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Peter is visiting Jemima Puddle-duck on the farm and is excited to discover that she is nesting and her ducklings will be hatching soon! But when Jemima goes to show Peter her precious eggs, she realises one is missing! Peter jumps into action and helps Jemima search high and low for her runaway egg. Will they find it before it’s too late?
Journey through the most amusing and surprising mistakes in history! From Queen Victoria’s coronation chaos to the Titanic’s infamous iceberg encounter, each page bursts with fascinating facts and eye-popping visuals. Kids will love learning about ridiculous rulers, engineering emergencies, and sporting slip-ups. This book is more than just entertaining; it’s an educational adventure that shows how even the biggest mistakes can lead to great stories.
For 11-year-old Ozora Tsubasa, football is life! He’s been playing since he was little, and now it’s an obsession. His new school in Nankatsu is known for its amazing football teams. Now he can finally work towards his ultimate dream: representing Japan in the Fifa World Cup! But success never comes easy. Can he outplay his rivals and prove that he has what it takes?
As indigenous scientist and author of ‘Braiding Sweetgrass’ Robin Wall Kimmerer harvests serviceberries alongside the birds, she considers the ethic of reciprocity that lies at the heart of the gift economy. How, she asks, can we learn from indigenous wisdom and the plant world to reimagine what we value most? Our economy is rooted in scarcity, competition, and the hoarding of resources, and we have surrendered our values to a system that actively harms what we love. Meanwhile, the serviceberry’s relationship with the natural world is an embodiment of reciprocity, interconnectedness, and gratitude. The tree distributes its wealth – its abundance of sweet, juicy berries – to meet the needs of its natural community. ‘The Serviceberry’ is an antidote to the broken relationships and misguided goals of our times, and a reminder that ‘hoarding won’t save us, all flourishing is mutual.’
From the pre-eminent historian of WWII, an impassioned appreciation of the unprecedented postwar decision by the United States to aid its enemies as well as its allies via the Marshall Plan, leading to eight decades of peace and shared prosperity, which are being upended in today’s political environment.
How have secrets changed over the generations, and what does that tell us about ourselves and our world? In her intimate new book, bestselling social historian Juliet Nicolson uncovers one of the most enigmatic yet revealing aspects of human behaviour. According to a leading American psychotherapist most of us are keeping 13 secrets at any one time. Secrets can thrill, but they are just as likely to torment; and the deepest ones echo far down the generations. The secrets we keep inside reflect the conventions and taboos of the world outside. As women traditionally sit at the heart of family life, their secrets can open a unique window onto wider society. The book unlocks a period of significant transformation for women, from the restrictions just after WWII, through the emancipation of the 1960s and 1970s, to the opportunities and dangers women meet online today.
Ozora Tsubasa loves his school in Nankatsu, where every student is as obsessed with football as he is! They all dream of playing for Japan in the Fifa World Cup. With a vital match between Nankatsu and Shutetsu in full swing, Tsubasa is doing everything he can to shut out the rival school. When an injury hurts his team’s chances, it all comes down to Tsubasa and his new friend, Taro Misaki. Can the ‘Golden Duo’ rise to the challenge?
What do you want to be when you grow up? Explore the world of jobs people do with this sturdy tabbed board book for babies and toddlers. With lots of colourful, fun-filled pictures, things to name and talk about, as well as simple questions and activities, this baby book about jobs is ideal for preschool learning. Share it together and help your inquisitive toddler develop their speaking, listening, and observational skills as they learn to identify objects. Whether your little one dreams of being a doctor, a chef, a mechanic, or a builder, they will love learning about different jobs.
Tanks are the ultimate embodiment of industrial age warfare. In the popular imagination, they represent both a terrifying beast of destruction and a potent symbol of liberation. The technology behind these war machines has evolved relentlessly, and yet the coming of the information age has led many to predict that drones, missiles, and Artificial Intelligence have made the tank obsolete. Time and again, however, tanks have continued to shape – and be shaped by – battles around the world, from their introduction in 1916, through the Second World War and tank-on-tank fights in 1990s Iraq, to the current conflict in Ukraine. In ‘Tank’, Mark Urban draws on wide-ranging accounts from soldiers, designers, and politicians, from Winston Churchill to Volodymyr Zelensky, to tell the story of one of the most important developments in military history.
‘Smallie’: a Caribbean adjective for ‘Small Islander’. In 1961, 19-year-old Lucinda Brown travels to England in search of her son’s father, Clarence Braithwaite, who left Barbados to join the British army. But aboard the ship to Southampton she meets a man named Raldo who offers her a glimpse of a new life, a freer life. Bound by the memory of her son waiting at home, she chooses Clarence – realising too late that war has made a stranger out of him. Nearly 50 years later, Lucinda receives a letter from the Home Office that threatens to tear her world apart. Her children rally together to prove her legal arrival, and to do so they must track down an elusive man from her past, a man she wanted to love but instead lost, a man who now holds the key to her family’s future. Raldo.
It’s been a quiet year for the Thursday Murder Club. Joyce is busy with table plans and first dances. Elizabeth is grieving. Ron is dealing with family troubles, and Ibrahim is still providing therapy to his favourite criminal. But when Elizabeth meets a wedding guest who’s in trouble, kidnap and death are hot on their heels once more.
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