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Welcome to Ratbridge. But beware — for there is skulduggery afoot. Arthur has fallen foul of the appalling Snatcher and is trapped alone in the town, with no way home. Meanwhile Snatcher and his men are working tirelessly in secret on a fiendish and dastardly plan to take over Ratbridge — and the world. With the help of Willbury Nibble QC, some friendly boxtrolls and cabbage-heads, Marjorie the frustrated inventor, and the rats and pirates from the Ratbridge Nautical Laundry, can Arthur thwart Snatcher's evil plans — and find his way home? Illustrated throughout with hundreds of the author's incredible black and white drawings, this unmissable debut novel was published to huge acclaim in September 2005 and looks certain to become a new classic for readers of all ages.

Pippi and her pals Annika and Tommy are off to the Canny Island, where Pippi's father is king... and where they will find caves to explore, play marbles with real pearls and find that even the pirates and sharks are no match for Pippi!

Every day is a brilliant new adventure for Pippi Longstocking and her pals Tommy and Annika. When Pippi's long-lost father arrives and wants to take her away to sea with him, Pippi can't wait for the adventure to begin. But Tommy and Annika aren't going with them and they are feeling very glum. Can Pippi come up with an answer to the problem?

In this delightful book for young children, food is fantastic fun — with mountains of noodles, wobbling jellies, juicy grapes, and bouncing popcorn. Just beware of the ever-hungry crocodile! Illustrated with great humour by well-known artist Nick Sharratt, these poems will get every reader's tastebuds tingling. Poets include John Agard, Jack Prelutsky, and Judith Nicholls.

Let's do the flip-flop frolic and splash into the sea! Playing on the sand, looking at starfish, going to the funfair, imagining mermaids, or listening to the wind and waves-this book is full of poems about what children love to do at the seaside. Illustrated charmingly by Nick Sharratt, the collection includes poems by Judith Nicholls, Margaret Mahy, and Richard Edwards.

How many of one's favourite poems are story poems? This is a wonderful collection of over sixty narratives in verse with thrilling tales, silly nonsense rhymes, tragic poems that will keep you in suspense, and funny, quirky poems that will delight over and over again. All the classic poems you would expect to see are here, such as Jabberwocky, The Pied Piper of Hamelin, The Highwayman, The Lady of Shalott, and The Owl and the Pussycat and these combine with more modern but equally satisfying poems to make a rich and varied anthology. The authors include Hilaire Belloc, Edward Lear, Walter de la Mare, J.R.R. Tolkien, James Reeves, Roger McGough, and Michael Rosen.

Lynne Truss's Eats, Shoots and Leaves injected new life into the long-standing arguments over rights and wrongs in English usage. Now David Crystal brings together his own distinctive style and unique expertise to provide the first thorough-going assessment of the ongoing debate. With a lively, humorous, and accessible approach, Crystal charts the battles past and present, illustrating the characters and attitudes involved from a wide range of written sources. He combines a chronological survey of key influences in the area of usage with discussion of particular themes such as punctuation, spelling, and pronunciation. And he looks ahead to the future in the context of recent education policy shifts. A positive and compelling case is made for variation in usage of English based on appropriateness of situation, arguing that 'zero tolerance' in relation to language is a profoundly flawed approach. Crystal offers an original and authoritative counter-argument to the prescriptivist agenda that has been expounded in many accounts of English usage over the years. The Fight for English is the book that everyone concerned with English usage has been eagerly awaiting.

Need cheering up? Bored? Want to amuse your friends? Then read this book — and have a good old chuckle. Here are hilarious and very silly poems about bad children, gladiators, shark teeth, ridiculous grown-ups and much more, by poets such as Roger McGough, Steve Turner and Brian Patten. Illustrated throughout, this attractive collection is perfect for dipping into, whenever you feel a dull moment coming on!

