Naughty Amelia Jane is back and she’s still getting into all kinds of trouble! The toys in the nursery have had enough of Amelia Jane’s nasty tricks. They decide to teach her a lesson…
A modern classic that no child should miss. Since it was first published in 1939, Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel has delighted generations of children. Mike and his trusty steam shovel, Mary Anne,
A keepsake storybook featuring the irrepressible Olivia finds her looking forward to demonstrating a pas de deux for Show-and-Tell before accepting help from a visiting uncle when no boys are availabl
To my knowledge there are no anthologies of Ch’an poetry in Chinese, Japanese or English which describe in detail the method of practice and the experience of Ch’an Furthermore, there are few prose so
Here’s another psychological thriller from the popular author of Land of the Living (2003) and Losing You(2008), among many others. Astrid Bell is a bike messenger in London. Not long after a neighbor
A guide to essential and more frequently used words and phrases in German features a shortcut system for increasing one's German vocabulary, techniques for developing an accent, and a phonetic diction
Presents the essentials of French grammar in a series of focused self-test exercises answer sections. The book provides the means for readers to test their knowledge of written French and identify the
Albert Schmidt is a retired lawyer who misses his recently deceased wife, has an unhealthy diet, is a mild anti-Semite and owns a nice home in the Hamptons he feels compelled to offer to his daughter
On the one-year anniversary of her husband's death, Annie Hunter comes home to find a ragged-looking boy asleep on her porch. When he awakes, she discovers his name is Cullen Gallagher - and that he's
While Meredith feels torn between her husband and the handsome sculptor who is restoring her carousel--a legacy of her Gypsy father--a stalker tries to exploit the secrets of her family's past to his
As Russia and the United States stage Operation Pit Bull, the greatest war games in history, a conspiracy, led by fanatical hard-line communists from the former U.S.S.R., aims to sabotage the games an
His life's work and ambition fulfilled, Francis Brimm believes the only metamorphosis left him is a slow, affable decline toward death. So he returns to the town of his youth and to his sister, Muriel
Your portable resource to German verbsHarrap's Pocket German Verbs offers detailed explanations of verb categories, tenses and constructions, followed by more than 200 fully conjugated regular and irr
This is the story of Cupid--the god responsible for heartache, sleepless nights, and all those silly love songs--finally getting his comeuppance. When the god of love falls in love himself, things are
Traces the development of English painting from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century, focusing on the works of Hogarth, Blake, Gainsborough, Stubbs, Reynolds, Constable, Turner, and Bacon
What do "I Scream!" and "Ice Cream!" have in common? Nothing—besides the fact that they sound the same! The ever-surprising Amy Krouse Rosenthal unleashes her prolific wit in this silly and smart book
Packed with photographs of essential first objects, animals and more which babies and toddlers will recognise from their everyday environment and experiences.
Filled with pulse-pounding action and cryptic codes, The Golden Vendetta is the third engrossing book in bestselling author Tony Abbott's cloak-and-dagger series for young readers. It's been two month
Long-listed for the 2014 National Book Award in fictionWinner of the 2015 Alex Award for adult books with special appeal for young adultsWelcome to Trace Italian, a game of strategy and survival! You
Playful, rhyming text and bold collage illustrations capture the excitement of a day's adventure as a family of lively ducklings slip, slide, leap, and dive–grouping themselves in all the different co
A collection of poems themed around a bespectacled world that includes the organic leek who has learned to speak, the octopus who gets a nasty shocktopus, the man who drew his cornflakes and a whole c
Little Nutbrown Hare and Big Nutbrown Hare are playing a game of "I Spy" in the snow. As the game gets more tricky, Little Nutbrown Hare has to finally guess that he is Big Nutbrown Hare's most favour
A story that can captivate babies and toddlers as each spread encourages the very young to count things in each illustration and learn first numbers in a clear and fun way. It helps babies learn numbe
Watch and wonder as one tiny sea turtle grows and grows, before she heads back to the beach to become a mother herself. This picture book which combines story with information helps curious young mind
The blue whale is the biggest animal that has ever lived on Earth. This title is an exploration of what a blue whale feels, sounds and smells like, and learning facts about a whale's size, life-span,
Huge, magnificent, alone, a white bear moves through the frozen Arctic. Powerful hunter, tender mother and gentle playmate - she shares this land of ice and snow with the Inuit people, who watch and l
It's Cherry's first day at playschool and she's feeling a bit nervous. Dad helps her to settle her in and she ends up making some new friends and having lots of fun.
The moment Dolphin Baby pops into the blue, he swims up, up, up... and takes his very first breath. From then on, the baby calf swims close to his mother's side, discovering all there is to know about
What do you know about ducks? This book helps you learn all about which is a boy duck and which is a girl, why some quack louder and others more softly. It also helps you find out what they eat when i
A group of creatures whose habitats are not forests, seas or deserts. Instead they live on or in the bodies of other animals - in skin, hair, fur, feathers, blood, guts, livers, hearts and lungs. They
Have you ever wondered why animals are the size they are? Why some animals are big, why some are wide, why some are small and others are long and thin? This book explains how animals fit in to their e
Looks at how and why animals comunicate - for the purposes of mating, gathering food, warning of danger, and more. In this book, the author takes the reader all over the world and across a wide variet
Throughout the animal kingdom, creatures great and small have evolved to become masters of murder: from dive-bombing peregrine falcons to exploding carpenter ants, electric eels to spitting cobras. In
