Whiffy Wilson - The Wolf who wouldn't go to bed
From bestselling picture book author, Caryl Hart, winner of ...
Whiffy Wilson - The Wolf Who Wouldn't Go To Bed
The Story Of The Orchestra - Listen While You Learn About the Instruments, the Music and the Composers Who Wrote the Mus...
Eye-catching illustrations, an engaging text and delightful musical selections on an accompanying 70-minute CD lead children aged 8 to 12 (and parents too!) on an exciting and educational listen-while-you-learn tour through the instruments and music of the orchestra. The Composers, name by name Baroque Classical Romantic Modern - The Orchestra, instrument by instrument String ...
The Man Who Climbs Trees
A book of heart-stopping bravery and endurance Helen Macdonald A great read incredible adventures and a dramatic new perspective Chris Packham (A) delightful, endlessly fascinating book Daily Mail BOOK OF THE WEEK This is the story of a professional British tree climber, cameraman and adventurer, who has made a career out of travelling the world, filming wildlife for the ...
The Camel Who Crossed Australia
Third in Jackie Frenchs Animal Stars series, featuring the animals who contributed to historys most famous events. the story of the famous Burke and Wills expedition
as it has never been told before the humans called him Bell Sing, but to the other camels he is known as He Who Spits Further than the Wind. transported from the mountains and deserts of the Northwest Frontier (p...
I Am Brian Wilson - The genius behind the Beach Boys
They say there are no second acts in American lives, and third acts are almost unheard of. Thats part of what makes Brian Wilsons story so astonishing. As co-founder member of the Beach Boys in the 1960s, Wilson created some of the most groundbreaking and timeless popular music ever recorded. With intricate harmonies, symphonic structures, and wide-eyed lyrics that explored lifes most tran...
Something in the Blood - The Untold Story of Bram Stoker, the Man Who Wrote Dracula
An essential examination (New York Times Book Review), this revelatory biography exhumes the haunted origins of the man behind the immortal myth. In this sumptuous (Publishers Weekly) portrait of the man who birthed an undying cultural icon, David J. Skal pulls back the curtain to reveal the author who dreamed up this vampire (Time). A fascinating character whose own anxieties and ...
The Man Who Was Thursday
The Penguin English Library Edition of The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton A mans brain is a bomb, he cried out, loosening suddenly his strange passion and striking his own skull with violence. My brain feels like a bomb, night and day. It must expand! It must expand! A mans brain must expand, if it breaks up the universe In a park in London, secret policeman Gabriel Sym...
Secret Of The Wolf/Wolf In Waiting/Shadow Of The Wolf
A tale of dark secrets and redemption, where the past and present collide.Laura Brandons promise to her dying father was simple: to visit an elderly woman shed never heard of before. A woman who remembers nothing except the distant past. Visiting Sarah Tolley seemed a small enough sacrifice to make. But Lauras promise results in another death: her husbands. And after their five-year-old...
The Boy Who Set Sail on a Questionable Quest
Princess Lois has been kidnapped by Anatoly the Handsome, who wants to marry her. Cue damsel in distress to be rescued by none other than our own heroic Blart. He sets out on the good ship The Golden Pig with Olaf the innocent who believes what everyone says all the time and Kupverstich the Strange an explorer-come-scientist whose ingenious explanations for the natural world have one ...
The Boy Who Cried Vampire - A Graphic Novel
In Transylvania, a boy cries
vampire! Young Ion is bored by life in the village. So to spice things up, the imaginative prankster runs false vampire drills, much to the annoyance of the villagers. But one night, a shadow passes by Ions window. This time its no joke. Its a REAL vampire! Have all of Ions fibs come back to bite him, or can the boy find a way out of this batty situation? In ...
The Wolf, the Duck and the Mouse
Early one morning a mouse met a wolf and was quickly gobbled up
When a woeful mouse is swallowed up by a wolf, he quickly learns he is not alone: a duck has already set up digs and, boy, has that duck got it figured out! Turns out its pretty nice inside the belly of the beast theres delicious food, elegant table settings and, best of all, dancing. And theres something more: no more fear ...