This is a new and fully updated edition of the Paperback Oxford English Dictionary, offering over 120,000 words, phrases, and definitions. It covers all the words you need for everyday use, carefully selected from the evidence of the Oxford English Corpus, a databank of 21st century English, containing hundreds of millions of words. For the new edition the definitions are clearer than ever before and there are extra usage notes to help with tricky points of grammar. Brand-new spelling notes give quick and easy help on commonly misspelled words, such as exaggerate and necessary. A brand-new Factfinder centre section gives quick-reference entries on people, places, and events, as well as useful lists of, for example, the world's seas and oceans, presidents and prime ministers, and countries and currencies. This portable and affordable dictionary is ideal for puzzle and crossword-solving, but also perfect for general reference at home, at school, or in the office. A new open design ensures that this dictionary is even more accessible and easier to use than ever before.

This rhythmical, rhyming romp of words takes readers on an amazing journey, powered by the imagination! Step aboard and sail to a treasure island, take a train ride through a steamy jungle and meet a Martian in outer space! And the starting point for these incredible escapes, a familiar back-garden, home to two cheerful toddlers and their fun-loving dog. Because when it comes to make-believe adventure, the sky's the limit! This wonderful book, illustrated with charm and humour by the talented Adrian Reynolds, proves that words and pictures really can take you anywhere you want to go!

Based on the Lilliput adventure from Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, the story centres on Fig, a Lilliputian girl, who befriends and defends the giant, Gulliver. It's an adventure that will lead Fig and her giant to stride the seas, capture an enemy fleet, and win a war. And it's an adventure in which Fig will make the most amazing friend — a friend who will open up whole new world for her, on a scale she could never have imagined. Geraldine's vivid, evocative language is perfectly matched by newcomer Jago's luminously coloured illustrations, which feature dramatic perspectives and intricate detail. An exciting and invigorating new take on this most famous of stories.

Winnie the Witch is getting ready for the Witches' Magic Show. She can't wait to show off her favourite spells with her magic wand. But when Winnie inadvertently puts her wand in the washing machine with her party dress it comes out crumpled, soggy, and certainly not in working order! How is Winnie going to wow her friends at the show? Wilbur dashes into town and buys a new wand for Winnie. She's delighted and rushes with Wilbur to the show. The problem is her wand is only a trick wand and so when all eyes are on Winnie nothing happens as she tries to turn Wilbur into a green cat. In desperation, she waves her wand over and over and suddenly... a bunch of flowers bursts from the tip. The audience just loves Winnie and Wilbur's hilarious routine and a disaster turns into a triumph! This is a magical story and the sounds of a clanking, fizzing washing machine, Wilbur racing against the clock, the hush of an expectant audience and roars of delighted laughter are just some of the wonderful additions to the narration of Winnie's Magic Wand on the accompanying audio CD.

We are delighted to be reissuing this lovely book with new cover artwork from Ian Beck. It's a collection to relish of over thirty traditional play rhymes, including such favourites as 'Incy Wincy Spider', 'This Little Pig', and 'Row, Row, Row Your Boat', all imaginatively illustrated by Ian Beck. Each rhyme also has clear, step-by-step line drawings to follow for the actions. The rhymes have been set to music on the accompanying CD, neatly packaged within the back cover flap. The musical arrangements are either based on traditional melodies or have been specially composed. This is the perfect package to introduce young children to the sheer enjoyment of joining in with action rhymes — great for playtime and bedtime.

Fun with Colours offers a variety of activities which will help children to recognize five colour names: red, blue, green, yellow and black. The colouring, matching, writing and counting activities develop visual discrimination, hand-eye coordination, judgement of similarity and difference, recognition of colour words, recognition of numbers and an awareness of shape. Previously published as At Home with Colours and Junior Workbook B, this new title has been fully revised and updated to ensure it is in line with current Foundation Stage Profile requirements. The design has been improved to make the activities very clear and easy to follow.

Fun with Pattern and Shape offers a variety of activities which focus on patterns, shapes, and sizes. The colouring and matching activities develop visual discrimination, hand-eye coordination, three-dimensional awareness, development of vocabulary and simple measuring skills. Previously published as At Home with Pattern and Shape, this new title has been fully revised and updated to ensure it is in line with current Foundation Stage Profile requirements. The design has been improved to make the activities very clear and easy to follow.

