Dorothy Kathleen Broster (1877-1950) is best known for her historical novels. But there is a darker side to her writing, glimpsed in her early poems - `The Second of September 1792` is a fine example - and finding full expression in the stories she wrote after she had become a highly successful novelist. Sometimes - as in "The Window" or "The Pestering", or "All Soul`s Day" - these are what we might call `explainable` ghost stories: apparitions or hauntings whose origin is to be found in some violent or unjust action in the past. Other stories, "Couching at the Door" and "From the Abyss", have little or no explanation, even in supernatural terms. Add to these an elegant reworking of the "Persephone" myth, "The Taste of Pomegranates", the...
ISBN: 978-1-84022-607-2
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Provides a fun way for children to learn important emergent learning skills. Each card is two-sided with windows that open to reveal the correct answers. 64 learning facts per set! 32 cards. Teaches children to: count numbers 0-20; begin reading simple counting words; solve simple addition problems.
ISBN: 0-439-73293-X
Издательство:
Scholastic Inc
Дата выхода: август 2010
Easy Learning gives your child a head start. Each practice book builds essential skills through hours of activity-packed fun. Activities are designed to give your child a real sense of achievement. This helps to boost their confidence and develop good learning habits for life. This book develops counting skills. Its colourful motivating activities make learning fun. Helpful tips and answers are included to help you to support your child`s learning. Формат: 21 см x 30 см.
ISBN: 978-0-00-730095-2
Издательство:
Collins
Дата выхода: октябрь 2009
The UK debut of Karen Rose - an outstanding new talent for Headline. A young boy and his brother are abandoned by their mother and end up in the foster-care system. Let down by everyone who should have looked out for them, the boys fall prey to the abusers they meet. Is it any wonder one of them loses his mind and develops a taste for matches and revenge? Years later, Reed Solliday, of Chicago`s Fire Department, is determined to find an arsonist whose actions have just escalated to murder. With the police now involved, Reed is paired with Detective Mia Mitchell, on her first assignment since her father`s death and her partner`s shooting. Solliday and Mitchell know the violence is escalating and the death toll is rising. With no apparent...
ISBN: 978-0-7553-3697-5
Издательство:
Headline Publ.
Дата выхода: июль 2011
This collection of interiors provides a rich resource for anyone contemplating the restoration - or simply the revitalizing - of a rural home. From a converted Provencal barn to a classic eighteenth-century English country house, and from a Scottish castle to a simple summer retreat in a Spanish fishing village, these interiors offer the jaded city dweller or confirmed countryside lover a wealth of delightful detail from which to draw inspiration. Combining relaxed comfort with style and the sympathetic use of traditional finishes and materials, these homes are overflowing with charm and character.
ISBN: 978-1-85894-357-2
Издательство:
Merrell Publishing
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Carries EU Toy Safety Directive `CE` logo. A number-themed collection of some of the best-loved rhymes, for children to sing-along to, do the actions, and learn to count as they go. Rhymes include "The Animals Went In Two By Two", "Five Current Buns" and "Baa, Baa Black Sheep", with each page tabbed for ease of use, and illustrations by Giuliana Gregori.
ISBN: 978-1-4095-0788-8
Издательство:
Usborne
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
