Four friends, three big and one little, are out for a walk. Suddenly, they spot it - a beautiful bird perched high in a tree! They simply MUST have it and - SHH! - they have a PLAN. So they tip-toe, tip-toe very slowly, nets poised - "Ready one.ready two.ready three.GO!" But, at the turn of the page, ...
As legend has it, the storyteller Aesop was a slave who lived in ancient Greece during the sixth century B.C. His memorable, recountable fables have brought amusing characters to life and driven home thought-provoking morals for generations of listeners and modern-day readers. Translated into countless ...
Kniha je psána v anglickém jazyce! From the combined talents of the UK s bestselling novelist and a giant of British science fiction comes the sequel to the phenomenal No.1 bestseller The Long Earth. A generation after the events of The Long Earth, mankind has spread across the new worlds opened up by ...
Chronicle of a Death Foretold is a compelling, moving story exploring injustice and mob hysteria by the Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez, author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera. ''On the day they were going to kill him, Santiago Nasar got up at five-thirty in the ...
This revised and expanded edition of Tolkien''s own Hobbit-inspired poetry includes previously unpublished poems and notes, and is beautifully illustrated by Narnia artist Pauline Baynes. ''Here is something that no devotee of the Hobbit epic can afford to miss, while awaiting a further instalment of ...
Puffin Modern Classics are relaunched under a new logo: A PUFFIN BOOK. There are 20 titles to collect in the series, listed below, all with exciting new covers and fun-filled endnotes. The Neverending Story by Michael Ende is a classic fantasy adventure. Small and insignificant Bastian Balthazar Bux ...
Joe Simpson, with just his partner Simon Yates, tackled the unclimbed West Face of the remote 21,000 foot Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes in June 1995. But before they reached the summit, disaster struck. A few days later, Simon staggered into Base Camp, exhausted and frostbitten, to tell their non-climbing ...
It\''s hard work being good all the time. And it\''s especially hard for a dog like George! Harris is off to do some shopping. "Will you be good, George?" he asks. George hopes he can. He really wants to. but chocolate cake is just so very delicious and he does love to chase cat. What will George do ...
Start the search for Wally in the original eye-boggling classic activity book!
AutorJ. R. R. Tolkien, Charles Dixon, Sean DemingVydavateľstvoHarpercollins Children''''s BooksVäzba BrožISBN 978-0007611621Strán144Rozmery 203 x 275 mm A brand new revised edition of the best-selling graphic novel based on the enchanting prelude to The Lord of the Rings. First published in 1990, David ...
Little piglets will adore the Peppa Pig Little Library.The Peppa Pig Little Library is a charming collection of six chunky mini books, based on your f….
"Politics and the English Language" is widely considered Orwell''''s most important essay on style. Style, for Orwell, was never simply a question of aesthetics; it was always inextricably linked to politics and to truth. ''''All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, ...
Napsal ho sedmadvacetiletý „rozhněvaný mužâ€ś, kterého vedla potřeba kritizovat a literárně zobrazit dĹŻsledky změny chudinského zákona v roce 1834. Tento zákon zrušil chudobince při jednotlivých farnostech a zavedl centralizovaný systém, který vedl ke korupci a rozkrádání prostředkĹŻ pro chudé a k ...
The fourth volume that contains the early myths and legends which led to the writing of Tolkien''''s epic tale of war, The Silmarillion. In this fourth volume of The History of Middle-earth, the shaping of the chronological and geographical structure of the legends of Middle-earth and Valinor is spread ...
Conner Bailey thinks his fairy-tale adventures are behind him - until he discovers a mysterious clue left by the famous Brothers Grimm. With help from his classmate Bree and the outlandish Mother Goose, Conner sets off on a mission across Europe to crack a two-hundred-year-old code. Meanwhile, Alex Bailey ...
Learn the alphabet with the help of this bright and engaging book. With gorgeous new illustrations and irresistible cover finishes, this is pocket money power p….
