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Fidget Spinners have taken the world by storm! This brilliant book is packed with the very best tricks, tips and hacks to make you a Fidget Spinner master!Fidget Spinners: Brilliant Tricks, Tips and Hacks includes everything you could ever want to know about Fidget Spinners: the top ten Spinners, clever hacks to customize your spinner to make it look cooler and spin faster, and step-by-step instructions for thirty tricks. Master the basics, from the Finger Spin to the Hand Dryer, before learning some epic moves, from the Stack Attack to the Reverse Flip, and attempting the ultimate spins, from Around the Back to the Knuckle Down, to wow your friends and family.

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Why is a banana so good at gymnastics? Because they're great at the splits!Why couldn't the athlete listen to music? Because she broke the record!How can a footballer stop his nose running?Put out a foot and trip it up.Olympic Jokes is filled with over 200 jokes about all sorts of sports! It's got football jokes, basketball jokes, volleyball jokes, jokes about fencing, table tennis, golf and so many more. Perfect for sharing with friends and family who like a good giggle.

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A beautiful hardback treasury featuring an array of incredible stories, this is the ultimate collection of Greek Myths and the perfect gift for mythology lovers of all ages. Orpheus and Eurydice, Persephone, Theseus and the Minotaur, The Golden Fleece, Perseus and Arachne . . . All the best-known Greek Myths are here, alongside extracts from The Iliad and The Odyssey.With classic illustrations from iconic artists such as Arthur Rackham, Walter Crane and Heath Robinson; and a foreword from award-winning author and Children's Laureate, Joseph Coelho.Presented in a lavish 352 page hardback, with a foiled cut-through cover, foiled edges and a ribbon marker, The Macmillan Collection of Greek Myths is a very special book to give, share and treasure.Inspired by over 175 years of publishing history it also contains an illustrated account of the authors and artists behind Macmillan's original story collections, first published in the 1800s and early 1900s.The companion book to The Macmillan Fairy Tales Collection and The Macmillan Collection of Myths and Legends.

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A beautiful hardback treasury, containing over forty myths and legends from around the world. The perfect gift for mythology lovers of all ages. This glorious collection contains incredible stories from Greek and Norse mythology, such as Theseus and the Minotaur and Ragnarök, and famous British legends including The Sword in the Stone, alongside lesser known stories.Bringing together amazing stories from across the world, there are tales of spirits from Spain, fish Gods from China, an Australian Aboriginal frog that drank up all of the water in the world, and many more. Fully illustrated throughout, with beautiful colour and line-work images from iconic Golden Age illustrators, including Arthur Rackham, Walter Crane and Warwick Goble. A sumptuous 352 page gift hardback, complete with a foiled cut-through cover, foiled edges and a ribbon marker, The Macmillan Collection of Myths and Legends is a book to share and treasure.

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Macmillan's new online learning tool Achieve Essentials for Introduction to Statistics combines our popular assessment engine from Sapling Learning with an intuitive design and learning science research and reporting.Achieve Essentials for Introduction to Statistics offers over 2,000 questionsincluding conceptual, computational, and embedded data set questionsthat test a range of skills and topics in introductory statistics. It provides detailed and answer-specific feedback and fully worked solutions for every question that coach students toward understanding core statistics principles and applications. Achieve Essentials for Introduction to Statistics can be paired with a Macmillan textbook, OpenIntro, OpenStax, or a list of supported textbooks. Instructors can save time with grading while maintaining flexibility with our custom question authoring tool, and intuitive course management features.

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Macmillan's new online learning platform, Achieve Essentials  is the culmination of years of development work put toward creating the most powerful online learning tool for analytical chemistry students. Achieve Essentials for Analytical Chemistry combines our popular assessment engine from Sapling Learning with an intuitive design and learning science research and reporting.  Achieve Essentials is an affordable, homework-focused option that gives instructors the control and flexibility to build assignments that align with their individual course goals.Achieve Essentials for Analytical Chemistry includes over 4,500 problems. This robust library includes a variety of question types and difficulty levels.  Every question provides students with hints, answer-specific feedback, and fully worked solutions to help students focus on understanding, not just assessment.

