These classic Wee Sing titles are now available in the new book-and-CD format packaged in a reusable blister pack. From school yard games to the silliest songs ever sung, these delightful titles include a 60-minute audio CD. Full color. Pkg.
This new Wee Sing musical compilation contains new songs featuring favorite nursery rhymes from Mother Goose. Nursery rhyme favorites like Jack and Jill, Humpty Dumpty, and Simple Simon are set to music with the tried-and-true Wee Sing formula. Wee Sing Mother Goose features one hour of musical sing-along and finger play enjoyment. And best of all, parents and educators can use the suggestions in the book to join in the fun as they develop their child`s imagination. No library would be complete without this treasure!
Go on a magical, musical journey into a forest full of opposites! From up and down to long and short, kids will learn opposites with a little help from some charmingly illustrated forest animals and songs full of playful rhythms and rhymes.
Flavia de Luce, a dangerously smart eleven-year-old with a passion for chemistry and a genius for solving murders, thinks that her days of crime-solving in the bucolic English hamlet of Bishop`s Lacey are over - and then beloved puppeteer Rupert Porson has his own strings sizzled in an unfortunate rendezvous with electricity. But who`d do such a thing, and why? Does the madwoman who lives in Gibbet Wood know more than she`s letting on? What about Porson`s charming but erratic assistant? All clues point toward a suspicious death years earlier and a case the local constables can`t solve - without Flavia`s help. But in getting so close to who`s secretly pulling the strings of this dance of death, has our precocious heroine finally gotten in...
London, the week before Christmas, 2007. Seven wintry days to track the lives of seven characters: a hedge fund manager trying to bring off the biggest trade of his career; a professional footballer recently arrived from Poland; a young lawyer with little work and too much time to speculate; a student who has been led astray by Islamist theory; a hack book-reviewer; a schoolboy hooked on skunk and reality TV; and a Tube driver whose Circle Line train joins these and countless other lives together in a daily loop. With daring skill, the novel pieces together the complex patterns and crossings of modern urban life, and the group is forced, one by one, to confront the true nature of the world they inhabit. Sweeping, satirical, Dickensian in...
ISBN: 978-0-09-955169-0
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2011
In the summer of 2009, Alain de Botton will be invited by the owners of Heathrow airport to become their first ever Writer in Residence. He will be installed in the middle of Terminal 5 on a raised platform with a laptop connected to screens, enabling passengers to see what he is writing and to come and share their stories. He will meet travellers from around the world, and will be given unprecedented access to wander the airport and speak with everyone from window cleaners and baggage handlers to air traffic controllers and cabin crew. Working with the renowned documentary photographer Richard Baker, de Botton will produce an extraordinary meditation upon the nature of place, time, and our daily lives. He will explore the magical and...
Dr Katherine Roberts is a lecturer at Oxford University and an expert on all things Austen. But she has a guilty secret; a love of racy Regency novels by Lorna Warwick. She`s even struck up a long-distance friendship with the novelist and the two of them have been sharing their closest confidences. When Katherine gets her yearly invite to a Jane Austen Conference at the magnificent Purley Hall in Hampshire, she sincerely hopes that Lorna will be in attendance as well. She can hardly wait to meet her new friend, but it seems that Lorna may not have been completely honest with her! Meanwhile, hopeless romantic Robyn Love is at her happiest when her head is stuck in one of Jane Austen`s novels - if only her boyfriend Jace Collins could be...
ISBN: 978-1-84756-225-8
Издательство:
HarperCollins
Дата выхода: август 2011
This is a powerful, moving story that details the effects of the infamous Mau Mau war, the African nationalist revolt against colonial oppression in Kenya, on the lives of ordinary men and women, and on one family in particular. Two brothers, Njoroge and Kamau, stand on a rubbish heap and look into their futures. Njoroge is excited; his family has decided that he will attend school, while Kamau will train to be a carpenter. Together they will serve their country - the teacher and the craftsman. But this is Kenya and the times are against them. In the forests, the Mau Mau is waging war against the white government, and the two brothers and their family need to decide where their loyalties lie. For the practical Kamau the choice is simple,...
ISBN: 978-1-4050-7331-8
Издательство:
Langenscheidt
Дата выхода: июль 2011
More than a century after someone murders two people on a small island off the coast of New Hampshire, a photographer comes to shoot a photo essay about the famous crime. As she investigates the bleak, isolated lives of the victims, she comes to identify with their spiritual loneliness. For her own marriage is falling apart, crumbling into nights of heavy drinking and terrible silences. Incited by the chaotic forces that blasted the island years ago, this modern woman is drawn inexorably toward the violence of the past, toward choices that will destroy all she has ever valued. With exquisitely stylish prose and arresting psychological insight, Anita Shreve captures one woman`s journey into the farthest extremes of emotion
ISBN: 0-316-78250-5
Издательство:
Back Bay Books
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
Eine Liebesgeschichte, wie sie schöner nicht sein könnte. Max will vor Weihnachten flüchten und auf die Malediven fliegen. Dabei ist ihm Kurt, sein Hund, im Weg. Kurt war leider eine Fehlinvestition. Er schläft meistens. Und wenn er sich bewegt, dann höchstens irrtümlich. Katrin wird demnächst dreißig, und leidet unter Eltern, die darunter leiden, dass sie noch keinen Mann fürs Leben gefunden hat. Mit Weihnachten kommt der Höhepunkt des familiären Leidens auf sie zu. Da tritt plötzlich Kurt in Erscheinung. Katrin mag zwar keine Hunde, aber Kurt bringt sie auf eine Idee.
ISBN: 978-3-442-46762-4
Издательство:
Random House Germany
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Josh thinks Fizz is dentally challenged and fluent in gibberish. Fizz thinks Josh is the Prince of Handsomeness. They`re destined to work together at Marigolds Old People`s Home – can Cupid`s arrow strike among the Zimmer frames? Throw in Josh`s wacky mother with her goats on the sofa and Fizz`s goddess-like big sis and one thing is certain. Things will get a LOT weirder before they start making sense – and can the oldies really make their great using tablespoons? Being fourteen has never been so
ISBN: 978-0-14-132202-5
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: август 2011
"Welcome" is a highly motivating course specially designed for young learners. Through the adventures of a lively group of characters and their mischievous genie, the pupils have the opportunity to experience the English language and culture in an effective and appealing way. Welcome Starter a Key Features: A carefully graded syllabus to expose young learners to the essentials of the English language at this level Memorable and enjoyable presentation of language through flashcards and posters; Appealing songs and chants to present, practise and consolidate the key language; A cartoon in every unit following the delightful adventures of Cecil Mouse and friends; Circle-time activities; An introduction to the British way of life;...
ISBN: 978-1-84558-354-5
Издательство:
Express Publishing
Дата выхода: январь 2015
