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In this follow up to The Incredible Hotel, a crime disrupts
the prestigious baking competition taking place at the hotel. But
will detective Matilda be able to solve the case? The world baking
competition is coming up. It is taking place at the Incredible
Hotel and will judged by guest of honour, Chef Tartine. Stefan has
perfected his chocolate cake recipe but on the morning of the
event... the recipe is nowhere to be found. Luckily, the best
detective in Delaunay is on hand - Stefan’s best friend, Matilda.
Who can the thief be?! Everyone has their theory and Mr
Starch, the hotel manager, is ready to point the finger at a baking
saboteur. Just in time, Matilda discovers the recipe has been
snatched by the Duchess of Delaunay's dog, who has used it to make
a cosy nest for a surprise litter of puppies. All is forgiven and
the competition resumes. Stefan wins the prize and Matilda gets the
respect she deserves from the very patronising local police
department. This stunning, beautifully illustrated and nostalgic
picture book is a follow up to The Incredible
Hotel, from exceptionally talented author Kate Davies and the
award-winning illustrator Isabelle Follath. It visits the same
unique hotel, depicted in characterful illustrations and described
with whimsical and charming text.
Fairy Tale Land opens the gates to the magical land where all the
fairy tale characters live. Get lost in this visually stunning,
oversized gift book that features all the well-loved stories, and
immerse yourself in their enchanting world! The tales are expertly
retold, perfect for bedtime, and each story is followed with an
exquisitely illustrated, detailed map of its neighbourhood. You can
drop into Hansel and Gretel's cottage, explore the palace from
Beauty and the Beast, and dive deep under the sea with the Little
Mermaid. What wonderful things can you find in your favourites'
homes? Beautiful, stylish and vibrant illustrations adorn each
page, as the magical text transports readers to faraway lands of
mystery, fantasy and magic. Stunning full-page artworks and the
detailed maps of the lands in which these stories take place mean
this title will be lovingly pored over time and time again. The
stories include: The Little Mermaid The Nutcracker Cinderella The
Jungle Book The Wizard of Oz Hansel and Gretel Robin Hood Treasure
Island Beauty and the Beast The Snow Queen Alice in Wonderland Snow
White The exquisite artwork and captivating text make this
spellbinding anthology a gift to treasure for all generations.
"Bake Off meets Downton Abbey for preschoolers' - The Times A
stunning, nostalgic picture book about a beautiful hotel and the
people who stay, live and work there. Perfect for children 4+. If
you ever go to the great city of Delaunay, take a left at the
Duchess's palace and cross the Bridge of Spires, and here you will
find The Incredible Hotel. Everything runs like clockwork, thanks
to Stefan the kitchen porter, who brews the coffee every morning,
and dreams of being a chef. Until the morning of the Grand Ball,
when a fire starts in the kitchen just as the Duchess of Delaunay
arrives... can Stefan save the day? With a style that evokes Wes
Anderson-esque imaginary worlds, this is a timeless tale to read
again and again from the award winning illustrator of 'JOY'. Each
time you read it you will notice new details - look out for the cat
and mouse hiding on every page, who have their own little story to
tell!
Sing Auld Lang Syne while you climb to the top of a Castle. Wave to
a Highland cow in John O'Groats. Put on a Kilt and avoid those
Midgies as you visit a Loch to meet Nessie. Then speed back over
the Forth Bridge to Edinburgh Zoo -- not forgetting your UmbrellaÂ…
Take a whistle-stop tour through the Scottish alphabet! Each letter
from A to Z represents the best of everything Scottish: beautiful
landscapes, fascinating history and amazing wildlife. Just watch
out for the weather! This charming and fun book is perfect for
locals and visitors alike, as illustrator Kate Davies fills each
page with humorous Scottish details. Featuring one word per letter,
it's ideal for younger children to enjoy.
A 2019 Outstanding Science Trade Book for Students: K-12 (National
Science Teachers Association and the Children's Book Council). An
anatomy lesson like no other! Look inside the human body with the
magic three-color lens and x-ray from head to toe to discover how
your body works. Use the red lens to reveal the skeleton, the green
to see the muscles working and x-ray your organs with the blue lens
to find out what they do day and night to keep you alive. Uncover
the secrets of the human body and explore how its different systems
work in this stunning follow-up to the internationally bestselling
Illuminature. Jam-packed with detailed illustrations and full of
facts and information, this innovative encyclopedia from from
Milan-based design duo Carnovsky will make you see the human body
in a whole new light. With every illustration containing three
separate layers to pore over, this book will reward rereading again
and again, providing hours of independent entertainment and
education for young readers. See 3 images in 1 with the
eye-boggling Illumi series, featuring magic-lens artwork from
creative design duo Carnovsky. Dinosaurs, animals, the human body
and even ghosts are envisioned like never before in this
groundbreaking series. The explosions of colour on each page are in
fact three distinct layers of illustrations, each exploring a
different aspect of a fascinating subject. Use the three-colour
lens to reveal the hidden details on each one, then read all about
the topic on in-depth fact pages. There's always something new to
discover in Illumi! Also available: Illuminatlas, Illuminightmare,
Illuminature and Illumisaurus.