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Macmillan's new online learning platform, Achieve Essentials  is the culmination of years of development work put toward creating the most powerful online learning tool for Introductory Chemistry students. Achieve Essentials for Introductory Chemistry combines our popular assessment engine from Sapling Learning with an intuitive design and learning science research and reporting.  Achieve Essentials is an affordable, homework-focused option that gives instructors the control and flexibility to build assignments that align with their individual course goals.Achieve Essentials for Introductory Chemistry includes over 5,000 problems. This robust library includes a variety of question types and difficulty levels.  Every question provides students with hints, answer-specific feedback, and fully worked solutions to help students focus on understanding, not just assessment.

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Achieve College Physics with Prelectures combines a robust physics assessment system with tutorials that help students grasp essential topics before class.The Achieve question bank features over 3,000 questionsincluding conceptual, computational, graphing, and symbolic questionsthat test a range of skills and topics in algebra-based physics. Each question comes with hints, answer-specific feedback, and fully-worked solutions, to coach students toward understanding core physics principles and applications. Developed by Todd Ruskell using the framework from the University of Illinois, the Achieve Prelecture videos were designed using education research to present topics in an easy-to-understand way, leading to increased overall perception of the course and student performance. Prelecture videos and Bridge questions prepare students for more meaningful class time and give instructors insights into students' conceptual strengths and weaknesses, allow

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Open-ended GOB lab simulations provide students with 24 hour access to realistic virtual labs. Students can make and learn from mistakes without the worry of wasting chemicals, time constraints, or lab equipment.  Students complete labs on their own time in a relaxed setting, assessments with error specific hints, feedback, and solutions provide students just-in-time help when they need it, regardless of when they complete their lab. Prioritizing accessibility during the product development means that accessibility isn't just an extra. Macmillan General Chemistry Lab Simulations are the most accessible in the market ensuring all students have equal access to these virtual labs. The Instructor gradebook includes enhanced reporting features providing insight to where students may be struggling allowing instructors to provide targeted instruction and intervene before students fail.

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Whether you are a complete novice or an occasional dabbler, whether you merely need a little help with a tricky technique or want to improve your skills, this book reveals the secrets of successful cooking. All the basics are explained, including how to peel tomatoes, cook rice, make scrambled eggs, line a flan tin, roast a chicken, cut up a mango, make a sponge cake, and knead bread dough. You can follow the step-by-step photographs and create delicious meals with confidence, and the wealth of recipe ideas will enable you to perfect the skills you are learning. If you want to achieve fabulous, tasty results, this book will help you every step of the way.

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Macmillan's new online learning platform, Achieve Essentials is the culmination of years of development work put toward creating the most powerful online learning tool for General, Organic and Biochemistry students. Achieve Essentials for General, Organic and Biochemistry combines our popular assessment engine from Sapling Learning with an intuitive design and learning science research and reporting.  Achieve Essentials is an affordable, homework-focused option that gives instructors the control and flexibility to build assignments that align with their individual course goals.Achieve Essentials for General, Organic and Biochemistry includes over 5,300 problems. This robust library includes a variety of question types and difficulty levels.  Every question provides students with hints, answer-specific feedback, and fully worked solutions to help students focus on understanding, not just assessment.

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Open-ended biology lab simulations provide students with 24 hour access to realistic virtual labs. Students can make and learn from mistakes without the worry of wasting supplies, time constraints, or lab equipment. Students complete labs on their own time in a relaxed setting, assessments with error specific hints, feedback, and solutions provide students just-in-time help when they need it, regardless of when they complete their lab.Prioritizing accessibility during the product development means that accessibility isn't just an extra. Macmillan General Biology Lab Simulations are the most accessible in the market ensuring all students have equal access to these virtual labs. The Instructor gradebook includes enhanced reporting features providing insight to where students may be struggling allowing instructors to provide targeted instruction and intervene before students fail.

