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It’s time to listen to beautiful classical music from Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Push the buttons to hear the songs! Aimed at babies and toddlers, this series of interactive board books has a button on every spread, which plays one of six different exceptional quality sound effects.
Welcome to Nikki Maxwell’s aDORKable world and Nikki’s BRAND NEW ADVENTURE in the mega-selling Dork Diaries series – now with over 50 million copies in print worldwide!
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A delightful collection of nature poems introduced by author Helen Macdonald.
A collection of classic travel poems introduced by novelist and prize-winning travel writer, Paul Theroux.
High on a misty mountainside, red panda cubs Popo and Ketu live happily with their mama. As the sisters grow, they promise Mama that they will always stay close to home. But while cautious Popo is content to spend her days in the family’s cosy treetop nest, bold Ketu dreams of excitement and exploration. So when Ketu creeps off down the mountain in search of adventure, Popo must make a choice – will she keep her promise to Mama, or look after her sister?
Penelope Snoop has a new case to solve. Her super-special shiny seashell has vanished! With her trusty sidekick, Carlos the dog, Penelope sets out to uncover the mystery – and begins a search for the shiny shell which will take them to the depths of the ocean and back again!
Priya Shah lies. A lot. She pretends everything in her life is perfect, so she doesn’t disappoint anyone. But when she puts on a bangle left to her by her Ba – the one person she was always honest with – she finds herself unable to tell a lie. Priya is mortified. She tells her dad she hates his cooking, she tells Dan Zhang about her huge crush on him, she shares her best friends’ secrets at school. She can’t get the bangle off, and she can’t stop the truths pouring out of her. As more things go wrong, and Priya’s truth-telling spirals out of control, can Priya learn to be honest without hurting the people she loves?
The fourth novel in the sensational ‘Before the Coffee Gets Cold’ series featuring cafe regulars, with the same time-travelling offer, back in the Tokyo cafe – if customers follow the rules.
There are five nature sounds from throughout the year to hear in this book. Little fingers will love pressing the sound buttons on each page to listen to sounds from the four seasons!
After the tragic death of his mother, eleven year old Will is sent to temporarily stay with his uncle in the mountains. After years trapped in a high-rise flat, with only birds for company, Will doesn’t know how he’ll survive a place like this, but he soon finds solace in the woods, when he’s surrounded by birdsong. With his new friend Omar – a refugee from Afghanistan – Will discovers an osprey nest, with two small chicks inside. He forms an unbreakable bond with the birds, especially the smallest chick, who they name Whitetip. But when tragedy almost strikes again one stormy night, and Whitetip is knocked out of the nest – breaking a wing, Will is determined to save her. Smuggling her down from the mountain, he finds a way to keep her alive. As Will helps Whitetip to grow and to heal, he finds a strength inside himself that he never knew he had.
This exciting introduction to the world is brimming with facts about our planet and the incredible people and animals who live on it. From the Arctic to the Antarctic, get ready to explore the continents. Learn about legends and folklore, world history, and how people live around the globe. Read about creatures from the land, sea, and skies, and delve into the world of the prehistoric dinosaurs. Find out about the impressive planets far away and the amazing features on Earth, from fiery volcanoes to dry deserts. Discover who’s who in the animal kingdom. Learn about amazing art and marvellous music. Then say ‘hello’ in lots of languages! Packed with fun facts and colourful illustrations, ‘My Encyclopedia of Very Important Things’ will feed your imagination and quench your thirst for knowledge!
When her dad is kidnapped by a woman with a giant hamstoceros, Bitsy and best friend Kosh are swept into a secret world of ancient meteorites and strange beasts called magicores, each conjured using a different emotion. Using a powerful bestiary called Magicalia, the friends must quickly become conjurors themselves, before following a trail of clues that will take them from London to India to Paris, in a race to rescue Bitsy’s dad from a mysterious villain.
In a village by the sea, carved into the rockiest edge of land, where the waves are wild and tumbling – lives an old elephant. Once he was a young elephant – with a dream of joining the lifeboat crew. But elephants don’t fit into lifeboats! Gabriel is determined, and he is ingenious, and he is brave. So much so that one stormy day he might be the only one who can save the day.
The Story Orchestra: Peter and the Wolf tells the story of Sergei Prokofiev’s most famous compositions. Push the buttons to hear the vivid sound of an orchestra playing from Prokofiev’s score.
As she stands at the window, the spring sunshine streaming in, Mathilde reflects on the opportunities before her – it’s April 1968 and Morocco is changing. Looking out at her garden, the roses – brought in from Marrakech – have bloomed and their sweet, fresh scent pervades the garden. The world is opening up and anything feels possible. Work on the pool has just begun and she imagines diving in to cool off from the summer’s baking heat. Indecency. That’s her husband’s word for it, the flagrant display of their glittering success, on show for their labourers to wonder at. But Mathilde has prevailed. Times have changed, and she is determined to celebrate it. Only Mathilde is blissfully unaware of the consequences for her family, her country and its future. Her babies are now grown up, and they are all about to learn how life can take wild and unexpected turns.