Fun With Sounds and Rhymes offers a variety of activities which will help children to read. Sounds are important because they link how we say words to how we decode them on the page. Rhymes are important because they show there are patterns of sounds associated with patterns of letters. The activities are designed to develop visual perception of individual letter shapes, association of letters with sounds, the difference between different sounds at the beginning and endings of words, and the anticipation of common sequences of letters and words. Previously published as At Home with Sounds and Rhymes, this new title has been fully revised and updated to ensure it is in line with current Foundation Stage Profile requirements. The design has been improved to make the activities very clear and easy to follow.

Fun with Letter Forms offers a variety of activities to help children write letters with confidence. The tracing, colouring, dot-joining activities develop hand-eye coordination, recognition of vowels and forming different letter shapes. Many of the letters are grouped in families (letters of similar shape). As each new letter is introduced, children are encouraged to trace the letter with their finger, say the letter, say the sound it makes and then think of words that begin with this sound. Previously published as At Home with Letter Forms, this new title has been fully revised and updated to ensure it is in line with current Foundation Stage Profile requirements. The design has been improved to make the activities very clear and easy to follow.

Fun, motivating lessons that work. The perfect balance of grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, and skills to help your students use English really effectively. A complete package for teachers and students. The Teacher's Book gives you the support you need, and all the components work together for more effective learning.

A collection of forty nursery rhymes, including such favourites as 'Baa, Baa, Black Sheep', 'Little Miss Muffet', and 'Three Blind Mice'. The nursery rhymes have been set to music on the accompanying CD, packaged within the back cover flap. This package aims to introduce young children, to the enjoyment of learning and singing nursery rhymes.

Useful as a resource and suitable as a gift, this collection of poems ranges from seeing shapes in clouds to the colourful peacock, and from the silly old baboon to the sounds of the sea and the rhythm of the banjo dance. The poets include Edward Lear, Ogden Nash, Ted Hughes, Charles Causley, James Berry, Eleanor Farjeon, and Spike Milligan.

Offering the words and phrases you'll need as a beginner, plus a learning and lifestyle kit with a list of the words you need to know, grammar help, verb tables, social survival tips and cultural information, dates for your diary, and a phrasefinder, this is a Spanish dictionary.

Consciousness, 'the last great mystery for science', has now become a hot topic. How can a physical brain create our experience of the world? What creates our identity? Do we really have free will? Could consciousness itself be an illusion? Exciting new developments in brain science are opening up debates on these issues, and the field has now expanded to include biologists, neuroscientists, psychologists, and philosophers. This controversial book clarifies the potentially confusing arguments, and the major theories using illustrations, lively cartoons, and experiments. Topics include vision and attention, theories of self and will, experiments on action and awareness, altered states of consciousness, and the effects of brain damage and drugs.

As public interest in modern art continues to grow, as witnessed by the spectacular success of Tate Modern and the Bilbao Guggenheim, there is a real need for a book that will engage general readers, offering them not only information and ideas about modern art, but also explaining its contemporary relevance and history. This book achieves all this and focuses on interrogating the idea of 'modern' art by asking such questions as: What has made a work of art qualify as modern (or fail to)? How has this selection been made? What is the relationship between modern and contemporary art? Is 'postmodernist' art no longer modern, or just no longer modernist — in either case, why, and what does this claim mean, both for art and the idea of 'the modern'? Cottington examines many key aspects of this subject, including the issue of controversy in modern art, from Manet's Dejeuner sur L'Herbe (1863) to Picasso's Les Demoiselles, and Tracey Emin's Bed, (1999); and the role of the dealer from the main Cubist art dealer Kahnweiler to Charles Saatchi.

Clovis spots a fellow tiger trapped in the water in a nearby pool. This is a disaster — tigers hate water. Everyone knows they NEVER go in it. How will Clovis be able to help? And will he ever discover the real identity of the underwater tiger? A funny story about reflections, overcoming your fears, and learning to swim.