Younger readers are introduced to vocabulary, including adjectives, animal names, and places where animals live, in this fun, sturdy board book that features farm animals--especially pigs. Illustrations. (Baby/Preschool)[...]
Youngsters will delight in counting monkeys, tigers, dolphins, and spiders as they seek out the orange cat hiding on every page.[...]
Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) is one of the best known of all Japanese woodblock print designers. He is particularly renowned for his landscape prints, which are among the most frequently reproduced of all Japanese works of art. Hiroshige's landscape prints were hugely successful both in Japan and i[...]
A fabulous collection of the most extravagant and outrageous shoes seen on fashionable women today - from the catwalk to the high street. With an introduction from Manolo Blahnik. For centuries, women's shoes have been at the forefront of high fashion. Sandals made of solid gold were found in the ro[...]
Collins Big Cat is a guided reading series for ages 4--9 edited by Cliff Moon. Top children's authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that your children will love to read, banded to help you choose the right book for every child. Practical teaching notes are included at t[...]
A brand new, engaging, accessible and assessment-focussed, approach to the 2010 specification clearly presenting information to students on what they need to know and what they need to be able to do to acheive the qualification.[...]
The punctuation workout for sticklers and rookies alike.
Provide your students with a strong and distinctive case study approach which will contextualize key issues with the Student Textbook for 2012 BTEC National Children's Play and Learning Development[...]
In Play Foundations People , the theme is explored through five chapters focusing on different ways in which children discover 'people', including activities related to family, children around the world, ourselves, people who help us and people in our community to help them start to develop positive[...]
Discusses the history and techniques of over forty-five printmaking methods, from etching and engraving to monotypes and Mylar lithography[...]
Fascinated by vampires?Then feast on nineteen tantalizing, bite-sized tales exploring the intersections between the living, dead, and undead.The vampires in these stories range from romantic to chilling to gleeful--and touch on nearly every emotion in between. The one thing they have in common is th[...]
The first bite is only the beginning.Twenty of today's favorite writers explore the intersections between the living, dead, and undead. Their vampire tales range from romantic to chilling to gleeful--and touch on nearly every emotion in between.Neil Gaiman's vampire-poet in "Bloody Sunrise" is brood[...]
More and more mothers are choosing to breast-feed their babies. But while some women take to breast-feeding like a duck to water, others find it more difficult and need help to get started. The invaluable advice from Clare Byam-Cook's excellent guide What To Expect When You're Breast-feeding...and W[...]
Offers advice for mothers who are unable to breast-feed, and tips on how to wean your breast-fed baby onto a bottle. This book includes information such as: how to choose the right formula and bottle for your baby; advice on sterilising bottles and other equipment; and, guidance on how to recognise [...]
Memories she had long chosen to forget begin to resurface. Memories of an eccentric childhood in a large and shabby house, where the children were very much left to fend for themselves within the loose boundaries of their parents' unorthodox values. A chaotic existence peopled by a rich collection o[...]
For millennia, the seaways have carried our goods, cultures and ideas, the terrors of war and the bounties of peace - and they have never been busier than they are today. This is a beautiful and terrifying portrait of the oceans and their human subjects, and a study of big business afloat.[...]
This collection brings together some of psychoanalyst D.W. Winnicott's most important work contributing to our understanding of the minds of children. The essays range in topic from 'The Concept of a Healthy Individual' and 'The Value of Depression' to 'Delinquancy as a sign of Hope'. All reveal Win[...]
Wislawa Szymborska's poems are admired around the world, and her unsparing vision, tireless wit, and deep sense of humanity are cherished by countless readers. Unknown to most of them, however, Szymborska also worked for several decades as a columnist, reviewing a wide variety of books under the una[...]
The Oxford Very First Dictionary, with its colourful clear layout and familiar first words, each with a simple definition and illustration, is a fun and easy way for young children to learn how to use a dictionary. An illustrated section at the end on topics such as colours and days of the week prov[...]
The Children's Laureate and best-selling author of The Gruffalo, Julia Donaldson, has carefully created the Songbirds Phonics series to support children who are learning to read. It builds children's confidence through a clear phonics development with gradual progression. This Stage 2 Songbirds coll[...]
The Children's Laureate and best-selling author of The Gruffalo, Julia Donaldson, has carefully created the Songbirds Phonics series to support children who are learning to read. It builds children's confidence through a clear phonics development with gradual progression. This Stage 2 Songbirds coll[...]
Murder: the unlawful, intentional killing of a human being - a terrible crime. But murder stories are always fascinating. Who did it? And how? Or why? And was it murder, or just an unfortunate accident? Who will triumph, the murderer or the detective? This collection contains a wide range of murder [...]