jr, who were. After Duncan died in 1960 the RTT bloodline was kept going by Jannettia Brodsgaard, who had bought several pups sired by RTT III. Her great- granddaughter keeps the flame alive today with RTT XII, who remains a star. Susan Orlean’s heartwarming book is many things: a poignant exploration of the human-animal bond, a rich history of the 20th century movie business, an analysis of the role of dogs in the family and in society, but perhaps most of all it is the ultimate must-read for anyone who loves dogs, as unlikely and lucky a start in life as you will ever hear, followed by the most astounding life - and subsequent lives. 324pp paperback, b/w photos.
£14.99 NOW £6 74461 RICHARD & JUDY: The Autobiography
by Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan In one of the most strong and enduring showbusiness marriages, Richard and Judy tell their stories side by side - about their lives before each other, their first marriages and the incredible chemistry that first drew them together. They reveal the fun as well as the drama behind the scenes and share the huge happiness their family life has brought them. Packed with lovely colour and b/w photos of friends, family and celebrities. Paperback, 376pp. £9.99 NOW £1.25
74707 HOME: A Memoir of My Early Years by Julie Andrews
‘It is my opinion that had Camelot come before My Fair Lady, it would have had its own success.’ ‘After an introductory number entitled ‘Together’, we did a send-up of The Sound of Music, called The Swiss Family Pratt. I portrayed the mother, Carol was Cynthia, the last child and only girl in the family of 12 boys, played by our wonderful dancers. It was great fun, and I had no idea at the time that I would later be asked to play Maria in that beautiful film.’ ‘When Walt [Disney] appeared in my dressing room, he exuded natural charm and friendliness. After the formalities, he told me and Tony about a combination live action/ animated film that he was planning to make, based on the Mary Poppins books by P. L. Travers. I was familiar with the title, but had never read the books.’ Shame on you, Julie! Fast paced, full of fun and vitality like the lady herself, this is showbiz biography at its very best. First edition. 340pp with 32 pages of b/w photos. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
$26.95 NOW £7
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