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A fantastic stocking filler for seven-year-olds, this jam-packed, illustrated activity book will provide hours of entertainment during the Christmas holidays. It contains hundreds of absorbing activities, including word and picture puzzles, codebreaking, mazes, riddles, wordsearches, dot-to-dots, and more – as well as fun crafts to make and do. The activities cover amazing festive themes – including Christmas – and will amuse and challenge all creative and curious seven-year-olds.Also available: The Funniest Jokes for 7 Year Olds and Spectacular Science for 7 Year olds by Glenn Murphy.

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Push, pull and slide the tabs in this magical Moomin book and make all your favourite characters come to life! Wobble on a fluffy cloud with Moomintroll and Snorkmaiden, sail from the top of the Moominhouse with Little My, and meet Snufkin coming home from his travels. Moving mechanisms on every page will introduce young readers to the Moomins and their fun-filled world. Based on the acclaimed Moominvalley CGI animation and using beautiful full-colour images from the series, this preschool board book uses the bestselling Push, Pull & Slide format to show the Moomin characters as you’ve never seen them before. With simple rhyming text, chunky pages for little hands and sturdy interactive mechanisms, Meet the Moomins! is the perfect introduction for babies and toddlers to the wonderful world of Moominvalley.

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A is for Adventure! Come on an adventure to the wonderful world of Moominvalley, introduced for the first time through the letters of the alphabet. Meet all the most famous and beloved characters from Moominvalley, from brave, adventurous Moomintroll to sparky and mischievous Little My and thoughtful, philosophical Snufkin. Each letter from A to Z is represented by Using Tove Jansson's classic artwork with a bright, bold colour palette and newly-created lettering based on her archive drawings. Alongside the eye-catching artwork is easy-to-read text for little Moomin fans plus quotes from the original Moomin books, perfect for reading aloud.Part of Reading, Writing and the Moomins, a global Moomin initiative designed to help spread love and happiness through the joys of reading and writing. Moomin ABC: An Alphabet Book showcases Moominvalley as you’ve never seen it before – a gorgeous book to treasure and read over and over again, and the perfect present for any Moomin fan.Moomin fans should also look out for The Moomin 123: An Illustrated Counting Book.

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Push, pull and slide the moving mechanisms to follow Robin on her Christmas adventure!Robin's a bird, with mouse sisters and brothers.Sometimes she feels that she's not like the others . . .Join Robin as she sets off to prove she can be a really good mouse, just like the rest of her family! Move the push, pull and slide mechanisms on every spread to bring the story to life. Robin Robin: A Push, Pull and Slide Book is the perfect introduction for preschoolers, featuring short, simple rhyming text and chunky mechanisms for little hands. Flap Robin's wings, play hide-and-seek with the mice, and help Robin and Magpie grab the golden Christmas star!Robin Robin is the Oscar-nominated Netflix film from Aardman Animations, creators of Wallace & Gromit, Shaun the Sheep, and Morph. This heartwarming story features a cast of unforgettable characters including a treasure-hunting magpie (Richard E. Grant) and a thoroughly villainous cat (Gillian Anderson), and is perfect for the festive season and beyond.For older fans, check out the picture book adaptation Robin Robin: The Official Book of the Film, available now.

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Meet Ginger the Tricarrotops and the mighty Vegesaurs in this picture book adventure, based on the hit CBeebies animated TV seriesGinger the Tricarrotops is on the run from a herd of hungry Pea-Rexes – but what happens when three mischievous baby Peas decide they want to be her friend?Based on the preschool animated series, Vegesaurs: Ginger Meets the Pea-Rexes! is a funny picture book that captures all the adventure and humour of the TV episodes, with themes of friendship, play and healthy eating. Read the exciting story and then enjoy the extra content, including character facts and reading tips.Also available: Pea-Rex Rollercoaster, Ginger Meets the Pea-Rexes, and Baby Bok's Flying Lesson

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"Mamma will know what to do!"Moominmamma looks after everyone. She welcomes new visitors no matter who they are, simply setting another place at the table and making up a bed in the Moominhouse. And everything anyone could ever need is in her precious handbag – always fully stocked with sweets, tummy powder, dry socks and string.But there is more to Moominmamma than that. She is an artist, an explorer, a gardener and an adventurer. She is fearless, brave and strong – and full of surprises.The World According to Moominmamma contains quotes and illustrations from Tove Jansson's world of Moominvalley. Explore Moominmamma’s unique yet universal approach to life in this very special collection of warm words about love, life, friendship and family – perfect for Moominous mothers everywhere and an ideal gift for Mother’s Day.

