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Use the awesome unicorn crayons to complete each adorable scene.

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A Mindful Kids Global Citizen activity book for young people to colour, doodle and DIY their way to living a more responsible, sustainable life.Use creativity to explore the environmental issues facing planet Earth, discover how you can make a difference, and learn top tips on how to protect the environment for future generations.Featuring the charming and quirky illustrations of Katie Abey, a UK-based illustrator. Her quirky pictures will keep the reader entertained and focused as they work through the book, or simply dip into the pages for ten minutes of calm colouring. Part of Mindful Kids, a thoughtful new range of activity books for children from Studio Press.Includes an introduction and notes for grown-ups.

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Everybody loves The Gruffalo and now you can enjoy this children's classic for the very first time in Orcadian Scots! Translated by Simon W. Hall and published by Itchy Coo, this new edition of The Gruffalo will delight both children and adults alike."A moose teuk a dander through the grimly trees.A fox saw a moose an thowt, You'll feed me."Come a peedie bit further intae the grimly trees an find oot whit happens when the sleekit moose comes nose wae a cattie-face, a snek an a hungry gruffalo...

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Bake a cake in a mug; take part in a people-watching challenge; create a time capsule; diarise a week of your life and learn to make origami. Fully illustrated and packed with a host of games, activities and pranks, Alfie invites you to join his online following as he challenges you to complete your journal of pointlessness and do virtually nothing with pride.

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In her second brilliantly funny story, science-mad Cookie is ready to save the planet!When Cookie finds herself with two tickets to see popstar Aliana Tiny, Suzie Ashby suddenly wants to be her best friend. One small problem - Suzie is the most annoying girl in the world. UGH! So how is that Cookie manages to fall out with her real friends Jake and Keziah and become best buddies with Suzie instead? Can she win them back, ditch Suzie and save the planet in the process?

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Young Bond meets Alex Rider and Cherub in this brilliantly written, fast-paced spy action thriller. All credibly delivered from somebody who knows all about counter-intelligence . . .Special Agent Bex arranges to meet teenage Kieron in a café to tell him that she can't risk his life any more. She parks her car and seconds later it blows up, scattering flaming wreckage everywhere. She needs to get Kieron out of danger's way - but just as they get to the flat, it too explodes.Bex is forced to face the possibility that someone wants to kill her team, but whoever it is doesn't know about Kieron. That may be their only saving grace. But how were the explosions managed? And who wants them dead?High-octane action and fast-paced adventure - guaranteed.

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Get ready for an amazing adventure with Team Spidey! Packed with puzzles, press-outs and stickers, it''s time to suit up and save the day!

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What if Wonderland was in peril and Alice was very late?Eighteen-year-old Alice is very different to the other ladies in Kexford.She enjoys spending afternoons with her trusty camera, while ignoring pressure from her sister to become a ''respectable'' member of society.But when the familiar faces of the Queen of Hearts, the Mad Hatter and the Caterpillar begin appearing in her photographs, Alice finds herself returning to the place of nonsense from her childhood to stop the Queen''s tyrannical rule before the End of Time. READER REVIEWS This was everything I wanted it to be... [Unbirthday] captured all the whimsy and charm of the original Disney adaptation of Wonderland, but also added some more... It was like coming home reading this honestly, the nostalgia and nonsense just made me smile the whole time I was reading. Be still my fluttering soul! I loved this so, so much! I''ve always been a lover of retellings, but this one is something special. This is the most amazing nonsensical m

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Dinosaurs are always an evergreen favourite, so this new addition to the popular series is sure to stand out on the shelf

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Celebrate 60 years of web-slinging with the story of Marvel Comics' most beloved super hero, Spider-Man! Features Foreword by Stephen Wacker, former Senior Editor of Spider-Man.When Stan Lee and Steve Ditko debuted Spider-Man in Amazing Fantasy, would they have ever predicted what would happen next? Spider-Man would go on to become the most popular super hero in history! Discover the origins and inception of New York's favourite web-slinging, crime-fighting, skyscraper-swinging super hero, in this gorgeous coffee table book. Not only will readers experience a real-time exhibition of the life of Spidey, but they will uncover his story, his iterations, the storylines that shook comics-lore and discover the creators who brought the web-head to life! This amazingly curated collection includes rarely seen artwork from the Marvel archives and will chronicle the enormous Spider-Verse and history of the legendary Spider-Man and his most famous foes. Spider-Man Museum is the definitive gift purchase for Spidey lovers everywhere and a must-have addition to the shelf for fans of comics. Celebrate Spidey's 60th anniversary in glorious style.Also available:- Marvel Museum- Marvel Heroes & Villains- Marvel Universe: An Atlas of Marvel- What Would Spider-Man Do?- What Would Hulk Do?- What Would The Mighty Thor Do?© 2022 MARVEL

