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.

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.