A fun and interactive way for children to listen to and learn 120 everyday words spoken by a native English speaker. Each of the four double-sided topic cards has sixteen words and pictures about letters, numbers and being at school. Slot the card into the book's special frame and press the pictures to hear the words read aloud.
An astounding, unforgettable winter's tale from the award-winning, bestselling Piers Torday. A remarkable story about love, loss and the power of the imagination, from an award-winning, celebrated writer for children. On a frozen Christmas Eve, Mouse Mallory and his family set off across a snow-white valley to visit his grandparents. They never arrive.
SILENCE IS GOLDFISH is a story that demands to be heard. 'I have a voice but it isn't mine. It used to say things so I'd fit in - to please my parents, to please my teachers. It used to tell the universe I was something I wasn't. It lied.' Fifteen-year-old Tess doesn't mean to become mute. At first, she's just too shocked to speak. And who wouldn't be?
Secrets, romance, murder and lies: Zoe shares a terrible secret in a letter to a stranger on death row in this prize-winning second novel from the bestselling author of MY SISTER LIVES ON THE MANTELPIECE. Fifteen-year-old Zoe has a secret - a dark and terrible secret that she can't confess to anyone she knows.
A new set of stories from the world of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. Now in paperback with a brand-new story: The Man who Bottled the Sun. In this collection of fairy tales, Ransom Riggs invites you to uncover hidden legends of the peculiar world.
The bestselling author of The Kind Worth Killing returns with an electrifying psychological thriller. Following a brutal attack by her ex-boyfriend, Kate Priddy makes an uncharacteristically bold decision after her cousin, Corbin Dell, suggests a temporary apartment swap - and she moves from London to Boston.
An extraordinary creative achievement by an extraordinary talent, Jim Kay's inspired reimagining of J.K. Rowling's classic series has captured a devoted following worldwide. This stunning new fully illustrated edition of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban brings more breathtaking scenes and unforgettable characters – including Sirius Black, Remus Lupin and Professor Trelawney.
"The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart." After crash-landing in the Sahara Desert, a pilot encounters a little prince who is visiting Earth from his own planet. Their strange and moving meeting illuminates for the aviator many of life's universal truths, as he comes to learn what it means to be human from a child who is not.
Discover the Japanese secret to a long and happy life with the internationally bestselling guide to ikigai - 'a refreshingly simple recipe for happiness' (Stylist Magazine) The people of Japan believe that everyone has an ikigai – a reason to jump out of bed each morning.
Searching for happiness is overrated, learn to find meaning instead There is a persistent myth in our culture that in order to lead a fulfilling life we must pursue happiness at all times. In her groundbreaking work, Emily Esfahani Smith explains that it is actually the search for meaning that will bring fulfilment.
From Rupi Kaur, the top ten Sunday Times bestselling author of milk and honey, comes her long-awaited second collection of poetry. Illustrated by Kaur, the sun and her flowers is a journey of wilting, falling, rooting, rising and blooming. It is a celebration of love in all its forms.
From the Nobel Prize winner and best-selling author of Snow and My Name Is Red, a fable of fathers and sons and the desires that come between them. On the outskirts of a town thirty miles from Istanbul, a master well digger and his young apprentice are hired to find water on a barren plain.
Jen málo umělců dosáhlo takové slávy a obdivu jako Paul Cézanne. Pocty se mu však dostalo až roky po smrti. Jeho dílo se vyznačuje obrovským nasazením a ambicemi.Cézanne zůstával u témat, která se etablovala již v době renesance jako jsou portrét, figura, krajina a zátiší.
Hirošige je považován za jednoho z největších mistrů japonského dřevořezu. Známé jsou především jeho krajiny, často doplněné o bezstarostné scény z každodenního života. Ukiyo-e („obrázky pomíjivého světa") s podmanivými rafinovanými kompozicemi a jemně laděnou barevností zachycují život v Japonsku v 19. století a diváky okouzlují dodnes.
Více než 250 reprodukcí grafiky, kreseb, akvarelů a olejomaleb představuje půasobivé rozpětí tvorby výjimečného umělce Albrechta Dürera. Ilustrace a doprovodný text čtenáři názorně přibližují život a dílo uměleckého génia.
Přelom století je fascinující epochou, během které se z metropole na Dunaji stává centrum umělecké moderny. Dominujícími uměleckými styly jsou historismus, secese a expresionismus, které po sobě následují v rychlém sledu. Vytvářejí typicky vídeňské variety, pro něž je příznačná jistá dekadentní citovost.
Lekníny jsou posledním a snad i absolutním vrcholem uměleckého vývoje Clauda Moneta. Jsou zastoupeny v mnoha mezinárodních sbírkach, staly se jedním ze symbolů jeho tvorby. Hru barvy a světla, atmosféru vody a vzduchu ani krásu přírody nevyjádřil Monet nikde jinde tak působivě a harmonicky.
Da Vinci in detail The paintings of the Renaissance genius One of the most accomplished human beings who ever lived, Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) remains a quintessential Renaissance genius. The perfect companion to the Leonardo Graphic Work edition, this book is a compact catalogue raisonne of all of the artist's masterful paintings.
This is a startling memoir of a successful journalist's journey from the deserted and dusty mining towns of the American Southwest, to an antique filled apartment on Park Avenue. Jeanette Walls narrates her nomadic and adventurous childhood with her dreaming, 'brilliant' but alcoholic parents.
From the bestselling author of How to Train Your Dragon comes an exciting high-adventure series - set in an ancient, magical time, full of Wizards, Warriors, Giants and Sprites. This is the story of a young boy Wizard and a young girl Warrior who have been taught since birth to hate each other like poison; and the thrilling tale of what happens when their two worlds collide.