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A fantastic stocking filler for fun-loving nine-year-olds, this jam-packed, illustrated activity book will provide hours of entertainment during the Christmas holidays. It contains hundreds of absorbing activities, including word and picture puzzles, codebreaking, mazes, riddles, wordsearches, crosswords, dot-to-dots, and more – as well as fun wintry crafts to make and do. The activities cover all kinds of themes – including Christmas – and will amuse and challenge all creative and curious nine-year-olds.

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Interactive General Chemistry meets students where they are...with a general chemistry program designed for the way students learn. Achieve provides a new platform for Interactive General Chemistry, thoughtfully developed to engage students for better outcomes. Powerful data and analytics provide instructors with actionable insights on a platform that allows flexibility to align with a broad variety of teaching and learning styles and the exciting Interactive General Chemistry program!Whether a student's learning path starts with problem solving or with reading, Interactive General Chemistry delivers the learning experience he or she needs to succeed in general chemistry. Built from the ground up as a digital learning program, Interactive General Chemistry combines the Sapling Learning homework platform with a robust e-book with seamlessly embedded, multimedia-rich learning resources. This flexible learning environment helps students effectively and efficiently tackle chemi

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Interactive General Chemistry meets students where they are...with a general chemistry program designed for the way students learn. Achieve provides a new platform for Interactive General Chemistry, thoughtfully developed to engage students for better outcomes. Powerful data and analytics provide instructors with actionable insights on a platform that allows flexibility to align with a broad variety of teaching and learning styles and the exciting Interactive General Chemistry program!Whether a student's learning path starts with problem solving or with reading, Interactive General Chemistry delivers the learning experience he or she needs to succeed in general chemistry. Built from the ground up as a digital learning program, Interactive General Chemistry combines the Sapling Learning homework platform with a robust e-book with seamlessly embedded, multimedia-rich learning resources. This flexible learning e

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Come on an Easter egg hunt with the Sylvanian Families in this search-and-find book, with over 200 things to spot!Meet Freya Chocolate and her friends, and then explore the world of Sylvanian Families at Easter time. Search for tasty treats in the Sylvanian Village, find egg-cellent costumes in Sylvanian Land and look for gorgeous gifts in the Town. Then see how many eggs you can spot in the biggest Easter Egg Hunt ever!With over 25 scenes to search and 200 things to spot, Sylvanian Families: Easter Search and Find is the perfect book to keep fans entertained over the holidays.Also available, The World of Sylvanian Families: The Official Guide! The perfect, fun-filled gift for fans of these beloved characters.

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1 Moomin, round and white . . .Take a journey through Moominvalley and count the colourful characters along the way! Tove Jansson's classic artwork is sensitively and beautifully adapted along with with beautiful, bold illustrations and newly-created numbers based on her archive drawings. Alongside the eye-catching artwork is easy-to-read text for first Moomin fans, in charming gentle rhyme, plus quotes from the original Moomin stories – perfect for reading aloud.This title is part of Reading, Writing and the Moomins, a global Moomin initiative designed to help spread love and happiness through the joys of reading and writing. The Moomin 123: An Illustrated Counting Book showcases Moominvalley as you’ve never seen it before – a gorgeous gift book to treasure and read over and over again.Publishing alongside The Moomin ABC: An Illustrated Alphabet Book, this pair of titles are a stunning introduction to Moominvalley – perfect for a special gift purchase or for any Moomin fan.

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How does a gardener fix a hole in his jeans?With a vegetable patch.How do you make antifreeze?Hide her woolly jumper.What did the grumpy bee say?‘Buzz off !'A superbly silly book packed with rib-tickling jokes, all specially selected for 8-year-olds. Puns, ‘knock knocks’ and gags galore are accompanied by hilarious illustrations to give young readers fits of giggles. The perfect gift for any 8-year-old who loves telling jokes and entertaining their friends and family!

