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Does happiness have a colour and how does it taste? Why is waiting for someone not the same as missing someone? Can curiosity cause rumbling in your head? How bad can fear make things look, and what happens if they are really bad? Why is revenge always the worst counsellor? Can one weep with gratitude? A sensitive boy in various stages of his life experiences the twelve most important human emotions. He tries to express his feelings in his childish manner and most of al...

Hat Glück eine Farbe und wie schmeckt es? Warum ist Warten nicht das Gleiche wie Vermissen? Kann es vor Neugier im Kopf rumoren? Wie groß können die Augen der Angst sein und was passiert, wenn sie zu groß werden? Warum ist Rache immer der schlechteste Ratgeber? Kann man vor Dankbarkeit weinen? Ein sensibler Junge erlebt in verschiedenen Augenblicken seines Lebens die 12 wichtigsten Emotionen und versucht, auf seine kindliche Weise davon zu erzählen. Und vor allem: zu v...

2 new tough board books featuring everyone's favourite pig, who celebrates her 10th birthday in 2014. Both books have simple text and pictures and a focus on learning. Ages: 2+.

Szósty tom BIBLIOTEKI PRZEKŁADÓW ROSYJSKICH XVII–XVIII WIEKU Z LITERATURY STAROPOLSKIEJ został poświęcony nie zachowanemu do naszych czasów staropolskiemu romansowi o Henryku i Melendzie. Tłumaczenie rosyjskie z przełomu XVII i XVIII stulecia pozwoliło zrekonstruować fabułę zabytku. Interesująca okazała się również recepcja romansu na gruncie rosyjskim: doczekał się on kilku redakcji, a w latach 1720-tych, podobnie jak Historyja o Meluzynie i inne romanse tłumaczone z języka ...

Gli strani ospiti (A2, A2+) Ogni anno Paolo va a Ronchi, un piccolo paesino di montagna, per trascorrere le vacanze estive e ritrovarsi con i suoi amici. Quest'anno, pero, le loro vacanze saranno turbate da una scoperta che rischia di metterli in serio pericolo... Primiracconti per ragazzi e la collana di Edilingua di letture semplificate e didattizzate per studenti adolescenti. Gli strani ospiti, che tiene conto della progressione grammaticale e lessicale del secondo volume ...

Tickle Teddy's tummy and stroke Peppa's glittery golden boots in this gorgeous touch-and-feel book. The perfect gift for little piggies who love Peppa! Based on the hit preschool animation Peppa Pig, shown daily on Five's Milkshake and Nick Jnr.

Packed with 150 things to make and do with Peppa Pig and her little brother, George, this book will keep your little piggies busy for days! With fancy dress costumes, recipes, seasonal crafts, indoor and outdoor games and much more, this book will become your essential go-to guide for fun days with Peppa.

As you climb into bed, let me give you a hug. Settle down little bunny. You're warm, safe and snug. This whimsical board book takes you into the world of Beatrix Potte's animals as they gently fall asleep. It's a charming introduction to the world of Peter Rabbit. With beautiful line artwork and pastel colours, this is a must-have for any baby or toddler's bookshelf.

This book is about worms. I can only draw worms. You might think worms are boring - but you'd be wrong. These worms have INCREDIBLE adventures! I can't draw those bits, though, so you'll have to imagine them. A hilarious and superbly silly book that will have children in stitches and begging for more.

Join Spot for a busy, bouncy day from waking up to bedtime, as he has lots of fun at nursery, the park and just playing at home. Spot's everyday adventures fill the pages of this big puppy-shaped board book children will love.

"I was wowed and moved." (Tracy Chevalier). Anne Bronte is the forgotten Bronte sister, overshadowed by her older siblings - virtuous, successful Charlotte, free-spirited Emily and dissolute Branwell. Tragic, virginal, sweet, stoic, selfless, Anne. The less talented Bronte, the other Bronte. Or that's what Samantha Ellis, a life-long Emily and Wuthering Heights devotee, had always thought. Until, that is, she started questioning that devotion and, in looking more closely at E...

It is a time of revolts and revolutions, conflict and intrigue. New Crobuzon is being ripped apart from without and within. War with the shadowy city-state of Tesh and rioting on the streets at home are pushing the teeming metropolis to the brink. In the midst of this turmoil, a mysterious masked figure spurs strange rebellion, while treachery and violence incubate in unexpected places. In desperation, a small group of renegades escapes from the city and crosses strange and a...