Dingo - The Dog Who Conquered a Continent
Jackie Frenchs critically acclaimed and best-selling ANIMAL STARS series looks at history through the eyes of an animal. Ages: 9-13 All of Australias dingoes may be descended from one south-east Asian rubbish dog who arrived here over 5,000 years ago. this is a story about the first dingo. It is also the story of Loa, who heads off across the sea in his canoe when the girl he loves ma...
The Man Who Was Thursday - Green Popular Penguins
G.K. Chestertons 1908 masterpiece, The Man Who Was Thursday, is a metaphysical thriller, and a detective story filled with poetry and politics. Gabriel Syme is a poet and a police detective. Lucian Gregory is a poet and a bomb-throwing anarchist. Syme infiltrates a secret meeting of anarchists and becomes Thursday, one of the seven members of the Central Anarchist Council. He soon learns, ho...
The Man Who Listens to Horses
Monty Roberts is a real-life horse whisperer-an American original whose gentle Join-Up® training method reveals the depth of communication possible between man and animal. He can take a wild, high-strung horse who has never before been handled and persuade that horse to accept a bridle, saddle, and rider in thirty minutes. His powers may seem like magic, but his amazing horse sense is based o...
The Viscount Who Loved Me
1814 promises to be another eventful season, but not, This Author believes, for Anthony Bridgerton, Londons most elusive bachelor, who has shown no indication that he plans to marry. And, in all truth, why should he When it comes to playing the consummate rake, nobody does it better . . . Lady Whistledowns Society Papers, April 1814But this time the gossip columnists have it wrong. Anthony Bri...
Silence of the Wolf
Following a wolfs paw prints in the Rockies, Tom Silver is determined to find the three wolves who have been attacking local farmers livestock near the gray wolf packs Silver Town, Colorado, certain they are pack members. A blizzard sidetracks him, and he settles into a cabin his brothers own when he hears a plane crash nearby. What he doesnt expect to find is a sole survivor. More incredu...
Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare - The Mavericks who Plotted Hitler's Defeat
A magnificent story, brilliantly told. Read it! Anthony Horowitz Six gentlemen, one goal the destruction of Hitlers war machine In the spring of 1939, a top secret organisation was founded in London: its purpose was to plot the destruction of Hitlers war machine through spectacular acts of sabotage. The guerrilla campaign that followed was to prove every bit as extraordinary as the ...
The Boy Who Fell To Earth
Meet Merlin. Hes Lucys bright, beautiful son who just happens to be autistic. Since Merlins father left them in the lurch, Lucy has made Merlin the centre of her world. Struggling with the joys and tribulations of raising her adorable yet challenging child (if only Merlin came with operating instructions), Lucy doesnt have room for any other man in her life. By the time Merlin turns ten...
The Puppy who was Left Behind
A brand new tale in the Animal Stories series from best-selling author, Holly Webb. The Puppy Who Was Left Behind is the 25th book in Holly Webbs Animal Stories series, a must for any puppy loving, Holly Webb fan. Anna and her new puppy, Fred, go to spend time on her grandparents canal boat during the summer holidays. Anna loves the boat, and so does Fred, but her grandparents have a black ...
The Glass Universe - The Hidden History of the Women Who Took the Measure of the Stars
`A biographical orrery intricate, complex and fascinating The Observer#1 New York Times bestselling author Dava Sobelreturns with a captivating, little-known true storyof women in science In the mid-nineteenth century, the Harvard College Observatory began employing women as calculators, or human computers, to interpret the observations their male counterparts made via telescope each nig...
The Grandads' Book - For the Grandad Who's Best at Everything
Theres no one quite like your Grandad, with all his daft jokes, songs, old-fashioned games and crazy stories. The Grandads Book celebrates this most wonderful of family members with a miscellany of all the things that make grandads great. Everything from anecdotes from and about famous grandads to tips and hints for first-time grandads and grandad-themed jokes, there are plenty of amusing ...
I Am the Wolf - Lyrics and Writings
With a voice that Pitchfork has called as scratchy as a three-day beard yet as supple and pliable as moccasin leather, former Screaming Trees and Queens of the Stone Age vocalist Mark Lanegan draws frequent comparisons to wounded masters of doom like Tom Waits, Nick Cave, and Leonard Cohen. But Lanegans talents arent limited to his vocal skills. His lyrics are on par with the best of them,...