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A fantastic activity book for nine-year-olds that will turn the cosy days into a fun-filled day!This fun, inclusive activity book will occupy you through the Autumn and Winter months.Filled with an incredible range of activities, puzzles and prompts that will help every child to engage with themselves and their world's surroundings. Activities include: write your own poem, draw your lunch, crosswords and word searches, solve this riddle, draw your mood, join the dots, make a hot chocolate, hilarious jokes, and many more!

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Follow Hope the blue whale on her epic journey across the oceans, in this uplifting tale, inspired by the story of the real Hope the whale – one of the Natural History Museum's most loved exhibits.Told through the eyes of one little boy, this enchanting story reimagines Hope's life. As every year he looks out for Hope on her annual migration from the icy seas of the arctic, to the warm tropics. Beautifully illustrated by Laura Chamberlain, this is a stunning picture book about one of our planet's most magnificent creatures. Hope the Whale includes a fold-out, non-fiction spread at the back, with information about the real Hope the whale, as well as further facts on blue whales. Created in consultation with the Natural History Museum.

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Help the rangers on the LEGO® City wildlife reserve look after the safari animals! Little LEGO fans can bring the safari to life as they push, pull and slide the tabs in this fun board book.Make the LEGO® bricks move – feed the monkeys swinging in the tree, guide a lost elephant to a new home and then slide the scene-changing mechanism to discover all the animals on the reserve!Helps creative minds to:- enhance motor skills- develop hand-eye coordination- play as they read- be imaginativeLEGO® City. Safari Rescue is a great gift for toddlers with inquisitive fingers and minds. Add to the collection and bring more of the LEGO City to life with LEGO® City. Police Patrol, LEGO® City. Fire Station and LEGO® City. Building Site.

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The Fire Chief and her crew need your help! Young LEGO® fans can bring the fire station to life as they push, pull and slide the tabs in this cool board book.Open the fire station doors, make the helicopter take off and then slide the scene-changing mechanism to drive off in the fire engine – all in a day’s work for brave little heroes!Helps budding firefighters to:- enhance motor skills- develop hand-eye coordination- play as they read- be imaginative and creativeLEGO® City. Fire Station is a great gift for toddlers with inquisitive fingers and minds. Add to the collection and bring more of the LEGO City to life with LEGO® City. Building Site.

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The LEGO® City police patrol need your help! Young LEGO® fans can help solve the crime and save the day as they push, pull and slide the tabs in this cool board book. Race after burglars in a police car, soar through the air in a helicopter and then slide the scene-changing mechanism to see who you caught red-handed – all in a day’s work for brave little heroes!Helps budding officers to:- enhance motor skills- develop hand-eye coordination- play as they read- be imaginative and creativeLEGO® City. Police Patrol is a great gift for toddlers with inquisitive fingers and minds. Add to the collection and bring more of the LEGO City to life with LEGO® City. Fire Station, LEGO® City. Building Site and LEGO® City. Merry Christmas.

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Escape to Moominvalley with The Moomin Colouring Book.This stylish, unique and relaxing colouring book features original artwork from the coveted archive of Tove Jansson, creator of the Moomins; one of the most cherished children's book series ever written.Beautifully designed, this contemporary colouring book features striking patterns and scenes as well as all your favourite Moomin characters and their most memorable quotes.The perfect gift for Moomin fans!

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Go on a journey of discovery in My First Book of Everything. From the solar system to the tiny mantis shrimp, everything in our universe is amazing! This beautiful non-fiction gift book introduces over 100 big concepts, words or ideas from the world (and universe!) around us and gives a bitesize explanation for each one that will spark preschoolers' imagination and inspire wonder and curiosity.Featuring content on the universe, the Earth, the human body, inventions, history and time and much more, My First Book of Everything is perfect for preschoolers who have graduated from First Words books and are getting curious about the world around them.My First Book of Everything is presented in a simple, stylish grid and with bright, colourful illustrations by bestselling author-illustrator Ben Newman (Professor Astro Cat, Snip Snap). It features a handy section at the back with reading tips for parents and carers, and is packed with words and concepts that will help enhance vocabulary and word recognition, plus spotting and search-and-find fun, and all sorts of things to inspire and ignite conversation between you and your child.