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A gripping sea adventure featuring a lost father and a cursed ship.When Ravian's father doesn't return home from sea for his son's birthday, Ravian is certain he must be in danger. Hearing tales of a cursed ship that captures fishermen, Ravian goes in search of his father accompanied by his only friend Marvin the seagull. Before long, the pair find themselves trapped on the ship with a kindly boy and a bad-tempered pirate for company. The ensuing voyage is beset with battles with giant squid and fierce storms, and Ravian despairs of ever finding his father.Featuring stunning illustrations by acclaimed illustrator Karl James Mountford.A wonderful story of friendship and overcoming fears, translated from Dutch by Laura Watkinson, Carnegie-Medal 2020 short-listed translator of Lampie by Annet Schaap.

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Follow touch-and-feel train tracks and chunky tyre treads to meet all kinds of things that go.

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Why would a gladiator want a wooden sword? What was the vomitorium really for? Who ate dormice for dinner? Journey back to Ancient Rome to discover one of history’s most fascinating civilisations. With tonnes of stickers and awesome activities, this is history as you’ve never seen it before.

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It's a busy day at the garage. Can Sam and Sarah the mechanics fix all the vehicles? With press-outs to build four awesome things that go, this book is perfect for an interactive storytime.

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Create your very own busy town bursting with awesome vehicles in this cool Things That Go Sticker Play Scenes book. With a fold-out scene to decorate, a colouring scene and over 300 stickers, plus 60 special puffy stickers to complete the picture, this book is the perfect addition to playtime.

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Are you ready for a noisy storytime? BRRM, VROOM and CHUG around townwith these fantastic noisy vehicles. With 10 super sounds, rollicking rhymes and amazing artwork, this book is perfect for little learners.

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I killed the boy . . .Jig loves football and his dog, hates school, misses his dead granda and knows to lie low when his ma's blitzed on the vodka. He's just an ordinary boy on the brutal streets alongside Dublin's Grand Canal. Streets that are ruled by Ghost and his crew. And now Ghost - inked, vicious, unprincipled - has a job for Jig. A job that no one can afford to go wrong - not the gangs, the police, the locals, and least of all not Jig.

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Explore the dangerous world of dinosaurs in this exciting prehistoric pack. Find out what made each species special, from vicious Velociraptors to extraordinary Carnotaurus and many more! With four books stuffed full of facts, stickers, quizzes and activities, this is the ultimate set for ALL dino hunters.

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Enter the mighty world of JCB, as you join Joey and the team to complete lots of tricky activities and fun games. Inside this sticker and activity pack, you will find three books crammed full with over 50 awesome activities! Find Larry's missing load, complete the transporter challenge, help Joey get safely back to the garage and much, much more.

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Blue Train is going on an amazing adventure! Hop aboard and go on a journey with Blue Train as he visits lots of vehicle friends. With 8 brilliant sounds that bring the action to life, children will love this fantastic storybook.

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Discover prehistoric dinosaurs in this cool sticker and activity book. Packed with awesome puzzles, games and over 250 super stickers that will keep little dino-fans happy for hours. Let the prehistoric fun begin!

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Unearth the truth about the most amazing prehistoric creatures ever to roam the Earth! Discover Everything you need to know about fearsome dinosaurs in the 24-page book and make amazing models with the press-out sheets. With a cool slimy dinosaur to play with and a dino fossil to excavate, too, there’s plenty of prehistoric fun to be had.

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Little Chick is lost in the cold, icy snow. He needs a cuddle from his mother, but he can’t find her anywhere. Join in this heart-warming tale as he slips and slides across the ice and meets some funny friends along the way, all in search of the cuddliest, snuggliest, warmest hug ever.

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A touching and magical story about fairies that is ideal to engage and entertain

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In Draw 1,001 Planes, award-winning artist Mark Bergin shows how simple shapes can be transformed into a vast variety of aircraft. There are pages looking at materials and techniques, and step-by-step projects that train the eye to deconstruct the simple shapes that go into constructing a detailed drawing, helping you to visualise your drawings of planes. Great for absolute beginners or any artist wanting to renew and improve their drawing skills. It features all kinds of aircraft, including military planes, commercial airliners, early experimental contraptions and state-of-the-art jets.