WINNER OF THE POLARI BOOK PRIZE 2020 SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOLLINGER
EVERYMAN WODEHOUSE PRIZE 2019 'Fleabag-level dirty jokes, Eleanor
Oliphant-levels of empathy' Grazia 'Fresh and funny' Guardian
'Every woman should own a copy of this book' Erin Kelly Until
recently, Julia hadn't had sex in three years. But now: * a
one-night stand is accusing her of breaking his penis; a sexually
confident lesbian is making eyes at her over confrontational modern
art; and she's wondering whether trimming her pubes makes her a bad
feminist. Julia's about to learn that she's been looking for love -
and satisfaction - in all the wrong places... 'Frank, funny and
fabulously filthy' (Erin Kelly), In at the Deep End is a warm,
brilliantly observed debut from a major new talent.
#ImInAtTheDeepEnd
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A fabulous flap book with over 80 flaps to lift and extra pages to
open up to explore life under the sea. Shows coral reefs teeming
with fish, the icy waters of the Arctic and the dizzying depths of
ocean trenches, and shipwrecks and pirate booty too. Flaps reveal
extra facts, information and surprises.
This book, named one of Booklist's Top 10 books on sustainability
in 2014, is the first to offer a comprehensive examination of the
environmental health movement, which unlike many parts of the
environmental movement, focuses on ways toxic chemicals and other
hazardous agents in the environment effect human health and
well-being. Born in 1978 when Lois Gibbs organized her neighbors to
protest the health effects of a toxic waste dump in Love Canal, New
York, the movement has spread across the United States and
throughout the world. By placing human health at the center of its
environmental argument, this movement has achieved many victories
in community mobilization and legislative reform. In The Rise of
the U.S. Environmental Health Movement, environmental health expert
Kate Davies describes the movement's historical, ideological, and
cultural roots and analyzes its strategies and successes.
This book, named one of Booklist's Top 10 books on sustainability
in 2014, is the first to offer a comprehensive examination of the
environmental health movement, which unlike many parts of the
environmental movement, focuses on ways toxic chemicals and other
hazardous agents in the environment effect human health and
well-being. Born in 1978 when Lois Gibbs organized her neighbors to
protest the health effects of a toxic waste dump in Love Canal, New
York, the movement has spread across the United States and
throughout the world. By placing human health at the center of its
environmental argument, this movement has achieved many victories
in community mobilization and legislative reform. In The Rise of
the U.S. Environmental Health Movement, environmental health expert
Kate Davies describes the movement's historical, ideological, and
cultural roots and analyzes its strategies and successes.
This book contains the following Usborne titles: What's biology all
about?, What's chemistry all about? and What's physics all about?
An accessible and informative guide to physics, chemistry and
biology, how they work and how they apply to everyday life. Covers
all the key science topics including electricity, the periodic
table and the human body. Includes simple experiments and
internet-links to recommended websites to find out more.
Illustrated with humorous drawings, cartoons and diagrams.
Charlotte Turner Smith held a central position during the formative
years of the British Romantic period. Smith's work includes eleven
novels and two fictional adaptations from the French. This edition
reveals the extent to which Smith's work in this form constitutes
as significant an achievement as her poetry.
Just what is it that we want from the past? History offers us
true stories about the past; heritage sells or provides us with the
past we appear to desire. The dividing line between history and
heritage is, however, far from clear. This collection of papers
addresses the division between history and heritage by looking at
the ways in which we make use of the past, the way we consume our
yesterdays. Looking at a wide variety of fields, including
architectural history, museums, films, novels and politics, the
authors examine the ways in which the past is invoked in
contemporary culture, and question the politics of drawing upon
'history' in present-day practices. In topics ranging from
Braveheart to Princess Diana, the Piltdown Man to the National
History Curriculum, war memorials to stately homes, "History and
Heritage" explores the presence of the past in our lives, and asks,
how, and to what end, are we using the idea of the past. Who is
consuming the past and why?
