How does the most famous woman in the world hide in plain sight? The beautiful young widow of the President of the United States thought she was free of the White House, but circumstances have forced her back into the role of First Lady. Not for long, however, because she`s made up her mind to escape - if only for a few days - so she can live the life of an ordinary person. All she needs is the perfect and she`s just found it. An entire nation is searching for her, but the First Lady is in the last place anybody would think to look: in the company of a man, an infuriatingly secretive and quietly seductive stranger whose charm, good looks, and sensuous appeal are awakening the forgotten woman within the dignitary. And with two adorable...
This is a boisterous sticker book full of busy castle scenes, with over 100 stickers to add to the pictures. Scenes include a castle siege, a feast, a joust and the chance to make your own castle.
ISBN: 978-1-4095-3486-0
Издательство:
Usborne
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Distinguished by Smith`s trademark ability to unearth flashes of truth and depth in the everyday, "The First Person and Other Stories" sparkles with warmth and humanity. In one story, a middle-aged woman conducts a poignant conversation with her fourteen-year-old self. In another, an innocent supermarket shopper finds in her trolley a foul-mouthed, insulting, yet beautiful child. And in a third story that challenges the boundaries between fiction and reality, the narrator, `Ali`, drinks tea, phones a friend, and muses on the surprising similarities between a short story and a Fans of Ali Smith will be delighted, amused and moved by these stories from a writer at the very top of her game.
ISBN: 978-0-14-103801-8
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: август 2011
In this beautifully illustrated book, 14 classic fairy tales are retold for young children. Old favorites, such as Cinderella and Jack and the Beanstalk, are presented alongside some lesser known stories, such as The Fisherman and his Wife and Diamonds and Toads. Mary Hoffman`s charming retellings use simple, lyrical language ideal for reading aloud, while Julie Downing`s illustrations bring the characters to life. The stories in this collection show the consequences of greed, pride, and vanity, but also tell of the love that grows from a kind heart and a cheerful nature. And along the way, there is a wealth of magic and fun to be enjoyed.
This thoughtful book explores how to be kind and why kindness is so important. A range of questions help children and their grown-ups to think, and talk, about being kind to others and ourselves, as well as nature and our planet. Beautiful illustrations by Christine Pym help young children to understand big concepts by setting them in a world of friendly bugs. Plenty to talk about and be inspired by.
For four years, while statesmen and generals blundered, the massed armies of Europe writhed in a festival of mud and blood. All the madness, massacres, and mutinies of the foulest war in history are brought home here by action pictures of the day and the text of an uncompromising historian.
ISBN: 978-0-14-002481-4
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
These Farmyard Tales flashcards are suitable for helping young children learn to read French. Each card has a word and picture on one side, and the word, alone, on the other. There is also a card with notes for parents and teachers that explains how the cards can be used.
ISBN: 978-0-7460-5263-1
Издательство:
Usborne Publishing
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Dive under the sea and meet narwhals, whales, giant octopuses and other amazing animals in this exciting sticker book. Learn where otters live, what elephant seals look like, discover creatures of the deep and lots more. With over 150 stickers to decorate the underwater scenes and links to websites with videos of narwhals, sea otters and more.
- 1000 everyday words illustrated with busy scenes and labelled pictures to help children learn key vocabulary. - Delightful illustrations by Stephen Cartwright provide lots of opportunities for conversation. - Readers can listen to every word read by a native Spanish speaker at the Usborne Quicklinks Website. - With an Usborne yellow duck to find on every double page!
A simple sticker book which will allow little children to build their own countryside scenes. As they fix hundreds of stickers of animals, plants, bugs, birds and flowers to add to a range of habitats, children will be learning about the natural world - as well as practising vital motor skills that are essential for learning to write.With over 180 stickers.
ISBN: 9781409597476
Издательство:
Usborne
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2023
Lavishly illustrated throughout, this collection of novellas is Card writing at the height of his considerable powers about his most beloved character, Ender Wiggen. This collection also includes the unforgettable, Hugo Award-winning first novella, "Ender`s Game." Original. Meet Andrew "Ender" Wiggin, the unforgettable boy-hero of "Ender`s Game"--winner of the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award for Best Novel--and enter his Universe through this collection of stories. "The Polish Boy" is John Paul Wiggin, the future father of Ender. In the years between the first two Bugger Wars, the Hegemony is desperate to recruit brilliant military commanders to repel the alien invasion. They may have found their man--or boy--in John Paul In "Teacher`s...
ISBN: 978-0-7653-4798-5
Издательство:
Holtzbrink
Дата выхода: июль 2011
A picture book that is carefully designed for young children. It includes a collection of popular verses, including `Mary had a little lamb` and `Little Miss Muffet`.
ISBN: 978-1-4095-3103-6
Издательство:
Usborne
Дата выхода: апрель 2012
Little children will enjoy bringing charming Christmas scenes to life in this fun colouring book. Scenes to colour include Santa`s workshop, a Christmas tree, Santa delivering presents and lots more. The backgrounds are already coloured, so children can focus on the fun parts.
Join a pirate gang on their adventures on the high seas in this exciting book with over 250 stickers to bring each picture to life. Filled with busy, colourful scenes of pirate life above and below deck, including up in the rigging, at a pirate feast and in the midst of a pirate battle. Sure to keep young ragamuffins entertained!
In the 1960s four ambitious new MPs take their seats at Westminster. Over three decades they share the turbulent passions of the race for power. But only one man can gain the ultimate goal - the office of Prime Minister.
ISBN: 0-06-100716-1
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
This is a perfect book for Christmas; little children will love following Santa from making toys in his workshop to delivering all the presents. It is presented with clear, fun scenes to colour and stickers to add to every page.
ISBN: 978-1-4095-3478-5
Издательство:
Usborne
Дата выхода: апрель 2012
Taut, brooding and densely atmospheric, these stories show us the ways in which murder can arise out of boredom, perversity can result from adolescent curiosity, and sheer evil might be the solution to unbearable loneliness.
When the down-at-heel Princess Zasyekin moves next door to the country estate of Vladimir Petrovich`s parents, he instantly and overwhelmingly falls in love with his new neighbour`s daughter, Zinaida. But the capricious young woman already has many admirers and, as she plays her suitors against each other, Vladimir`s unrequited youthful passion soon turns to torment and despair - although he remains unaware of his true rival for Zinaida`s affections. Set in the world of nineteenth-century Russia`s fading aristocracy, Turgenev`s story depicts a boy`s growth of knowledge and mastery over his own heart as he awakens to the complex nature of adult love. Isaiah Berlin`s moving translation retains the realism and depth of the Russian original....
ISBN: 0-14-044335-5
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: январь 1999
Against the scandal and seduction of Regency England, New York Times bestselling author Mary Balogh introduces an extraordinary family—the fiery, sensual Huxtables. Vanessa is the second daughter, proud and daring, a young widow who has her own reason for pursuing the most eligible bachelor in London. One that has nothing to do with love. Or does it? The arrival of Elliott Wallace, the irresistibly eligible Viscount Lyngate, has thrown the country village of Throckbridge into a tizzy. Desperate to rescue her eldest sister from a loveless union, Vanessa Huxtable Dew offers herself instead. In need of a wife, Elliott takes the audacious widow up on her unconventional proposal while he pursues an urgent mission of his own. But a strange...
ISBN: 978-0-440-24422-6
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: август 2011
