JavaScript in Easy Steps

A classic story from beloved author Noel Streatfeild, set in the film studios of California in the 1940s. Perfect for children aged 9+ and for all fans of Ballet Shoes and The Secret Garden.

Can you fall in love with the same person twice?

This richly illustrated book celebrates in words and pictures the beautiful work that award-winning artist Alan Lee produced for J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, and includes dozens of brand-new paintings and pencil drawings exploring the world of Bilbo Baggins. Since The Hobbit was first published in 1937, generations of readers have fallen under its spell.That magic was reignited sixty years later, when Alan Lee was commissioned to produce a special illustrated edition, and his delicate pencil drawings and beautiful watercolour paintings have become for many the definitive vision of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth. In this sumptuous, large-format hardback Alan Lee reveals in pictures and in words how he created these images, which would prove so powerful, matching perfectly with Tolkien’s own vision, that they would eventually define the look of Peter Jackson’s film adaptations and earn Alan a coveted Academy Award.The Hobbit Sketchbook is filled with more than 100 of his sketches and earl

The third book in the wickedly funny series for ages six and up from the creator of Where Bear?, Pass It On and the Pom Pom series, with colour illustrations throughout. Hi! I'm Jeanie - still 7 3/4 years old, and back for another adventure with my BRILLIANT grandma BAD NANA. There's a local winter talent show, and the whole town is SO excited.Especially as the SPECTACULAR Bobby Trulove is in charge. He's an old friend of BAD NANA's and he's quite, erm, dramatic! The day before the show, a freak weather storm hits, and leaves the town snowed in. Can BAD NANA save the show? The third instalment in the wickedly funny series, from superstar author and illustrator Sophy Henn

The home of trusted Turkish dictionaries for everyday language learning. A handy Turkish to English and English to Turkish dictionary. Offering learners at home, school and in the office extensive and up-to-date coverage of Turkish and English in a compact, portable format.

Pupil Practice Books contain practice exercises which link precisely to teaching and learning in the corresponding unit in the Teacher's Book and Pupil Textbook. Intelligent practice is at the heart o

`A superbly researched and groundbreaking account of Soviet espionage in the Thirties ... remarkable' 5* review, Telegraph On the trail of Soviet infiltrator Agent Bleriot, in thi

Collins Integrated Science for the Caribbean is an activity-led course set in contexts relevant to the Caribbean. Suitable for lower secondary students in all parts of the Caribbean, this course has b

Level: KS2 Subject: English Children will have lots of fun practising their spelling using these word searches. Written to match the new primary cur

Collins Arabic Big Cat is a guided reading series for ages 3 to 11. The series is structured with reference to the learning progression of Arabic at nursery and primary schools researched especially for Collins. This carefully graded approach allows children to build up their reading knowledge of Arabic step by step.Level 7 books include story lines with more episodes in time sequence, and may include imaginary happenings in the context of familiar experiences. There is still repetition but more variation in pattern and more new words are introduced than in lower levels. Non-fiction titles bring in simple non-fiction tools, such as diagrams, labels and captions. Additional vowel marks that encourage the flow of pronunciation are introduced at this level. Verbal sentences of up to 8-10 words with repeating and accessible actions appear at this level. Double spacing is used between words to ensure children see where each new word in a sentence begins and ends.When a hungry boy wishes for

2015 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction2015 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in FictionNOW A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES WINNER OF THE 2015 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTIONNATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR FICTION A beautiful, stunningly ambitious novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II ‘Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.’ For Marie-Laure, blind since the age of six, the world is full of mazes. The miniature of a Paris neighbourhood, made by her father to teach her the way home. The microscopic layers within the invaluable diamond that her father guards in the Museum of Natural History.The walled city by the sea, where father and daughter take refuge when the Nazis invade Paris. And a future which draws her ever closer to Werner, a German orphan, destined to labour in the mines until a broken radio fills his life

The first in a fab new animal series set in a glamorous pooch parlour, for animal-crazy girls who love dogs and looking after them.