""The German word for experience - Erlebnis - the experience of the
life, to live through something - underpins this book: making
visible scholarly opportunities for richer and deeper
contextualizations and examinations of the lived-world experiences
of people in everyday contexts as they be, do and become." (Ross
Todd, Preface). Information experience is a burgeoning area of
research and still unfolding as an explicit research and practice
theme. This book is therefore very timely as it distils the
reflections of researchers and practitioners from various
disciplines, with interests ranging across information, knowledge,
user experience, design and education. They cast a fresh analytical
eye on information experience, whilst approaching the idea from
diverse perspectives. Information Experience brings together
current thinking about the idea of information experience to help
form discourse around it and establish a conceptual foundation for
taking the idea forward. It therefore "provides a number of
theoretical lenses for examining people's information worlds in
more holistic and dynamic ways." (Todd, Preface)."
A fabulous flap book with over 80 flaps to lift and extra pages to
open up to explore life under the sea. Shows coral reefs teeming
with fish, the icy waters of the Arctic and the dizzying depths of
ocean trenches, and shipwrecks and pirate booty too. Flaps reveal
extra facts, information and surprises.
A new title in this collectable series designed to help children develop good habits that will stay with them throughout their lives. The Children s Book of Healthy Eating helps children discover how much happier and healthier they can be when they eat the right foods and have a balanced diet.
Catharine Macaulay and Mercy Otis Warren were radical friends in a
revolutionary age. They produced definitive histories of the
English Civil War and the American Revolution, attacked the British
government and the United States federal constitution, and
instigated a debate on women's rights which inspired Mary
Wollstonecraft, Judith Sargent Murray, and other feminists. Drawing
on new research (including recently discovered correspondence) this
is the first book to consider Macaulay and Warren in the context of
the revolutionary Atlantic. In a series of detailed
interdisciplinary studies, Davies suggests the centrality of both
women to transatlantic political cultures between the middle of the
eighteenth century and the turn of the nineteenth. The experience
of Anglo-American conflict formed Macaulay and Warren's friendship
and radically changed their writing lives. In showing how it did
so, Davies also explains how the revolutionary Atlantic shaped
modern ideas of gender difference. Anglo-American separation had a
politics of gender which defined Warren and Macaulay's awareness of
themselves as women and of which their writing also offered
important critiques. Davies's book reveals the political
significance of Mercy Otis Warren and Catharine Macaulay to an era
when the truths of patriotism, nationhood and empire were never
wholly self-evident but were hotly contested.
A compilation of true stories from mothers about breastfeeding
moments gone awry.
A different kind of hope for living in these turbulent times
Climate disruption. Growing social inequality. Pollution. We are
living in an era of unprecedented crises, resulting in widespread
feelings of fear, despair, and grief. Now, more than ever,
maintaining hope for the future is a monumental task. Intrinsic
Hope offers a powerful antidote to these feelings. It shows how
conventional ideas of hope are rooted in the belief that life will
conform to our wishes and how this leads to disappointment,
despair, and a dismal view of the future. As an alternative, it
offers "intrinsic hope," a powerful, liberating, and positive
approach to life based on having a deep trust in whatever happens.
The author, a hopeful survivor, shows how to cultivate intrinsic
hope through practical tips and six mindful habits for living a
positive, courageous life in these troubled times. Whether working
directly on ecological or social issues or worried about children
and grandchildren, this book is for everyone concerned about the
future and looking for a deeper source of hope for a better world.
AWARDS GOLD | 2018 Nautilus Book Awards: Social Grand Prize Overall
Winner GOLD | 2018 Nautilus Book Awards: Personal Growth
"The Girl Who Forgets How to Walk captures the precariousness and
fragility of life" LUKE KENNARD; Kate Davis writes magical realist
poems born of the hills, marshes and coastal edgelands of south
Cumbria. In this remarkable first collection, tarns, limekilns and
abandoned pits become portals into a dark, interior world. A woman
levitates above a building site; earth slips and fault-lines open
up beneath the town; the sea hides 'a gob of virus'. The moving
title sequence tells the story of a young girl with polio who
struggles to find her feet - and her voice - in an unforgiving
landscape where 'the ground cannot be trusted'. Alive to geology,
memory and myth, The Girl Who Forgets How to Walk is a brave,
uncompromising and unmissable debut.
The Children s Book of Making Friends helps your child understand how their actions can affect other people and encourages them to develop kind and positive behaviours which will help them get along well with others.
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