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Buckle up for There's Nothing Faster Than a Cheetah. A
laugh-out-loud funny picture book with vehicles and animals! Three,
two, one . . . the race has begun and the animals are off! Rhinos
on roller-skates, foxes in fire engines, lions in lorries, penguins
on pogo sticks . . . There's nothing faster than a cheetah. Or is
there . . . ? Perfect for sharing together, this wonderfully wacky
picture book is sure to get young readers giggling. With a bouncy,
read-aloud story from Tom Nicoll, and hilarious illustrations from
the award-winning Ross Collins.
Life in the early twentieth century isn't easy for women,
especially if that woman is an outspoken, intelligent, headstrong,
augmented amputee with prosthetic technology that is the envy of
armies. Enter Cassandra Leigh Fornax. Daughter of the shipping
magnate John Fornax, Cassandra has had a harder life than most
young people of her social standing. After a tragic childhood
accident leaves her an amputee, Cassandra's uncle and engineer,
Philip Fornax, builds her a revolutionary prosthesis which replaces
the hand she lost. As Cassandra begins to make her own decisions
about her future, she finds that her domineering father intends her
to live a radically different life. She emancipates herself loudly
and publicly at her eighteenth birthday party, scandalising her
parents and putting paid to her father's scheme. When Philip
receives an offer to work in an airship factory in Germany,
Cassandra follows him so she can put some distance between herself
and her father. As the threat of war looms over Europe, the German
army has the talented engineer's most advanced creation firmly in
its sights. Cassandra had hoped to leave her troubles behind when
she left Britain, but finds they have just begun.
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