New cover reissue in million copy best-selling Duck in the Truck series.Plop! goes the drip that drops from the cup.Duck looks down and Duck looks up.‘A leak in the roof, oh! What bad luck.This is a j

From one of the greatest living literary imaginations and the celebrated author of FAHRENHEIT 451 comes a collection of never-before-published effortlessly beautiful tales. Recently described in The Times as 'the uncrowned poet laureate of science fiction' Ray Bradbury has won numerous awards including a Pulitzer Prize special citation in 2007 and an Emmy. In this new volume of never-before-published stories, follow a space shuttle crew as they voyage sixty million miles from home, discover what happens when a writer 'with the future's eye' believes his friend to be writing stories aboard a UFO, and listen in on a couple talking themselves backwards through time to the moment when they first held hands.This entertaining and gripping collection is a treasure trove of Bradbury gems – eerie and strange, nostalgic and bittersweet, searching and speculative – to delight readers of all ages.

The spellbinding novel from one of the world's best-loved authors, Paulo Coelho, recounting the story of Brida, and her pursuit of wisdom.This is the story of Brida, a young Irish girl, and her quest for knowledge. She has long been interested in various aspects of magic, and has taken courses in astrology, tarot, and numerology, but is searching for something more. Her search leads her to people of great wisdom, who begin to teach her about the world.Her teachers sense that Brida has a gift, but cannot tell what that is.Meanwhile, Brida pursues her course ever deeper into the mysteries of life, seeking to answer questions about who she is. She meets a wise man who dwells in a forest and teaches her about overcoming her fears and trusting in the goodness of the world and a woman who teaches her how to dance to the music of the world and how to pray to the moon. She seeks her destiny, as she struggles to find a balance between her relationships and her desire to become a witch.This enth

Escapist and completely absorbing, The Villa in Italy is the perfect, mouth-watering summer read.

Brilliant and original, ‘A Thousand Years of Good Prayers’ introduces a remarkable first collection of stories about China from an author set to become a major literary talent. In this extraordinary first collection, Yiyun Li brings us a modern China facing up to a complex history of repression and guilt. In 'Immortality', winner of the Paris Review prize, a young man bears a striking resemblance to the dictator, and so finds a strange kind of calling.In 'Extra', first published in the New Yorker, a Chinese woman, alone in middle age, befriends a young boy who has become an outcast in a remote country school. In their friendship, we see how love can begin to overcome the strictures that dominate their lives. In turn horrifying and breathtakingly lyrical, Yiyun Li, a new and talented young Chinese writer, confronts the silence that dominated the history of her country, and illuminates how mythology, politics, history and culture intersect with personality.She leaves us with an enduring

A collection of wonderfully hilarious, ridiculous rhymes put together by a master compiler, well known for his collections with OUP. John Foster is a poet in his own right and is highly-regarded in bo

Peter Straub's most acclaimed and biggest-selling novel - a visceral thriller with its roots in Vietnam - now reissued in a new cover style and making its first appearance on the HarperCollins list.

The fourth book in the "Suttons of Yorkshire" series which concludes the lives, loves and dramas of the Suttons in a world still at war. Drew and Kitty's marriage plans are threatened by the arrival o

Looks at the uses and abuses of electroconvulsive therapy and drug therapy in the USA. The book details the success of "talking therapy", and other psychosocial interventions in helping people diagnos

For 2026, an enchanting illustrated story for children, inspired by the classic tale of Alice’s Adventures in WonderlandReturn to Wonderland in this extraordinary reimagining of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by one of our most brilliant storytellersWINNER OF THE BLACKWELL’S CHILDREN’S BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES CHILDREN’S BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR FOYLES CHILDREN’S BOOK OF THE YEARAN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'A delight' Katherine Rundell‘Spectacular!’ Kiran Millwood Hargrave‘An absolute masterclass’ Hannah Gold‘Enchanting’ Tamzin Merchant‘Wonderful’ Cressida CowellEngland, 1919. Alyce – with a Y – lives with her grandmother, the original Alice, having lost her father during the Great War. When a mysterious invitation to a tea party hits her square in the face, Alyce realises her grandmother’s strange stories of a place called Wonderland might have some truth to them after all.But the land Alyce finds herself in feels different from the Wonderland of h