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This series of hilarious fictional diaries put us inside the heads of hapless figures from history in frazzling situations. Suki is a 14-year-old girl in 16th century Japan who wants to become a samurai warrior like her father and brother. Despite her disastrous training, when a party of bandits threaten her village whilst the men are away at war, Suki has to defeat them. Will she prove herself a legendary samurai, or will it all end in disaster? ‘Get Real’ fact boxes feature throughout, providing historical context and further information, as well as a timeline, historical biographies and a glossary in the endmatter.

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Can you imagine not being able to speak or communicate? The silence, the loneliness, the pain. But, inside you disappear to magical places, and even meet your best friend there. However, most of the time you remain imprisoned within the isolation. Waiting, longing, hoping. Until someone realises your potential and discovers your key, so your unlocking can begin. Now you are free, flying like a wild bird in the open sky. A voice for the voiceless.Jonathan Bryan has severe cerebral palsy, a condition that makes him incapable of voluntary movement or speech. He was locked inside his own mind, aware of the outside world but unable to fully communicate with it until he found a way by using his eyes to laboriously choose individual letters, and through this make his thoughts known.In Eye can Write, we read of his intense passion for life, his mischievous sense of fun, his hopes, his fears and what it's like to be him. This is a powerful book from an incredible young writer whose writing ability defies age or physical disability - a truly inspirational figure.Foreword by Sir Michael MorpurgoA portion of the proceeds from the sale of this book will be donated to Jonathan Bryan's charity, Teach Us Too.http://www.teachustoo.org.uk/

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The perfect hilarious and heartwarming gift for the festive season!When the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards announced a contest for the funniest animal photo, they received entries from all over the world. Now authors and the original Award founders Paul Joynson-Hicks and Tom Sullam showcase the best of the best - as well as some never before seen - to present the most joyful photographs of wildlife ever printed. A pelican losing its lunch; a three-headed giraffe; a meerkat having a rough day... this is the must-have book that is perfect for animal lovers of all stripes!

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Every person is unique, and in this book you'll find the skills to draw each person's distinctive facial features, like the expression on their face or the years of experience held in their wrinkles. This books also features tips on drawing accessories like spectacles and hats. The How To Draw series takes a highly visual and practical approach to drawing, featuring step-by-step instructions for each art project. Duotone lines highlight each step. Each title includes information on the drawing materials you can use and where to use them most effectively. Pencil, pen, crayon, paints and charcoal and more are all covered in detail. The series covers a comprehensive range of rudimentary techniques - with sections on materials, composition and perspective. The How To Draw series is an excellent way to introduce the concepts of drawing to child and adult alike.

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"The How to Draw" series takes a highly visual and practical approach to drawing. It helps readers learn how to draw the human body in various sitting, standing and active positions. The titles feature step-by-step instructions for each art project. Duotone line illustrations highlight each step. Different drawing materials are used, including pencil, pen, crayon, paints and charcoal, with clear instructions for each. The series covers a comprehensive range of rudimentary techniques - with sections on materials, composition and perspective.

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A hero of the Peninsular War, Lieutenant Alastair MacRory of Gleneidart returns home to Wester Ross to recuperate from a wound he suffered while fighting with the Highland regiments. Highland families are being evicted and sent to Canada. Alastair deserts and throws in his lot with his people.

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* LONGLISTED FOR THE ALLIGATOR'S MOUTH AWARD Welcome to Big Sky Mountain: a home for everyone!There is never a dull day on Big Sky Mountain! Rain or shine, there is always something that needs doing. Rosa and Grandma Nan are busy building a bigger cabin when a storm strikes, and a host of animals descend for shelter. There is one unexpected visitor: a tiny wolf cub. This little wolf doesn't seem like the scary, giant-fanged forest wolves that Rosa has heard about! Can the cub really be part of their pack? Rosa and Grandma Nan set off into the forest to find out . . .