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The LEGO® City astronauts are on a mission! Little LEGO® fans can help fly a spaceship and land safely on the moon as they push, pull and slide the tabs in this cool board book.Make the LEGO® bricks move - blast-off in a rocket, go on a spacewalk and then slide the scene-changing mechanism to see what you've discovered on the moon's surface - all in a day's work for brave little heroes!Helps budding astronauts to:- enhance motor skills- develop hand-eye coordination- play as they read- be imaginative LEGO® City. Space Mission: A Push, Pull and Slide Book is a great gift for toddlers with inquisitive fingers and minds. Add to the collection and bring more of the LEGO City to life with LEGO® City. Safari Rescue, LEGO® City. Police Patrol, LEGO® City. Fire Station and LEGO® City. Building Site.

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Come and help the LEGO® City farmers on a busy day at the farm! Little LEGO fans can bring the farmyard to life as they push, pull and slide the tabs in this fun board book.Make the LEGO bricks move – drive the tractor through the fields, collect the eggs from the hen house and then slide the scene-changing mechanism to have fun at the farmer's market!Helps creative minds to:- enhance motor skills- develop hand-eye coordination- play as they read- be imaginativeLEGO® City. Farmyard Fun is a great gift for toddlers with inquisitive fingers and minds. Add to the collection and bring more of the LEGO City to life with LEGO City. Space Mission, LEGO City. Safari Resuce, LEGO City. Police Patrol, LEGO City. Fire Station and LEGO City. Building Site.

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The LEGO® City builders need your help! Little LEGO® fans can bring the building site to life as they push, pull and slide the tabs in this cool board book.Make the LEGO® bricks move – tip your bricks out of the dumper trucks, lift them up and put them down with your crane and then slide the scene-changing mechanism to see what you have built – all in a day’s work!Helps budding builders to:- enhance motor skills- develop hand-eye coordination- play as they read- be imaginative and creativeLEGO® City. Building Site is a great gift for toddlers with inquisitive fingers and minds. Add to the collection and bring more of the LEGO City to life with LEGO® City. Fire Station.

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Perfect for football fans who like a good giggle, Football Jokes is filled with hundreds of the most hilarious football jokes around! With funny illustrations by Jane Eccles, young footie fanatics will be laughing through those all-important World Cup games, Premier League matches and European Cup finals.When is a footballer like a baby?When he dribbles.Who's in goal when the ghost team plays football?The ghoulie, of courseWhy is a football crowd learning to sing like a person opening a tin of sardines?They both have trouble with the key.How can a footballer stop his nose running?Put out a foot and trip it up.

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Hundreds of very funny, silly jokes on every topic you can think of!What's the difference between an elephant and a biscuit? You can't dunk an elephant in your tea.Why did the monster get good marks in his exam? Because two heads are better than one.What do you call a woman with a tortoise on her head? Shelley.With over 750 jokes, The Bumper Book of Very Silly Jokes will have kids and adults laughing non-stop! The perfect book for rainy days at home or long car journeys.

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Achieve Essentials for Economics is an affordable, homework-focused option that makes it easy for you to build assignments that support your course goals. Achieve Essentials for Economics centers on our popular assessment engine, which combines Pre-Class Tutorials and Bridge Questions. The Pre-Class Tutorials, developed by two pioneers in active-learning methods for economics, Eric Chiang from Florida Atlantic University, and Jose Vazquez from the University of Illinois, foster basic understanding of core economic concepts before students attend class. Students watch pre-lecture videos and complete bridge questions that prepare them to engage in class. You then receive data about student comprehension that can inform your lecture preparation and ultimately student course results. This flexible product can be used for the full economics course, micro or macro courses, or survey courses.

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