Why do: Dutch babies seem so content, and sleep so well? Dutch parents let their kids play outside on their own? The Dutch trust their children to bike to school? Dutch schools not set homework for the under-tens? Dutch teenagers not rebel? What is the secret of bringing up the happiest kids in the world? The secret of bringing up the happiest kids in the world. In a recent UNICEF study of child well-being, Dutch children came out on top as the happiest all-round. In Growing ...

Lets you count 1,2,3 with Peppa Pig. With simple text and colourful pictures, this chunky board book is suitable for little hand.

This book is intended for everybody fascinated by Egyptian pyramids or excited by stories about Atlantis. It takes you on a fantastic journey through the Solar System and back in time, o­ffering a brand-new glance at the history of people and the Earth. This is the first book in a series planned by Filip Ambria. Nurtured since the age of 17, the idea has now reached maturity with the author and has been put on paper – to carry readers away into the depths of the Universe....

Black Beauty is a perennial children’s favourite, one which has never been out of print since its publication in 1877. It is a moralistic tale of the life of the horse related in the form of an autobiography, describing the world through the eyes of the creature. In taking this anthropomorphic approach, the author Anna Sewell broke new literary ground and her effective storytelling ability makes it very easy for the reader to accept the premise that a horse is recounting the ...

Oto długo oczekiwana pierwsza oficjalna autobiografia One Direction! Zajrzyj w szalone życie chłopaków i poznaj fakty, o których nikt wcześniej nie wiedział… Niall, Zayn, Liam, Harry i Louis opowiedzą o przygodzie swojego życia: szalonej podróży, która rozpoczęła się od pierwszych nerwowych castingów do X Factora, by z czasem przenieść się na największe sceny światowej trasy koncertowej. Mówią szczerze i otwarcie o emocjach, jakie czuli podczas kolejnych etapów kariery, zarów...

With an Introduction by Anthony Briggs. Translated by Isabel F. Hapgood. Russia in the 1840s. There is a stranger in town, and he is behaving oddly. The unctuous Pavel Chichikov goes around the local estates buying up 'dead souls'. These are the papers relating to serfs who have died since the last census, but who remain on the record and still attract a tax demand. Chichikov is willing to relieve their owners of the tax burden by buying the titles for a song. What...

The original and bestselling leadership book! Sun Tzu's ideas on survival and success have been read across the world for centuries. Today they can still be applied to business, politics and life. The Art of War demonstrates how to win without conflict.

With an Introduction and Bibliography by Stephen Matterson, Trinity College, Dublin. Walt Whitman's verse gave the poetry of America a distinctive national voice. It reflects the unique vitality of the new nation, the vastness of the land and the emergence of a sometimes troubled consciousness, communicated in language and idiom regarded by many at the time as shocking. Whitman's poems are organic and free flowing, fit into no previously defined genre and skilfu...

When Jerry, Jimmy and Cathy discover a tunnel that leads to a castle, they pretend that it is enchanted. But when they discover a Sleeping Princess at the centre of a maze, astonishing things begin to happen. Amongst a horde of jewels they discover a ring that grants wishes. But wishes granted are not always wishes wanted, so the children find themselves grappling with invisibility, dinosaurs, a ghost and the fearsome Ugli-Wuglies before it is all resolved. This edition of Th...

With an Introduction by Paul Wright. 'What the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth' So wrote the Romantic poet John Keats (1795-1821) in 1817. This collection contains all of his poetry: the early work, which is often undervalued even today, the poems on which his reputation rests including the 'Odes' and the two versions of the uncompleted epic 'Hyperion', and work which only came to light after his death including his attempts at drama and ...

Introduction and Notes by Susan Jones, St Hilda's College, Oxford. First published in 1900, Lord Jim established Conrad as one of the great storytellers of the twentieth century. Set in the Malay Archipelago, the novel not only provides a gripping account of maritime adventure and romance, but also an exotic tale of the East. Its themes also challenge the conventions of nineteenth-century adventure fiction, confirming Conrad's place in literature as one of the firs...

Considered by many to be Dickens' finest novel, Great Expectations traces the growth of the book's narrator, Philip Pirrip (Pip), from a boy of shallow dreams to a man with depth of character. From its famous dramatic opening on the bleak Kentish marshes, the story abounds with some of Dickens' most memorable characters. Among them are the kindly blacksmith Joe Gargery, the mysterious convict Abel Magwitch, the eccentric Miss Haversham and her beautiful ward Estel...