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When Lalani Sarita's mother falls ill with an incurable disease, Lalani embarks on a dangerous journey across the sea . . . Life is hard on the island of Sanlagita. To the west looms a vengeful mountain, one that threatens to collapse and bury the village at any moment. To the north, a dangerous fog swallows sailors who dare to venture out, looking for a more hospitable land. The women live in fear of the deadly mender's disease, spread by the sharp needles they use to repair the men's fishing nets. When Lalani Sarita's mother pricks her finger and falls ill, she gives twelve-year-old Lalani an impossible task - leave Sanlagita and find the riches of the legendary Mount Isa, which towers on an island to the north. But generations of men and boys have died on the same quest. How can a timid young girl survive the epic tests of the archipelago?

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Another exhilarating adventure in the great outdoors, from HOTEL FLAMINGO author Alex MilwayWelcome to Big Sky Mountain: a home for everyone!Life never stays still for long on Big Sky Mountain. Rosa and Grandma Nan are off on an adventure to Toe-Dipper Bay, to see who's in trouble - a distress flare has gone up! When they arrive they find the beach covered in plastic rubbish, and a family of beach otters farming seaweed, while doing their best to tidy up. Rosa and Grandma Nan join in, but they have to find out who sent the distress flare - because who is that wrecked out at sea? Rosa and Grandma Nan will need the otters' help to build a raft to get to them . . .An action-packed story featuring curious otters, wise hermit crabs and peckish puffins ,which addresses pollution and recycling in a gentle and friendly way for young children.

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'Shepherd has created a magical series that makes eyes shine with wonder, hearts swell with warmth, and rooms fill with giggles' Sophie Anderson, author of The House with Chicken LegsEleven-year-old Tomas has a secret friend like no other: Flicker, a dragon with glittering eyes and scales that flicker from fiery orange to ruby red. But Tomas is also having to get used to Flicker being away, now that his dragon's home is back in the frosty North. Adventure is never far away for Tomas, though - as he finds out when another dragon hatches on the dragonfruit tree at the bottom of the garden, a dragon who quite quickly decides he is sticking firmly with Tomas! Zing is a tiny dragon with oversized wings, who causes havoc wherever he goes. When a new girl, Aura, starts at school, proclaiming herself to be a dragon expert, Tomas is thrown into confusion. He is the one with the dragons and the dragonfruit tree, after all! Before he knows it, Tomas has blurted out his secret to Aura, and sets in motion a chain of events which will lead to adventures and mayhem aplenty ...

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When Lewis, his uncle Jonathan, and their friends Rose Rita and Mrs Zimmermann take a trip to a small town near Lake Superior, they expect a pleasant holiday. Instead, they find themselves facing the ghastly Ishmael Izard, son of the fiendish creator of the Doomsday clock that was once hidden in the walls of Uncle Jonathan's house. Ishmael is a cruel and heartless sorcerer, and he is determined to wreak vengeance on the entire world. Will Lewis and his friends be strong enough to defeat him, or will their fate be decided by their most formidable foe yet?For fans of Goosebumps.

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Brand new Wilbur Smith series for readers of 10+ - starring fourteen-year-old Jack Courtney.Share the adventure with a new generation this Christmas!Jack Courtney has lived in the UK his whole life. But this summer his parents are travelling to the Democratic Republic of the Congo for a gorilla conference, and they've promised to take Jack and his friends with them. When his parents go missing in the rainforest, abducted by mercenaries, nobody seems to have any answers. Jack is pretty sure that it's got something to do with the nearby tantalum mines, but he needs to prove it. Along with Amelia and Xander, Jack must brave the jungle to save his parents. Standing in his way is a member of his own family - Caleb Courtney.There are western gorillas, forest elephants and hippos. But there are also bandits, mercenaries and poachers. The three friends will need their wits about them if they are not only to save Jack's parents, but their own lives too.

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A gloriously funny and anarchic series full of wizards, queens and more than a little mudPerfect for fans of Andy Stanton, Danny Wallace and Roald Dahl Beatrix the Bold is a queen. A very bold queen. And she's also only ten years old. But that's never stopped her from doing anything before, and it's not going to stop her now. She's on the run from the Evil Army AND her evil aunt Esmerelda, but she's getting closer to finding her long-lost parents, whom she hasn't seen since she was a baby. She just has to cross the Sea of Sinking Ships and the Volcanos of Doom to get to them - easy, right? But when you're Beatrix the Bold and you've got Oi the boy, Dog the dog and Wilfred the Wise by your side, you can do anything . . .'What a rollicking olden-days adventure this is, replete with mystery, secret passages, menacingly elusive enemies and a main character readers will truly root for' JOANNE OWEN, author of MARTHA MAYHEM (praise for Beatrix the Bold and the Curse of the Wobblers)

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