Emma Garcia's popular debut title, Tip Tip Dig Dig, is now available as a chunky board book with moving parts on every spread, including the cover! Watch as each colourful vehicle does its own job as all the machines work together towards a surprise ending. The simple mechanisms in this new board book edition are prefect for little hands. Tip Tip Dig Dig has been shortlisted for the Read it Again! and the Southampton Favourite Book to Share picture book awards in 2008.

Tap Tap Bang Bang is full of bright and colourful tools. What can they all be making? Find out as we cree craw cut with the saw and tappety tap in the nails. Children will love joining in with the sounds in this fun, read-aloud text as they watch the tools work together to make a go-kart. Perfect for sharing with little builders! AGES: 2 to 5 AUTHOR: Emma Garcia was born in Yorkshire, England and studied education and psychology at Liverpool University. She works as an early years advisor and her experience has given her a strong insight into what young children enjoy reading. Emma lives in London with her husband and two sons.

Toot Toot Beep Beep is now available as a chunky board book, complete with a built-in sound chip providing amazing traffic sound effects! Watch the colourful cars zoom across the page, each one making its own special noise. Follow the busy, noisy vehicles and find out where they are all going. Little ones will love joining in with the sounds, making this book perfect for reading aloud. Toot Toot Beep Beep follows the success of Emma Garcia's first book, Tip Tip Dig Dig, which was shortlisted for the Read It Again! Picture Book Award for an outstanding debut picture book, and the Southampton Favourite Book to Share Award.

Chuffa chuffa choo choo. Here comes the train. And it's rolling down the tracks in this vibrant picture book! Follow it along and count the birds that join the trip. All aboard, and all join in as the cheerful little train chugs past the seaside, the farm, the forest, the city, and into the station for a nice long rest. Along the way, a flock of noisy seagulls and blackbirds, pigeons and geese hop on for the ride. Kids will have fun looking at Emma Garcia's colourful, collaged landscapes and counting all the honking, cooing, tweeting birds. AGES: 0 to 3 AUTHOR: Emma Garcia was born in Yorkshire, England, and studied Education and Psychology at Liverpool University. Her education and experience as an early childhood specialist give her uncanny insight into what preschoolers enjoy in books. She is the author and illustrator of Tap Tap Bang Bang, Tip Tip Dig Dig, and Toot Toot Beep Beep (all Boxer Books). Emma lives in York, England.

This ISN'T a book about babies. It's not about sleepless nights, nappies or nurseries. It IS about two people, one unexpected pregnancy and a question . . . Viv and Max were best friends for years, then they were lovers and then it all went wrong. Now finally they are to be reunited. Viv feels sick. Not just with nerves at seeing Max again, but because there's a small chance she might . . . quite possibly . . . most definitely . . . be pregnant. It's thrilling. But also terrifying. Most of the time they can hardly look after themselves, let alone a baby. And then Viv's estranged mother reappears on the scene and they all end up sharing a bedsit . . . and hell breaks loose. HOW ON EARTH ARE THEY GOING TO COPE?

A parade of colorful construction vehicles doing their work means plenty of joyful noise From the crane that lifts, lifts, lifts to the bulldozer that push, push-pushes, to the steamroller that rolls, rolls, rolls, every machine here makes it own special sound. And the surprise ending, when the great big mess on page one becomes a wonderful playground, is sure to leave kids pleased

Esta investigacion se centra en el desarrollo de un nuevo enfoque didactico en la ensenanza de las perifrasis verbales en el aula de espanol como lengua extranjera (ELE) y su aplicacion practica. Mediante una investigacion educativa aplicada, cuantitativa y cuasi-experimental, se llega a la conclusion de que la aplicacion de la didactica de terceras lenguas en el aula de ELE lleva a un mejor aprendizaje de las perifrasis verbales en alumnos germanohablantes. Asimismo, el analisis del grado de dificultad de las perifrasis verbales revela que no existe correspondencia entre el grado de dificultad y el nivel de lengua al que pertenecen, cuestionando asi su clasificacion actual por niveles y proponiendo una revision de la misma en este ambito educativo.