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Jeremy Strong
A charming, emotionally touching children's fable from award-winning author Jeremy Strong, highly illustrated in black and white and launched in a beautiful, covetable hardback - perfect for fans of Winnie-the-Pooh…
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One day, Fox waits by a forest track with a small blue suitcase and the feeling that something extraordinary is about to happen. And then, along comes an incredible house…
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Casper and his friends have an amazing ZEEOWWW! WHIZZ! SPLATT! secret - THEY ARE ALL SUPERHEROES! Which will come in very handy this Sports Day when a dog named JAWS…
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Aargh - the school inspectors have arrived. There’s trouble at school, but Casper and his friends have an out-of-this-world secret …they’re all superheroes. Masher McNee and his monster zombie mob…
When Ellie puts on her new pyjamas, strange things start to happen. She and her little brother, Max, are whisked off to the Christmas Shop where a battle is raging…
Lucy King is a girl with extra special powers - she shimmers and she zooms through the air like a streak of lightning, flying from one adventure to another. All…
Stuff is the nickname of our hero, Simon (because he knows a lot of weird stuff). Stuff’s parents have split up, and his dad has brought back a new step-mum…
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Nicholas and his family are off on holiday to Turkey! But with Cheese and Tomato causing chaos with stray tortoises, Dad having to be rescued by the lifeguard, and Mum…
A collection of new essays that examine how taste is learned, developed, and represented. It spans such diverse topics as teaching wine tasting, food in Don Quixote, Soviet cookbooks, cruel…
Sigurd, the Viking from the tenth century, is still stuck in the twentieth century. He lives with his friends the Ellis family in a seaside hotel and constantly causes chaos…
‘That’s the one!’ she cried. ‘That’s the bottom I’m after. Darling, you have the most gorgeous bottom!’ Nicholas’ dad has a plan to make some fast cash. Nappies! Some disposable-nappy…
Nicholas’ granny has fallen in love - with the elderly Hell’s Angel next door! Nicholas’ dad isn’t happy about it - but Granny won’t let him get in the way…
Streaker the dog is lost. And not just a bit lost, but really lost. It wasn’t even her fault! She wanted to protect some pies from the PIE ROBBER and…
Batpants the orang-utan is completely, wildly Hairy. Most of all she loves her family, the Loveharts, and all their madcap adventures. Mrs Lovehart is a stuntwoman and so the whole…
Streaker was so gobsmacked she leaped into air as if she had a pogo stick attached to each leg. KER-POING! Streaker runs like a jet-propelled hurricane, which could cause problems…
It’s the first day at Pirate School for Ziggy, Smudge, Carkella and Flo. Their headteacher is the scary Patagonia Clasterbotton and they have to take lessons include walking the plank…
Two hilariously funny stories in one book! The Indoor Pirates are fierce, lawless bandits, but they have one fatal weakness: they hate the sea!
Tim’s family is the most boring family in the world and he’s fed up. He wants fun! Thrills! Adventure! And school’s just as boring too. But one day a phantom…
Nicholas’s baby brother, Cheese, is famous. Well, his bottom is, because he advertises Dumper disposable nappies. Now the whole family is being whisked off on a nationwide tour starring Cheese…
Nicholas’ dad has had an idea - always a cue for disaster! This time he’s planning to take the whole family camping. Sounds great, but Tomato is taking her pet…
Whoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooosh! Here comes Streaker, fastest dog in the world! Streaker is in trouble AGAIN! She’s stealing food and Trevor, owner, has no idea why. The police are tailing her and…
Rob worries about everything - being bitten by snakes to dinosaurs waiting round the corner. So when the Vorks move in across the road, he is convinced that they’re aliens…
Sennapod, the ancient Egyptian pharaoh, is still living at 27 Templeton Terrace with the Lightspeed family. By accident, he wins a competition to find the Face of the Future, and…
Nicholas and his family are hatching eggs for his school’s Easter Fair. But the eggs keep going missing and their new rabbits, Saucepan and Nibblewibble, are causing havoc in the…
Charlie and his great mate Ben have landed in a spooky House of Horror - all because of Charlie’s new pyjamas! The mean old Stitcher and her stinky sidekick Grumpfart…
Something strange has happened to Rosie and her brothers. Rosie’s new pyjamas have led them to a dangerous discovery. Doctor Starkly-Bonkers has invented the Doombuster and history is all muddled…
How can Nicholas save Christmas? Nicholas’ dad has lost his job just before Christmas. This means no money for yucky cake or for presents. But then the ding dong merrily…
Captain Blackpatch has bought a pirate truck to take the pirates on a camping holiday. Once there he becomes convinced that treasure is buried on a small island.
Josh thinks Fizz is dentally challenged and fluent in gibberish. Fizz thinks Josh is the Prince of Handsomeness. They’re destined to work together at Marigolds Old People’s Home - can…
Perilus and his family are in trouble again! His dad has been arrested for stealing money from the Imperial Mint. Can Croakbag the talking raven save the day once more?
Nicholas’s neighbours are in a royal frenzy! They’re celebrating the Queen’s coronation (whatever that means) and everyone’s gone Bonkers! Dad’s dressing up as a banana and why has Cheese got…
An irresistibly funny story about set in Ancient Rome about a boy who wants to be a champion charioteer, from the original King of Comedy for young readers, Jeremy Strong…
Some dads bring home rabbits. Or dogs. Or parrots. Not Nicholas’ dad. The latest member of their family is Crunchbag - the Alligator! Soon he’s running riot in the bathroom…
When the Lovehart family receive a mega-massive delivery, there’s only one thing it can be. An elephant of course! A gentle giant named Fudge has come to live with them…
3 …2 …1 …Lift Off! My brother’s famous bottom is going into space! Well, a video of it, anyway. And the best news is that the whole family gets to…
Jack’s in trouble, big trouble. Not only is he in hospital with a leg in traction (boring) but he knows the police are coming for him: because of an accident…
Guess what’s coming to town! The Animal Games! There’ll be show-jumping for horses AND rabbits, and discus for dogs - so of course I have to enter Streaker. Mum says…
Tony Lightspeed is always bringing home sick and injured animals, so when he turns up with an unconscious man dressed from head to tie in rather stinky bandages, his family…
Fiction, PYP Level 7
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Film nonetheless provides the central focus, with analysis of both the corpus as a whole-from Dr. No to Spectre-and of particular films, from popular and much-discussed movies such as Goldfinger…
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Perilus is a Roman boy who is crazy about chariot racing. He loves to practise in his own homemade chariot (pulled by the family goat) and dreams of riding in…
When Giant Jim comes to town, people are terrified they’ll be eaten, or squashed. But Jim is a good giant - unfortunately he just can’t do things right!
Jodie hates her life and her looks, but when she wakes up one morning as a stegosaurus things are even worse. Coping with school is impossible and when her parents…
The Jeremy Strong joke book is back and filled with even more bottoms and quizzes and silliness and, best of all, pranks! Blow up stuff, glue stuff and PHHHFFWWWWWHHHHH -…
‘Tis the season to be jolly tra-la-la-la-la… but wait! Father Christmas’ Evil brother, Bad Christmas, is plotting to take over the world. His poisonous Christmas puddings that turn humans into…
You’ll be crying with laughter in the playground and chuckling in class - no school bag is complete without a copy of Classroom Chaos! Jam-packed with jokes and silliness and…
You’ll never guess what Mr Butternut said at school today: ‘This is your first day with me and I can see that there is something amazing about you …all of…
